Wow, great meet!
The Newton North girls prevailed over Weymouth yesterday, 52-34, and the Newton North boys won a close meet over Weymouth, 45-41. Both the Boston Globe and Cool Running had Newton North boys winning 42-35, but that was incorrect: the HJ results were wrong and the 2-mile results were not included.
Regardless, both meets were see-saw battles with first one team stepping up, and then the other.
Newton vs. Weymouth Girls Results
As expected Nicole Pearce moved up to the 1M and ran fast from the gun. Carolyn Ranti shadowed Pearce for a couple of laps and then pulled away. Lurking in third and fourth were Weymouth's Sarah McCarthey and Newton's Adina Hemley-Bronstein. Adina is a fast finisher and, true to form, she passed McCarthey and began gaining on Pearce with 300m to go. On the final lap, Adina moved into second, as both girls accelerated. With less than 100m to go, Nicole re-passed, but Adina had one more gear, and managed to just overtake Pearce at the line. 8-1 Newton. Weymouth would play catch-up for the rest of the meet.
In the 1000, Nora Barnicle set the pace and led Sam Sacchetti and for 900 meters, At that point, Carolyn Connolly moved from third place to first, and won with a smooth kick in 3:15.50, with Barnicle second, and Sacchetti third. With Connolly out of the 600, Emma Kornetsky (1:47.69, despite a stumble at the start) and Sally Leung (1:49.68) had no trouble going 1-2, ahead of Weymouth's Victoria Dinatalie. Weymouth goit revenge in the 300, though, as Lindsey Butler and Samantha Bennett went 1-2 against Kat Chiong (45.08). After four events, the score stood at 20-16, North.
In the high jump, Sarah Berkland jumped 4-9 to take second (Jenn Bell won, and Kerri Flaherty was third for Weymouth). In the shot put, Tracy Isman (30-0.25) threw just one half inch farther than Michelle Bruce to win, with Morgan Faer third in (29-6.5). 29-25, Newton.
The 55 hurdles was Weymouth's last chance to turn the orange tide, but it was not to be, as Michelle Kaufman (9.51), Vicki Marone (9.88), and Morgan Faer (10.04) swept the event and gave North a commanding lead. Kaufman picked up second in the dash (8.23) for another three points, and a 41-31 lead. Newton clinched the meet in the 2-mile, as Jess Barton (11:37.79) ran away from Kristen Mahoney and everyone else, and Susannah Gleason placed 3rd (fourth overall) in 12:41.28. When Kornetsky, Ranti, Barton, and Chiong won the relay (4:22.77), the final score was 52 to 34.
Note: This is an unofficial score that does not agree with the Globe, but I think it's right. You can check for yourself, by following the link below.
Girls Meet Results
Newton vs. Weymouth Boys Results
Seb Putzys (4:41.62) just held off Dan Pope (4:41.89) in the 1M, with Weymouth's Ben Chasen picking up third place. The 1000 went all Weymouth's way, as Mark Jordan (2:52.13) led the Wildcats to a sweep of the top four places. The 600 was a pivotal event for North, as Alex Lee seized the lead from the start and never gave it up, finishing in 1:29.80, just ahead of Chris Briggs and David Itz. Avery Mitchell ran a season-best 37.22 to win the 300, with Hymlaire Lemisere (39.66) taking third, and after the first four events, the score stood at 20-16, Weymouth.
Meanwhile, Sam Arsenault picked up a much-needed 5 points in the high jump, clearing 5-9 in his first meet for the Tigers. At the other end of the fieldhouse, North's throwers (David Smith 52-5.5, Marvin Chan 46-9, and Steve Long 40-0) were sweeping the shot put. 30-24, Newton.
On the infield, Ryan McCarthey ran a huge race in the 55 hurdles. Although Weymouth's Dylan Zukowski won, McCarthey (8.75) outleaned Mike Cristoferi for second, and three more points for the Tigers. In the 55 dash, Gordon Forbes (6.92) won, but Zukowski (Wemouth's man of the meet) edged ahead of Hymlaire Lemisere (7.18) and Troy Peterson (7.19) to take second for Weymouth, breaking up North's hoped-for sweep. That put the score at 39-33 heading into the final two events.
Unfortunately for North, Weymouth took the top two places in the 2-mile, despite a PR 10:45 from Ben Chebot (Alex Gurvitz, had to drop out after a mile with a hamstring injury). That put the score at 41-40, Weymouth, with only the relay remaining. Alex Lee led off and opened up a small lead over Weymouth's Dan Pope. Abasu Watanabe increased the lead, as did Adam Bao, and anchor Avery Mitchell ran un challenged, as North (3:36.9) won by 4.5 seconds.
Boys Meet Results
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Not that it matters, but the officials have had different HJ results than what's been on line the first two meets. In the girls meet, the correct scoring was 6-3 WEY since Bell had no misses at 4'9. For the boys it was 5-4 NN. The girls score should have been 52-34 NN, and the boys 45-41 NN.
Congrats to Jess Barton for being the High Five Athlete of the Week on Channel 5
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