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ANDY Wain returned to action for the first time in five years and broke two club records as Nene Valley Harriers won their Southern Men's League Division One fixture at Ipswich.
Wain was a talented thrower in the late 1990s and set the current senior club records of 49.90m for the discus and 14.62m for the shot in 1997 and ‘98 respectively.

He later made headlines all over the world when in 2005 he faced a disrepute charge after ‘sending himself off’ after becoming involved in an altercation with a player while refereeing a football match.

Although he has not competed in athletics since then he has kept in touch with Nene Valley and was invited to have a few throws just a few days before the meeting when turning up to ‘say hello’ to friends at club training night last week.

He took up the challenge and impressed sufficiently enough to be asked to compete at Ipswich, where he broke two veteran club records. Both records were previously held by Nene Valley team manager Tim Needham so perhaps he is now regretting asking him to compete!

Needham had set the hammer mark of 34.12m in 1995 and the discus record of 30.12m a year later but has now been removed from the record books after Wain won the B-string hammer with 34.98m and threw 33.58m as a non-scorer in the discus.

The fact he was a non-scorer is down to the ability of Ken Baker and Simon Achurch. Baker was below-par at Ipswich due to a cold but Achurch produced three B-string wins and a second in the A-string hammer.

It wasn’t just the throwers who impressed though as the 4x400m quartet of Ben Jones, Darrellon Holding, Adam Binns and Sean Reidy broke the 18 year-old club record of 3.24.4. The previous mark had been set by Danny Tudor, Dave Privett, Bob Collin and Giovanni Rizzo but Needham believes the current squad, who have won the event in all four fixtures this season, can go even quicker.

Given his storming third leg, perhaps Binns should run more 400m races while the other three relay members all impressed individually. Reidy chalked a 400m double, winning both the flat and hurdles races, Holding (below) ran a personal best in the 200m and Jones ran a useful 56.9 in the 400m hurdles but suffered his first defeat in the event this year.

Sam Lawrence improved his personal best in the javelin as did Chris Wright in the 1500m and Harry Wells in the high jump

The 3000m steeplechase saw both John Lunn and Dave Newton run personal bests although they each had to settle for second place.

Adam Fidgett won the B-string pole vault as Nene Valley moved up to fourth in Division One, but they face a tough task in the penultimate fixture at Thames Valley next week as Jones, Holding and Wells will all be missing due to the English Schools Championships at Sheffield.

Former Nene Valley Harrier John Pike of Spalding ran for Newham and Essex Beagles, clocking 16.41.9 to finish second in the B-string 5000m.

Results

Match - 1 Nene Valley Harriers 125; 2 Newham & Essex Beagles 120; 3 Brighton 114; 5 Ipswich 83; 5 Woodford Green with Essex Ladies 82.

100m - A 3 Sam Lawrence 11.5; B 2 Darrellon Holding 11.4.

200m - A 2 Darrellon Holding 22.7 (PB); B 3 Sam Lawrence 23.5.

400m - A 1 Sean Reidy 51.0; B 4 Dave Brown 54.9.

800m - A 2 Adam Binns 2.01.5; B 3 Chris Wright 2.04.3; non-scoring Tom Rodgers 2.07.5; Ed Hewitt 2.13.2.

1500m - A 3 Chris Wright 4.12.5 (PB); B 2 Sam Hunt 4.14.3; Scott Forman 4.19.8; Tom Rodgers 4.24.6.

5000m - A 4 Paul Halford 16.43.9; B 4 Danny Snipe 18.42.0.

110m hurdles - A 2 Sean Reidy 16.0; B 2 Adam Fidgett 17.9.

400m hurdles - A 1 Sean Reidy 54.7; B 2 Ben Jones 56.9.

3000m steeplechase - A 2 Josh Lunn 10.35.0 (PB); B 2 Dave Newton 11.04.0 (PB).

High jump- A 5 Harry Wells 1.70; B 2= Ben Jones 1.70.

Pole vault - A 2 Peter Lewis 3.60; B 1 Adam Fidgett 3.20.

Long jump - A 3 Adam Fidgett 5.69; B 3 Harry Wells 5.19 (PB).

Triple jump - A 5 Harry Wells 11.31 (PB); B 5 Mitch Prosser 11.22.

Shot - A 3 Ken Baker 12.78; B 1 Simon Achurch 12.07; non-scoring Andy Wain 11.40.

Discus - A 3 Ken Baker 36.92; B 1 Simon Achurch 35.94; non-scoring Andy Wain 33.58 (CR).

Hammer - A 2 Simon Achurch 41.08; B 1 Andy Wain 34.98 (CR).

Javelin - A 3 Sam Lawrence 45.34 (PB); B 1 Simon Achurch 43.94.

4x100m - 4 Nene Valley Harriers (Sam Lawrence, Darrellon Holding, Ben Jones, Adam Fidgett) 45.3.

4x400m - 1 Nene Valley Harriers (Ben Jones 51.5, Darrellon Holding 50.9, Adam Binns 50.4, Sean Reidy 51.3) 3.24.1.

PB = personal best; CR = club record.

SOUTHERN MEN'S LEAGUE DIVISION ONE 2009 FIXTURES

SOUTHERN MEN'S LEAGUE			2009 FIXTURES		DIVISION ONE
						FINAL
Venue	Host Club
	1	2	3	4	5	S. D or J
02-May
Sutcliffe P	Kent	Reading	Serpentine	TVH	Ipswich	D4E Camb H
Kingston	H Wim	M Keynes	Brighton	N Devon	Luton	D3S HHH
Woodford	WG&EL	Woking	Ashford	Tonbridge	Enfield	D1 Ilford
Crickleflds	Ilford	Victoria Pk	P'mouth	NVH	Swindon	D1 WGEL
Pali Field	Highgate	Newham	Chelmsford	Newbury	Worthing	D4W Lon H

16-May
Lewes	Brighton	TVH	Ilford	Woking	Worthing	D3S HH/Lewes
Newham	Newham	Luton	Tonbridge	Reading	Victoria Pk	D3N Hav'g
M Keynes	M Keynes	Enfield	Kent	Newbury	NVH	D3N
Bat Park	Serpentine	Swindon	WG&EL	H Wim	Highgate	D3S
P'mouth	P'mouth	Ashford	N Devon	Ipswich	Chelmsford	D3W Havant

06-Jun
Soton	P'mouth	Highgate	Reading	Enfield	Brighton	D2 Chich
P'borough	NVH	Serpentine	Woking	Chelmsford	Luton	D3N P'boro
Kingston	H Wim	Ilford	Ipswich	Tonbridge	Newbury	S
Mile End	Victoria Pk	Worthing	WG&EL	Kent	N Devon	S
Swindon	Swindon	Ashford	TVH	M Keynes	Newham	D3W Tm K

27-Jun
Braunton	N Devon	Newbury	Swindon	Woking	Reading	S
Parl Hill	Highgate	Kent	Luton	Ashford	Ilford	J SWL
Worthing	Worthing	Tonbridge	M Keynes	Serpentine	P'mouth	J SWL
Lee Valley	Enfield	TVH	H Wim	Victoria Pk	Chelmsford	J SWL
Ipswich	Ipswich	NVH	WG&EL	Brighton	Newham	J SWL

11-Jul
Woking	Woking	H Wim	Newham	P'mouth	Kent	D3W Has B
Chelmsford	Chelmsford	Reading	M Keynes	Ilford	WG&EL	D3N Wsuff
Ashford	Ashford	Brighton	Newbury	Victoria Pk	Serpentine	D4E InvEK
LC Stadium	TVH	N Devon	Highgate	NVH	Tonbridge	S
Luton	Luton	Ipswich	Worthing	Swindon	Enfield	D3N

01-Aug
Bracknell	Reading	H Wim	NVH	Worthing	Ashford	D3S Brack
Bat Park	Serpentine	Ilford	Enfield	Newham	N Devon	D3S
Ipswich	Ipswich	Woking	Victoria Pk	Highgate	M Keynes	D3N Wsuff/D
Tonbridge	Tonbridge	Chelmsford	Brighton	Kent	Swindon	D3S TWL
Oxford	Newbury	WG&EL	P'mouth	Luton	TVH	D3W Oxfd

Lane Draw	1	2	3	4	5
Field Event	Hammer	Long Jump	Shot	Javelin	High Jump
Judging	Pole Vault	Triple Jump	Discus

News & Results

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25/07/10 Club Training and Fun Day, Wells, Norfolk

25/07/10 Grimsthorpe Half Marathon, Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincs

21/07/10 GPS 4, Stamford

21/07/10 Cambs AA Open Graded Series, St Ives

18/07/10 YAL 4, Sutton Coldfield

11/07/10 A1 Series, Bushy 10K, Peterborough (CRRL)

10/07/10 SML 5, Ilford

07/07/10 GPS 3, Ferry Meadows

04/07/10 EAL 3, King's Lynn

30/06/10 Watford Open Graded Meeting, Watford

27/06/10 A1 Series, Sutton Feast Beast, Ely

26/06/10 SML 4, Harrow

26/06/10 SWL 3, Epsom

23/06/10 GPS 2, Eye, Peterborough

20/06/10 YAL 3, Peterborough

16/06/10 Watford Open Graded Meeting, Watford

13/06/10 A1 Series, Abbey 10K, Ramsey (CRRL)

13/06/10 EAL 2, Peterborough

09/06/10 GPS 1, Ferry Meadows, Peterborough

09/06/10 Cambs AA Open Graded Series, St Ives

05/06/10 SML 3, Thurrock

02/06/10 Watford Open Graded Meeting, Watford

26/05/10 Cambs AA Open Graded Series, St Ives

22/05/10 SWL 2, Milton Keynes

19/05/10 Watford Open Graded Meeting, Watford

16/05/10 YAL 2, Derby

27/03/10 Hill Training, Chesterton - 11.30am NOW CANCELLED

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