National Junior Men's League, Thames Division, Woodford 29 April 2001

Junior Men Start in Style

Havering Mayesbrook’s Junior Men’s team began their first campaign in the National Junior League for a number of years with an excellent all-round performance at Woodford on Sunday.

The squad of eleven athletes took second place in the Thames Division behind a strong Dartford team, defeating Thurrock, Basildon, Bexley, Woodford, Orion and Southend in the process. The only ‘A’ string winner was Kevin Deacon who took the Hammer event with a new personal best performance of 41.18m. Andrew Tierney also set a new pb to take second in the ‘B’ event and the strength of the team’s throwers was demonstrated again with good points scoring by Deacon, Tierney and Tom Melrose in the Javelin, Shot and Discus events. Also in the field, Trevor Walton achieved a new personal best in the High Jump clearing 1.70m.

On the track, Andy Green set a new pb in the 100m with an 11.3sec second place and he followed up with the same position in the 200m. In the 400m, both Dave Allen and Darren Smith earned good points whilst Peter Jones set new personal best figures for the 1500m.

It was an encouraging start for the Juniors who go to Thurrock in mid-June for the next League meeting.

FULL HMAC RESULTS

Hammer                      ‘A’            Kevin Deacon            1^st            41.18m

                                    ‘B’            Andrew Tierney            2^nd`            27.12m

Triple Jump                 ‘A’            Andrew Tierney            4^th            10.56m

                                    ‘B’            Tom Melrose            2^nd            9.25m

Javelin                         ‘A’            Andrew Tierney             4^th            32.82m

                                    ‘B’            Kevin Deacon            3^rd            25.85m

Shot                             ‘A’            Tom Melrose            4^th            10.38m

                                    ‘B’            Kevin Deacon            3^rd            8.71m

High Jump                   ‘A’            Trevor Walton 3^rd            1.70m

Discus                         ‘A’            Andrew Tierney            4^th            29.17m

                                    ‘B’            Tom Melrose            1^st            28.59m

Long Jump                  ‘A’            Mark Gardiner            2^nd            6.02m

                                    ‘B’            Darren Smith   2^nd            5.39m

100m                           ‘A’            Andy Green  2^nd            11.3sec

                                    ‘B’            Mark Gardiner            2^nd            12.02sec

200m                           ‘A’            Andy Green  2^nd            23.45sec

                                    ‘B’            Trevor Walton 5^th            26.87sec

400m                           ‘A’            David Allen             4^th            54.52sec

                                    ‘B’            Darren Smith   2^nd            54.62sec

800m                           ‘A’            D Brown  3^rd            2.22.4sec

                                    ‘B’            Will Hart             2^nd            2.36.1sec

1500m                         ‘A’            Peter Jones  3^rd            4.37.3sec

                                    ‘B’            Will Hart             3^rd            5.36.3sec

400H                            ‘A’            Trevor Walton 4^th            69.21sec

                                    ‘B’            D Brown  2^nd            78.19sec

4x100m relay              Smith, Green,                        4^th            49.11sec

                                   Tierney, Gardiner

4x400m relay              Jones, Green,             3^rd            4.00.8sec

                                    Walton, Brown