The Newton North girls have improved since winning the State Indoor Title two months ago, but they still had everything they could handle against an impressive Weymouth team Wednesday. In the end, the Tigers prevailed 71-65 with impressive sprinting, key points in the throwing events, and the overall depth.
An early highlight was the NN sweep of the 100m, with Carla Forbes crossing the line first in 12.8, followed by junior D'jaidah Wynn (still hurting from a basketball injury) in 12.9, and Steph Brown in 13.0.
In the hurdles, Weymouth's Emily Clark had another terrific meet against North, winning the 100m event in a school record 15.3, and then winning the 400m hurdles in 66.9, with Amy Ren taking 2nd in both events. Clark also won the high jump (5-1), and finished 4th in the Javelin.
In general, Weymouth was the better team on the track, winning both hurdle events, the 400, 800, mile, and 4 x 400 relay, and outscoring NN 44-38. The Tigers were stronger in the field events, especially the throws. Tatiana Froehlich won the discus (102-5) with Monet Lowe 3rd, Lowe took first in the shot (33-11) with Megan Gentile 3rd (32-6), and Amy Lu and Emily Hutchinson took 2nd and 3rd in the javelin.
At the risk of repeating myself, the prohibition against distance doubling again resulted in an huge imbalance in the impact made by Forbes and Clark, compared to say Gillis and Corcoran. Forbes, an indoor state champion in the long jump, won four events (100, 200, LJ, TJ) earning 20 points. Clark won three events (100h, 400h, HJ), to score 15. Gillis, an indoor state champion in the 1000 and outdoor state champ in the 800, won the 2-mile and then was shelved for a couple of hours to run a leg on the losing 4x400 relay, scoring a total of 5 points. Surely there's something wrong with this picture!
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But where do you stand on distance doubling?
The results on athletic.net are now complete.
Just here to give a big congratulations to coaches JT, Martin, and Mo for the win. Digging through old results, I wondered if this was the best NN team we had faced, and I decided it might have been short of Azuree Catledge's senior year, 2005. They had Azuree win the TJ (37'2), lead the 300IH until the final hurdle and fall, won the 4x400 (4:02), 3rd in the 4x800 (9:47), Leah Wiseman 6th in the hurdles (16.25), Simone Weisman 4th in the 800 (2:22), Lizzie Fulton (59.0) and Kat Chiong (60.29) go 1-4 in the 400, Jess Barton and Anna Schindler win and go 3rd in the mile (5:13 and 5:19), Haleigh Smith take 5th in the 2 mile (11:46) and they piled up an impressive 63 points for DI win. This team might have scored 100 points on the 2005 team in a dual meet. JT has a wagon, and we were in it till the end. Proud of my kids and impressed with his. Once again, great meet!
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