Round 5 Doncaster Sunday 22nd November 2015
The largest turnout for the club for the entire season (33 athletes) presented themselves for competition at Doncaster on a pleasant Sunday afternoon. 4 relay teams entered for the Day was the first time for quite a while that this has been possible. Thanks to the 16 hearty souls who made the Open, Under 18, Under 16 and Under 14 relay teams.
Congratulations to Jonathan Taylor, Jeremy Moore, Paul Hanlon and Harry Lee making their debuts for the club. Mention also to Joel Bee having his first run, but not quite registered in time to compete for points.
Club Record
A huge congratulations to Matt Dinan who broke the Under 13 90m Hurdles 17.50s (taking out the former equal record of Simon Gallagher and Alex Carew at 17.7). Well Done Matt!
Top 10 All time performances
- Daniel Martin 5th All time (15.78) in the Mens 110m Hurdles.
- Shaun Hargreaves 10th All time (34.70) in the 2kg Discus.
- Men’s 4×100 relay 43.59s 3rd All time (Steve Fabris, Jonathan Taylor, Shaun Hargreaves, Zach Nelson)
Men’s Div 1
If you ever needed an incentive to get to interclub early there was never a better opportunity with 3 great hurdlers facing the starter in the first race of the day, the Mens Div 1, 110m Hurdles, Cain just shaded Martin, with Hargreaves finishing 5th overall.
The build-up to the 100m for Men was amazing, something not seen at Shield for quite some time. All 8 starters well capable of going under 11 sec. After a couple of goes they were away with Matt Bertacco second fastest for the day in 10.84 followed not far behind by Michael Romanin (11.01 who hurt his hamstring) in doing so. Zach Nelson was super sharp in running 11.46. A super debut run by Jonathan Taylor 11.56, followed closely by Fab (11.64) & Shaun Hargreaves (11.79).
It is fair to say that the distance performance was quite poor only 1 athlete under 40 years of age fronting for the 1500m and having 2 gaps, really being the difference between a win and the 3rd place that the Mens 1 team ended up with. A similar story in the 3000m with 3 gaps cruelling the hard work of the sprinters and field event athletes.
A week to regroup for Mens 1 before round 6.
Under 18
Conor Fry was fantastic on the day. 6.25 long jump off a short run up a great effort, and a good hurdles (15.74). But the highlight for mine was Conor’s 400m late in the day, stopping the clock at 50.33.
Also good to see Konrad back in action along with James Hanlon blowing the cobwebs out in the 1500m.
Continuing a great start to the AV season Ned O’Brien with a PB in the 1500m 4:24.5 and another PB in the 400m 57.74s.
Under 16
Nationals bound, Harry Lee made his debut for the club in the 100m (12.37) and 400m running 53.53 to nearly win Heat 5 of the Mens 400.
Phil Borg was out and about tuning up for State Relays with a 100m and 400m
Tristan Day was really strong in the 1500m (4:27.1) and will run an 800m at State Relays.
Marcus Hope was everywhere, sprint hurdles, relay, 400m & javelin showing versatility and ability.
Under 14
The Under 14 team won the round by over 110 points. Full fields for the team in the 100m, 110m Hurdles, Discus, 400m, 1500m is something the Mens 1 team could learn from. Plenty of highlights too, from the 14’s:
- Matt Dinan’s club record in the 90m Hurdles and 14.43s 100m;
- Andrew Mathieson’s near 400m club record;
- Jett-Paris’ great first leg of the 4x100m Relay;
- Angus Down getting close to breaking 5min for 1500;
- Joel Imbriano taking a leaf out of Dad, Dino’s book and grabbing a 1500m PB (6:05.1);
- Adam McGarry’s 128 points for the day across 7 individual event and 1 relay; and
- Tom Scroggie defying “parent orders to do some study” picking up a javelin PB (27.45m) and getting close to his 1500m PB in running 4:43.2.
The next round of AV Shield is a twilight meet scheduled for Thursday 10th December 2015 at Nunawading.
However, with 10 teams entered there will be a strong SKAAC presence at the State Relays next Saturday 28th November at Albert Park, whilst AV Shield takes a week off.
Full Results can be seen by clicking the link below
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