Women's Southern League 2003: Match 3, Battersea Park

1 Herts. Phoenix 209, 2 Herne Hill 186; 3 Crawley AC 159; 4 Belgrave H 149; 5 Milton Keynes AC 145.

Seniors strong again - but it's fourth at the end of the day

The Hollman sisters, Julie and Anne, making a late start to their season, made a very valuable contribution to the Club’s total but by the end of the rain-free and largely sunny afternoon it was Herts Phoenix who came out on top with an impressive 209 points, the home team placing fourth with 149. The Hollmans scored maximum points in the shot put and on the track Julie won the 100mH (14.2) and brought the 4 x 400 relay team back into contention with a splendid 55.3 second anchor leg. In this race one second separated the first three teams and in the 4 x 100 relay there was another tight finish with the Belles taking second place, one tenth of a second behind Crawley. Julie Mitchell dominated the 1500m finishing 20 seconds clear of the runner-up, and Toks Hassan also had a comfortable winning margin in the 200m (26.0), but in the lap hurdles Jennifer Culley had to find that little bit extra to stay ahead of Sam Adamson of the Herts Phoenix club, our main rivals in the senior events where both teams collected 120 points, well clear of the other three clubs.

In the field, Michelle Nestor’s smile was even broader than normal after she had wrapped up the long jump with 5.24 metres and was the only triple jumper over 11 metres which she achieved in her last attempt. Just for good measure she ran a sprint relay leg and was second in the high jump ‘B’ (1.50). Diana Holden showed she is back in business by snatching victory from Nicole Dudman in the last round of the hammer with over 51 metres. In this event and the discus she teamed up with Gail Porter, always willing to help the Club fill vacancies, who placed third in both B competitions. There was a second place in the javelin with Anne Hollman just claiming the A competition place - her 35.86 furthest throw was just 8 centimetres further than that of Maureen Knight who also won the sprint hurdles B race in 15.3 seconds. There were second places in the 400m flat for Caroline Wilson (59.2) and Louise Collier (61.0).

In the under 15 girls, consistent Holly Gates competed in her usual events clocking 14.0 seconds in the 100 metres and leaping 3.72 metres in the long jump where she teamed up with Nicola Ellis (3.85 metres).

Senior Women.

100m: 5 F.Gregory U17 13.4. 200m: 1 T.Hassan U17 26.0; 5 S.Murray-Burton U20 28.4. 400m: 2 C.Wilson U20 59.2; 2 L.Collier U17 61.0. 800m: 5 L.Collier 2:24.9; 3 V.Goodwin 2:23.7. 1500m: 1 J.Mitchell 4:40.6; 2 V.Goodwin 5:13.7. 3000m: 3 L.Cooper 11:38.0; 3 J.Patterson 13:41.6. 100mH: 1 J.Hollman 14.2; 1 M.Knight 15.3. 400mH: 1 J.Culley 63.3; 5 J.Smiter 94.0. 4x100m: 2 Belgrave 51.5 (F.Gregory U17, S.Murray-Burton U20, M.Nestor U20, T.Hassan U17. 4x400m: 3 Belgrave 4:00.6 (L.Collier U17 62.8, C.Wilson U20 59.6, V.Goodwin 62.9, J.Hollman 55.3). HJ: 3 M.Knight 1.60; 2 M.Nestor U20 1.50. LJ: 2 M.Knight 5.28; 1 M.Nestor U20 5.24. TJ: 1 M.Nestor U20 11.06; 1 M.Knight 10.52. PV: 3 J.Smiter 1.70. SP: 1 J.Hollman 12.51; 1 A.Hollman 11.65. DT: 2 D.Holden 30.79; 3 G.Porter 23.88. JT: 2 A.Hollman 35.86; 1 M.Knight 35.78. HT: 1 D.Holden 51.19; 3 G.Porter 25.08.

U17 Women.

80mH: 5 C.Hopkins 17.2. 300mH: 4 C.Hopkins 58.9.

U15 Girls

100m: 4 H.Gates 14.0; 4 L.Pearce 14.6. 200m: 5 H.Gates 31.6; 5 I.Gates U13 33.7. 800m: 5 L.Sandberg 3:12.5. 1500m: 5 K.Burns 5:32.6. 75mH: no competitor. 4x100m: 5 Belgrave 61.5 (L.Sandberg, N.Sheridan, K.Burns, L.Pearce). HJ: 4 L.Pearce 1.15; 3 K.Burns 1.10. LJ: 4 N.Sheridan 3.85; 3 H.Gates 3.72. SP: 5 S.Gayle 7.22; 5 L.Hopkins 5.04. DT: 5 S.Gayle 13.68; 5 L.Hopkins 10.00. JT: 5 L.Hopkins 12.20; 4 S.Gayle 11.12.

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