Ryan Shelton has taken the win for race 8 of the Bendigo Athletic Club.

It was another close race, this time between Shelton and Lachlan Perdon in the Old Boundary Hotel sponsored 3km at No. 7 Reservoir.

Capitalising on race favourite, Paul Bennett’s absence, Shelton set off at a strong early pace to quickly overtake most of front markers.

However Perdon, who started behind Shelton, was quickly gaining momentum, passing through the main pack of runners and eying off the first place himself.

Ingrid Douglass has taken out the 5km Vin Drechsler Memorial in Sunday's race at Mandurang with Paul Bennett coming 2nd.

It was a tough duel between frontmarkers Douglass and Bennett, with both runners being equally matched for most of the race, conquering the steep hills and running almost shoulder to shoulder right up to the last 1km where Douglass proved to be the better competitor on the day, surging ahead of Bennett to win the Drechsler family sponsored event, 14 seconds clear of her rival.

Ben Goode has taken out the win for race 6 of the Bendigo Athletic Club.

Goode started the race with the pressure of being one of the race favourites, but composed himself to run a great race and win the Purtill’s Nursery sponsored 8km in a time of 30:06.

Goode defeated his closest rival, John Bailey by more than 30 seconds to win Sunday's race.

John Bailey was runner up in the Huntly 8km with Adam Parker running on to finish in 3rd.