Harriers going up
10:00am Wednesday 5th September 2001
BLACKHEATH Harriers, Bromley, women's team saved their best team performance of the season for the last match to secure promotion from Southern League Division Three in emphatic style.
A points score of 232 easily excelled their previous best of 209 as they defeated 4th place City Of Salisbury by nearly 50 points.
The team have beaten 22 of the teams in the Division this year; drawn with one; and lost one; and such was the quality of many of the individual performances, this young squad may well be challenging for another promotion at the end of next season, with the ultimate aim of joining fellow Kent Clubs Medway and Ashford in the National League.
There were 25 wins on the day with three individuals achieving a hat trick of victories.
Meanwhile, the club's boys were in action at the Auxilliary Final of the McDonald's Young Athletes League in Birmingham.
This is the 18th time in 19 years that the team have qualified for a National Final and judging by Saturday's performance there will be more to come.
The under 17s were the best in their age group with a string of personal bests, the highlight being Tom Robinson equalling the Club Record in the pole vault with a clearance of 3.70.
Karim Chester won the A hammer and got 2nd places in the shot and discus.
Paul Barrett made it maximum points in the B hammer and the Shelley brothers both set new bests. Robin threw 34.91 in the discus and Phillip was over 12 metres in the shot for the first time with 12.48.
On the track, the best performances came in the sprints and hurdles. Andrew Johnson went under 14 seconds for the first time in the 100 hurdles and there was a double win in the 100 metres from Fabian Collymore and Dwayne Bovell.
Collymore was also 2nd in the 200 with Sanjo Bangobe 2nd in the B race. Ian Allerton won the 400 and Ray Perkins set a new best in finishing 3rd in the 3000.
Best performances in the Under 15's age group came from the Tawanaee brothers Amir and Alistair. Amir set new bests in winning the B hammer and gaining 2nd in the A discus while Alistair was 3rd in the A hammer and 2nd in the B discus.
In the under 13's Daniel Casey was 3rd in the 800 and Daniel Brewer set a new best of 4.55.82 in the 1500.
For more details of these matches and the Club visit the Club website at www.blackheath-harriers.org.uk