Kingston & Polytechnic Harriers have set their sights on Southern Athletics League Division Two survival next summer.

Kingston lifted the Division Three South West title on Saturday as they won their final match of the season at Kingsmeadow to bounce back from last season’s relegation.

“We have a lot of good youngsters who were a little too young this year, and by next season they will be old enough,” said women’s team manager Harriet Lester, who pulled Debbie Raymond and Clare Nelson out of retirement to help the cause at the weekend.

“We have high hopes of staying up.”

Chris Dack and Pippa Wingate dominated their respective A string shot and discus events, with women’s athlete of the match Wingate setting a new club of 57.03metres to win the hammer for good measure.

The men’s athlete of the match Will Trimble threw a personal best 67.09m to win the javelin.

Kingston also claimed three Rosenheim League titles last week, winning the Western men’s and Western women’s titles before victory in last Wednesday’s final.

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You win again: Kingston’s Pippa Earley, centre, on the podium at the South of England Championships in Ashford

Elsewhere, Kingston & Polytechnic Harrier Pippa Earley claimed double gold at the South of England U15/U17 championships in Ashford at the weekend by the narrowest of margins, writes Stuart Amos.

The 14-year-old clinched the long jump crown with a leap of 5.56metres – 10 centimetres ahead of her nearest rival Herne Hill Harriers’ Ore Adamson.

It was even closer in the 75m hurdles as she clocked 11.29 seconds to win by one hundredth of a second from second-placed Marissa Sims of Enfield & Haringey.

Walton Athletics Club’s Sophie Mace set a new U17 girls discus championship best and personal best of 47.35m at the same meeting on Sunday.

The mark, which would have been enough to qualify for this year’s World Youth Championships, also broke the Surrey all time record that had stood for 25 years and fired Mace to the top of the UK rankings.

Her younger brother Sam claimed the U15 boys hammer title with a new personal best effort of 57.36m on Saturday, before winning discus gold on Sunday with a throw of 47.15m – also a personal best.