Sweatshop Surrey CC League Race 2, Coulsdon

Paskar again

Once again it was Paskar Owor leading the Belgrave team home, this time over storm-wracked Farthing Downs. Lying third at halfway and around 8 seconds behind Thames man James McMullen with a guesting Michael Coleman (Medway & Maidstone) a similar distance away at the head of the field, Paskar made a great effort into the wind and up the hill on the second lap to move into 2nd place. He kept the pressure up in Happy Valley to catch Coleman and move into a winning lead and thus joins an illustrious list of individual Belgrave winners ... Dessaix-Chin ... Wicks ... Sharp ... Anderson ... Barden ... Graffin ... all the way back to Gerry North forty years ago.

It was Max Kiralyfi's first ever run in Belgrave colours and at eighteen years of age it was a great début. His 12th scoring place was just what we needed on a day that saw us a little short on numbers. Max is a first-claim member of Winchester & District AC, residing in West London, and incredibly his run was just the second time in the last decade that we've seen a second-claim member in our line-up, the previous man being Richard Ashe of Harrow.

John Charles had his eyes on the back of Will Cockerell's vest for most of the race but couldn't get any closer as they book-ended the 20s ... and while we're waxing metaphorical, Paskar's first scoring place was matched at the other end of the book shelf by Ed Smith's 90th as we were the last team to close in; congratulations to Ed whose name will now go down on the all-time list of Belgrave's league scorers.

Men. 1 P Owor (Belgrave) 28:31; 2 M Coleman (Medway & M gst) 28:43; 3 J McMullen (Thames H&H 29:09; 14 M Kiralyfi U20 30:21; 20 W Cockerell 30:38; 29 J Charles 31:15; 48 K Gadd 32:17; 58 L Eguia 32:47; 89 M Humphrey 34:37; 103 R Norville 35:36; 108 A Luce M40 36:18; 120 E Smith 37:14; 121 P Chapman 37:23; 133 P Marsh M55 38:22; 151 finished.

Teams:

1 Thames H&H (2, 5, 6, 10, 13, 15, 21, 22, 30, 33) 157;

2 Herne Hill H (3, 4, 7, 17, 19, 20, 34, 35, 36, 40) 215;

3 South London H (9, 29, 43, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55) 437;

4 Belgrave H (1, 12, 18, 26, 42, 51, 71, 82, 84, 90) 477;

5 Reigate Priory AC (11, 16, 38, 39, 45, 57, 59, 63, 74, 89) 491;

6 Hercules Wimbledon AC (8, 37, 41, 44, 46, 62, 64, 70, 73, 80) 525;

7 Epsom & Ewell H (14, 24, 31, 32, 56, 60, 81, 83, 86, 88) 555;

8 Ranelagh H (23, 25, 27, 65, 68, 69, 72, 76, 77, 79) 581;

9 Guildford & Godalming AC (28, 52, 58, 61, 66, 67, 75, 78, 85, 87) 657.

Overall: 1 Thames H&H 360; 2 Herne Hill H 381; 3 Belgrave H 911; 4 Reigate Priory AC 942; 5 South London H 943; 6 Hercules Wimbledon AC 1100; 7 Epsom & Ewell H 1143; 8 Guildford & Godalming AC 1159; 9 Ranelagh H 1251.

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