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Match Two - Linford Christie
Stadium, West London
4th June
It’s a long time since we’ve had a
match at this venue and it didn’t
look like the grass had been cut
in the meantime. To spectate
at the pole vault the supporter
had to wade through grass well
above their knees and various
plants and weeds hung over lane
8 on the first bend.
Again our best events were the
horizontal jumps, this time
with maximum points scored. therefore to Richard Webb, point in the B strings. Kieran
There were no long distances Duayne Bovell, Marco Arcuri Daly scored a good victory in
recorded, possibly due to the (on his debut for the team in the the 100 with Toby Olubi runner
state of the runway and pits. 5000) and James Habergham. up in the B. Ocean Schwartz
Tom French and Mark Cryer When the dust had settled set a new best of 48.67 in the
won both strings of the long after a tough afternoon we had 400 and Mark Cryer made
jump and Jonathan Ilori and finished 6th on the day and due an impressive return to 400
Rob Sutherland the triple. to a shuffling of placings from hurdling picking up runner up
Lewis Church, Steve Timmins the first fixture we remained spot with the ever reliable Jack
and Alex Pope all had a busy fourth. We were the third best Messenger fifth in the A string.
day in the field and there field event team on the day but Mark was also part of our
was also a debut for under 17 seventh on the track. We would highly successful jumps squad.
George Pope in the pole vault. need to improve on the track as He and Jonathan Ilori picked
He equalled his best of 3.20 just one league point separated up good points in the long
and this proved a springboard 3rd and 7th in the table. before Jonathan was pipped on
to further improvement the countback in the A string triple
following weekend. Match Three - Norman Park and Rob Sutherland cleaned up
On the track Graham Rush 2nd July in the B. This second place in
front ran the 5000 metres to Now this was more like it. We the A triple was to prove the
take victory by the length of the took second place on the day only points we dropped in the
straight in 14.35.74 and James to give ourselves an outside event all season.
Alaka won the 200 having been chance of promotion and little Lewis Ely picked up a useful B
pipped in the 100. Will Fuller possibility of relegation. We had string victory in the high jump
couldn’t have come much closer already scored more League with Jake Field gong over 1.90
to winning as he was outdipped points than the whole of the
on the line in the 1500. previous season. in the A string. We provided
youth and experience in the
Debutant Joss Barber picked up Our track performances
useful points in the B string. improved significantly with Phil pole vault as for the second
year running the evergreen
This wasn’t an easy match and Sesemann winning both the Allan Williams competed with
we were reliant on a number 800 and 1500 metre A strings a B string, on this occasion
of athletes covering more than and James Habergham and Will George Pope, who was less
their normal events. Thanks Fuller picking up maximum than a quarter of his age! Steve