South Lincolnshire school athletes featured in last weekend's English Schools Athletic Association East Anglian Region Combined Events Championships at Corby.

A number of local representatives have qualified for the English Schools Combined Events finals at Bedford in September.

The senior boys team won the regional team competition and go forward to the national final as East Anglian representatives.

Lincolnshire competitors filled the first two places in the decathlon championship with Adam Smith (Stamford College) the individual champion and Stephan Brockett runner up.

Jake Brittain (Boston College) suffered an injury which forced him to withdraw.

Stephan, meanwhile, recorded 11.9 seconds for the 100 metres before leaping 5.94m in the long jump and 10.26m in the shot.

He cleared 1.71m in the high jump and finished the 400m in 53.5 seconds.

Stephan then finished in 18.2 seconds for 110m hurdles before throwing the discus 30.84m.

He recorded valuable points in the pole vault before achieving 38.67m with the javelin.

In the final event, the 1500 metres he stormed to victory to secure second place in the Regional Senior Boys Decathlon Championship.

Jake clocked 12.2 seconds for 100 metres and then recorded 4.78m in long jump and 6.95m in shot and cleared 1.71m in high jump.

A 53.8 seconds 400 metres ended the first day's programme.

He opened day two by recording 18.3 seconds for the sprint hurdles and then threw the discus 20.79m. before he injured himself in warming up for the pole vault and was forced to withdraw.

In the intermediate girls heptathlon, the Lincolnshire representatives were equally impressive in winning the regional team championship.

Chelsea Brockett claimed an excellent third individual position, while Wednesday Pywowariw ( Boston High) finished in an impressive fifth place to earn her passage to the English Schools final.

The Lincs team of four athletes amassed a total of 10,497 points to finish ahead of Bedfordshire who had 9,799.

Chelsea set six new personal best performances.

Opening the first day, she clocked 13.3 seconds in the 80m hurdles, then cleared a personal best 1.54m in high jump before putting the shot 5.93m and clocking 28.3 seconds for 200 metres.

On the second day Chelsea produced personal bests in all three events, long jump, javelin and 800 metres.

Wednesday added over 400 points to her County Championship total and chalked up four personal bests and a season's best time of two minutes 39 seconds in the 800 metres.

In the first two disciplines she recorded personal bests of 13.5 seconds in the 80m hurdles and 1.36m in high jump and went on to register 5.34m in shot.

Ending the first day with another best-ever performance, Wednesday ran 200 metres in 28.3 seconds, then continued to impress on day two with a 4.89m long jump and 19.93m. in javelin before producing a spirited run in the 800 metres to achieve a Heptathlon total of 3039 points. Melanie Bristow (Thomas Cowley High) also featured in the Inter Girls Heptathlon finishing with a very encouraging 2,667 points.

In the Intermediate Boys Octathlon, David Bush (Gleed Boys, Spalding) finished in sixth place and Andrew Hewitt (Giles) produced a series of good performances to contribute to the Lincs team total.

Aidan McClure (Boston Grammar) produced a series of encouraging performances with his high jump clearance of 1.63m, the most impressive. Two Boston area representatives contributed to the Lincolnshire team's second position behind Essex in Junior Boys Pentathlon Championship.

Jordan Nuttell (Middlecott) claimed eighth place and Nathan McClure (Boston Grammar) was 10th.

The Lincolnshire Junior Girls Pentathlon team finished second.

Boston school teams featured well in the North Midlands Regional B final of the English Schools Track and Field Cup, in Wakefield.

In the Intermediate Girls section Boston High School Year 9 and 10 athletes achieved a clear victory over schools from Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

In the Inter Boys match Boston Grammar School claimed second place.

Boston's Jose Ferreira competed in the Corrida das Fogueiras, in Portugal recently.

In strong wind and some light showers, Ferreira finished 47th in his age group in the 15km and 79th overall, among a field of more than 4,500.