Team Kennet took part in the Southern Athletics League Div 3 SW at Poole on Sunday, In Soring Temperatures and Light winds set up a tough match for all four teams, with many club athletes away at Wembly in was going hard work.

1 Newquay & Par 188
2 Team Kennet 170
3 Guildford & Godalming 158
4 Worthing & District AC 130

The Yellow Vests worked very hard for their second place which saw 20 wins on the day.

Hayley Steward had a great match securing 3 A string wins, firstly in the Shot with 10.13, less than an hour later she took a superb win in the 400m with 63.8, then later on winning the Triple jump 9.66. Anna Montagne also took 3 wins in her A strings, firstly in the Long Jump with 4.96, then did the sprint double 100m 13.2 and 200m 27.3. Bethan Philp made it another A string win in the 1500m Steeplechase in 5.57.5.

There were a few B string wins on the day Caitlin Nowell coming back from injury timed her 400m to perfection to win in 68.2, in the middle distance races Rosa Lawrence won the 800m B 2.43.8 and 1500m Georgina Bradford won the B string with a sprint finish in just over 6 minutes, in the Field Charlotte Booker won the B string discus 23.41 and Deborah Montgomery won the B string Javelin 24.10. Anais Taank won the B string Triple Jump 8.69m. The other win came in the 4 x100m relay in a time of 54.9
there were some good performances in the ladies Pheobe Hoaen making her debut in the league throwing the Javelin 31.42 to finish 3rd A string, Booker throwing the Hammer 30.11 for 3rd place in the A string.

The Mens section a double win came in the Triple Jump with Joe Osler leaping 12.33 and Josh Willock 11.93, other wins came from team manager Nick Bull taking 3 B string wins in the 400m hurdles, 3000m and 3000m Steeplechase, and Simon Hockaday won the 3000m A string.
Josh Willock had to settle for two second places in the sprints as he clocked fast times of 11.5 in the 100m and 23.5 in the 200m, Joe Osler cleared 1.85 in the High Jump for 2nd place in a tightly contested competition, and taking the same spot in the B string Long Jump, Willock having to settle for 4th place with 5.90 in the A string again in a tough long jump competition.

Team Kennet started the Wessex League campaign with a superb second place at Basingstoke, and to take Two League records on the way, Ben East throwing a massive 70.02 to extend his UK Number one Spot and taking him to European number 1 and Phoebe Hoaen 44.92 Uk Number two to break the Wessex League records in both the  under 17 age groups.

Final match score

Basingstoke 514
Team Kennet 449
Slough 373
Aldershot 291
City of Salisbury 247
MADJA 177

On the day the under 17 Women won their age group with tough competition, with Hoaen winning the A javelin, Anna Montagne won the B string with a big 25.97 throw, Anna went on to win the High Jump with 1.55 and Ellie Armstrong won the B string 1.35, the Shot Armstrong had to settle for third 9.72 with Ellie Kerslake third, long jump Izzy kerslake came 4^th A and Georgina Thomson 3^rd B string. On the Track the Thomson twins teamed up with Rebecca coming 2^nd A in the 800m and Georgina winning the B string, in the 1500m  Rebecca was 2^nd A string 5.29 and Georgina 2^nd B 5.33, two more 2^nd places came in the 300m R. Thomson 50.3 and Hoaen, the 200m Ellie Armstrong came 5^th in 29.6 and Hoaen 2^nd b string 29.8 and finally the 100m Izzy Kerslake came 4^th 13.8 and Ellie Kerslake 2^nd B 14.1. The Relay quartet of Kerslake and Thomson twins came home in 2^nd place.

The under 13 girls also took a age group win winning 9 of the events, The Javelin saw a double win Eve Brown 21.94 and Claire McGonnell 19.46, the Shot saw another double Zoe Allen 7.23 and Eve Brown 5.11, another double win came in the long jump Lyla Goodwin 3.78 and Tavie Thomas 3.76 and in the High Jump two 2^nd places came from Neve Wright and Claire McGonnell both leaping 1.15. The track fared well McGonnell started the day of with a brilliant win in 13.0 and Kirsten Fraser taking 2^nd B string 14.5, Eve Brown made it a hattrick of wins in the 1200 4.26 and Emma Davies taking 2^nd B string 4.36 in the 800m Kirsten Fraser was fired up to win in 2.30.6 and team m, Lyla Goodwin came 6^th in the 100m and 5^th in the 200ate Alana Smith came 2^nd  2.57.8. Zoe Allen had to settle for 3^rd place in the 100m 14.1 and 2^nd in the 200m 29.5 B strings. The Relay quartet of McGonnell, Allen, Goodwin and Thomas came 2^nd 59.9 just missing out on a win

The under 17 men came close to winning, had to settle for second place in their age group, Ben taking the honours here in the Javelin and Oliver Gregory taking 2^nd place in the B string. Double win came in the Shot Harry Booker 10.51 and Gregory 9.83. Booker cleared 1.60 in the high jump for first place, both TK athletes came 3^rd in the Long Jump Oliver Bazin and Alex McLaughlin. On the track Booker came 2^nd in the 100m hurdles16.3, the 400m saw a good race Ethan Haines coming in 3^rd 56.9 while Oliver Bazin came 2^nd B string 57.1, the shorter 200m Haines came 3^rd 25.0 and Gregory 2^nd B string 25.4, the 100m Bazin was 4^th 12.2. Finally the 4x100m quartet of Bazin, Haines, Booker and Gregory came 2^nd.

The under 13 Boys finished 2^nd place in their age group, which was made up of first year under 13s mainly, they did well William Harris winning the 75m hurdles 15.1, two superb 2^nd places came in the 1500m Ivan Chelmazov 5.17.3 and Kian D Arcy Masters 5.27.4, Harris ran a good 200m A a string  for 2^nd place 29.1 with Max Casey 3^rd B string 31.2, Harris again coming 2^nd in the 100m 13.7 and Ben Fisher 4^th 15.7 in the B string. The Relay Quartet Fisher, Fenner, Harris and Avery came home 2^nd place 59.9. On the Field two good second places came in the high jump Chekmazov 1.27 and William Appleby 1.10, The Shot Seb Simpson came 4^th A 6.57 but a great B string win came from Sam Dennis 5.98, the Javelin James Fenner came 4^th 21.12 and Josepth Hoaen 2^nd B string 16.8

The under 15s both came fourth in their age groups, missing quite a few key athletes they faired well in their events, in the girls a double win came in the 800m Annabel Todd 2.27.4 and Annalise Gale 2.43.3, points came in steady from rest of the girls Emily tucker, lottie Absolom, Annabel Gibson, Aimee Dickson and Ella Ward. On the boys Oliver Ford 9.87 , and Kian Hockaday both took wins in the Shot, in a good Javelin competition Hockaday was 3^rd 33.48 and Ford 2^nd 28.55, Noah Kemp ran 4.54 in the 1500m for 3^rd place best on the track. Both relay teams coming 3^rd place.

Team Kennet had several athletes take part in the Hampshire Grand Prix at Basingstoke Wednesday Evening.

Under 20 Stuart Bladon took part in three events the 100m clocking a fast 11.83, he broke the clubs Discus record pushing it up slightly to 36.53 and then lept 5.93 in the long jump.

Oliver Bazin took part in the under 17 age group clocking 24.8 in the 200m and in the long jump 5.73, just back from English Schools with a medal Pheobe Hoaen took part in the Javelin throwing 38.23
The under 15 age group Amiee Dickson ran in the 300m clocking 46.7 and in the 800m a personnel best from Noah Kemp with 2.23.78 while on the field events Oliver Ford threw the shot to a new best of 10.50 and in the Javelin 33.52 throw.

Two Team Kennet athletes took part in the Swindon Open track Meet on Sunday, Father Phil Murphy V40 and Son Eliot Murphy u13 took part in both 800 and 1500m races, Phil coming third in his heat of the 800m in 2.13.95 breaking the club Vet 40 record and Elliot running 2.34.66 in his 800m, Both teamed up together in their heat of the 1500m with Phil winning the heat in 4.43.8 another club record for Vet 40 and Eliot coming third with 5.09.7

Team Kennet’s Hayley Steward took part in the Somerset County Track and Field Champs at the weekend, she took two County titles in the Senior Age Group, firstly in the Shot with 11.46m throw and then the Long Jump 5.20m.

Team Kennet’s Ben East threw himself in to history at the weekend at the UK Javelin Festival held at Loughborough. Ben only 14 years old and in the under 15 age group threw a massive 66.17 in the Javelin to break the UK record for the age group, and one of the longest throws in the World, Ben is being coached by Luke Angell also from the club who also has a England Vest in the Javelin says that Ben could throw 70m this season.

Team Kennet also had a few other throwers taking part Pheobe Hoean in the under 17 women throwing 34m and Kian Hockaday in the u15 boys throwing just over 30m

Team Kennet’s Quadkids team finished in 2nd place in the 1st Wessex League match at Basingstoke with a score of 1334 points behind hosts Basingstoke and ahead of Salisbury.

For the girls, Bethany MacLean topped the yellow vests and came 3rd overall with 212 points. Erin Gosney scored 184 coming 5th overall with Leilah Gaye 134, Tillie Bell 117 and Millie Philips 117 the other scorers.

For the boys, Charlie Todd on 187 just pipped Harry Fenner on 186 with the pair 10th and 11th overall. William McDonald on 175 and Evan Alderman 139 were the other scorers.

In the Vortex throw, Bethany threw 28.49 to win overall with Erin’s 22.01 coming 3rd for the girls and Eloise Ross throwing 14.00m . Harry threw 35.03 to win overall for the boys with William throwing 23.77m and Jonathon Grozin 18.50m.

In the 600m run, Bethany’s 2.02.5 was 2nd overall with Erin 2.13.2 and Leilah 2.24.3 for the girls. The best for the boys were Charlie 2.06.3, William 2.16.9 and Evan 2.19.6.

In the 75m sprint Bethany’s time of 12.0s was 4th overall for the girls with Erin 12.1 and Tillie 12.8 just behind while Charlie, Harry and William all recorded a time of 12.3s for the boys.

In the Long Jump, Bethany 3.08m was again 4th overall with Erin 2.95 and Tillie 2.74 for the girls. Charlie’s leap of 3.33m was 5th overall for the boys with Harry 3.10 and William 2.76.

Team Kennets Hayley Steward competed for her home county, Somerset, over the weekend in the South West inter Counties match at Exeter. Steward in preparation for next season to get back in to Heptathlon took part in three events, her 400m clocked a personnel best time of 60.29 that saw her finish 2^nd, she also finished 2^nd in her two other events, firstly the Shot Put breaking her own club record and personnel best throwing 11.63 and then the Long Jump 5.14