ASHFORD finished second in the Southern League match at Harrow and will be looing for another good result in the final match at Tonbridge on Saturday (20th).
Gareth Morris was outstanding for the men with victories in the A 400m (50.4) and 400m hurdles (53.6) and there was a double in the pole vault won by luke Williams with 3.85m with Stuart Chisholm taking the B points with 3.20m.
Matt Smiley had a win in the B high jump as both he and Matt Hogben cleared 1.80m and Smiley was also second in the A long jump.
Ashford picked up good points in the triple jump with Matt Morsia second in the A event (14.68m) and young Nathan Fatola winning the B jump with a fine 12.76m.
Chris Blandford took the B javelin with 52.09m just behind teammate Peter Wickens who notched a fine 53.41 to be just edged out in the A contest.
Pete Davey swept to victory in the 110m hurdles and Lee Swinbourne won the B discus after good points in the shot and hammer. Veteran Jon Ward gained a good spread of points in the field events.
Gary Carr, Fatola and Ashley Cochrane covered the sprints with the middle distance events picked up by Matt Hogben, Warren Uden, Dylan Jones and Kev Williams.
The women picked up two doubles Stevie Langford and Debbie Martin winning the long jump with 1.66 and 1.60 respectively and the 100m hurdles points were claimed by Caroline Hatley and Emmeline Rendell. Stevie and Debbie also picked up seconds in the triple jump.
Amelia Jones showed her versatility with a win in the 2000m steeplechase and second in the 800m while Emmeline won the A pole vault with3.10m with Stevie second in the B event.
Rachel Hanagan had a win in the B shot and third in the hammer and young Kirsten Hooten had an excellent 23.58m to win the B javelin with third in the discus.
Veterans Candy Hawkins and Vicky Clarke weighed in with good points while Sam Beckett, Abbie Purkis and Briony Walsh also scored well in the sprints.
Match result: Harrow 204, Ashford 188, Nene Valley 160, Blackheath & Bromley 146.
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Second in Southern League
Ashford take NJL title
ASHFORD AC have won the Medway Division of the National Junior League and are looking to secure a place in the Premier Division at the promotion match at Copthall on August 28.
Also challenging are Kent rivals Medway and Maidstone who just edged out Ashford in the final league match at Canterbury.
Stars of the final meeting were Debbie Martin and Lucy Holmes who set up two double victories in the triple jump and high jump.
Debbie took the A triple jump with a personal best 10.17m with Lucy taking the B points with 8.69m while in the A high jump Debbie was a convincing winner with 1.65m with Lucy again shining with the B win with 1.30m. Lucy was also second in the A long jump and B javelin.
Another win came in the girls’ pole vault taken by Caitlin Dock with 2.70m while Sam Beckett won the 400m hurdles with 71.9 and Caitlin was second in the B long jump with a pb of 4.35m.
Kayleigh Miller-Leslie had a fine win in the B 100m with a personal best 12.8 which would have put her in the top three of the A event but once again this was a fine team effort convincingly winning the girls competition from M&M.
Amber Regardsoe picked up good points in the discus and hammer with fine support from Lizzie Highwood who had personal bests in both events.
Louise Barclay also had a couple of pbs with good runs in the 3000m and B 800m with Isabel Dickinson also scoring well in the distance runs while Sam Beckett, Kim Smith and Amelia Jones did well in the shorter races. Isabel had personal bests in the 400m and 1500m.
Kirsten Hooten was just pipped by 5cm into second in the A javelin and was second in the B shot.
The boys were third after just two event wins with Quazim Omotosho taking the A discus with a 33.32m throw and he was third with a personal best 22.55m in the A hammer and third in the shot with another best of 8.70m.
The only other maximum came in the B triple jump from Oliver Rudd with a personal best 10.25m.
George Huxley had a couple of fine seconds in the hurdles event with 16.2 in the 100m and 62.4 in the 400m and George had another pb to earn points in the shot.
Ashford battled to cover all the events so there were fine efforts from Will Dickinson, Jack Huxley, Ben Cox, Ashley Corcoran, Neil Daughters and Chris Meakin.
Good show by KYAL athletes
ASHFORD boys took third to maintain their third overall in the Kent Young Athletes League at Canterbury while the girls are fourth.
There were a tremendous number of personal bests from this inexperienced squad so it was an excellent day for the Ashford teams.
Two of them came in a terrific double for Ashford in the U15 75m hurdles with Ellie Gooding winning the A race with 12.0 and Charlotte Tappenden taking the B race with 13.3. The duo also had thirds in the 100m sprint with two bests of 13.0 and 13.9 and both had bests again in the high jump with 1.40m and 1.30m respectively.
Ben Isaac has been in super form this year and had a personal double winning the the 80m hurdles in a best of 12.4 and the long jump with 5.15m while George Hoben almost made in a club double in the long jump second in the B event with 4.13m.
The clubs only other U15 win came in the B high jump with Elliot Rudd a personal best 1,25m with teammate Alexander Hardy a fine third in the A leap with another best 1.30m.
The other B win came in the U13 75m hurdles with Cameron Amadee clocking a superb personal best 12.7 and Alexandra Prickett notched a terrific personal best 14.8 for second in the girls B hurdles. Cameron and Ed Miller also both notched personal bests 14.0 in the 100m.
Jack Goss worked hard rewarded with pbs in the U15 400m and 800m of 59.1 and 2:15.3 well supported by Daniel Steadman and Zak Shaikh with bests in the B races.
Emily Hamlyn and Ciara Ewart both had thirds in the U15 200m as did Dan Steadman and Owen Morgan in the 1500m.
Hannah Owen had a fine pb of 1.30m for third in the A U15 high jump with Eve Graham also having a best of 1.10m in the B event.
Giles Manning and Felicity Endacott both had seconds in the 1200m walk with best times of 8:44.3 and 8:21.1 respectively while Zak Shaikh did the same in the U15 walk with a pb of 8:19.7.
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