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Golden day for senior women

September 14th, 2010 by News Desk

The successful senior women

ASHFORD AC’s senior women had a splendid day at the Kent Relays championships at the Black Lion track in Gillingham.
Highlight was a well deserved gold in the 4x400m race where Laura Hanagan, Caroline Hatley, Sam Beckett and Rachel Hanagan came from behind to take top honours.
Always playing catch-up Sam managed to hand over to Laura in second place after the third leg and she tucked in behind the leader to storm home down the final straight to secure a brilliant gold.
In 4x100m Sam, Rachel and Caroline were joined by Lucy Holmes to secure a hard earned bronze and there was another third for the quartet of Sam, Lucy, Caroline and Caitlin Dock in another fine run in the 4x200m final.
It was a remarkable performance by Sam who only got home at 4am after taking a second in the final of the Street Athletics in Manchester to get up and help the three senior women’s squads to the gold and two bronze medals.
The club secured another bronze in the U15 girls 4x100m event with fine runs by Sophie Hamlyn, Kayleigh Miller Leslie, Lauren Bamford and Hester Hill.
The U15 4x200m squad just missed out the medals in fourth after a good effort by Kayleigh, Lauren and Hester joined by Abigail Purkis.

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Women on a roll

August 10th, 2010 by News Desk

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 4x100m 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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U13s show the way

June 2nd, 2010 by News Desk

A SUPERB display by Ashford U13 boys helped keep the club in the title race in the Kent Young Athletes League meeting at Erith.
They finished a fine second spurred by three double successes and victory in the relay.
Alex Lynch led the way winning the 75m hurdles with Ben Isaac taking the B string honours and they were joined by George Hogben and Luke Busumbru to take the 4x100m relay. Lynch also also took second in the long jump and third in the 200m.
Another winning double came in the discus where Luke dominated the A event winning with 19.25m while Lewis Hagger took B honours with a fine 13.17m.
Isaac had a convincing win in the A javelin with 25.64m with Edward Miller the B winner with an equally impressive 22.48m. Ben also won the B 200m while Miller secured victory in the B 100m.
Hagger also capped a busy day with second in the B high jump wher Hogben finished third in the A event and Lewis was also second in the B shot with George third in the A throws.
Also in action were Jacob Sivyer and Sam Marsh.
The U15 boys were lifted by a a double second in the 100m from Nathan Fatola and George McClennan.
Nathan was also third in the long jump, fifth in the discus and anchored the 4x100m squad that took a fine second along with Temi Banwo, Max Reeves and Wesley Potter.
McClennan notched a very close second on the line in the 400m and was fourth in the 800m where Declan O’Driscoll was third in the B race.
Other thirds came from Reeves in the A 80m hurdles and B discus and Potter in the B long jump.
The U13 girls also had a good day just edged into third while the U15s emulated the boys by also taking fifth.
Young Emem Umoh was the U13 star winning the 150m on the line with Eleanor Potter third in the B race and Emem also won the B javelin, where Annamarie Gould was second in the A event, and was also second in the A long jump.
Eleanor won the B 1200m walk with Amber Guyatt in second in the A walk and there wasa double second for Amber and Annamarie in the 600m.
Emem was joined by Mary Coleman, Georgia Bamford and Emily Hamlyn for second in the 4x100m relay. There was another two A & B second places in the discus for Coleman and Rebecca Cock while in the shot Coleman was third in the A competition and Bamford second in the B contest.
There were three victories for the U15 squad with Lauren Bamford winning the A 75m hurdles convincingly and Rebecca Roddy claimed A success and Charlotte Roberts the B honours in the 1200m walk.
Lauren also claimed thirds in the A 300m and shot and a second in the 4x100m relay along with Hamlyn, Amber Currie and Hester Hill.
Hester was third in A high jump and B discus while there were A and B thirds for Hamlyn and Currie in the long jump and Polly Abbott and Erin Maxwell in the javelin.
The girls’ teams finished third overall on the day.

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