We had an individual champion/state qualifier, and four other athletes come home with medals at the MSTCA Freshman/Sophomore Small Schools Meet.
We started with the mile, and Kelly Irons was 37th in 6:12.22, while Addie Datz was 20th in 5:55.43. Tim Strang took 36th in 5:26.84.
In the girls 300, Helen Dolan was 29th in 47.71 and Anna Foster was 31st in 47.86. Up next was the race of the day, as not only did Rick Brown qualify for states and win the race, he did so by over a full second in 37.89!
Over in the early field events, Mark Mulvaney PR’d by over a foot to take fourth in shot put at 38’10. Ryan Sofoul tied for 10th at high jump with a best of 5’2.
Emma Sayers was 16th in the 1000 in a 3-second PR of 3:27.94, while Alexis Mejia was 21st in 3:31.29.
Emma Guccione took 10th in the 55 meter dash in a PR of 7.90 in the preliminary round. Elena Daly was 56th in 8.49.
The girls 4x200 team of Anna Foster, Caroline Ward, Lissy Paolillo, and Emma Guccione finished 17th in 2:00.08, with Emma running a 27.3 split for the last leg.
Despite being seeded 13th, the boys team of Sam Ratcliffe, Ryan Sofoul, Cory Calderone, and Rick Brown vaulted all the way up to 4th in 1:43.53, with Rick closing in a 24.1.
If you score the meet 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 (like most state meets), the boys team would’ve finished sixth. This meet has every team from Division 5 and Division 4 (ours), as well as the lower half of Division 3 (cutoff is approximately 1100 students for enrollment).
1) 33 – Burlington
2) 25 – Marlborough
3) 25 – Norton
4) 24 – Wakefield
5) 21 – Medfield
6) 20 - HOLLISTON
