Dominant opening day display by PANVAC stars

Peterborough & Nene Valley AC won their first Southern Athletics League meeting of the season by a huge margin at the Embankment.

Hoping to get back to the top flight the club totally dominated their Division Two North & East fixture to put a marker down for a promotion challenge.

Angus Bowling won his pole vault competition at the Embankment.

placeholder image — Angus Bowling won his pole vault competition at the Embankment.

PANVAC were already out of sight of the five opposing teams when the sprint relays took place at the end of proceedings. They convincingly won both male & female 4 x100m & 4 x 400m races to put the cap on a hugely successful day of athletics.

Jess Varley pulled off an impressive double winning the 1,500m in 5:02.0 and blasting her way round the 3,000m to win in 10:40.7.

Andrea Jenkins, Becki Hall, Dave Bush & Simon Achurch pulled off two wins apiece in the throws. Jack Pishorn gained his first win for the club in the B hammer.

Sean O’Donnell won the 200m in 22.0 & Harry Collister took the honours in the B race with a 22.5 clocking.

The ladies produced another sprint double for the club with Holly Aslin taking the 100m honours in 12.8 & Iris Kwakye winning the B race with a time of 13.0.

Claire Smith won the B 200m in 63.5, her best time for two seasons. Lucy Preston ran 2:37.5 to win the 800m.

Teenager Jack Wheatley won the 110m hurdles in 15.5 with veteran Sean Reidy clocking 18.2 to win the B race. Alastar Phelan won the B 400m hurdles in 60.9.

Away from the track pole vaulters Angus Bowling with 4.20m & Noah Fell with 2.90m won the A & B competitions while Donovan Capes threw 13.08m to win the shot.

Beth Torr took maximum points with a distance of 8.84m in the triple jump & Emma Hornsby won the long jump with 4.95m.