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Angela James broke a club record at the first time of asking as she cleared 2.10m to improve the U17 pole vault mark on her debut at the event at today's National Junior League fixture. She also won the B triple jump with a useful 9.52m on her debut, scored high jump points and ran a relay leg on her first appearance in this league for U20s and U17s.

Nicola Hill again starred with a treble with wins in both hurdles, equalling her week-old 400mH best of 65.3s, clocking a fast 15.5s for the 100mH event in tricky conditions & taking the long jump with a season’s best of 5.27m against strong opposition. Lisa Schofield added a B hurdles double, with a season’s best in the 100mH event, and also contributed 200m points and fine relay leg.

Georgie Sales led from gun to tape to win the 3000m in a PB time and was also second in the B javelin. Another win came from Bethan Siddons in the triple jump, after placing second in her high jump main event.

Lauren Clark has a trio of runners-up spots, taking second in the 400m, discus and B 200m (PB) as well as the fastest 4x400m leg and Katie Richardson was second in both 400m B and 1500m, filled in for a few points in the 100m as well as a good anchor leg in the 4x400m relay, Emma Christmas was second in the javelin, Lauren Clark took the same place in the B discus and B string runners up points also went  to Ingrid Deane (1500m) and Hayley Pegg (3000m). Jade Edwards helped the cause in the 800m, shot, hammer & relay.

For the men Bradley Reece impressed with a huge hammer PB to go fourth on the club U20 list. It gained him second place points, a feat repeated in the discus and her also threw well in the shot. Vince Lazaro, Anthony Williams and Rob Jones scored well. Vincent was runner up in both long & triple jump (B), as well as B javelin, while Anthony had three second placings in hurdles long & triple jumps. Rob Jones battled hard in 400m & 1500m before coming back for steeple chase second place.

Good efforts came from Josh Dunne and Callum Sutton in 200m & 800m, and Chris Lowe completed the team with 1500m points and filled a relay slot.

The women won their competition but the depleted men's squad were fourth and the combined team also had to settle for fourth in the match as Basildon won comfortably.  With stronger support from the club’s U17s at the next fixture a second place finish next time looks possible.