Isaiah Penn took the lead early in the 300m, hit the break line first, and was never seriously challenged, as he won the D1 championship in 35.70 -- well ahead of runner-up Pat Farnham of Andover.
Penn had North's only individual victory, although Swardiq Mayanja came within an inch of taking the shot put title. The NN junior threw 54-7 in the final round, which was exactly one inch behind Durfee's Tresley Dupont. North also got points from sophomore Young Guang, who made the finals and placed 7th with a throw of 48-8. Ryan Donovan (45-2.5), Carl Witham (43-11.5), and Nate Menninger (39-10) also competed for North in the shot.
In the 1000m, senior Ezra Lichtman (2:32.9) ran a tactically flawless race but didn't have quite enough at the end to hold off Acton-Boxboro's Curt Owen and Wachusett's Alex Jagelsky, taking 3rd place and nabbing the last automatic qualifier for the state meet. Justin Keefe was in the thick of things in the first 600m, but dropped off the pace and finished 11th overall in 2:38.57.
Other individuals from North included Dan Ranti (9:56.34) who finished 10th in the 2M, Tylor Hart (6-0) and Nick Fofana (5-10) who were 11th and 13th, respectively, in the high jump, and Hart again in the long jump (19-6.75).
North's 4x200 team (Ryan Lucken, Terrell Doyle, Ben Clark, Nate Menninger) placed 3rd in 1:32.67 and earned an automatic bid to the state meet. The 4x400 team (Clark, Doyle, Orion Wagner (?), and Penn) ran 3:31.81 out of the penultimate heat to finish 5th overall. The 4x800 team ran 8:31.89 to place 16th.
New Bedford won the team title handily on the strength of two wins by Phito Gondre (55 dash and long jump), a 2nd and 4th place from teammate Justin Callendar in those same events, a tie for 5th in the high jump, and a win in the 4x200. North ended up 3rd with 36 points, just 3 points behind Acton-Boxboro.
2011 MA D1 Championships - Boys and Girls Results
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4 comments:
I'm a junior not a sophomore.
Also very impressed with chief running the relay leg with no shoes on.
Saw Ryan after the race with just socks on. He said something about his spike plate breaking. If in fact he ran without shoes, it should have been a DQ. Rules state you have to wear shoes.
The officials either didn't see it(like me) or chose to ignore it. Retroactively, I don't think anything needs to be done given that no advantage was gained; the opposite-his time was 2 seconds slower than usual-was true. The rule is there for the individual's safety I assume.
i felt like i was going to trip or shatter the thing into pieces. split second decision. bad one on my part. slightly painful.
relay still pr'ed by over a second despite no-shoes and terrell limping the last 200. i guess isaiah is pretty fast...
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