The young athletes of Herts Phoenix finished a creditable third in their final match and will now have to wait until all the results are calculated to see if they have qualified for either of the A or B finals in September.

With a team hit by holidays and the U17 Inter-counties match, leaving them without one U17 girl, the young athletes performed magnificently to gain as many points as possible.

In the U13 girls the absence of the Hadley twins and Natalie Allen gave opportunities to others and the highlights were wins in both A and B string races for Megan Breen and Lizzie Parry in the 800m ( 2.42.9s and 2.51.3s) and Mary Gough and Laura Coffey in the 1500m (5.23.7s and 5.41.1s).
All these girls also picked up good points in their other events of Shot put for Megan and Mary (both 4th) and Long jump and Discus for Lizzy (3rd and 2nd places).
Megan also took 4th in the 200m (32.3s) and Nicole Chaytor and Annabel Jones took 4th and 3rd in the 100m A and B respectively with 16.1s and 15.7s.  Nicole also took 3rd in the long jump A string with 3.43m and finally the sprint relay team was 3rd.

The U15 girls also picked up points in all events with Gemma Armorgie taking first in the high jump with 1.51m and 2nd in the hurdles with 13.4s and Javelin with 18.90m.
The young athletes of Herts Phoenix finished a creditable third in their final match and will now have to wait until all the results are calculated to see if they have qualified for either of the A or B finals in September.With a team hit by holidays and the U17 Inter-Counties match, leaving them without one U17 girl, the young athletes performed magnificently to gain as many points as possible.

In the U13 girls the absence of the Hadley twins and Natalie Allen gave opportunities to others and the highlights were wins in both A and B string races for Megan Breen and Lizzie Parry in the 800m ( 2.42.9s and 2.51.3s) and Mary Gough and Laura Coffey in the 1500m (5.23.7s and 5.41.1s).

All these girls also picked up good points in their other events of Shot putt for Megan and Mary (both 4th) and Long Jump and Discus for Lizzy (3rd and 2nd places).  Megan also took 4th in the 200m (32.3s) and Nicole Chaytor and Annabel Jones took 4th and 3rd in the 100m A and B respectively with 16.1s and 15.7s.  Nicole also took 3rd in the Long Jump A string with 3.43m and finally the sprint relay team was 3rd.

The U15 girls also picked up points in all events with Gemma Armorgie taking first in the High Jump with 1.51m and 2nd in the hurdles with 13.4s and Javelin with 18.90m.
In the sprints Whitney Bryan took two fourth places in the A string 100 and 200m and Ella Lloyd took 3rd places in the B string 200m and A string 800m in 2.34.7s. Katy Burr placed 2nd in the B string 800m with 2.38.1s and also collected points in the Shot Putt.

In the 1500m Georgia Bennett and Mya Zaver took two second places with times of 6.08.3 and 6.45.3s respectively and Julia Bowen took 5th in the Long Jump with a leap of 3.68m.

For the U13 boys Callum Scutt and Jamie Jones took 3rd places in the 100m with 14.2 and 15.1s and Sam and Jamie Jones recorded 4th places in the 200m.  Sam went on to take 2nd in the 800m with 2.38.0s and second in the B string Discus along with Jamie who took 4th in the A string. Callum Scutt weighed in with more points in taking second places in the A string Long Jump (4.37m) and Shot Putt (6.15m) and Jake Cable took 3rd in the B string High Jump with 1.10m.

Nicholas Doyle put in a great afternoon’s work to win the B string 1500m in 5.15.8s and also take 4th in the A string hurdles and 5th in the A string High Jump with 1.10m. Liam Cloona ran well to finish second in the A string 1500m with 5.06.6s and Bradley Alder took 5th in the 800m B string with 2.54.5s.  To round off their afternoon the sprint relay team were second in 58.4s.

The U15 boys had a number of winners with Vasudev Zaver in the 1500m  (4.30.9s), Richard Sackey and David Sissons recording 12.8 and 12.9s in the sprint hurdles, Simon Bevan in the Pole Vault (1.90m) and B string Javelin (23.15m), George Hudson and Jonathan Stock in the High Jump (1.60m and 1.35m) and Jonathan also took the Javelin with 31.92m.

Elsewhere Miebaka Owubokina took 2nd places in the 100m B and 200m A in 12.7 and 25.5s with Prince Richman taking 2nd in the B string 200m with 26.4s. In the 800m Alex Cloona took 2nd in the a string with 2.24.5s and Jonathan Stock 3rd in the B string with 2.33.3s and in the 400m Alex took 4th with 63.9s and Robert Hibbs 3rd in the B string with 64.3s.

George Hudson took 2nd in the Long Jump with 5.02m and Robert Hibbs and Simon Bevan 3rd and 4th in the Discus. The U15 sprint relay team took a fine second place in 50.1s.

Finally the U17 men were led magnificently by Ross Armorgie who won three events – the sprint hurdles in 15.2s, the High Jump with 1.80m and the Triple Jump with 11.81m.  Ben Parry then picked up three second places with 56.3s in the A string 400m, 2.08.3s in the A string 800m and 10.09m in the B string Triple Jump.

George Williams took a second in the Long Jump with 4.69m, 3rd in the 200m A race 926.4) and 4th in the 100m A race with 12.5s. Matt Gibson ran a fine race to finish 2nd in the B string 800m with a time of 2.22.5s and the sprint relay team were second in 50.7s.

Overall the result was:

1. Peterborough            630 points
2. Dacorum and Tring   579
3. Herts Phoenix           363
4. Vale of Aylesbury    228
5. Biggleswade            172
6. Watford Harriers      165