RESULTS FROM THE 10TH ROUND OF STATE LEAGUE COMPETITION, HELD AT OLYMPIC PARK ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 17TH, 1999
In the last round of State League for the season our women asserted their dominance over the competition to confirm top spot, while the men turned in one of the best performances of the summer to narrowly finish second. We have finished 11th and now for the first time must contest the promotion/relegation round on Thursday March 16.
WOMEN
Box Hill 169
Doncaster 148
Ringwood 124
Ballarat 58
FINAL LADDER
Box Hill Athletic Club 35.5
Athletics Essendon 30
Melbourne University 29
Doncaster 27.5
Eastside 23
Bayside 23
Ringwood 21
Ballarat 10
Another impressive win and the team can now look forward to the coming weeks with confidence. Next weekend we will compete for the National Club Championship as defending champion, and then follow that up with an assault on the State League title where the club will be attempting to win for the 12th time.
Highlights from this round included wins by Kerri Jorgensen in the 800, Wendy Muldoon in the 3km Walk, Simone Purvis in the 100Hurdles and the 4 by 400 relay team. Georgina Power turned in another fast time over 200m to place 4th in her heat and the team has an overall consistency that other clubs find hard to match.
The clubs depth was highlighted by a number of excellent performances by invitation athletes, who are unable to make the team, including Georgie Connell’s 800 run of 2.11.5, showing a return to top form is not far away.
| EVENT | COMPETITOR | PERFORMANCE | PLACING |
| 400HURDLES | Jenny Marshall Adele Ormando |
62.05 70.04 |
2nd 4th |
| 200M | Georgina Power Sandy Milner Claire Finleyson |
24.95 25.48 25.65 |
4th 1st Heat 2nd 3rd |
| 800M | Kerri Jorgensen Anna Thomson Erica Sigmont |
2.08.4 2.10.1 2.12 |
1st 3rd 4th |
| 5000M | |||
| 100HURDLES | Simone Purvis Georgina Power |
14.21 14.26 |
1st 2nd |
| 400RELAY | 3.49.1 | 1st | |
| 3000MWALK | Wendy Muldoon | 13.15.7 | 1st |
| LONG JUMP | Sheridan Bishop | 5.16 | |
| HAMMER THROW | Kelly Carvill | 33.00 | |
| JAVELIN | Simone Purvis | 33.77 | 3rd |
| DISCUS | Kelly Carvill | 29.47 | 3rd |
| SHOT PUT | Larissa Tourchinskaya | 11.7 | 2nd |
MEN
Doncaster 140
Box Hill 129
Geelong 128
Eastside 118
Final Ladder
Bayside 33.5
Athletics Essendon 33
Athletics Eastside 31.5
Glenhuntly 31
Doncaster 28
Western Suburbs 27
Ringwood United 25.5
Ivanhoe 21
Geelong 19
Melbourne University 18
Box Hill Athletic Club 17.5
A.P.S. United 15
Of the 14 events on the night we only managed to field athletes in 8 of them, yet we won 5 of the 8 and almost pulled off a miraculous escape. Tim Williams narrowly missed a world junior qualifier in the 200, Michael Jones again showed his freakish potential by winning the 800, Julian Dwyer returned to win the 5000M, Steven Hooker put in another impressive display to take out the Pole Vault and the sprinters combined well to win the 4 by 400 relay.
The club is now faced with the awkward task of competing against All Public Schools United and another combine team made up of Diamond Valley/Collingwood/Richmond/Old Paradians to stay in State League Competition, next season. Needless to say the club hopes to have all athletes available for Thursday March 16
| EVENT | COMPETITOR | PERFORMANCE | PLACING |
| 400HURDLES | |||
| 200M | Tim Williams Andrew Wilcox Ryan Hartshorne |
21.56 22.42 22.51 |
1st 3rd 1st Second Heat |
| 800M | Michael Jones Trent Hartshorne Tim Renowden |
1.50.9 1.54.4 1.56.1 |
1st 10th 11th |
| 5000M | Julian Dwyer Marcus Tierney Graeme Olden |
14.08 14.15 14.55 |
1st 3rd 7th |
| 400RELAY | Andrew Wilcox, Trent Hartshorne, Ryan Hartshorne, Michael Jones | 3.19.2 | 1st |
| POLE VAULT | Steven Hooker | 4.60M | 1st |
| HIGH JUMP | Heath Joyce | 1.90 | 2nd |
| LONG JUMP | Julian Yeoh | 6.56 | 3rd |
| HAMMER | Rod Bird | 40.31 | 4th |