Men's Southern League 2003: Match 2, Perivale

1 Tonbridge AC 124.5; Woodford Green with Essex Ladies 123.5, 3 Ealing & Hillingdon 116; 4 Belgrave H 84, 5 East Herts. Phoenix 69.

Our sprinters were out in force at the second match; so much so that the Bels monopolised a non-scoring 100m race as well as taking nigh-on maximum points in the match events. Lawrence Oboh had a tremendous win in the 100m with 10.5, half a second faster than his win in the Middlesex Championships the week before. This was no doubt partly attributable to wind direction, having to face a strong headwind in the County event but enjoying a tailwind in this one. Peter Walsh gave good support, coming 2nd in the 100m B and winning the 200m B. Michael Parper shows he is back with a vengeance winning the 200m A race. Team manager on the day, Paul Beaumont, led by example winning the first track race, the 400H in 59.8 and was later second in the sprint hurdles in 17.7.

In the 1500 Alaster Stewart led the chasing pack back to the runaway leader of Ealing & Southall but a Tonbridge athlete blasted down the home straight to take the front runner on the line.

In the high jump, James Tuson had a tough assignment in very blustery conditions in his first appearance of the season, clearing 1.85 along with two other competitors but coming third on number of failures. He was, however, given the benefit of a difficult decision for the officials on his third attempt at 1.80 when the wind was judged to blow the bar off after he had rattled it on his way over. Roy Collier was second in the B competition with a pb of 1.70.

In the triple jump, David Wellstead, who snatched victory in the Surrey Championships in the very last trial of the competition, placed 3rd here with 13.79 metres. Wesley Smith had a busy afternoon with the throws, flitting from one event to the next.

Perhaps the event of the day from a Belgrave perspective was the debut of Simon Marwood in Belgrave colours. Having set a personal best in the BUSA Championship steeplechase a couple of weeks earlier, here he smashed that best by a further 14 seconds to front run to victory over the barriers. There's no doubt that this performance gives him a very strong claim to a place in our British League team.

100m: 1 L.Oboh U20 10.5; 2 P.Walsh 11.4; n/s 1 I.Deeth 11.3; 2 G.Baksh 11.5; 3 K.Adjepong 11.6. 200m: 1 M.Parper 22.4; 1 P.Walsh 23.0; n/s 4 G.Baksh 23.6; 5 K.Adjepong 23.7. 400m: 5 R.Collier 60.5; 5 R.McMillan 66.7. 800m: 4 J.MacRae U17 2:09.0; 5 R.Collier U17 2:23.8. 1500m: 3 A.Stewart 4:08.8; 2 J.MacRae U17 4:38.2. 5000: no competitor; 110mH: 2 P.Beaumont M40 17.7. 400mH: 1 P.Beaumont M40 59.8. 3000mSC: 1 S.Marwood 9:13.5. 4x100m: 3 Belgrave 47.2 (P.Walsh, D.Wellstead, C.Huggins, G.Baksh). 4x400m: 4 Belgrave 3:52.4 (G.Baksh 57.8, R.Collier 60.2, J.MacRae 58.8, M.Parper 55.6). HJ: 3 J.Tuson 1.85; 2 R.Collier U17 1.70. LJ: 5 C.Huggings 5.70; 4 J.Tuson 4.83. TJ: 3 D.Wellstead 13.59; 2 C.Huggins 12.92. PV: no competitor. SP: 5 C.Privett 9.93; 2 W.Smith 9.58. DT: 5 J.Tuson 14.09. JT: 1 W.Smith 54.50; 3 M.Wendt 40.29. HT: 4 C.Privett 33.07; 5 W.Smith 22.94.

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