LET'S hear it for the middle-distance runners! Some of Medway and Maidstone's were outstanding in the latest UKA Young Athletes' match on Sunday.

The first to a victory in the Southern 1 NE fixture was Lara Rose Tadman, who defeated a good opponent from Cambridge Harriers to win the Under-15 800.

James West finished second in his Under-15 800 race and he, of course, is better the longer the distance and recently went to number one in the 3000 UK rankings in the age-group. That's apart from having knocked 17 seconds from his 1500 PB this year.

Jacinta Barham won the U15 800 with half the home straight to spare and, minutes later, George Vaughan did the same when he ran two laps for M&M's U17's.

What none of those could do, though, was prevent the squad going down to defeat for the first time in the league this season.

Still, promotion back to the Premier League is still a possibility. One match remains, at Walthamstow, where the omens are good since they went up there two years ago.

One thing is certain. Anything is possible if Annie Waghorn can show in East London anything like the form she demonstrated in Battersea Park.

Having won over 300 metres in the first match of the season, Waghorn this time claimed first place in the 200 (PB), high jump (another PB) and the shot (with her second best ever throw).

For once, Lloyd Milner did not win the Under-17 400. He did take full points from the 200 B event and later played no small part in helping the long relay quartet finish more than 12 seconds clear of St Albans.

Tom Howlett was in that team and he had earlier scored the routine win we expect when he tackles the high jump. Another easy winner was long jumper Jordan Redjep, the Kent Under-17 champion clearing six metres for the eighth time in 2010.

Jane Angus (U15) is in good form, too. A 200 time of 26.4 was her best-ever without wind assistance and, because Jodine Trapp won the B race, the event was one of six from which the team gathered maximum points.

As for the Erogbogbo brothers, it may be difficult pronouncing their names but there is no doubting their talent. They won both U15 200 and 400 races.

No M&M report would be complete without mention of Tia Murray, either. Apart from winning the U13 200 by more than a second, she also scored a long jump success with 4.23. This was a massive improvement since the 12-year-old's previous best had been 3.97.

Under-17 boys 100: 2 Dan Gill 11.7, 2 Reece Dimech 12.0; 200: 3 Gill 23.9, 1 Lloyd Milner 23.6; 400: 2 Milner 52.3, 1 Dimech 53.2; 800: 1 George Vaughan 2:10.4; PV: 2 Tom Howlett 2.60; HJ: 1 Howlett 1.80; LJ: 1 Jordan Redjep 6.12; SP: 2 Howlett 10.73

DT: 2 Gill 24.81, 1 Vaughan 21.70; JT: 1 Dimech 32.70; 4x100: 3rd 46.9 (Gill, Vaughan, Redjep, Milner); 4x400: 1st 3:46.6 (Dimech, Milner, Vaughan, Howlett).

Under-15 boys 100: 1 Oluwadramilola Erogbogbo 12.5, 2 Richard Cantillon 12.8; 200: 1 Oluwadramilare Erogbogbo 24.7, 1 Joe Clark 26.0; 400: 1 Ola Erogbogbo 56.6, 3 James West 63.3; 800: 2 West 2:17.0, 1 Stephen Jones 2:27.8; 1500: 2 James Williamson 4:48.9, 2 Will Stockwell 4:58.8; 80H: 3 Stockwell 15.9, 2 Jones 16.7; HJ: 1 Clark 1.50; LJ: 2 Clark 4.47, 1 Ola Erogbogbo 4.87; SP: 3 Are Orogbogbo 9.06; DT: 2 Jones 17.72; JT: 3 Stockwell 26.67; 4x100: 2nd 50.7 (Ola Erogbogbo, Clark, Cantillon, Are Erogbogbo); 4x400: 1st 4:15.1 (Stockwell, Jones, Williamson, West).

Under-13 boys 100: 2 Tyler Willison 14.9; 200: 3 Willison 30.5; LJ: 3 Willison 3.59.

Under-17 girls 100: 1 Sophie Ayre 13.3, 1 Kerri Willis 14.0; 200: 1 Annie Waghorn 26.3, 1 Ayre 26.7; 300: 2 Nicola Keegan 43.4, 1 Willis 45.5; 1500: 2 Lucy Nicholson 5:13.2; 300H: 3 Megan Angus 50.8; HJ: 1 Waghorn 1.58; LJ: 1 Ayre 5.01, 1 Francesca Baylis 4.23; SP: 1 Waghorn 8.65, 1 Keegan 6.16; DT: 2 Baylis 23.26, 3 Angus 13.58; JT: 3 Keegan 18.28, 3 Baylis 16.93; 4x100: 1st 54.3 (Willis, Baylis, Angus, Nicholson); 4x300: 1st 2:54.5 (Ayre, Keegan, Angus, Waghorn).

Under-15 boys 100: 2 Jessica Murphy 13.6, 1 Jodine Trapp 13.7; 200: 1 Jane Angus 26.4, 1 Trapp 28.3; 800: 1 Lara Rose Tadman 2:31.4; 75H: 2 Joanne Ware 13.0, 3 Murphy 16.1; HJ: 1 Ware 1.45, 1 Tadman 1.40; LJ: 3 Ware 4.46, 1 Tadman 4.11; SP: 2 Alyce Cooper 5.82, 2 Angus 5.04; DT: 3 Cooper 12.16; JT: 1 Murphy 20.04; 4x100: 1st 52.2 (Murphy, Ware, Cooper, Angus).

Under-13 75: 2 Jasmin Salter 11.1, 2 Sian Keegan 11.5; 150: 1 Tia Murray 20.2, 3 Jacinta Barham 22.7; 800: 1 Barham 2:45.1; 1200: 2 Keegan 4:15.7, 2 Charlotte Harwood 4:41.6; LJ: 1 Murray 4.23; SP: 3 Murray 5.12, 2 Salter 6.12; 4x100: 1st 57.6 (Harwood, Salter, Keegan, Murray).

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Intermediate boys 400 (B): 3 Lloyd Milner 51.6; 800 (A): 3 Adam Gilbert 1:58.

Junior boys 1500 (B): 2 James West 4:30.0; 80H (B): 2 Francis Lammas 12.3; PV (B): 2 Jacob Lane 2.55; LJ: (B): 2 Lammas 5.40; JT (B): 1 Oliver Woodham 41.46

Intermediate girls 300 (B): 1 Annie Waghorn 42.6; 3000 (A): 4 Cerys Sanders 11:04.1; HJ (B): 1 Francesca Baylis 1.50; LJ (A): 2 Sophie Ayre 5.06

Junior girls 100 (B): 2 Jane Angus 13.7; 200 (B): 5 Angus 27.2

LJ (B): 2 Joanne Ware 4.25

Men's match: 1 Invicta East Kent 84; 2 Paddock Wood 82; 3 Bromley Vets 72; 4 M&M 57; 5 Sevenoaks 41; 6 Dartford 21; 7 Kent AC 6

M35 200: 3 Steve Julier 26.9, 4 Gareth Williams 32.3; 1500: 2 Williams 4:47.5, 2 Julier 5:04.1; SP: 5 Julier 6.12.

M50 200: 6 Colin Carpenter 36.7; 1500: 3 Carpenter 6:57.1; SP: 3 Steve Hesketh 7.59; JT: 1 Hesketh 24.02.

M60 200: 2 Barry Parrott 35.5; JT: 4 Parrott 14.42.

Women's match: 1 Cambridge H 73; 2 Blackheath & Bromley 68; 3 Dartford H 68; 4 M&M 57; 5 Paddock Wood 36.

W35 200: 5 Penny Barber 31.2, 5 Maria Newton 36.3; 1500: 3 Bernadette Harrop 5:11.3, 4 Sarah Kenyon 5:58.8; 4x100: 4th (Barber, Kenyon, Fiona Argent, Harrop); HJ: 4 Newton 1.20; SP: 3 Newton 6.62; JT: 1 Newton 19.74.

W50 200: 3 Argent 35.5; HJ: 3 Argent 1.05; SP: 4 Pat Oakes 6.22; JT: 3 Argent 12.34.

W60 200: 3 Oakes 41.0; HJ: 1 Oakes 1.05; JT: 2 Oakes 15.80.

FRANCESCA Baylis (Medway) and Brooke Mahoney (Maidstone) were originally declared silver and bronze medal winners in the Kent Schools' Championships high jump, but have now been promoted to gold with Ashford's Deborah Martin. The jump-off at Ashford on June 12, which resulted in Martin clearing 1.51 - against the other pair's best of 1.50 - should not have taken place.