Both NNHS track teams won on Thursday against Braintree in the second Bay State League Meet of the season. The Tiger girls won 59-26, while the boys won by an even more lopsided score of 72-14.
For the girls, Michelle Kaufmann and Carolyn Ranti had strong meets, as Kaufmann won the 55 hurdles (9.08) and 55 dash (7.85), while Ranti won the mile (finishing 2nd overall in 5:18.25) and 300 (46.28). Margo Gillis won the 2-mile in 11:27, lapping the entire field and finishing nearly 50 seconds ahead of second place.
For the boys, the top performers were Ben Kiley, who won the 55 dash and 300, And Sam Arsenault who everything else. No, wait a minute, that's only the way it seems sometimes... Actually Sam won the high jump (6-5), 55 hurdles (8.17), and long jump (20-7.75). I'm going to go out on a speculative limb and guess that he anchored the winning 4x400 relay, which had the fastest time of the day, in 3:39.78.
It's kind of strange to see the Newton North distance runners without a sub-5:00 miler or sub-2:50 1000 runner, but it's early in the season... Meanwhile, Dan Hamilton, who earlier in the week publicly expressed his desire to have more competition in the 2-mile, got it. Weymouth sophomore Steve Sollowin beat Hamilton by two seconds, 10:00 to 10:02, with Needham's Dan Shields 20 seconds back.
Tony Chen had a great race in the hurdles, claiming 2nd in 8.27 (a PR?) and doubled back to finish 2nd in the 55 (7.19) to Kiley.
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Framingham senior Phineas McGovern rceorded one of the strangest statistical doubles I have ever seen when he had the fastest time of the day out of the 45 runners who competed in the mile (4:53), and later finished dead last among the 48 competitors in the shot put (21-6). I'm telling you, I've never had a good shot put after running the mile.
Rebecca White blazed a 3:05.12 to win the girls 1000 for Natick and record the fastest time of the day.
Is the high jump harming kids' self-esteem? More than half the field in the boys high jump (16 jumpers) failed to clear the opening height of 5-3. I've always been suspicious of an event in which even the winner fails in the end.... Speaking of the high jump, Wellesley's Michael Blair and Patrick Conklin jumped 6-3 and 6-1, respectively. All they need is one guy who can jump 5-7 and they have a champion team for the Class C Relays.
Milton's Paul Connor ran the league's (and state's?) fastest time in the 600 so far this year, winning in 1:26.95. Nice to see Brookline's Ryan Hardiman back in action. Ryan finished 3rd for Brookline in the 600, running 1:31.73.
If you score NNHS boys vs. Weymouth it would be 43-38 Newton going into the relay.
If you score NNHS girls vs. Weymouth it would be 44-42 Newton AFTER Weymouth won the relay. Food for thought.
Happy Birthday, David Smith!
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Hi Jon,
Doubles.
I ran the mile and high jumped junior year at Newton South. The mile took the spring out of the jump and the jump the kick out of the mile. Switched to HJ and HH senior year.
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