Carla Forbes scored 18 points in the long jump and 55 dash, and Kayla Wong scored 11 in the long jump and 55 hurdles, and that would have been enough to get past Lincoln-Sudbury for the State Championship. However, the Tigers added points in the 600 (Meghan Bellerose, 8th), 300 (Maddie Nadeau, 6th), and won the 4x400 in a state-leading 3:56.77 to amass 41 points and pull away from L-S and everyone else for the title.
Although Forbes, Nadeau, and Bellerose are juniors and will be back, Coach Joe Tranchita went out of his way to praise the seniors on the team. He might specifically have been thinking of Wong, who ran a school record 8.13 in the 55 hurdles to place 3rd (behind an all-state record and first-ever sub 8.00 clocking of 7.98 from Brockton's Vanessa Clerveaux), and added a 17-2 long jump for 6th, and a leg on the winning relay.
As for Forbes, she set a new meet record and school record in the long jump, exceeding 20 feet with a monster leap of 20-01.25 (see video below). She nearly had another win in the 55 dash, but Attleboro's Briana Robitaille was 0.01 faster and Forbes had to settle for second.
In all, it was an incredible day to cap off an incredible season for the Tigers.
It was also great to see them sharing the spotlight with the boys team, who were co-champions with Mansfield. While the girls were favorites, and their meet didn't come down to the relay, they lived up to -- and exceeded -- the high expectations set for them, and that's perhaps the hardest thing to do.
2 comments:
in the video it looks like some boy would have cut her off an ran into her if she waited 2 seconds longer!
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