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Match Four:
4th August 2018 – Liverpool
There is little I can add to what
we put on the Club website after
the match. Slightly edited here
it is.
WE DID IT! Our Club,
my Club, your Club, have
been promoted to the Premier
Division of the British Athletics
League. This will be the first
time we have been in the top
division of the mens National
League since 2001, an Athletic Promoted to the Premier Division of the British Athletic League
generation ago. How fitting that
we will be there as we celebrate Ilori has again made a big lent him some loose spikes, Will
our 150 years of existence as the contribution this year and a Fuller his spike spanner, and
League celebrates its 50th, more week after claiming his National our rising star was ready for
so because we were one of the crown he was winning the triple action. He won by 14 centime-
six clubs who contested the first jump for us. Not only that, he tres, improved his PB to 2.07
League title in our Centenary also did the long jump. Our and had a good attempt at 2.10.
Year in 1969. other champion Jacob Brown His clearance is the equal 7th
took second place in the 800 highest across all divisions of
We had put ourselves in a strong metres after winning the Mile the League this year. (Oh and
chance of promotion as we were the previous weekend. he also got 4th in the B triple).
four League points ahead of In the B string Lewis Ely had
third placed Southampton, but Our middle distance racked one of those days but still came
we still had to finish the job. A up a stack of points with Phil third. He also picked up three
tight match between a number Sesemann and Will Fuller win- more points in the 110 hurdles.
of clubs and a strong South- ning both strings of the 1500
ampton could have caused some and Will taking to the track We welcomed back two athletes
problems. It WAS a tight match just 25 minutes later to win the who won their events at the
with just 12 points separating A string 5000 as Ross Braden second match at Portsmouth.
the top four teams but the South picked up the runner up spot in Kieran Daly picked up an injury
coast challenge did not materi- the B string. James Habergham there, and has barely raced
alise. We nicked second place had earlier claimed third in the since, but he answered the call
just two points clear of joint B 800 and our two under 20 and sneaked second place in the
third placers Sale and the City steeplechasers Lewis Mills and 100 behind a very swift 10.36
Of Liverpool; and were only Joss Barber scored well, (and from Windsors winner Deji
nine points behind this years better than in the pre race mini Tobias. Scott Huggins returned
champions Harrow. golf the night before!) to the vault and in challenging
condition claimed third place
It was another great team effort High jumper Kelechi Aguocha before hitting the road to attend
with some top class individuals has had an outstanding season. a wedding reception in Scotland.
performing at the sharp end and At the last match he shocked
everyone prepared to muck in everyone by setting a PB of 2 Also back in the team was
and fill the gaps. metres and winning the compe- Louis Mascarenhas with his first
tition. Surely he couldn’t do it appearance of the season. He
We didn’t have just one England again? Yes he could! After slip- took third in the A discus and
champion in the team. Jonathan ping in warm up, Jacob Brown was second in the B shot with