The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Nene Valley Harriers made a solid start to their British League campaign at Crawley as they finished as runners-up behind Trafford AC.
Several athletes achieved early season personal best times (PB), with Gideon Okoh running 10.70secs for fourth place in a high grade 100m race.
Sixteen-year-old hot prospect Ronan Rawlings was making his British League debut, and finished second in the B 200m with a time of 22.70secs.
Nene Valley pulled off a memorable double in the shot, with Martin Tinkler and Ben Stephens winning the A and B event, both with PBs.
Tinkler threw a distance of 14.79m, while Stephens was the second best performer across all the participants with a 13.53m putt. Tinkler also won the discus.
Back on the track, Sean Reidy ran 57.10secs to win the 400m hurdles.
B string hurdler Philip Wilson also finished first with a 57.10secs clocking.
In addition to Rawlings, several young athletes were making their league debuts – and all performed well as back up to the A string athletes.
Lewis Cunningham leapt 11.55m in the triple jump for third place, while Lee Addison won the B high jump and finished second in the B long jump with a 6.03m effort.
Fellow teenage debutant Grigorij Kondratovic won the B pole vault after clearing 3.60m
The next meeting is at Trafford on June 3. And, with the steady flow of young athletes making their way from the junior to senior teams, manager Tim Needham has high hopes for the season ahead.
