CASTERTON is celebrating a successful day at home against western Victoria’s best young athletes, with Edie Kent and Madeline Patton each claiming gold in their respective age groups at Sunday’s Western Country Region Little Athletic Cross-Country Carnival.

Madeline, 16, led the combined field of 13- to 16-year-old runners early in the run at Island Park and kept pace throughout alongside Portland’s Noah Board, 15, finishing less than four seconds behind him by the end with a time of 12 minutes and 42 seconds.