It has been an unforgettable season for the Woburn boys indoor track team. The Tanners have earned two individual state titles (Ryad Bencheikh in the 600 and Brett Sullivan in the 1000), a team state title, and now a national championship in the 4x400.
On Saturday, the 4x400 squad (Matt Perreira, Mike McDonough, Bencheikh, and Sullivan) had the third best qualifying time, running 3:20.92 to win their heat. On Sunday, they ran 3:19.16 to win the title by 2/100ths of a second.
Woburn also finished 4th in the sprint medley, running 3:30.48, which made for a busy weekend for Sullivan, who anchored the SMR and two 4x400s.
Also earning medals, the Belmont 4x400 team placed fifth in 3:22.89. On the girls side, the Andover 4x400 team finished 8th in 3:58.31.
Other Mass. athletes included Charlestown's Omar Aden, who placed 4th in the mile in 4:13.70, Brookline's Robert Gibson, who placed 15th in 4:19.58, Triton's Keely Maguire, who was 5th in the girls mile in 4:56.13, Canton's Alyse Rocco who was 12th in 5:06.14, Newton South's Kelsey Karys, who placed 7th in the 2-Mile in 10:48.18, Nashoba's Anthony Raduazo, 14th in 9:33.08, Lincoln-Sudbury's Emily Mepham (state champ in the 1000) who ran 2:12.68 to finish 9th in the girls 800, Nashoba's Joe Doyle, who ran 1:56.96 to finish 19th in the boys 800...
State HJ champion Andrew Powell of SJS finished 3rd in the indoor pentathlon with a core of 3554. Hopinkton's Cecily Boyle placed 8th with a score of 3160 and state champ Antoinette Toussaint was 10th with 3090 points.
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That would make Woburn (I believe) the 4th HS to break 3:20 in MA. Very cool. Brockton, NNHS and Lexington welcome you to the club (New Bedford ?).
On an unrelated note, representing New England at DI in the distances [sort of] was Marisa Ryan of BU. She has been PRing all over the place, and did it again with a new school record in 9:12 in the 3K (wow). Ryan is from CT, which is kind of within the sphere of this blog - what makes it pretty cool is that she is a 2nd year med student. She may have more homework than all of the other folks in the race . . . . combined.
Talk about going in opposite directions, it was almost exactly 14 months ago that I (barely) out-kicked Marisa Ryan in a 3K at one of the BU mini-meets. Now, I have no doubt she would be able to lap me in that race.
Thanks for noting her performance at D1 Nationals!
the brookline boys finished fifth in the DMR
the NS girls netted 6 all-americans in 2 relays (3rd place 20:53 4xMile, 4th place 9:16 4x800)
Hey Josh--don't forget Belmont High School(1987) in the under 3:20 club. 3:19.85 New England Champions @ Boston College.
Hey Josh--don't forget Belmont High School(1987) in the under 3:20 club. 3:19.85 New England Champions @ Boston College.
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