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Athletics Report  7








        Thanks to Jane Bradshaw
        for her healing hands; Phil
        Sesemann and Dick Griffin for
        sorting the t shirts and President
        Paul Byfield for bringing them
        over; and to all the supporters
        who included Chris Haines
        who ran in the first ever British
        League match in 1969 and
        Callum Myatt who will no doubt
        run for the team in the future.
         Match Result
         1. Harrow 380
         2. Blackheath & Bromley 293
         3. Southampton 285     Jordan Laynes ‘niggles’ did not show when running at Eton
         4.  Windsor Slough Eton &
          Hounslow 277          maximum points in the B string.   100; and Luc Durant was just
         5. Sale 275            For the second fixture in a row   outside his best with 14.69 in
         6. City Of Liverpool 266   we won more A strings than any   the shot.
         7. Kingston & Poly 241   other club.
         8. Herne Hill 142                              And then there was Alex “I’ll do
                                Just as thrilling for our sup-  anything” Pope competing in
                                porters were B string victories   seven of the eight field events,
        Match Two:              for Dan Putnam in the 200 in   scoring 35 points and setting
        2nd June 2018 – Portsmouth  21.31; James Habergham in the   seasons bests in the discus,
                                800 (he’s competed at nine of
                                                        long jump and pole vault in the
        Our team Thursday evening   the last ten matches); and Lewis   process. Lewis Ely set seasons
        may have sneaked victory but   Mills, 9.51.45 for his debut in   bests in the high and triple
        there isn’t a lot you can do when   the 3000 steeplechase.  jumps. Ever dependable Jordan
        illness, injury and life gets in                Layne was solid in the 400 and
        the way. What is worth thinking   Others making their debuts   4x400 and Adam Herring again
        about is how well we coped with   were James Lancaster, still   travelled from Norfolk to run
        six late withdrawals. To pull off   an under 20 but 2nd in the A   the 4x400. It was reassuring to
        a second place showed the qual-  string hammer with 51.16; Alex   have six non scoring 100 metre
        ity and character of the athletes   Nwenwu, 4th in the 110 hurdles;   runners among whom were
        we have in our squad and our   Josh Schofield, 3rd in the 5000;   Camron Lyttle and Shamar
        great team spirit.      Korede Awe in the 4x100; and   Thomas Campbell in their
        There were lots of highlights but   Joe Rogers, 4th in the B 400   first appearances for the team
        seeing Scott Huggins clear-  and also part of the 3rd placed   this season.
        ing 5.23 in the pole vault was   4x400 team despite tweaking his
        literally right up there. Absent   hamstring in warm up.  Unfortunately after rearranging
        with injury for some while,                     his weekend to compete, Charlie
        Kieran Daly won the 100 and   Josh Barber was close to his   Davis had to drop out the 5000
        200 A strings. Jonathan Ilori   best as he ran 9.37.02 for second   with injury. He will bounce
        won the triple jump by over   place in the steeplechase; anoth-  back. It was great to see Alex
        a metre with 15.89; and Will   er under 20, Ben Sutton, set new   Bruce Littlewood back in the
        Fuller edged first in the 1500   bests of 6.84 in the long jump   League, albeit as a non scorer in
        with Phil Sesemann making it   and 11.31 in the non scoring   the same race.
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