Still recovering from injuries sustained at the last meeting, Kent Athletics Club had to reorganise and somehow protect its more versatile members from over exertion during the Southern League Division 1 fixture at Copthall Stadium, in Barnet.

With the club's regular long and triple jumpers unavailable, Russell and Howard Frost stood in and took 19 out of a possible 20 points.

Frost, the team's decathlete, gained a personal best of 13.57 metres in the triple jump and narrowly missed his own club record with 53.9sec for the 400m hurdles. And by winning the 110m hurdles in 16.1sec, he secured another well-deserved Man of the Match award.

The ever-present Jermaine Mays ran another blistering 800m, leading from the start to finish and breaking his own club record with a time of 1.52.2sec in the process.

He also won a fiercely-contested 1,500m in a very creditable 3.56.1sec.

Making their club debuts were James Opio, from Uganda, who ran a 49.9sec in the 400m, and Roger Hylton with 52.2sec in the B string of the same event.

Their contributions continued when it was found necessary to rest the Frost brothers for the final relay when the match was finely balanced with two points separating Kent AC and second-placed Shaftsbury-Barnet.

The debutants and the two remaining regulars Jermanie Mays and Stuart Wenden, encouraged by their team-mates, not only won the event and securing the match, but created a