Bay State Meet Results - Dec 20, 2007

So who needs a weatherman? If there's a Bay State indoor meet on the schedule this winter, that means snow. After last Thursdays meet was snowed out, and the Winterfest - large Schools meet was postponed by a week, there were some worries that more snow would postpone the beginning of the indoor season into January, but the roads were in good shape and the meet went on as scheduled.

Both Newton North teams scored lopsided victories over Needham, as the boys won 71-15 and the girls won 64-21.

In team action, the Braintree boys pulled off a mild upset over Weymouth, 43-39, and Natick managed to tie last year's Herget champion Milton 43-43. Here are all the meet scores (courtesy of cool running):

Men
Braintree    43.00   39.00 Weymouth
Brookline    60.00   26.00 Framingham
Norwood      47.00   38.00 Dedham
Natick       43.00   43.00 Milton
Newton North 71.00   15.00 Needham
Wellesley    50.00   36.00 Walpole

For the girls, Weymouth won a hard fought meet over Braintree 49-37, Framingham surprised Brookline 44-42 (winning it on the relay), and Dedham overwhelmed Norwood 62-20.

Women
Weymouth     49.00   37.00 Braintree
Framingham   44.00   42.00 Brookline
Dedham       62.00   20.00 Norwood
Natick       53.00   33.00 Milton
Newton North 64.00   21.00 Needham
Wellesley    59.00   27.00 Walpole

Individual Results

When was the last time a Bay State girl won the mile and the 300 in the same meet? Newton North junior Carolyn Ranti accomplished the feat, running a controlled 5:18.64 (the fastest time of the day) to win the mile, and returning later to win her heat of the 300 in 44.67. That's speedy! Meanwhile, Nora Barnicle (3:17.72) won her heat of the 1000, Emma Kornetsky (1:45.26) won in the 600, Michele Kaufman won the hurdles (9.41) and dash (8.04), and Franca Godenzi (12:22.64) won the 2-Mile. Aslo, Bonny Guang PR'd in the shot put, winning with a throw of 31-3.

The boys looked like they were in mid-season form, so you know they've been taking advantage of their time in the SOA. Seb Putzeys blazed the mile in 4:30.48, fifteen seconds ahead of the second best time of the day. (Actually, that's not quite true -- Robert Gibson's second mile in the deauce was about 4:40, but I digress). After Needham's Kevin Potterton won the 1000 three seconds ahead of North's Alex Gurvitz (2:48.84), and Ryan Holmes beat Adam Bao in the 600, the meet was close. But that was about as close as it ever got. North swept the 300m (Hymlaire Lamisiere, 38.71), swept the dash (Lamisiere, Bao 6.95), took 1-2 in the hurdles (Sam Arsenault, 8.85), 1-2 in the high jump (Arsenault, 5-10) swept the shot put (Stephen Long, with a STATEMENT 48-5! for the best put of the day), and won the relay. North even swept the 2-Mile (Dan Hamilton leading the way in 10:21.21), quite a surprise given Needham's depth in the distances this year. I think the Rockets were missing some folks.

Hamilton led the 2-Mile for a while, before Brookline's All-Everything duo of Gibson and David Wilson flew by on their way to Very Fast Times.

Other highlights:

Weymouth junior Carolyn Connolly looked great, winning the 1000 in 3:07.05, a full seven seconds ahead of the second best time of the day.

Camille Murphy looked good running the mile (fourth, in 5:29), and even better in the 4x400 relay. She's got upside in the middle-distances, that's for sure.

Weymouth freshman Jill Corcoran debuted with a 5:37 mile, and junior Sam Bennett had the fastest time of the day in the 600 (1:44.37).

Braintree junior Jacky Hull had the fastest time of the day in the 300 (44.01), but Wellesley senior Najauna Muschetta looked absolutely effortless winning her heat in 44.18. I wouldn't be surprised to see her go much faster.

Framingham freshman Sarah Bowhill was third overall in the 2-Mile in 12:47.93. Did she run cross-country? That is a very good time for someone running their first indoor 2-mile.

For the boys, Dedham senior Phil Weltman moved up from his usual home in the 300 to the 600 and had the best time of the day at 1:28.14.

Milton junior Paul Connor won the 300 over Brookline's Michael Bennett in 37.34.

Brookline junior Joel Parent won the hurdles in an excellent first meet time of 8.26.

Mike Searcy of Natick won the dash in a very impressive 6.75. Wow!

Strange not to see any boys clear 6 feet in the high jump, but it's early.