SAMURAI took six medals, including two golds, at their girls’ charity Judo event.

The Kidderminster club also raised over £1,000 for two-year-old Riley Tristram, who lost his mum, Jessica Evans, to cancer last year.

The event was organized and officiated solely by the female members of the club, including six of the female junior referees who did all the judging.

Charlotte Silwood and Marry Averill were the first Samurai girls to compete and were in the same category.

In the semi-finals they lost to players from Surrey and Wales, but both came back to win bronzes.

Next up was Sophie Deeming-Lane, who stormed into the final, getting revenge for Silwood and Averill by beating another girl from the Surrey club. She then comfortably won the final against a Birmingham girl to take the gold medal.

Lauren Fletcher added another gold in the next weight group.

After more Welsh girls had bitten the dust against her, she had a Droitwich girl in her final and easily won by maximum points, in just 24 seconds, to take the gold.

In the last of the girls’ individual weight groups, Olivia Turner and Ellie Arnull were in the same weight category and after early wins they faced each other in the semi-final.

The more experienced Arnull saw off her club mate but lost the final to an Oxford girl and had to settle for silver, while Turner came back to beat a girl from Telford for the bronze.

There was also an open category for middleweights, after a player turned up who was too old to take part.

Both Deeming-Lane and Fletcher had a go at this and gained silver and bronze respectively.

After the individual contests there was also a team event, with the Samurai players being mixed and matched with the other clubs to give them all a chance.

Bryony Griffiths and Leah Grosvenor were also drafted in to make up the numbers, and were up against much heavier players – to compensate for their higher grades – with Grosvenor winning all of her contests despite giving up to 20 kilograms away and coming up against some players over 60kgs in weight.

In the end, the teams, led by Griffiths and by Arnull, faced each other in the final, and the match came down to the contest between the two.

Griffiths edged it to give her team the gold and leave Arnull’s team with silver.

The team with Deeming-Lane and Fletcher took the bronze.

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