The Lincoln-Sudbury girls and Wachusett boys 4x800 teams made the podium at the New Balance Outdoor Nationals on Friday with blazing fast times, well beyond anything they had run previously.
The girls race was first and L-S (Megan Broecker, Marika Crowe, Sarah Mepham, and Andrea Keklak) were up. Broecker ran a 2:19, but that was only good for 13th at the exchange. Crowe ran 2:13 on the second leg, bringing L-S up to 8th. Mepham's 2:21 kept them in about the same spot, and Mass State Champ Andrea Keklak took the baton in 9th. The Princeton-bound senior proceeded to catch all but three teams, running a 2:06.67 split -- second fastest of the night - and bringing L-S home in 9:01.78.
In the boys race, Wachusett looked a little over-matched on the first leg, as Hayden Frechette-McCall's 1:57 split was only good for 14th out of 18 teams. However, Alex Jagelsky had the leg of the night for Wachusett, splitting 1:51 and moving his team all the way up to 2nd behind eventual winners Long Beach Poly. From the second exchange on, it was a battle every step of the way. Third leg Jeremy Bennie split 1:55, and brother Colin ran a 1:53 anchor to bring Wachusett home in 5th in 7:36.37. Has any Massachusetts HS team ever run faster?
Girls Results
Boys Results
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I'm sure no Mass. team has ever run faster than 7:36. It's has to be the best of any relay ever run by a Mass. team.
Not even close. The second best ever performance was 2007 Brockton HS as they finished second at NE's in 7:44. Incredible run for Wachusett; they proved that barriers are just that -- barriers! Huge congratulations to them, those guys ran like true champions.
I think the second best was Gloucester's DMR-9:55(?).
congrats to wachusett and jags!!
Coach -- I meant second best ever 4x800m, just to clarify. Gloucester breaking the DMR National Indoor Record with a 9:59 is certainly very impressive, if not more impressive than Wachusetts 7:36 4x800m.
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