UK Women's Athletics League, Division 3, Match 1, Bedford.

Saturday 10 May

Matters weren't helped when the nicely planned train journey ran into difficulties at Luton where there were problems with the overhead cables. There was no guaranteeing when the service would be resumed so a couple of taxis were pressed into service and our team found themselves arriving at the venue with little time for warm-up.

An unfamiliar name gave us our highest A string placings - Jodie Albrow with a win in the javelin and second place in the sprint hurdles. Of course, you will know her better as Jodie Favell! The event pulling in the best score was the 1500 metres where Nelle Quispel and Jojo Rhodes produced second and first places. All credit to Rachel Basford, normally scoring all over the arena after mopping up in her speciality, the hammer. Unfortunately she is injured at the moment but still turned out to support and help - and put the ball and chain out to 25 metres plus without her customary turns in the circle.

So, the show moves on to Lee Valley in a month's time. At the end of this day it could be seen that we'd made a solid enough start to the campaign and the likelihood is that the team will get stronger as we get into the season. Aldershot have pulled out of the league so one other club will face the prospect of re-qualifying at the end of the season and currently Leeds City AC are occupying that slot.

100m: 7 H Ryan 14.02w/2.4; 5 S Dike U20 13.47/-0.1. 200m: 7 N Anderson 27.70/nwi; 5 R Curling 28.05. 400m: 5 N Anderson 60.46; 4 R O'Brien 64.68. 800m: 4 N Quispel 2:21.83; 4 F Maddocks 2:40.34. 1500m: 2 N Quispel 4:55.71; 1 J Rhodes 5:00.21. 3000m: 6 F Maddocks 12:37.16; 5 M Noel W45 12:56.2. 100mH: 2 J Albrow 14.93w/2.2; 3 R O'Brien 19.20/0.0. 400mH: no competitor. 2000mSC: no competitor. HJ: 5 J Albrow 1.50; 4= R O'Brien 1.30. LJ: 4 R Curling 4.98; 5 S Dike U20 3.49. TJ: 7 H Ryan 8.52; 5 H Brown 7.28. PV: no competitor. SP: 6 H Ryan 7.72; 5 R Curling 7.68. DT: 3 H Mead W35 17.71; 6 H Brown 12.14. JT: 1 J Albrow 36.99; 4 H Mead W35 19.36. HT: 7 R Basford 25.50; 4 H Mead W35 20.32. 4x100m: 5 Belgrave H 53.86 (S Dike, R Curling, J Albrow, H Ryan). 4x400m: 2 Belgrave H 4:10.00 (N Quispel, R O'Brien, R Curling, J Albrow).Match. 1 Bedford &CAC 218; 2 Harrow 211.5; 3 Liverpool 188; 4 Exeter 184; 5 Herts Phoenix 172; 6 Belgrave H 155.5; 7 Leeds City AC 143.

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