Shield Round 3 – Casey Fields
Thanks to all 25 St. Kevin’s Athletes for making the long trek out to Casey Fields for what was a very long day of athletics. Special thanks to the many parents who bought their children to the track rather than get a flying start to the long weekend and a huge well done to our debutants on the weekend…Jett-Paris Bedelis, Angus Down and Marcus Hope.
A super day for the club, with the Mens Div 1 team winning, Under 14 finishing second, Under 16 third and Under 18 fourth.
Mens Div 1
St. Kevin’s Mens Div 1 team had its first win in nearly 18 months on Saturday at Casey Fields. How did this happen? Easy to answer that one – team effort.
St. Kevin’s are blessed with not only some very talented athletes at present, but also athletes that are prepared to sacrifice all for the team. Take your pick of any of the following…
* Steve Fabris nearly shearing his leg off on a hurdle during the week in preparation for a go at the 3’6”, oh and plus our fastest 100m (11.45s) and 400m (50.66s)
* Gerry Sofianos at 66 years of age showing us how to get around the 2000m walk.
* Jason completing the 2k walk in under 9 mins and then backing up for a 1500m.
* Luke Goodman running a great 1500m helping Hugo to a new PB.
* Seb Purcell having his first race in over 2 years, getting through a 400m.
* Aaron Little driving for over an hour for a 1500m.
* Dan Martin getting back into it with a 100m and then a leg of the Relay.
* Shaun Hargreaves & Dan Bailey doing the ‘hamburger’ (i.e. “the lot”) 100m, 110m Hurdles, 400m, (Shaun leg of 4x100m, Bails the Pole Vault), Long Jump, Discus, Javelin, and 3k Steeple – between them they only missed the Walk!! Super effort by two of the club’s best ever, especially the 3k Steeple at nearly 7:00pm!
* Zach Nelson winning the Long Jump with 6.62m and then backing up for a 1500m.
* And lastly Steve Cain, won the 110m hurdles, covered the Discus, Javelin, Pole Vault, 100m, 400m, leg of 4x100m Relay. However, what a great club to be a part of, when the 5th placegetter in the Decathlon at Glasgow (our own Steve Cain) will lap score for Shaun & Bails in the 3k Steeple. Well folks, that is your club – the mighty St. Kevin’s Athletics Club.
Under 18
Conor Fry was at Casey Fields early, and gave us all the guidance that all was ok with the weather, despite some huge downpours early in the morning threatening the meet. However, Conor’s athletic ability more than matches his weather forecasting, with him clocking 50.93s for 400m and 15.84s for the 110m Hurdles. He is well set for All Schools this coming weekend.
Ned O’Brien had his first race over 1500m since his PB at the APS Sports and ran a really strong race to be just outside his PB in 4:26.42.
It was great to see the boys from Under 16 & Under 18 combine for a relay team with a novelty theme initially, but then surprise themselves that they narrowly missed winning their heat. At the risk of making enemies within the distance fraternity, Ned O’Brien showed plenty in the 3rd leg of the 4x100m Relay!!
Under 16
This team is building steadily.
Harry Livens got things rolling in hurdles (16.90), had a good Long Jump into the headwind (5.23m), and ran a PB in the 100m (12:35s).
Phil Borg was the fastest Under 16 for the day in the 100m (11.68s) and backed that up with a 5.55m Long Jump
Marcus Hope was fastest for SKAAC in the hurdles (15.27s) and must have run close to 25sec for the last 200m of the 1500m, stopping the clock at 4:53.83.
Massimo Acquaro stepped up into Heat 5 of the Mens 100m and ran a super race.
Tristan Day, planning to run the 3k at All Schools, was simply superb in the 1500m with a massive PB running 4:27.81.
Under 14
The Under 14 team was simply “PB City”
All 1500m runners ran PB’s…
Jett-Paris an 8 sec PB (5:27.3)
Tom Scroggie a 6 sec PB (4:44.67)
Hugo Goodman 4 sec PB (4:54.47)
Angus Down a PB stopping the clock at 5:10.93
Tom also finished the day with a rush, 2000m Steeple in 7:34.5, 400m in 65.39s and 22.02m Discus
Saturdays Individual Results:
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There is no Shield Competition this weekend with the All Schools scheduled for Lakeside Stadium. Shield will resume on 14 November from 1:00pm at Nunawading. All the best to the many athletics that are competing at the All Schools Championships this weekend.
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