NNHS Sweeps Bay State Meet #3

I don't know if it was this way when everyone got back to school, but at my office everyone came back to work on Monday, Jan 5, looking happy and energetic and rested and ready to go. By Tuesday, the energy was still there but people didn't look as happy. Wednesday the weather was bad, and by Thursday, it was as if we'd never been away and we were right back into being stressed and over-committed and snapping at each other.

Nah, I'm sure it wasn't that way in school. Anyway, after a long break from the regular league meets, the Bay State returned to Reggie last night for meet #3, and both Newton North teams recorded fairly easy wins over Framingham.

Sam Arsenault continues to pile impressive performance on impressive performance. The senior won the (non-scoring) long jump with a leap of 21-11.75, won the hurdles in 7.89 (!), and jumped once at 5-8 to win the high jump. He then anchored the Tigers' 4x400 win (3:37.02).

It was good to see Dan Hamilton step out of the 2M for once, running a PR 4:42.13. Dan Ranti moved up from the mile to the deuce and won there in 10:35.32. Ezra Lichtman ran 2:46.02 to win the 1000, and inch closer to the Class Meet qualifying mark of 2:44.74. Niel Fulwieler ran 1:30.04 to win the 600, and also ran on the winning relay. Ben Kiley edged out two Framingham runners at the line to win the 300 in 38.11, and then won the 55 in 6.90. Junior Ryan Donovan (39-10) won the shot put to make it a clean sweep for the North boys.

The girls meet was marginally closer, but Newton won seven events and swept five for a comfortable victory. Carolyn Ranti won the mile (5:22), took second in a photo-finish in the 300 (45.93), and 3rd with a PR in the shot put (26-2.5). Nora Barnicle won the 1000 in a season's best 3:17. Margo Gillis won the 2-mile in 11:37 (with Susannah Gleason second in a season's best 12:43). Michelle Kaufman had the fastest time of the night in both the hurdles (8.93) and 55 dash (7.78).

By the way, North looks very good for the shuttle hurdles, with four girls at 9.81 or better.

Emily Hutchinson won the high jump at 5-0 (with Lucia Grigoli 2nd in 4-10).

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Severe tests are ahead: Newton competes against Brookline January 15, and against Weymouth January 22. In between (Jan 17) are the state relays. Meanwhile, many of the boys will be competing at Winterfest this weekend. It will be a busy next couple of weeks!

Results on Cool Running

Story in the Daily News Tribune