Southern Men's League Reports and Notices
Excellent performances at SML, Portsmouth
In the penultimate SML match of the season, Radley’s mens team produced another great performance to win their match at Portsmouth despite having tough competition from 3rd placed Southampton and the home team Royal Navy. It was a fantastic team effort that won the day but this was helped by some great individual performances.
Radley’s men bounce back
An outstanding team performance bounced Radley’s men’s team back to the top.
Having won the first fixture and struggled on their trip to Plymouth for the second, it was great that Radley bounced back with an impressive win in their Division 3 fixture at Swindon beating 2nd placed Team Kennet by 32 points!
Radley athletes impressively won 24 of the 33 events on the day, dropping only 13 points during the whole day.
Southern Men's League – 15 May 2010 - Plymouth
A very small team of just 7 Radley athletes made the long trip to Plymouth for the 2nd SML fixture of the season.
Despite the small numbers the team sprit was high and the team valiantly covered as many events as they could. Unfortunately competing against the top 3 teams in the league after the first fixture meant that the competition was fierce and Radley could do no more finish in 4th place, but just a few points behind 3rd.
Southern Men's League - Bournemouth
Radley's mens team romped to an impressive win in their 1st SML fixture of 2010. They dominated the track, in both A & B strings, in all events from 100 up to 1500 including 400h and both relays-dropping just 1 point from the maximum of 56 available.
Southern Men's League - Woking 11th July 2009
Radley’s men’s team competed at Woking and came away victorious.
With no less than 24 1st placings throughout the day.
Debutants Jack Humphreys got a PB in the 800m A string coming 3rd 2.11.5.While Dan Johnson in the A string L/J won with 5.58m and in the T/J was 1st B string with 11.36m and the other debutant was young Ed O’Hara who won the B string H/J 1.65m and the B string L/J with 5.55M then finished off the day with a 3rd win in the A string T/J with a leap of 11.59m.
Southern Men's League - 16th March 2009
This was a very tight match with the lead keep changing between Radley and Oxford city.
In the 100m and 200m A string Ben Owen ran his fastest times this season 11.0/22.8 just to be pipped by A. Johnson of Oxford of which both races were very good and close races. In the B string 100m U17 Andrew Potter clocked a Pb and Cr 11.5 and team mate U20 James Broughton in 200m B String got Pb and broke his own Cr 23.8. Tony Keet also U20 got 2 Pbs in the L/J 5.32m and in the T/J 11.19m.
Southern Men's League - Andover 2nd May 2009
Radley Men’s team traveled to Andover on Saturday for their first league match of the season. (Full results on the results page)
In what was a tight match Radley came away a credible 2nd. Steve Wren had an outstanding day gaining three 1st placing H/J 1.75m L/J 6.01m P/V 3.20m which was a PB and C/R backed up with three 2nd placings T/J 11.40m S/P 10.22 PB Jav 37.59m further veteran club records were broken during the match, débutante Brian Taylor broke 2 records in the L/J 5.70m and in the T/J 10.89m and Alex Ahmet in the Jav 28.57m while Alastair Duncan got Pb in the discus 22.95m .
