February 10, 2011

Penn Runs MA #1 300m

Isaiah Penn won the 300 at last night's Bay State Conference Meet, running 35.58, the fastest time in the state this year.

Penn was one of several Tigers to win their events. Justin Keefe won a deep and highly competitive mile, running a season's best 4:29.02 (sixth place was 4:32.72). Tylor Hart won the high jump at 6-2. Swardick Mayanja won the shot put by three feet with a heave of 49-8. North also won the 4x400 and 4x800 relays. The 4x400 team of Orion Wagner, Ben Clark, Terrell Doyle, and Penn ran a season's best time of 3:32.71. The 4x800 team of Keefe, Jon Long, Mike Schlichting, and Ezra Lichtman ran 8:32.93 to win by seven seconds.

Earlier Lichtman finished second by .03 to Framingham's Ben Groleau in the 1000. Dan Ranti took 2nd in the 2-mile. Nate Menninger was 4th in the 55.

For the girls, Kayla Wong won the 55 hurdles, running 8.53 in the final (and matching her season's best 8.47 in the qualifying heat). Carla Forbes won the 55 in 7.39. Forbes (18-3.25) and Wong (16-9.5) also went 1-2 in the long jump. Meghan Bellerose had a great race in the 600, running 1:37.99, a personal best and the 11th fastest time in the state this year. Emily Hutchinson and Lucia Grigoli went 2-3 in the high jump. Devika Banerjee finished 3rd in the 2-mile. Madi Nadeau took 3rd in the 300.

North's 4x200 and 4x800 relay teams finished 2nd in their respective races.

Bay State Conference Meet - Boys Results

Bay State Conference Meet - Girls Results

3 comments:

seeherman said...

Unofficial 300 Top 5

King, 34.93 (2002)
Herlehy, 35.34 (2001)
Gates, 35.48+ (1985)
Penn, 35.59 (2011)
Hines, 35.91+ (1938)

[one from Coach Blackburn's era, John Head, sits in 6th with 36.35+ from 1957]

Anonymous said...

Thanks Josh. Here's hoping Penn can get that record and make the board. Youth must be served.

Anonymous said...

It looks like you were mentioning students who finished in the top three in the Bay State Conference meet. There's another one: Maggie Heffernan finished third in the mile with a 5:29.