British Athletics League Results & Reports 2010: Match 4, Lee Valley

Relegated!

Match: 1 Newham & Essex Beagles 417; 2 Birchfield H 335; 3 Shaftesbury Barnet H 284; 4 Woodford Green w Essex Ladies 271; 5 City of Manchester 257; 6 Enfield & Haringey 226; 7 Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow AC 194; 8 Belgrave H 186.

Final league positions

Newham & Essex Beagles

Birchfield H

Woodford Green with Essex Ladies

Shaftesbury Barnet H

City of Manchester

Enfield & Haringey

Windsor, Slough Eton & Hounslow AC

Belgrave H

With headwinds down the home straight gusting to 5m/sec and rain clouds looming conditions reflected the gloom pervading the Belgrave camp. Only twenty athletes remained standing to contest this match which was close to our smallest team ever. And then Set Osho reported troubles while warming up. So his day was over before it started. Add to that Mark Wiseman reporting he had been stationary for two hours on the M25 and couldn’t make it and we were down to a record low total of just 18 athletes. Remember Mark drove back from Hungary to make the previous match so it takes something special to stop him. M25 say no more! Big points were lost in the sprints and throws and there was further damage when our sprint hurdler was adjudged to be the culprit in what most agreed was a blanket false start.

James Everard supported a below par Cameron Johnston in the pole vault which operated in two pools. The A Group higher altitude men suffered the worst of the savage cross winds with several not clearing a height and James’ tentative efforts resulted in him exceeding the predicted one point. He then became our only high jumper safely negotiating a clearance before contributing to a great javelin result in which Clifton Green threw a season’s best and narrowly failing to win the B Group.

On the track Sean Reidy overcame work commitments to support the team and recorded his fastest 400H time for the season- remarkably into a 4.4 m/sec headwind. The middle distance men did what they have done all season and contributed huge points with Paskar Owor running the 800m, 1500m and 3000m events with the 3000m taking place just 25 minutes after a tough 1500. Steve Davies ably contributed in the B 800m and 1500m while Simon Jones made a welcome return to gain second in the B3000m.

Other highlights included Greg Beard closing in towards 17m in the shot after only eight weeks into a comeback following a “rest” period of eight years. Watch out for him next year. And in the jumps Paul Ogun contributed with a new pb in the triple jump and good points in the long jump. Decathlete David Feeney showed few signs of his previous week’s decathlon as he mixed and matched to fill gaps. But by the end of the afternoon there were just not enough walking wounded to complete the relays and Belgrave were relegated with but a whimper.

100m: 8 J Hussain 11.82/-4.2; 8 D Feeney 11.77/-4.1. 200m: 8 J Hussain 24.80/?; 6 M Threadgold 22.98/-4.4. 400m: 7 M Threadgold 49.31; 8 J Hussain 51.48. 800m: 3 P Owor 1:53.64; 4 S Davies 1:55.15. 1500m: 2 P Owor 3:56.45; 3 S Davies 3:58.53. 3000m: 3 P Owor 8:26.77; 3 S Jones 8:35.21. 110mH: dq D Feeney; 7 S Reidy 17.71. 400mH: 6 S Reidy 54.70; no B competitor. 3000mSC: 7 M Morgan 10:17.64; 5 W Cockerell 10:19.09. HJ: 8 J Everard 1.80; no B competitor. LJ: 5 P Ogun 6.89/1.5; 5 D Feeney 6.47w/4.4. TJ: 4 P Ogun 15.11; 5 D Wellstead 13.28. PV: 7 C Johnston 3.60; 6 J Everard 2.20. SP: 6 G Beard 16.41; 8 D Feeney 11.46. DT: 7 L Marar M40 50.87; 8 G Beard 43.85. JT: 4 J Everard 61.69; 2 C Green 58.74. HT: 4 M Jones M45 65.57; 4 M Richards 60.09. 4x100m: 8 Belgrave (J Hussain, M Threadgold, D Feeney, R Aspden). 4x400m: no team.

Final league positions	League Points	Match Points
Newham & Essex Beagles	29	1413
Birchfield H	28	1292
Woodford Green with Essex Ladies	23	1174
Shaftesbury Barnet H	20.5	1105
City of Manchester	14	824
Enfield & Haringey	13	976
Windsor, Slough Eton & Hounslow AC	6.5	808
Belgrave H	6	840

Restored from the club's earlier website, belgraveharriers.com, and published here as originally written.