The South Ribble district qualifying event was staged at the South Ribble Tennis Centre in Bamber Bridge.

And St Patrick's overcame runners-up St Leonard's Cof E Primary, also in Walton-le-Dale, to book their place in the final at the same venue on July 9.

Also representing South Ribble in county finals will be Our Lady and St Gerard's Catholic Primary in Lostock Hall and Leyland Methodist Junior.

Our Lady and St Gerard's won the district athletics event in a qualifier staged at Hutton Grammar School, when they overcame St Patrick's, Howick Primary, and runners-up St Teresa's Catholic Primary in Penwortham.

The county athletics final is at Salt Ayre Sports Centre in Lancaster on Thursday, July 2.

And Leyland Methodist beat eight other schools to win the Kwik Cricket district finals staged at Leyland Cricket Club.

Our Lady and St Gerard's were second, with Cop Lane third.

Also competing were St Teresa's, Lever House, Moss Side, Broadoak, Seven Stars and Farington.

Like the athletics, the county kwik cricket final is at Salt Ayre Sports Centre in Lancaster on Thursday, July 2.

The Lancashire Youth Games are taking place on a bigger scale than ever before in 2009 and are sponsored by SPAR distributor James Hall & Company Ltd.

Overall, the various events are bringing together more than 2,000 school pupils from 120 of the county's schools and colleges.

The programme includes more than 100 intra-school selection trials, 84 sports-specific district finals, six sports-specific county finals and the Lancashire Youth Disability Games on June 30 in Blackpool.