ASHFORD Athletic Club senior men’s team started the 2010 season with a solid third place finish at home on Saturday May 1.
Star performer was jumper Matt Morsia who leaped to a club record of 14.64m in the triple jump and a season’s best of 6.82m in the long jump to win both events in some style. Ryan Harris completed a double in the triple jump winning the B-string with a season’s best jump of 11.75m.
Sprinter James Bridge scored good points winning the B 100m in the fastest time of the match with 11.30s and worked hard into a strong headwind to finish second in the 200m A race. Gary Carr started his season with a solid third in the A 100m and B 200m.
Team captain Matt Hogben had a busy day competing in the 400m hurdles, high jump and 3000m steeplechase to score valuable points for the team.
Young Christian Brown competing for the first time scored points in the 400m hurdles and ran a non scoring 100m and 200m.
Youngster George Huxley made his debut for the senior team and finished well to place second in 400m B-string. Ashley Cochran ran a season’s best of 53.02s for fourth in a close A race.
Peter Davey leaped to a season’s best in the long jump to finish third in the B event with 5.93m just 2cm off winning the event. In 110m hurdles Davey ran a strong race into a slight headwind to finish third with a time of 16.96s. Peter also was second in the high jump B string to complete a busy day.
In the pole vault supervet Mick Goodall started his season with a vault of 3.10m to finish fourth in the A-string while Luke Williams made a first appearance in an Ashford vest and vaulted 3.0m for second in the B event, a position he also achieved in the B 110m hurdles.
The team had a number of key middle distance athletes missing due university commitments but Andy Robertson, Warren Uden and Phil Heathfield competed well to pick up valuable points for the team.
In the 5000m John Brasier made his debut for Ashford AC and finished well to record a time of 16.37.08s for fourth in the A race with veteran Kevin Williams returning from injury to for third in the B string.
In the throws Jon Ward and Chris Kingsland scored good points across the shot, discus and hammer.
Jon was second in the discus and third in both the hammer and shot A events. Chris Kingsland started his day with a big personal best of 33.40m to finish secondin the B-string, he followed this with a victory in the B shot and second in the discus.
In the javelin Chris Blanford threw a season’s best of 44.15m for third in the A-string as did John Rolfe who finished second in the b-string with 40.24m
The day ended with good points in the relays with the 4x100m team second and the 4x400m squad third.
Team manager Pete Le Rossignol would like to thank all the officials, volunteers and supporters for their help at the match.
The team, currently are 12th in Division One, travel to Portsmouth for the next match on May 15.
Any athletes interested in competing for Ashford Athletic Club senior team should contact Team Manager Pete Le Rossignol by e-mail on info@ontrackathletics.co.uk or call 07838 122 568.
