Men's Southern League 2003: Match 6, Cambridge

1 Newham & Essex Beagles 139.5; 2 Thurrock 113.5; 3 Cambridge & Coleridge 110; 4 Bedford & County 94; 5 Belgrave H 63.

Chris Huggins is in good form at the moment and turned out to be the only A competition winner with a fine 13 metres triple jump and is also now in six metres territory in the long jump where he placed third. In the throws Grant Sprigings teamed up with Paul Collier and Grant’s 12.17 metres shot put for second was his best performance.

The middle distance races in particular were hotly contested, particularly in the 1500m where Chris Axe, in only his fourth competitive track race, kept with the pace until the last 300 metres where the first two pulled away and left Chris battling to hold off a Beagle - which he just did whilst surviving a possible disqualification for obstruction close to the finish line. Brad Poore has just returned from Kenya for a spell where he has been training with the Kenyan marathon squad, but either found the middle distances a little short, or has not adjusted to low altitude yet. He is looking forward to a better race over 10,000 metres at Battersea in the SEAA Championships.

The sprinters Kwadjo Adjepong, Gavin Baksh and Jon Regis missed out on top three places in the individual events but they, with Chris Huggins, ran above themselves to finish a close second.

Mark Humphries missed the mini-bus at Battersea but to his credit made the journey by train and was ‘rewarded’ by being given his first outing in the steeplechase, all other possible races having been run by the time he arrived. Considering the difficulty he had negotiating the barriers his time of 11:29.4 for third place was very respectable.

100m: 4 K.Adjepong 12.1; 3 M.Fasolo 11.9; n/s G.Sprigings 12.3. 200m: 4 K.Adjepong 23.5; 4 J.Regis U20 23.8; n/s N.Travers-Griffen 24.4. 400m: 4 G.Baksh 53.4; 5 R.Collier U17 59.4. 800m: 5 B.Poore 2:11.5; 5 P.Cowling U17 2:29.4. 1500m: 3 C.Axe 4:12.3; 1 B.Poore 4:24.3. 5000m: 5 Don Anderson M45 19:54.7. 400mH: 5 P.Cowling 70.4. 3000mSC: 3 M.Humphries 11:29.4. HJ: =2 R.Collier U17 1.65; =4 P.Cowling U17 1.20. LJ: 3 C.Huggins 6.18; 5 P.Cowling U17 4.81. TJ: 1 C.Huggins 13.05; 4 R.Collier U17 9.18. SP: 2 G.Sprigings 12.17; 5 P.Collier M40 7.54. DT: 4 G.Sprigings 33.12; 4 P.Collier M40 17.52. JT: 5 R.Collier U17 30.23; 5 P.Collier M40 24.51. HT: 3 G.Sprigings 26.48; 4 P.Collier M40 18.16. 4x100m: 2 Belgrave 46.0 (M.Fasolo, G.Baksh, C.Huggins, J.Regis).

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