Track & Field
2000 

Newport Harriers
Welsh Senior League 
       

The Welsh League is a joint male and female league, teams are scored on nearly a full timetable of events for each sex. The league is structured into 5 divisions of varying sizes, 1 & 2 consist of 8 teams the others of 6. Newport currently has 2 teams, one in Div 1 and one in Div 3.

This year we started really well, 2nd place at Brecon was excellent and the points split fairly evenly between the men and women. Next round was not so good, whilst the men did out score the women it was nothing to write home about. We should have done better at our home venue, but fixture clashed put paid to that. Deeside was a disaster by all accounts, no athletes or officials - we were very lucky to survive this year, which was just as well as the B team had actually gained promotion to Division 2.

Match results for 2000 Season

Division 1

Round 1 Brecon Round 2 Wrexham Round 3 Newport Round 4 Deeside
Deeside 612
Newport 512
 Preseli 452
Wrexham 416
Brecon 375
Colwyn Bay 314
Torfaen 243
Llanelli 178		  Deeside 579
Wrexham 530
Colwyn Bay 487
Preseli 455
Llanelli 399
Brecon 331
Torfaen 282
Newport 220		 Deeside 586
Preseli 554
Wrexham 503
Colwyn Bay 443
Newport 398
Brecon 320
Llanelli 294
Torfaen 291		 No idea but Newport were last and Deeside won the league again. 

Final positions

As I don't have the final round results due to circumstances beyond my control, all I can say is that Deeside won the league with a grand slam of 4 wins to retain their crown, whilst the South Wales sides struggled again and we finished 6th just above relegation.

Deeside AC are champions, Torfaen and Llanelli are relegated.