North Sweeps Framingham; Girls Finish Undefeated

Newton North boys and girls track wrapped up their dual meet season with a sweep of Framingham at Bowditch Field yesterday.

The Tiger girls beat the Flyers 107-29 and finished their season 7-0, winning their 21st league title in the last 23 years. That's a lot of titles.

And as the girls head to the meet they care most about -- the D1 State Relays, they seem to be picking up momentum, recording 21 personal bests in their final regular season test.

Highlights included a PR from Susannah Gleason in the 2-mile (12:06.3), a state-qualifying win for freshman Maddie Nadeau in the 400 (60.4), a qualifying win in the Javelin from Amy Liu (87-0), and a personal best 12.5 from Carla Forbes in the 100 (Djaidah Wynn 3rd in 13.0). In all, the Tigers won 12 individual events and both relays (clocking a nice 50.0 in the 4x100).

Looking ahead, North has a really formidable team heading to Durfee this weekend. Their throwers look as good as they ever have, and their sprint, hurdle, and jumping teams are also very strong. They also should have competitive teams in the sprint relay and either the 4x400 or 4x800. Truly amazing depth.

The boys had a closer meet yesterday, but came out on top of the Flyers 85-51.

Isaiah Penn won the 400 (51.8), the long jump (18-7), and ran a leg on the victorious 4x400 relay (3:39.

Conor Ebbs won both the shot (50-2) and discus (144-6). Ryan Donovan also had a great throw (47-0) to take second, with Swardic Mayanja (45-8) 3rd. That crew should do well on Saturday at the State relays.

Single event winners yesterday included Hao-Kai Wu in the 100 (11.6), Sam Fogel in the mile (4:47.3), Ryan Kwon in the 400 hurdles (62-8), Ezra Lichtman in the 800 (2:06.3, edging out Framingham's super soph Ben Groleau), Dan Ranti in the 2-mile (9:52.3), and Tylor Hart in the high jump (5-5).

Meet results on athletic.net