The sustained excellence that has defined Carla Forbes' high school track and field career was on display again Sunday at the MSTCA Elite Meet at Reggie Lewis. Forbes was the only athlete, male or female, to win two individual events, taking the 55m dash in 7.17 and the long jump in a meet record 19-06.5. Both marks are best in the state this year, as is Forbes' 40-10 triple jump form the Dartmouth Relays.
In the long jump, Forbes effectively won the competition on her first jump, a leap of 18-04.5 that only hinted at what was to come. She followed that initial effort with the following series: 18-08 18-07 18-04.25 19-04 19-06.50. That's six jumps with no fouls and none worse than 18-04. By the way, Jessica Scott won the battle for second, jumping 17-05.5.
In the 55, Forbes won her heat in a personal best 7.26, and then somehow found another tenth of a second, setting another personal best and school record 7.17 in the final. That time was only 0.07 of the previous meet record, set 25 years ago in n 1987.
Forbes wasn't the only NN athlete to excel on Sunday. Teammates Kayla Wong ran a personal best 8.28 in the 55 hurdles to finish 4th behind the state's three best hurdlers Nicole Genard (8.00), Vanessa Clerveaux, and Jen Esposito. Wong also placed 8th in the long jump with a leap of 16-09. Kayla Prior also competed in the LJ, and had a best leap of 15-10.05.
Newton North's 4x200 team was also in a position to compete for the win, but contact with the Brockton team (who were disqualified for interference) ruined their chances.
For the NN boys, Swardick Mayanja had the best performance of the day, winning the shot put with a throw of 54-02.05. Not to be overlooked, Young Guang also broke 50 feet, placing 5th with a mark of 50-10.25 on his first throw.
Ryan Lucken placed 5th in the 300 (36.08) and, according to published meet results, ran on both of NN's relays. The 4x200 team (Bressler, Lucken, Menninger, and Seamons) placed 4th (1:33.36) and the 4x400 team (Keefe, Lucken, Wagner, and Seamons) placed 7th (3:32.16). If others ran instead of the ones listed, please let me know!
In the 1000, Justin Keefe was 8th (2:34.71) and sophomore Gabe Montague was 13th (2:36.90).
Elite Relays - Complete Results on MSTCA Web Site
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2 comments:
I hope someone other than Ryan ran in one of those relays, otherwise the team should be DQ'd because Ryan would be over his event limitation regardless of what Caoch Blackburn thinks of the limits. I'm sure someone did and my guess would be gabe Montague in the 4 x 4.
It was Swain, not Lucken, on the 4x400. However, Lucken will be on it shortly, replacing Keefe.
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