Many stars fill busy week of fixtures

With one of the busyest weeks of athletics in the summer calendar, we have been busy collating results and reports over the last few days.

There have been many Cambridge Harriers stars and record breakers in the last week, so we begin in chronological order with the UKA Inter counties Championships.

UKA Inter-Counties Championships 25/05/09
Dean Lacy acquitted himself well, gaining a seasons best time of 14:49 in the 5000m representing Kent at the Inter Counties Championships in Bedford. The time earned him 3rd place, 15 seconds off of winner Kevin Skinner of Hearts time.

Kent Young Athlete League 25/05/09
With over twenty victories on the day,and two club records broken, the Cambridge Harriers U13/15 boys and girls enjoyed one of their best starts to the Kent Young Athletes League for many seasons.

Congratulations go to Omaode Taiwo for breaking the Under 13 girls 600m club record with a time of 1.51.0, and also to Natasha Sinha for taking over 4 seconds off the Under 13 Girls 1000m club record in 3.17.8.

Also in the U13 girls their were wins for Florence Savage with 1.15 in the High Jump and Heather Butcher in the1200m walk. There was also pb for Iona Williams with 1.25 in the High Jump.

There were some excellent performances in the Under15 girls,well done to Hannah Okorafor who had a win in the High Jump on her debut for the club,also leading the way in their races were Ruth Onyekwa with 13.2 in the 100m,and Sophie Parkes 5.11.9 in the 1500m.

In the throws there were wins for Deborah Kabhina 9.43 Shot Putt and Karen Ewa 14.46 in the Discus.

The Under13 Boys enjoyed one of their best starts in years with four victories and a number of runners up places.

Highlight of the day was the win in the 4x100m relay with Elijah Laidlaw,Tayo Ayeni,Ezikial Akinsola,and Jack Parris enjoying their success.

Also there were maximum points gained in the Shot Putt With Stephen Ball 7.14 in the a string and Liam Samuels 5.34 b string. Elijah Laidlaw also chipped in with a win in the long jump with 4.12.

Under15 Joe Berth-Jones had the perfect day with three individual wins in the 100m,200m,(both grade1 times)80m hurdles,and also bringing home the baton in the 4x100m relay.

Oscar Thurley made a winning return to the team in the 400m and Shot Putt and 4x100m relay.

Max Collett produced one of the performances of the day winning the 1500m, taking 17 seconds off his pb with a time of 4.27.2.

Eri-ife Williams and Chris Cole completed the winning 4x100m team.
 
Boys Result
Under 13 Under15 Total
1st Tonbridge 135pts 198pts 333pts
2nd Bexley 160pts 162pts 322pts
3rd Ashford 142pts 166pts 308pts
4th Cambridge120pts 176pts 296pts
5th Blackheath 122pts 148pts 270pts
6th Invicta 8pts 81pts 89pts

Girls Result
Under13 Under15 Total
1st Blackheath 179pts 184pts 363pts
2nd Cambridge 172pts 156pts 328pts
3rd Medway 114pts 145pts 259pts
4th Ashford 84pts 159pts 243pts
5th Tonbridge 87pts 143pts 230pts
6th Invicta 94pts 104pts 198pts

National Junior League 24/05/09
Cambridge Harriers junior athletes suffered another defeat by Tonbridge (1st), Medway & Maidstone (2nd).

The juniors will always struggle purely because of the inability to field anywhere near a full strength team for these meetings for one reason or another.

An analysis of the results shows that the events that our athletes took part in – Medway won 22, Cambridge won 13, and Tonbridge only 9, yet Tonbridge won the match by 38pts and we were 100pts behind them.

Pick of our athletes on the day was Craig Lacy (Man of the Match) with a javelin throw of 58.60, Alasdair MacDonald made this a double first by winning the ‘b’ string with 41.76 – Stefan Mitchell won a very tight 100m in 11.5 but stormed to victory in the 200 (22.9) easing down with 50 to go – Sam Murphy won a very tactical 800m and only took the lead with 80m to go as he recorded a useful 2:00.6 - valuable points were garnered by Charlie Perry (25) in both hurdles races + relay, Denis Hasanaj (19) in shot, hammer and triple jump.

The woman fare better in the winning stake as they recorded 8 victories, the best graded Harriers performance of the day came from Charlotte Lucas in the triple jump (10.54) but she only came 3rd with the winner recording 10.89, however she won ‘b’ hammer (17.55).

Holly Ware was the pick of the junior women as she won the hammer in a new pb (31.75), a rare victory in 400h ‘b’ – time irrelevant as well as technique, 2nd in the ‘b’ javelin (25.09) 3rd in the shot a total of 43 pts was gained alone.

Hatshepsur James also had a very eventful day as she arrived just in time for her race and without any warm up proceeded to win her ‘b’ string 100(13.0) she went on to win ‘b’ 100h (18.4), 3rd 200 (27.1) and was part of the relay runner’s up team.

Other notable victories were gained by Melissa Owusu-Ansah ‘b’ 200 (26.5), Nikki Odewunmi 100h (18.1) & ‘b’ triple jump (9.82)

Match scores – Tonbridge (518), Medway & M (482), Cambridge (423), Ashford (382), Invicta EK & Paddock W (188), Croydon (147), Bexley (89).
Next National Junior Match – Ashford 14 June – Hopefully with a full strength team

A reminder of basic discipline rules
Any competitor (or other person) interfering or attempting to interfere with the decision of an event Official or who is guilty of unfair practice or misbehaviour, including the use of offensive or abusive language, shall, at the discretion of the referee, be excluded from the competition and reported to the Management Committee.

Any Athlete or Official, whose conduct, in the opinion of the Management Committee, may bring discredit to the sport of athletics or to the League, shall be reported under the terms of UKA Rules.