Men's Southern League 2001: Match 4, Perivale
Star of the team was John Osazuwa whose mighty 61.94 hammer throw gave us a terrific start to the meeting. Further good scores came our way in the rest of the throwing events but this meeting threw up some speedy track wins from the opposition and as the afternoon progressed, the fight to keep pace with a rampant Kent AC team became a battle to stay out of last place!
It was good to see distance runner Lloyd Catley back in action after a period of ill-health, albeit in the unaccustomed role as 800m runner, and newcomer Kevin Brennan made a welcome debut for the Bels. in the 400m. Will Cockerell found that a Sunday meeting allowed him to experiment with racing whilst enduring a Saturday hangover whilst one-time 400m man James Hilston continued to pop up in all sorts of odd field events – but still looked the real business in the long relay.
Surprisingly we held pretty steady in the league but another bad performance in match 5 - which clashes with the Cup final - could see an almighty tumble towards the bottom section of the table.
Teams: 1 Kent AC 144; 2 Maidstone & Rochester 103.5; 3 Basingstoke 103; 4 Belgrave 97; 5 Ealing Southall & Middx 78.5.
100m: 1 R.David 11.5; 2 G.Ross 12.0. 200m: 2 R.David 23.4; 3 G.Ross 23.9; n/s 1 N.Travers-Griffin 25.1; 2 R.McMillan 27.2. 400m: 3 K.Brennan 51.6; 4 R.McMillan 61.4. 800m: 4 M.Anderson 2:08.3; 5 L.Catley 2:10.4. 1500m: 4 J.Wolf 4:05.9; 4 L.Catley 4:21.9. 5000m: 2 W.Cockerell 16:17.5; 2 P.Carstairs 16:33.9. 110mH: 5 J.Squirrell 19.4. 400mH: 5 J.Squirrell 58.9. 3000mSC: 4 W.Cockerell 10:55.7. HJ: 1 J.Hilston 1.85; 4 A.Kneller 1.65. LJ: 4 J.Hilston 6.19; 1 A.Kneller 6.05. TJ: 2 J.Hilston 12.71; 5 J.Squirrell 10.70. SP: 1 M.Small 13.18; 2 J.Osazuwa 11.46. DT: 2 M.Small 40.00; 2 J.Osazuwa 34.18. JT: 3 M.Small 42.21; 3 A.Kneller 39.03. HT: 1 J.Osazuwa 61.94; 1 M.Small 47.29. 4x100m: 3 Belgrave 45.6 (G.Ross, J.Hilston, K.Brennan, R.David). 4x400m: 4 Belgrave 3:31.8 (N.Travers-Griffin 56.3, J.Hilston 50.1, G.Ross 53.1, K.Brennan 52.3).
Restored from the club's earlier website, belgraveharriers.com, and published here as originally written.