SOUTHAMPTON AC topped the medal table at the English and Welsh Indoor Under-17/15 Combined Events Championships for the first time in their history.

Of the 12 medals available in Sheffield, the club took home a gold and silver as well as winning six of the individual events that make up the four age-group competitions.

Star of the show was Salisbury schoolgirl Lucy-Jane Matthews who recorded the second highest indoor pentathlon score of all time by an U15 girl – only Rio Olympian Morgan Lake having amassed a bigger total.

Matthews began her championship best performance with a personal best (pb) 8.96 seconds in the 60m hurdles, finishing second.

A huge lifetime best of 5.46 metres followed to win the long jump and take the overall lead.

Matthews reeled off another lifetime best of 11.61 to top the shot put and pulled off yet another pb of 1.61 in the high jump. By that point she was so far ahead that she had 30 seconds to spare over her nearest rival in the 800m.

She did not ease up, however, rattling off her fifth pb of 2mins 32secs to finish second in her heat, completing an enormous points total of 3,649.

Amaya Scott won two of the five under-17 women’s pentathlon events on her way to overall silver with a total of 3,582 points. The winner, Pippa Early, set a new British record to take gold.

Scott began with 9.36 in the 60m hurdles, placing her 13th.

That turned to top spot when she leapt to an indoor pb of 1.70m to win the high jump and climb third in the UK rankings.

Scott tested the nerve of her mum and coach by falling out of the circle with her first two shot put attempts before going out over 13 metres with her final throw to win the event and consolidate her lead.

A 5.28 long jump leap dropped her to second overall behind Early, who won the long jump.

With Early being an excellent 800m runner and it being Scott’s weakest event, the Southampton athlete was never going to challenge for the title and ran conservatively to take an excellent overall silver.

Clubmates Callum Gregson and Oliver Thatcher set new pentathlon pbs to finish eighth and tenth respectively in the U15 boys’ competition.

Gregson was ninth fastest in the 60m hurdles where Thatcher set a new pb.

Both boys leapt over five metres to record long jump pbs - Thatcher showing nerves of steel after no-jumping on his first two attempts.

Thatcher also set a pb of 1.58m in the high jump, which Gregson won by equalling his 1.70 best.

Gregson added a pb in the shot and both boys recorded indoor bests in the 800m.

It left Gregson with an overall pb of 2,414 points. Thatcher, meanwhile, bettered his pb by over 400 points to 2,301, with both boys wrapping up top-ten finishes.