British Athletic League – National 4 – Round 4

Coventry 22nd August 2009

Match Result
Position Club Total points  
1 Channel Islands 242  
2 Coventry Godiva Harriers 229  
3 Havering Mayesbrook AC 205  
4 Exeter Harriers 204  
5 Yeovil Olympiads 198  
6 Edinburgh 183  
       

A third place finish in the final British League fixture at Coventry on Saturday left the men's team agonisingly just short of promotion. 

They finished one point ahead of second-placed Exeter and ahead of champions Yeovil but they had needed to beat the Devon club by eight points to secure promotion to Division 3 so they were six points shy of their target.

On a dramatic finale to the season in a highly competitive Division only one league point covered four clubs as HMAC ended up third in their first year back on the national stage. But any disappointment was quickly replaced by relief when it was realised that had HMAC scored seven points fewer they would have finished fifth and would have been relegated but instead hosts Coventry joined bottom team Edinburgh despite their late rally.

There were four individual wins: Luke Stott's A 200m victory in 22.4s was the only A-string victory, while Andy Lewis (400m - 49.6s), Brad Reece (hammer throw of 39.75m) and Georgie Bean (javelin - 52.13m) provided B string maximum points.

 

Newcomer ~Richard Morrissey performed well on his debut with a second place in the 100m and third in the 400m and skipper Mark Bishop was forced to fill the gaps collecting invaluable points in his six events with third places in the discus and 110m hurdles.

Runners up spots were secured by Anthony Williams in both long & triple jumps, veteran vaulter Stuart Tufton, and 'chaser Jason Lendon.  

There were third places efforts from Callum Sutton in the 1500m and the 5000m pairing of Glen Hill & Graham Hogan while on the field Joe Ramie (triple jump) and Daniel Gamester (A hammer) were also third.

More important points were added by A chaser Rob Warner & 1500m runner Mat Bland, and javelin thrower Sam Harrison,  all 4th, while U20s Paul Adair & Adam McCarthy were both fifth and Jake Nelson's league debut earned a vital high jump point. 

 Full results

 

A STRINGS Pos. Time/Dist   B STRINGS Pos. Time/Dist
100 Luke Stott 3 11.1w   100 Richard Morrissey (U20) 2 11.1w
200 Luke Stott

1

 22.4w   200 Joseph Ramie (U20) 6 24.0w
400 Richard Morrissey (U20) 3

49.8

   400 Andy Lewis (U20)

1

 49.6
800 Paul Adair (U20) 5 1:59.8   800 Callum Sutton (U20) 4 2:02.4
1500 Matt Bland (V40) 4 4:8.9   1500 Callum Sutton (U20 3 4:20.5
5000 Glen Hill 3 15:34.8  PB 5000 Graham Hogan 3 16:28.2 PB
3000 s/c Rob Warner 4 9:48.7   3000 s/c Jason Lendon 2 10:18.5
110H

Anthony Williams

 3

16.3

   110H Mark Bishop (V40)

3

17.1
400H Adam McCarthy (U20)

5

59.9

   400H

Mark Bishop (V40)

4

61.8
L.J. Joseph Ramie (U20) 5

6.67

   L.J.

Anthony Williams

2

6.44
H.J.

Mark Bishop (V40)

6

1.70

   H.J. Jake Nelson (U17)

6

1.65
T.J.

Joseph Ramie (U20)

3

13.76

   T.J.

Anthony Williams

2

13.32
P.V. Mark Bishop (V40)

5

 3.40 P.V. Stuart Tufton (V66)

2

 3.20
S.P. Mark Bishop (V40) 6 10.46   S.P. Bradley Reece (U2

5

 9.53 PB
D.T. Bradley Reece (U20) 5 31.77   D.T. Mark Bishop (V40)

3

 29.23
J.T. Sam Harrison 4 53.54   J.T Georgie Bean (U20)

1

 52.13
H.T. Daniel Gamester

3

 44.69   H.T. Bradley Reece (U20)

1

 39.75
4x100 Andy Lewis (U20), Richard Morrissey (U20), Joseph Ramie (U20) Luke Stott 4 43.7
4x400 Paul Adair (U20), Richard Morrissey (U20), Andy Lewis (U20), Luke Stott

4

 3:25.1

Full results

FINAL LEAGUE TABLE

League Points

Match Points

Yeovil Olympiads 17 908
Exeter Harriers 15 849

Havering Mayesbrook AC

15 843

Channel Islands AC

15 821

Coventry Godiva Harriers

14 827
Edinburgh AC 8 722