Having just missed the cutoff for tomorrow's Elite Meet, Logan Cotto showed the state what they were missing by running PR's in both the preliminaries and finals en route to a third place finish in 8.15! His time of 8.30 in the trials was easily a PR, and gave him the fourth seed entering the eight-person final. Unofficially, I believe that's the fourth-fastest time by a Holliston hurdler, and is over a HALF SECOND ahead of the next best time in the Tri-Valley League!
We had three new state qualifiers today. Jack Boyd was our first racer and first qualifier, as he hung with a very deep and congested pack before kicking past the majority of his heat to finish in 4:45.03, just missing an indoor PR by less than a second and easily making states!
In the boys 600, Ryan Moser used a late charge on the straightaway to clear the line in 1:29.49. Ryan Leonard just missed the standard but still ran an impressive 1:29.77.
Freshman Alexis Mejia lowered her time from the Freshman/Sophomore Meet by a full five seconds in the 1000. She kicked past over a half dozen runners the last 100m to finish in 3:20.62, making states!
In some of the earlier results, freshman Emma Guccione ran 46.54 for the 300, just ahead of Virginia Hanstad (47.47), who was in the same heat. Shauna Rockett ran just before in 46.69, third in her heat.
Emma also PR'd in the 55 meter dash, breaking eight seconds with a 7.99!
Madison Ward tied for seventh in the high jump at 4'11, just missing a medal on the tiebreaker.
Katie Salley and Sydney Snow compete tomorrow in the Elite Meet.
