Sunday Summary - 20 April 2008
Youth & vets make a good start
25 April 2008
Kent Young Athletes League
Cambridge Harriers young athletes made a good start to the season in the Kent Young Athletes match held at Sutcliffe Park on Sunday 20th April.
The Girls team, who were competing in Division 1 for the first time, showed good promise finishing in herd place.
Star of the team was Daryll Neita who recorded 2 of the 3 grade 1 performances in that age group. She won the 75 metres easily in 10.4 seconds, a personal best and improved her long jump to 4.54 metres, another winning performance, and finished the day as part of the 3rd placed 4x100 relay team including Sophia Debney, Georgina Renny and Megan Collett.
Johanna Mandall had 3 ‘B’ string seconds in the Long Jump, 2K walk and 1000 metres and Lucy Daniel contributed 13 points through her performances in the 600 metres, High Jump and Discus Throw.
U15 Emily Nolan showed good speed in the ‘A’ 300 metres, placing 2nd , and good endurance in the ‘A’ 800 metres, also 2nd . She jumped to 4th place in the ‘A’ Long Jump and Kassia Soards had a similar position in the ‘B’ Long Jump. Cloe Garret was second in the ‘B’ 300 metres and an unlucky 4th in the ‘A’ 75m hurdles.
On this occasion the Boys team managed 4th place with the promise of more team members to join the competition in the next match. The U13 boys had several personals bests notably Joseph Epps who improved by 20 seconds in the 1500 metres, placing 5th. Tayo Ayeni made a promising start clearing 1.20m in the High Jump to be 5th , and was 3rd in the ‘B’ 100 metres and 75m hurdles. Oliver Northcott-Barlow performed well in the Shot, Discus and Javelin.
Sprinters Tolu Odusanya and Joe Berth-Jones had performed well in the 100 and 200 metre races. Tolu ‘A’ string, had 2 Grade 2 performances being second in both event and Joe won both his ‘B’ string races. With Irefi Williams and Sammy Latif joining them, they easily won the 4x100 relay.
Sean Coughlan threw well in the ‘A’ Javelin to gain 2nd , while Lee Manze won the ‘B’ Javelin and was second in the ‘B’ Discus and the ‘B’ Shot.
The Kent YAL next match will be at Canterbury on the 8th June
Southern Counties AC Veterans League
Cambridge Harriers women's team scored an excellant 2nd place in the first Kent Veterans match of the season. Competion on the club's home track at Sutcliffe Park in Eltham helped the team notch up a number of notable performances.
The best performance of the night was from star vet, Clare Elms, who lapped other runners in the W35's 1500m.
With Andera Pickup taking first place for the `B' string run and Ros Tabor's first place in the women's 50 age group, and Pauline Rook filling the team for the W60's, it was a good night for middle distance running.
Nicola 5 - Canvey Island
Martin Hawkins gained 28th in the Nicola's 5 on Sunday, 4th over all in the M40, with a time of 30.55. Martin did proclaim after the race that it is probably not a great idea to run a race a week after a marathon! Despite this proclamation on Sunday, Martin then ran the 1500m in the vets league on Monday as well as a track session of 10 x 500on Tuesday. "So now it's time to rest and drink!" stated a tired Martin on Wednesday morning!
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Kent Young Athletes League
Final Points
BoysGirls
1.Tonbridge 4421. Blackheath & Bromley353
2. Blackheath & Bromley 282 2. Tonbridge 302
3. Bexley AC 2653. Cambridge 265
4.Cambridge 2544. Dartford 249
5. Medway & Maidstone 1585. Medway & Maidstone231
6.Dartford 1546. Bexley AC 182
Southern Counties AC Veterans League
Other Results:
W35 A - 200m Yvonne Salmon 2nd 28.4
W35 B - 200m Abi Onatade 3rd 33.1
W50 200m Ros Tabor 2nd 35.9
W35 A - 1500m - Clare Elms - 4.47.7
W35 B - 1500m - Andera Pickup - 5.12.6
W50 - 1500m - Ros Tabor - 5.51.6
W60 - 1500m - Pauline Rook - 9.23.5
Pole Vault - W35 Chris Bond - 2nd 1.70
W35 Shot Put - Sigi Roberts (W50) 3rd 6.16
W50 Caroline Hall (W60) 2nd 6.24
W60 Marlow Hadler (W65) 2nd 7.04
W35 Javelin - Chris Bond 4th 15.85
W50 Marlow Hadler (W65) 2nd 12.09
W35 4 x 100m Relay (Abi Onatade, Chris Bond, Joanne Murphy, Yvonne Salmon) A very close 2nd with same time as 1st place - Blackheath and Bromely - 59.6
