CAC Seniors Sign off their Season in a Tight Match at Norwich.

The call for support for the final Southern League fixture at Norwich failed to receive full backing and it was a shadow of the team which featured so well in the National League qualifying meeting two weeks earlier.

There were no fewer than thirteen wins out of a possible 36 from the men's events with a further ten seconds or thirds. James Becker from the under 20 age group has been a most regular in turning out all season as here he came up with wins from both to 100 and 200 metres whilst Nathan Moses came through for a win in the `B` string 100 with Clark Viernes taking second in the 200 `B` race,  Full points had earlier been gained from the 800 via our pairing of Luke Oliver and Joe Perry who achieved a pb of 1m 57.1s. There was also a pb for Ethan Reilly in the 1500 as he placed second but behind him Thomas Woodward was to take the honours in the `B` result. Ethan also contested the steeplechase set a season’s best when breaking the tape, Full marks to veteran Ken Hoye as he covered both the steeplechase and 3000 metres. There was another win for Bradley Reed in the 110m hurdles and here we must mention Joe Wells taking third place as he also filled in places in high jump, triple jump, pole vault and javelin - none his specialist events - good team spirit. The shot putt provided maximum points with Alastair Brown and Oliver Graham our pairing and the hammer event also achieved this distinction with Oliver now taking the major role with Yasha Bobash alongside.

Alas from the women's results we see only five firsts with the shot putt bringing a double - and a pb for under 17 Matilda Hewitt with 11.71m. Helene Ingvaldsen took the `B` string having won the hammer in which it was a second place for Charlotte Graham. On the track there were first places for Lucy Bulman in the 200 and Sophie McCall in the 5000m in which both she and Lucy Nuttall set pb`s - Lucy also achieved this in the steeplechase.

One cannot ignore that with so many missing middle distance athletes missing Lucy also ran the 1500m whilst Molly Drane and Sophie McCall also covered more than a fair share of events to pick up points.

At the end of the day, it was a win for Norwich with 292 points with the combined Ipswich and Colchester team second on 255, just five ahead of Chelmsford, Heathside 225, Havering 215 and Harrow 154 followed. Norwich jumped up to third in the table with Chelmsford's final place 7th ahead of Ipswich and Heathside, Harrow who had been third were obviously still celebrating their National League title and drop to tenth.

Report written by Roy Meadowcroft.