I hate ranking performances among our own kids, so I'm copping out as usual by going in chronological order.
Batting leadoff was our freshman phenom sprinter. Emma Guccione and seemingly half of Massachusetts was entered in the girls 55 meter dash. She beat nearly half the field, finishing 44th out of 84 in 8.06, just missing her PR!
Logan Cotto continued our early work on the infield. He just barely snuck into the finals as the eighth man out of eight, running 8.23 in the preliminary round. Fully warmed up, he overcame being stuck on the inside lane to take fifth in 8.08, just 0.01 off his PR!
Our next competitor was the #1 seed in the 600, sophomore Sydney Snow. Having just missed All-States by 0.2 seconds last year, this year the agonizingly close margin became one of victory, as our sensational soph ran 1:40.32 to sneak past a Watertown girl by 0.05 seconds for the win! She's our first indoor class champion since Emmaline Berg in 2009, and the youngest class champion since at least 2001, possibly earlier.
Katie Salley narrowly missed the school record in the 1000, but still made the top 10 in 3:13.37. Her day, however, was far from over. Back over on the infield, Madison Ward cleared 5'0 to take seventh in what's the strongest division by far for the high jump.
All that was left was the relays, which didn't disappoint our small army of fans that came to cheer. First up was the girls 4x800. They were seeded 5th, but keep in mind that was with a 10:19 run with a certain 600 meter State Class Champion. With a new group, how would they measure up? Quite well, as Madison Ward (2:35), Eve Bagley (2:31), Alexis Mejia (2:33), and Katie Salley (2:34) ran 10:13, the third-fastest time in school history and fourth place overall!
The boys came in seeded 11th out of 14. After the first legs of Ryan Leonard (2:10), Ryan Moser (2:08), and Mike Glazebrook (2:12), Jack Boyd was in ninth place in his first race as an anchor leg. Scorching the track in 60.5 seconds for the first 400, he passed not one, not two, but three teams to lead the team to a sixth place finish in 8:34.3, a full 10 seconds lower than the school record!
The last race of the day involved one more school record attempt. The 4x4 record had been on the minds of some of these athletes for three years. Shauna Rockett's race of her life gave us a 62.1 opening leg, and after Virginia Hanstad (64.8) and Emma Guccione (63.6), Sydney Snow pushed through despite being in a bit of "no-man's land" to close in 63 for a 4:14.66, beating the school record of 4:15.54!
The girls cracked the top 10, finishing 10th with 17 points. Our boys were 27th with 7 points.
Sydney's automatically advanced to the All-State Meet on Saturday. As long as the Division 1 Meet (tomorrow morning) doesn't feature a massive parade of PR's in girls high jump, Madison will likely join her by making her second straight appearance.
I'll post an update on that tomorrow afternoon. Thanks to all who came to cheer!
