(More meet photos from my anonymous NN parent benefactor here)
At last week's D1 Indoor Track meet, Swardiq Mayanja finished second in the shot put by a single inch. Yesterday, Mayanja became the All-State champion with a throw of 56-02 -- nearly four feet farther than his nearest competitor. Also competing in the shot put, Young Guang threw 46-11.5 for 15th.
Mayanja's victory provided the North boys with half their points. North's other individual scorer was Ezra Lichtman, who ran a brilliant race in the 1000 to take third, just seven-tenths of a second behind the photo finish between Marshfield's Joel Hubbard and Bishop Feehen's Billy Looney. Lichtman's time was a personal best 2:32.08.
The Tigers also got four points from their 4x200 relay team who finished fifth in a near dead heat with Chelmsford.
A golden chance for more points and a shot at the runner-up trophy was lost when Isaiah Penn was disqualified from the 300 for a false start.
Dan Ranti ran 9:56.74 in the 2-mile and finished 18th.
2011 All-State Meet Results - Boys
For the first time this year, the Newton North girls did not emerge as the victors yesterday -- Mansfield earned that honor. But the Tigers did take home the runner-up trophy and had the satisfaction of winning the final event of the day, the Girls 4x400 relay, and running an All-State meet record 3:55.89.
If someone has splits for the relays legs, I would appreciate them!
Carla Forbes defended her indoor state championship in the long jump, besting the field by over a foot with a mark of 18-9 (a quarter-inch farther than last year). Amy Ren (16-1.75) and Kayla Prior (15-11.25) finished 13th and 17th, respectively.
Forbes was also a big factor in the 55, finishing in a personal best 7.28 behind Arlington's Rebecca Robinson and Boston Latin's Emma Rice.
Lucia Grigoli took 6th, and Emily Hutchinson took 9th in the high jump. Both were among the seven girls who cleared 5-2, with the places decided by fewer misses.
Sophomore Meghan Bellerose ran a personal best of 1:37.27 in the 600, finishing 12th.
2011 All-State Meet Results - Girls
15 comments:
Congrats. to Tom Davis and his 4x800 relay. Had my doubts when he told me his team would brake our meet record, but he proved to be right and to have done a great job training the group.
Congrats to Tom as well. He certainly sets some high goals but the only way to get there is to dream. He got it done with this group. He learned from the best in HS so I'm not surprised. Great job!
i personally was shocked at their 4x800 team. I thought he was kidding himself thinking they could run close to 7:40 by the end of spring but they certainly seem on the right path. I was wondering if anyone had splits for that race and hopefully if Tom sees this he will post them. But congrats on the victory!
I think Forbes's PR in the 55 is actually 7.27 from last year's All State meet but nevertheless a job well done. Is there a video of the girls' 4x400 relay?
Erik Brakke - 2:01.5
Pat O'Donnell - 2:01.5
Matt Reissfelder - 1:57.8
Matt Jessup - 1:56.3
I understand wanting to run a fast relay for the team but jessup ran a 1:22 at divisionals and im just surprised he didnt run the 600 at all state meet? was it his choice or the coaches? Just curious.
Coach Blackburn - Thank you. As you know, a lot of the motivation came from you and Newton North.
Coach Glennon - Thank you as well, I really appreciate it. Congrats to you and your team, and good luck in the outdoor season.
Anonymous - Someone posted the splits, which I posted to my blog. They are pretty accurate.
Anonymous - After the class meet, I gave Jessup 3 days to think about and decide what he wanted to do. He's a complete team player and realized that with him fresh they would likely win the 4x800m. As it turns out we did just that and he's very happy with his decision.
Jessup will have another year to run the 600m but looks like 2 SRs?
on that 4x800...
A wise choice and great group effort
Congrats to NN girls 4x400 - most teams are fortunate to have one girl under 60 secs. To have 4 is amazing
Anyone have splits for the women's championship 4x400 ?
Knowing the members of the old 4x800 meet record, I'm sure they would laugh about how long it actually lasted. That foursome was quite a motley crew.
Josh--2 members of that motley crew were present to watch their record go down--Krockmalnic and Beradino--and were able to congratulate Tom Davis. I'm sure Cummings and Schwirian have heard by now.
Does anyone have a video or know where one is of the girls' 4x4?
Here's a link to a YouTube video of the girls 4x400.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-KwNQMdhH4
Maybe someone can do a better job taking splits, but I came up with something like:
Nadeau 58.6
Gillis 59.4
Bellerose 59.8
Forbes 57.5
That team has 3 sophomores on it. Oh my lord.
Tom -- congrats again. As Seeherman says, that record had no business lasting as long as it did, especially in light of the clowns who set it 13(!) years ago.
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