Class A Meet Recap

Congratulations to the Newton North Boys and Girls teams on 3rd place finishes at the State Division I Championships (also known as the "Class A Meet") on Saturday. The girls were still in the hunt for the team title until the final event, and the boys were only bested by the two state powerhouses, Lexington and Xaverian.

There were terrific performances throughout the day, including two first-place finishes. In the girls 2-mile, junior Jess Barton led from the gun and finally broke away from Haverhill's Colleen McNaughton in the final 400m to win in a personal best 10:57.83. In the same race, Haleigh Smith ran an 11-second personal best to finsih 4th in 11:25.46. In the boys 55m dash, junior Cailean Robinson won his heat and semi-final in consecutive PR's of 6.67 and 6.66, and then equaled his best time to win the final in 6.66. Also in the final, Gordon Forbes finished 5th in 6.72.

The girls also got points from Kat Chiong and Lily Brown, who finished 2nd and 6th, respectively, in the 600, from Alex Blenis, who jumped 5' to tie for 5th in the High Jump, and from senior Leah Weisman, who placed 6th in the hurdles.

The girls 4x800 relay team of Emma Kornetsky, Nora Barnicle, Carolyn Ranti, and Jess Barton finished 6th in 10:00.10 for another point, and the 4x400 team of Brown, Kornetsky, Weisman, and Chiong ran 4:08.9 to finish 4th, just behind meet-winner Acton-Boxboro.

For the boys, David Polgar finished 4th in the mile in 4:23.63, and David Smith finished 4th in the shot put at 49' even. The Tigers' 4x800 relay team of Noah Jampol, Seb Putzeys, Peter Sun, and Polgar, ran a season's-best 8:07.68 to finish 2nd to Xaverian. Jampol's opening leg of 2:01 set the tone for the race, as Putzeys and Sun kept the Tigers in the top 3, and Polgar's 1:58 secured the team's place on the podium.

The boys 4x400 relay team also scored, finishing 6th in the penultimate heat.

The top five finishers from each event, plus the next four best performances from all the divisions advance to the All-State Championships to be held at Reggie Lewis next Friday night, beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Link to full results