Mazda league Round 2 : Competition Warms Up

Crusaders Men travelled understrength yesterday to Tullamore to compete in the 2nd round of the Mazda Track & Field League. Cold & Flu Viruses dessimated the distance & management sections with Eugene O'Neill, John O'Connor, Arran Hussey, Eoin Cummins, and Gar Coghlan all absent. Others were unavailable due to injury (Antoine Burke, Kevin Burke, John Coghlan, Aidan O'Callaghan, Steven Flemming and Barry McCarron) and Crusaders top hurdler Peter Coghlan left for the World Championships.

However the team that did travel performed admirably. Although not all events were covered a good deal of valuable points were scored.

100m - ??? - Hugo Leeney
200m - ??? - Ian Monaghan
400m - 3rd - Hugo Leeney
800m -
1500m - 2nd - Simon Kenny
5000m - 2nd - Alan O'Keefe
3000SC -
110h - 1st - Ian McDonald
400h - 1st - Ian Monaghan
Long - ??? - Ian mcDonald
Triple - 2nd - Francois Kulik
High - 1st - Francois Kulik
Vault - 1st - Ruairi O'Briain
Shot - 3rd - Ger Nagle
Discus - 1st - Ger Nagle
Hammer - 1st - Lorcan Carpenter
Javelin- ??? - Hugo Leeney
Weight - 1st - Lorcan Carpenter
4x100 - 3rd - McDonald, Leeney, Monaghan, O'Briain
4x400 -
Walk -

Francois Kulik did especially well competing in his first Mazda League event almost scoring maximum points in 2 events (and also guesting in the 56lb Weight!), and another mention is due to Alan O'Keefe who came second in the 5000m with only 24hrs notice.

With these results the team should qualify in the top half of the first eight teams. At full strength Crusaders can expect to be in the mix for the top spot at the final on August 21st.

Journalist : Hugo Leeney