AVSL Round 3 - Mt Evelyn

Well done by the 16 Waverley-Malvern runners who made it all the way out to Mt Evelyn on Saturday and did our club proud. Unfortunately we were missing a few this weekend with a Lorne weekend and the APS Athletics keeping a few of our athletes away.

We had 16 athletes in round 3 which was down a bit from 23 in round 2. Our score was also down a bit to 11,252, down from 16,229 in R2. Unfortunately 6 of the other 9 clubs pulled out their best score points for the season, and the combination of us being down a little bit and them all being up and about, pushed us down the ladder to 9th. We are still sitting 7th for the season to date and look competitive against Bendigo in 6th and Ringwood in 8th. We should be able to avoid relegation with Wyndham and Bellarine not doing so well.

There is now a 2 week break, so a chance to refresh and set yourself for round 4 on Saturday 9th November at Glenhuntly or Doncaster. This will be a good practice run for our potential Powerplay round 6 at the same venue on 30th November. We’ll be calling on absolutely everyone who can run or jump or throw or hobble a bit to help us out to get the maximum possible team points. Lock 30th November in the diary.

Some highlights from R3:
- Kate Fawkner our highest point scorer yet again with 1,204 points from the 3 throw events. That’s a trifecta of top scores in rounds 1-3, and with season pb’s in the shot and discus, and a huge 495 points in the shot put. Great throwing Kate.
– Linda Buttigieg with her best score of 1,113 including a big hammer season pb of 37.01
- Christine Bridle also with her best score of 1,102 (there’s not much between them) and also with a hammer season pb.
- Helen Anderson with a big 904 points, and season pb’s in the 800 and shot put.
- Clyde with just a quiet 4 events for 822 points including season pb’ s in the hammer, shot put and triple jump
- Great work by Yvonne – another 600 points for awesome officialing
- Our quickest 200ms were Ryan Bentley with 24.89 and Linda with 35.87
- Our best 800ms were Ryan 2:07 and Helen 3:22
- Our best 3K was Craig Sanford with 10:26, and our best and only 5K was Harvs with 21:50
- The shot put was our most popular event (11 throwers) with Greg Carstairs our best with 9.46 and Linda 7.88
- We had 7 hammer throwers. The best were Linda with 37.01 and Jack Ashcroft with 31.88
- In the triple jump our best were Jack 10.53 and Christine 6.40
- Also Arun – 2 season PB’s, Marcus Boxall debuting for the season, Matt Harvey an impressive 11:29 3K, Nathan Contin 3 events and Simone Albiston 2 events