UKWAL Belgrave Harriers UK Women's Athletics League Results & Reports2007: Match Three, Milton Keynes

Safe at Milton Keynes

For one reason or other it was another small team journeying up the M1 to Milton Keynes for the final match in the league series; but with everyone fighting hard for every point, the Belles ended up with their best position of the season and comfortably maintained their Division Two status.

Hannah Douglas was in action in the first track event of the day, the 400 hurdles, where she now seems able to clip 60 seconds at will, and the last, where she pulled back two places in the long relay with a 56 second split.

One of our highest points scorers of 2007 is Susan Bovill who has had a good season. She took care of the 200/400 and was scheduled for both relays but had to pull out of the 4x400m having limped across the line on last leg of the short relay. Michaela Hutchison, fresh from two 800m pbs at the UK Championships, was devastating in the 1500m and with Catherine Bryson backing up well to win the B race they gave us our only maximum points of the afternoon.

One time multi-eventer Christine Bertram made her 2007 league debut with an unlikely combination of 3000m, 100m hurdles, javelin and long relay, and Katryna Euridge was also in action all over the arena, stringing together long and triple jumps, shot and relay. That triple jump was our second best event of the day with two second places from Katryna and Michelle Nestor.

But as we've already said, everyone happily contributed towards the final score and with just a few more athletes could easily be well into the top half of the table.

Results: 100m: no competitor. 200m: 3 S Bovill 24.8/2.1; 8 V Goodwin 31.3/0.4. 400m: 2 S Bovill 55.3; 6 S Gailey 63.3. 800m: 5 S Gailey 2:18.8; 6 V Goodwin 2:37.6. 1500m: 1 M Hutchison 4:29.7; 1 C Bryson 4:43.9. 3000m: 2 C Bertram 10:57.7; 4 S Gailey 11:57.1. 100mH: 3 H Douglas 14.6/-2.3; 8 C Bertram 20.6/-0.1. 400mH: 1 H Douglas 59.6.HJ: 7 H Douglas 1.50; 4 M Nestor 1.40. LJ: 4 K Euridge 5.23; 3 M Nestor 5.00. TJ: 2 K Euridge 10.88; 2 M Nestor 10.61. PV: no competitor. SP: 7 K Euridge 9.64; 6 J Loney 8.80. DT: 5 J Loney 34.34; 7 H Mead 15.99. JT: 7 C Bertram 27.52; 8 H Mead 17.69. HT: 5 J Loney 40.43; 6 H Mead 16.79. 4x100m: 6 Belgrave 52.0 (K Euridge, H Douglas, S Gailey, S Bovill). 4x400m: 4 Belgrave 4:09.5 (M Hutchison 60.3, C Bryson 65.8, C Bertram 67.4, H Douglas 56.0).

Teams: 1 Windsor SE&H 205; 2 Rugby & Northants 184; 3 Marshall Milton Keynes 167; 4 Team Southampton 160; 5 Belgrave H 131; 6 Havering & Mayesbrook 126; 7 Wakefield H 115; 8 Wigan &D 94.

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