UKWAL Belgrave Harriers UK Women's Athletics League Results & Reports2006: Match One, Bedford

Belles win streak goes on ...

Yep! Unbeaten in 2005 and winners of the opening UKWAL match in 2006, the quest for promotion goes on, but this was no easy match. Marshall Milton Keynes AC made a great fight of it and Blackheath & Bromley Harriers, promoted with the Belles at the end of 2005, will also surely have a say in the matter before this season is over.

Points were hard to come by but five individual winners tipped the balance our way with the pole vault our top event thanks to Janine Whitlock and Jenny Searle. Janine needed three tries at 4.15m but her eventual clearance was a new Division Three record and only 5cm shy of the overall league record held by ... Janine herself, set seven years ago when she competed for Trafford AC.

Hannah Stares was a double winner - taking both hurdle races - and prepared to tackle whatever the team managers threw her way. Our other win came from none other than Michelle Nestor - 11.06m in the triple jump - and as we've said before, goodness knows what she'd do if she ever trained.

Sarah Wellstead scored well in the A strings of the horizontal jumps - two second places to her - and it was good to see Diana Holden in the team and scoring equally well in the A hammer and B discus where U20 Jade Lally maintained her consistent 2006 series of throws well over 40 metres to place second in the A event.

Great start then - and we look forward to more of the same at Coventry in four weeks time.

Results. 100m: 5 J Culley 12.41w/2.9; 5 K Euridge 13.8/1.8. 200m: 4 J Culley 25.27w/3.2; 5 C Foster 26.55/1.3. 400m: 5 C Robinson 58.65; 5 S Gailey 62.04. 800m: 3 C Robinson 2:13.73; 3 C Foster 2:21.39. 1500m: 3 C Pryson 4:39.04; 2 C Shanklyn 4:42.25. 3000m: 5 S Murphy 10:41.83; 5 L Cooper 11:46.14. 100mH: 1 H Stares 14.53w/2.3; 3 C Bertram 18.58w/2.3. 400mH: H Stares 61.11; 4 V Goodwin 73.07. HJ: 6 H Stares 1.55; 2= M Nestor 1.50. LJ: 2 S Wellstead 5.88; 2 K Euridge 5.37. TJ: 2 S Wellstead 11.82; 1 M Nestor 11.06. PV: 1 J Whitlock 4.15; 1 J Searle 2.50. SP: 6 K Euridge 9.90; 5 C Bertram 8.16. DT: 2 J Lally U20 42.10; 2 D Holden 32.80. JT: 4 C Bertram 29.21; 2 G Porter 27.64. HT: 2 D Holden 48.22; 6 G Porter 23.35. 4x100m: 2 Belgrave H 48.93 (J Culley, K Euridge, S Wellstead, J Whitlock). 4x400m:4 Belgrave H 3:58.78 (C Foster 60.5, S Gailey 60.5, H Stares 58.7, C Robinson 59.1).

Teams.1 Belgrave H 199.5; 2 Marshall Milton Keynes AC 189.5; Blackheath & Bromley H 176; 3 Coventry Godiva 154; 4 Aldershot F&D AC 120; Newport H 118.5; City of Norwich 118.5; Newham & Essex Beagles 79.

Restored from the club's earlier website, belgraveharriers.com, and published here as originally written.