Men's Southern League 2001: Match 6, Southampton

Well, we won’t go down, but our poorest score of the series was achieved by a team that was just a shadow of itself.

Of our 75 points no less than 30 were scored in the four throwing events where Mike Small had a marvellous afternoon. Our veteran thrower heaved a season’s best in the B hammer, took the B javelin, produced one of his best ever shot put performances since reaching veteran status and finally had the audacity to turn over Heri Ziska to win the A discus. John Osazuwa obliged with his regular hammer win and had the ground shaking with a run down the back straight in the sprint relay.

The small team did all they could to cover most of the events and Alex Kneller managed to pop out a winning triple jump among his six competitions. Conditions were extremely windy but Kevin Brennan set a best for the season in the 400m while Joachim Wolf and Brad Poore brightened Belgrave spirits with battling performances in the 1500m - although both were far from happy with the their times.

Teams: 1 Winchester 128.5; 2 Woking AC 117.5; 3 Verlea 105, 4 Nene Valley 100.5; 5 Belgrave H 75.

100m: 4 K.Brennan 12.4; 4 A.Kneller 12.4. 200m: 5 R.Smith 25.6; 5 K.Brennan 26.0. 400m: 4 K.Brennan 52.2; 5 D.Anderson 72.5. 800m: 3 B.Poore 2:04.0; 5 D.Anderson 2:38.4. 1500m: 2 J.Wolf 4:12.3; 2 B.Poore 4:14.2. 5000m: no competitor. 110mH: no competitor. 400mH: 5 R.Smith 64.3. 3000mSC: no competitor. HJ: 4 A.Kneller 1.70; 5 R.Smith 1.55. LJ: 2 A.Kneller 6.64; 3 R.Smith 5.92. TJ: 1 A.Kneller 13.07; 5 R.Bridges 8.54. PV: 5 R.Bridges 1.00. SP: 2 M.Small 13.70; 3 J.Osazuwa 11.15. DT: 1 M.Small 41.40; 1 H.Ziska 40.86. JT: 3 A.Kneller 43.14; 1 M.Small 43.12. HT: 1 J.Osazuwa 56.95; 1 M.Small 47.46. 4x100m: 5 Belgrave 47.7 (A.Kneller, J.Osazuwa, K.Brennan, R.Smith). 4x400m: no team.

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