ASHFORD AC women roared into fourth place in the Southern Women’s League with a resounding victory in their Division 1 match at Guildford.
They finished 13 points clear of Sutton and are now just five adrift of Southampton AC who are one of the competing clubs in the final match at Bromley on September 4.
That promised to be a thrilling finale to the 2010 campaign with Ashford delighted to be in the top four after targeting a mid-table place after promotion last season.
Another big achievement is an invitation for Ashford to compete in the UK League qualifier match at Abingdon on September 18 and a full squad will be needed to be competitive in this top match.
Pole vaulters Kara Gibbs and Emmeline Rendell set the tone for Ashford success at Guildford with a brace of victories vaulting 3m and 2.60m respectively.
Hannah Hogben and Amber Regardsoe were outstanding in the field events both second in the hammer with 39.83m and 22.50m and Hannah was joined by Sarah Snare in the discus for second in the A clash and a B string victory both nearing the 30m mark.
There was another fine win and second in the triple jump by Rachel Hanagan and Lucy Holmes recording 10.97 and 9.09m respectively and they were also part of the victorious 4×100m relay squad with Sam Beckett and Eleanor Campbell.
Kate Austen, Amanda Jukes, Lesley Hall and Helen Wheeler (battling the flu) piled on more valuable match points in the middle distance races. Deborah Martin continued her high jump success along with Katie Hamilton both clearing 1.50m for second in the A string and a B string win.
As the season draws to a close the girls can feel proud of their excellent achievements over the last two years. This is basically a young new team reminiscent of the quality teams the club have boasted in years gone by with excellent team spirit.
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Women on a roll
Indoor delight for club
Sophie Hamlyn, Lauren Bamford and Kayleigh Miller-Leslie
ASHFORD had a brilliant couple of days at the Kent Indoor track and field championships at the Lee Valley Centre winning 10 golds, 12 silver and 10 bronze medals.
One of the star performers was young Oliver Williams who took a full house of medals in the Under 15 age group with gold in a tight high jump contest with 1.50m, silver in the 60m hurdles with 9.73 holding off teammate Max Reeves and two bronze medals.
Oliver was third in the 200m with 26.19 and also in the 60m sprint (7.91) which was won by teammate Nathan Fatola who powered to a superb club record 7.77. Reeves was fifth in the sprint final.
Kara Gibbs took gold and silver in the senior women winning the high jump with 1.40m and second in the pole vault with 2.80m with teammate Emmeline Rendell in third with 2.70m as did Rachel Hanagan.
Rachel is ranked 9th in the country in the U20 triple jump after winning the Kent title with 11.14m and added the silver in the long jump with with 4.87m. Sister Laura leapt to a new indoor personal best of 10.21m in taking gold in the U17 triple jump.
Lauren Bamford won gold and silver taking the U15 county title in the 300m with a personal best 45.28 but was just edged out by clubmate Kayleigh Miller-Leslie in the 60m hurdles dash. Kayleigh took gold with 10.33 and Lauren clocked 10.45.
Also in the U15 girls Sophie Hamlyn claimed the county title in the long jump with 4.04m while at the other end of the age range Gary Macdonald won the M50 1km walk with 9:32.85.
Pete Davey and James Bridges secured senior men’s silver medals in the 60m hurdles and 200m respectively with 9.21 and 23.47 times while veteran Jon Ward took silver in the men’s shot 12.39 with Chris Kingland just missing a medal in fourth with 11.03m.
In the U20 men Tom Chambers held off teammate Hadley Pressley to take the 200m silver with 23.49 to Pressley’s 24.58 and Sam Beckett had a good weekend second in the U20 women’s 800m and third in the 400m. Sam was also fifth in the 60m sprint.
Amelia Jones was a fine second in the U17W 800 while Abigail Purkis set a personal best 28.15 in taking the bronze in the U15 200m with first year teammate Amber Currie making both the 60m and 200m finals.
Tom Williams took silver in the U17 triple jump with 11.73 and just missed another medal in the 60m hurdles fourth in 9.53 as well as a fifth in the 200m.
Jack Huxley took bronze in the U15 boys pole vault with a fine 2m vault and there were 200m personal bests for Caitlin Dock and Steve Walder. Others to go close to medals were Luke Williams fourth in the men’s pole vault (3.30m), Erin Maxwell fourth in the U15G high jump and fifth in the long jump and Lucy Holmes was fifth in the U17W shot.
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