Team Kennet

Team Kennet produced anther outstanding team display on Sunday at the second Wessex Track and Field Fixture at Winchester’s new track. A record of 73 athletes took part for the club on the day and with those numbers turning out a high team score was achieveable. And so it was with a convincing win that keeps the club top of the Division. The u13 girls, u15 girls and u15 boys also won keeping them on top of their individual age group leagues. The under 13 girls saw two national grade 1 performances, Leah Beechey in the shot 8.14 for a fine win and Georgina Bradford 2nd in the 1200m 4.02.5. In the B strings of these events Chloe Scaplehorn took a win in the Shot while Alex Maughan won the 1200m. The 800m saw a double win with Yasmin Ryder 2.33 and Scaplehorn 2.44.5. Ryder and Bradford teamed up to score anther double in the Discus with Ryder throwing over 18m. The long jump produced personnel bests for Millie Calkin 4.25 for 2nd and the B string was won by Annabel Chaffey. In the sprints Calkin secured two excellent 2nd places in both 100 and 200 A strings while in the B strings Beechey and Chaffey sprinted to wins respectivly. Beechey came fourth in the 70m hurdles while Carys Cox came 3rd in the B string.  Cox came 5th in the high jump while Harriet Allan came 3rd  in the B string.  The relay quartet were beaten into 2nd place still producing a sub 60sec time from Chaffey, Calkin, Bradford and Beechey The under 15 girls just narrowly took a team win by 2pts. It was the field events that saw the most points, in the Throws Izzie Mchattie produced a nat. grade 1 throw and new club record of 10.65 in the  A string for a great win while the  B string was won by Kitty Brockbank 8.64, the javelin notched up the same places for Mchattie with anther grade 1 performance 24.07  taking her to UK number 3 and Brockbank 22m. Emma Seymour and Codie Burnett notched up the clean sweep in the throws with anther double, Seymour throwing 24.36 for a p.b. The long jump saw anther double and another grade 1 by Yolanda Nicholson 4.98 and Codie Burnett 4.53. On the track Feya Eaton was just edged out into 2nd place in the 75m hurdles and had to settle for the same place in the 300m as well. Yolanda Nicholson was in form she took both the 100 and 200 A strings while in the  B string 100 Burnett came 2nd. Rhea Walter and Seymour gained valuable points in the 800m, as did Walter and Rebecca Allan in the High jump. The relay team of Burnett, Allan, Eaton and Nicholson won in 54.7. The under 15 boys started their team win with Jack Hatton winning the 80m hurdles in 11.8 anther club nat grade 1 performance, new comer Luke Angell came 2nd in a good standard javelin with 37.71, while Jamie Rabbatts stole the  B string with a good win 22.37. Angell came 4th in the Discus 19.00 and 2nd in the Bstring Shot. Samuel Randall took a double win in the 400m 55.3 and the 800m 2.13.3 A strings, The sprints were again fast races Josh Willock was 2nd in both sprint races 12.7 and 25.2, and the B strings Conland Macdonald won both his races 12.5 and 25.0 The relay team of Randall, Willock, Macdonald and Puttock came 2nd by just one tenth of a second. Both the under 17 teams came 2nd, the girls Charlotte Polding won the 80m hurdles and long jump, and was 5th in the 200m. Alishia Bradford won the shot by 3 cms with 7.94, 2nd places in the  Discus 28.15 and Javelin 20.70 Katie Herbert won the  B string Discus just short of 19m, anther win came from Sophie Conway in the Long jump B string the u17 boys saw Micheal Randall win the 1500m then compete in the 800m for 3rd place with Luke conway winning the  B string both getting under 2.05, Randall then came 2nd in the 400m. Aidan Marshall just pipped in to win the 200m 24.5 with Peter Saunders 2nd B string 24.8, the sprint 100 saw Saunders 4th and Alex Roue 3rd Saunders was 2nd in the long jump 5.54 with Roue taking the  B string, the relay quartet of Randall, Saunders, Conway and Roue won in 48.1. In the under 13 boys the younger athletes found the competition a bit hard. Adam Conway picked up two B string wins in the  Discus and the Javelin, while Christian Randall won the  A string Discus. Randall was 2nd in the  Javelin and won the B String Shot. Jordan Hole was placed third in the  B string long jump 3.74 while Tom Coltart was also third in the  B string 75m hurdles. The relay quartet of Killner, Rabbatts, Hole and Winch came 4th.