Saturday saw Braintree Athletics Club's women's team at Bracknell, competing against Reading, who were top of the league, Bracknell, who occupied sixth place, Stevenage (eighth) and Oxford, who were just below halfway in the table.

Before the match, Braintree were languishing in the bottom five, and the relegation zone, so a good performance was required.

Although there were many good individual performances and two club records were broken, Braintree only managed to secure 130 points.

The two club records that were broken were in the senior 400m by Sarah Hancock, running 57.8s and the 4x400m relay, where the team took 6.5 seconds off the club record.

The results were: Under 15 girls: 100m (A) Poppy Rollit-Mason 4th 14.2sec; (B) Melissa Everleigh 3rd 14.2sec; 200m (A) Poppy Rollit-Mason 5th 29.6sec; (B) Lois Cartwright 5th 31.5sec; 800m (A) Jenny Hunt 5th 2min 27.6sec; (B) Yvonne Thomson 5th 2min 45.1sec; 1500m (A) Sophie Byham 2nd 5min 13.6sec; 75m, hurdles (A) Amanda Potter 3rd 12.5sec; (B) Melissa Everleigh 5th 14.5sec; Long Jump (A) Amanda Potter 5th 3.71m; (B) Poppy Rollit-Mason 4th 3.50m; High Jump (A) Melissa Everleigh 5th 1.30m (PB); (B) Lois Cartwright 4th 1.25m; Shot Putt (A) Hollie Redman 2nd 8.20m; (B) Hannah Verghese 3rd 6.62m; Discus (A) Hollie Redman 3rd 23.79m (PB), (B) Hannah Verghese 2nd 17.61m; Javelin (A) Hollie Redman 3rd 18.25m; (B) Hannah Verghese 3rd 15.88m; 4x100m Relay 5th 57.8sec.

Seniors: 100m (A) Sarah Hancock 1st 12.4sec; (B) Lucy Unwin 2nd 13.0sec; 400m (A) Sarah Hancock 1st 57.8sec (CR PB); (B) Naomi Verghese 2nd 60.6sec; 800m (A) Debbie Jacob 4th 2min 27.7sec; (B) Jenny Allen 4th 2min 30.5sec; 3000m (A) Michelle Lock 5th 13min 42.9sec; 100m hurdles (A) Lucy Unwin 2nd 16.0sec; (B) Kim Steggles 3rd 19.8sec (PB); 80m hurdles (A) Kristi Andrews 3rd 12.7 sec; High Jump Kim Steggles 3rd 1.45m; (B) Naomi Verghese 3rd 1.35m; Long Jump (A) Sarah Fleetham 2nd 5.43m; (B) Kristi Andrews 3rd 4.07m; Triple Jump (A) Sarah Fleetham 1st 11.10m; (B) Kim Steggles 1st 10.01m; Discus (A) Emma Bailey 4th 26.44; (B) Louise Harrison 5th 10.04m; Javelin (A) Sarah Fleetham 3rd 18.00m; (B) Emma Bailey 3rd 17.00m; Shot Putt (A) Sarah Fleetham 5th 7.65m; (B) Emma Bailey 5th 7.20m; 4x100m relay 1st 50.6sec; 4x400m relay 2nd 4min 05.0sec (CR).

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