National Junior Men's League, Thames Division, Ipswich 20 June 2004

The final fixture in the National Junior Men’s League was held at Ashton Playing Fields Woodford Green. The Havering Squad were full of confidence having all but secured league victory at Ipswich in the last fixture.

The day started off well with Joe Forde stepping up from the under 17’s to throw the heavier hammer for the first time.  He threw just short of 40m to clinch the A String victory.  Ashley Reece stepped in to cover the B String and finished 3^rd. 

Aarron Edwards decided not to do the South of England multi events champs to compete for the team. He covered Shot, Discus, 110m Hurdles 400m Hurdles and Pole Vault finishing 3^rd, 2^nd, 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th respectively.

There was an impressive display in the 1500m from Martin Heys and Ashley Reece.  The both went off in search of the four- minute barrier and almost achieved it while destroying the field in the process.  Martin came home in 4m 05.9secs and Ashley in a new PB of  4m 07.1secs. Andrew Meech was tripped in the 800m and still managed to come in 2nd with a good time. Ashley Reece was on fine form again in the 800m running close to his best and winning the B string.

Luke Stott performed extremely well in the 200 and long jump setting two new PBs.  Luke also came in a close 3^rd in the 100m just a fraction of a second outside his PB.

Scott Keating racked up 26pts while setting two new PBs in the B String Shot and B String Javelin.  He improved on recent form to jump 1.80m in the High-Jump and win the A String.  High-Jump partner Mark Connelly won the B String.

Team Captain Simon Parker was very busy competing in the 200m 100m triple jump and 4x100m.  He will be unavailable for the promotion match as he will be in Spain on holiday.

Other performances on the day were Lewis Huckfield competing in the A 3000m and 400m B race.  He finished 4^th and 3^rd with a PB in the 400m.

Adam Shaw was second in the A 400m and filled in the B Discus in which he also finished 2^nd he also ran the 2000m Steeple Chase for the second time coming in 2^nd in the A String.  Ben Jones recorded his first scoring event for the team by finishing 3^rd in the B Steeple Chase.  His performance was especially good as he is a 100m sprinter.

Adam Brett was 2^nd in the B 400m Hurdles and 1^st in the B 110m Hurdles.

Harry Tyler was competing after a bad cold and finished slightly down on his PB in the Javelin finishing 4^th in the A String.

Both Relay squads finished 3^rd with the 4x100m team recording their best time this season.

The promotion match is at Barnet Copthall on the 29^th of August.  The team will be at its strongest when all the top performers for the team will be available except Team Captain Simon Parker who is in Spain and Ross Clarke (3000m Runner) who is also on holiday.