The young Athletes of Herts Phoenix travelled to Perivale in West London to take on the host club, Ealing, Southall and Middlesex AC , Worthing AC and Dartford AC on Sunday.  Lying 5th in the league they hoped for a good victory to cement their place near the top of the table.

At the end of the afternoon they had amassed over 400 points to win the match comfortably, beating the hosts by over 50 points. This was a great end to their campaign in this league for the year and sees them move up to 4th in the final standings.

Result:
Herts Phoenix      407
Ealing, Southall    352
Worthing              276
Dartford               140

In the girls team the U17s lead the way with sprinters Claire Humphries and Rebecca Hore taking double victories in A and B string 100m and 80m hurdles.  Rebecca also won the 300m hurdles and Claire took a further 1st place with her and  Millie Phelan winning A and B string Shot Putt with 7.84m and 8.04m respectively – a new personal best for Millie.  Millie also won the B string 200m with Hannah Lintott taking second in the A string.

In the 300m, Steph Sattin recorded a new PB of 42.0s in taking 2nd in the A string and Deborah Willis, having just taken a fine 2nd in the 800m, won the B string 300m. In the 3000m Chloe-Anne Currie took second in the A string and Eloise Meakins won the B string having already sown up a Javelin double win together with Katie Grehan who had earlier completed another double win in the discus with Steph Sattin. Chloe-Anne went on to win the Hammer and partner Deborah Willis to a double win in the Triple Jump.

 

The relay teams of Phelan, Grehan, Currie and Humphries, 4x100m and Grehan, Sattin, Willis and Hore, 4x300m also returned maximum points for the team.

In the U15 girls  Isabella Cacciatore returned a third and second in the A string 100m and 200m, partnered by Katie Burr who won the B string 200m.  Helena Page and Katie Burr both took excellent second places in the 800m to keep the points coming.

In the field events Gemma Armorgie led from the front with a victory in the A string High Jump with 1.53m together with Miriam Franklin who took the B string with 1.30m.  Gemma then came second in the Long Jump again with Miriam who won the B string.  Sarah Miller won the Shot and Discus and came second in the Javelin to record good points supported by Katie Burr (Shot – 2nd B string), Helena Page, Discus – 4th and Javelin 1st place.

For the U13s Emma Slater was 2nd in the 75m A string and Natalie Allen won the B String.  In the 150m Natasha Hadley was 2nd in the A string and Emma won the B string.  Natalie and Natasha continued their fine run of double victories in the 70m Hurdles in times of 11.7s and 11.9s – a new personal best for Natasha.
Lizzie Parry and Hannah Nolan picked up good points in the 800m with 3rd and 2nd respectively and Laura Coffey and Megan Breen came 2nd and 1st in A and B string 1200m races.  The Hadley sisters came 2nd and 1st in the A and B string High Jump and Melissa went on to win the Shot Putt A string, supported by Megan Breen who took 3rd in the B string.  Finally Natalie Allen and Lizzie Parry took 1st and second in the Long Jump.

The 4x100m relay team of Allen, Slater and the Hadley twins comfortably won their final race of the day.

The U17 boys had a severely depleted team due to holidays but those that travelled competed well.  On the track, Joe Gaynor showed his versatility by winning the 3000m, and taking second places in the A string 200m and 400m races with Matt Gibson taking 2nd in the 400m B string.  Tom Barfoot and David Wilson took solid second places in the 800m and Ross Armorgie, now taking on the 400m Hurdles with more confidence, took a fine second place in 60.9s.  Ross also won the High Jump with 1.80m and Triple Jump with 11.92m to cap a fine day.

Richard Humphries won the Hammer in a high quality competition, due to this match taking place at the home of the West London Hammer school, with a new personal best of 48.90m and Ben Montgomery took a good second with 39.20m.  Ben went on to take two further second places in the A string Javelin and Discus.  Richard collected a second in the B string Discus and 3rd in the A string Shot Putt, supported by David Wilson who also took 3rd.

The 4x400m relay came second in the final event of the day to record more good points for the team.

For the U15s, Miebeka Owubokibi and Simon Bevan took 3rd in the A and B string 100m and Simon Wake and Ayrron Armstrong took 2nd and 1st in the 200m A and B races. In the 400m Andrew Walshe was given the same time as the winner 52.8s – a new personal best – but placed second as was Ross Morely in the B string. Ed Shepherd and Daniel Barcroft took a fine double win in the 800m and Daniel repeated this in the B string 1500m with Vasudev Zaver taking second in the A string.
Richard Sackey took a fine 2nd in the 80m Hurdles in 12.5s with Simon Beavan winning the B string.

Runners Andrew Walshe and Miebeka Owubokibi turned their hand to the Hammer both taking 2nd places – Andrew recording a fine 25.47m personal best. In the Shot Putt Simon Wake and Robert Hibbs took 1st and 2nd in A and B and Simon then won the A string Javelin supported by Sam Higgins who placed 3rd in the B string.  Robert Hibbs took second in the Discus A string and Sam Higgins and Ross Morely took 3rd and second in the Long Jump.

The two relay teams took 1st (4x400m) and 2nd (4x100m) to round off their afternoon.

For the U13 boys, Callum Scutt won the 100m and Long Jump supported by Harry Gaughan in the 100m who finished 2nd in the B string 100m, won the B string Long Jump and then won the 200m B string in a time of 30.9s. Richard Gill was 3rd in the A string 200m and then took 2nd in the 800m shortly after.  Nicholas Doyle won an exciting 1500m in 5.11.6s having come 3rd in the 75m Hurdles earlier in the afternoon with Jake Cable taking first in the B string and also 2nd in the A string High Jump.

The 4x100m relay team of Gaughan, Gill, Cable and Scutt won their race convincingly to round off a great day for the club.

John Humphries