There were mixed emotions for Blackheath & Bromley's Senior Women's team in the final UK Women's League match of the season at Liverpool. They won the match but missed out on promotion by just nine match points as they finished level on League points with the host Club.

While it was a useful squad that travelled North they had probably not expected victory but with many talented athletes who were prepared to do more than just their normal events the seeds for a famous victory were sown.

GB Junior International Shaunagh Brown grabbed victories in both the shot and discus but also scored useful points with a third place in the B hammer.

Pole vaulters Liz Hughes and Rachel Arnheim scored maximum points in their specialist event but Liz also finished runner up in the B shot and 6th in the A javelin. Rachel's clearance of 3.45 in the vault was a new best and she celebrated by placing 6th in the high jump and then volunteering for the 3000 metres finishing in 4th place in the B race. Considering the team were just 4.5 points ahead of Liverpool at the end of the afternoon performances such as this made all the difference.

The other A string victories of the day came from Rachel Blackie in the Hammer with 50.02 and the 4x100 team of Katy Benneworth, Lauren Blackie, Amy Godsell and Vickie Cole who tore round the track in a very useful 48.3.

Lauren had earlier set a new best of 11.70 to finish 2nd in the triple jump and there were new bests also for Bryony Proctor with 2.18.0 in the 800 and Vanessa Nakangu in the 400 with 56.8.

Lauren also won the B string long jump and there were other B string wins for Sam Singer in the 400 and Katy Benneworth in triple jump.

All these efforts weren't quite enough to secure promotion and so the team remain in Division Three of the National League.

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