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Athletics Report 3

Timmins and Alex Pope had Match Four - Basingstoke was an example of the high
busy afternoons in the throws 6th August standard of the match.
with Alex Pope winning the B A big shout to the magnificent 7
shot and Lewis Church scored Hmmm. Well it was an who did all four matches, Toby
useful points in the javelin, a interesting match. It was a great Olubi, James Habergham, Mark
foot injury prevented him from example of what a club can do Cryer, Lewis Ely, Jonathan Ilori,
jumping and hurdling. when it gets its best athletes Rob Sutherland and Alex Pope.
out. Basingstoke & Mid Hants
Hosting these matches is always were bottom of the table after Jonathan’s 15.76 won the triple
a major exercise and so thanks three matches. On home ground jump by an astonishing margin
and congratulations are due to they won the fourth fixture of over two metres and he was
all those who contributed to the and avoided relegation. It was second in the long jump with
organisation of such a successful Enfield & Haringey and Herne 6.96. Rob won every B triple
fixture. Hill who ended up relegated jump at the four matches. They
while we were seventh on the scored 110 out of a possible 112
Match result. day but finished the season in the triple over the season.
1 Thames Valley 348 third overall. Toby probably had his best ever
2 Blackheath & Bromley 298 It could have been a good day day for the team taking third
3 City Of Glasgow 286 for us but we had too many in the A string 100 and fourth
4 Southampton 276 athletes injured and ill. Having in the A 200. In both he beat
5 Herne Hill 264 said that there were great athletes who have run faster
6 Harrow 256 performances in what was a than him over the season.
7 Basingstoke & Mid Hants 235 high standard fixture with James made the long trek down
8 Enfield & Haringey 209 positions changing throughout from Leeds to compete in a
the afternoon. loaded 800. With the heat and
We scored 125 points in the strong winds it was not a great
field events a little bit down on day for doubling at. We had four
the 134 we scored at the match middle distance runners on the
at Norman Park. Yet in 8 of the day, three of them under 20s, to
strings we were better than the cover eight strings, that was a
NP fixture, in 4 we were not so tough tough ask.
good and in 4 the performances Mark had a busy day as he
were the same. tried to finish as our top points
Our high jump performances scorer of the season but Alex
were the same at each match just held on to his lead. Alex
but the points scored were was omnipresent in the throws.
hugely different. The weather Sometime we must have a
Overall. did have some influence. At contest to guess how many
Norman Park, Jake Field was points he has scored in the
1 Thames Valley 24 (1032) 3rd equal in the A string with League over the years. Steve
2 Southampton 19 (888) 1.90 and Lewis Ely won the B Timmins did three throws. It’s
3 Blackheath & Bromley 15 (831) string with 1.80. At Basingstoke, a strange year when Duayne
4 City Of Glasgow 13 (763) Lewis cleared an equal season’s Bovell isn’t at all the matches
5 Herne Hill 11 (793.3) best of 1.90 and was last in the but he was injured early season.
6 Harrow 10 (744.5) A string while Mark Cryer was Ever dependable he picked up
7 Enfield & Haringey 9 (742.3) 6th in the B string with 1.80. So some useful B 100 points.
8 Basingstoke & Mid Hants 7 at Norman Park we scored 23 Elsewhere Scott Huggins
(709.8) points, at Basingstoke 7. This produced a classy 4.80 vault;