Wednesday 6th May saw the first match in the Eastern Masters League at Milton Keynes.
Bedford's Men were seeking to retain their title which they won last September at Thurrock, beating local rivals Marshall Milton Keynes AC into 2nd place.
Bedford's Women were seeking to qualify for the Final again as they did last year for the first time in over 20 years.
There are 16 teams in the League spread across East Anglia with 5 teams in Bedford's West Division.
Bedford's men made a great start to retaining their title winning Milton Keynes' home match.
A team of 15 scoring men won 14 individual events with a club record for Andrew Leach in the M60 1500m.
Team scores were
1 Bedford & County 136pts
2 Marshall Milton Keynes 126pts
3 Fairland Valley Spartans 96pts
4 Team Northants 55pts
5 Biggleswade/Luton 3pts
With a team of only 5 athletes Bedford's women found the competition a little harder however they still won 4 individual events and there was a new club record for Oriana Johnson in the W60 Hammer.
Ellie Garraway won the W50 400m by over 16 seconds in an impressive run.
Team scores were
1 Fairland Valley Spartans 97pts
2 Team Northants 71pts
3 Marshall Milton Keynes 69pts
4 Bedford& County 47pts
5 Biggleswade/Luton 37pts
The next match is at Bedford on Wednesday June 3rd.
We need more athletes to cover all of our events - Women for all age groups (35-49, 50-59, 60-69 and 70+) across all field and track events and Men across all ages/events but particularly in the M70 category where we only had one athlete available.
Anyone interested and available please contact either Jim Keech or Emma Coombes at the track.
