Finally got the results online from yesterdays' meet. Happened 72 hours after we expected to compete, but the long wait appeared to have little effect on the Panthers. We had one boy and four girls qualify for All-States individually, and TEN different events earned top eight medals. The girls also had their best finish in at least 10-15 years, taking seventh place with 33 points, even besting league champ Hopkinton!
Early field events yielded our first two qualifiers of the day. Mike Donovan had a PR of 42'6" to claim fourth in the triple jump, with several attempts that indicated he could be in the mix for a medal next week at All-States. Madison Ward, in arguably the most competitive division for high jump, tied her PR by making 5'4 on her third attempt to take fourth overall!
Also in field, Kelly Alves placed 16th in shot put at 29'7.75, while Danielle Lamb took 26th in discus at 83'10. Kylie Lorenzen picked up yet another medal at a state class meet, taking sixth in the long jump at 16'2.75"
Back on the track, Eve Bagley was our first runner competing, and she made All-States by 0.02 seconds, as we picked up yet another fourth place finsih with her time of 1:09.44! Sydney Snow followed soon after, and after getting taken out in 2:32 by a couple of sub-5 runners, she made up a 20 meter gap the last 200 meters to run down third place and qualify for All-States with a five second PR of 5:11.75!
Rick Brown kept up the boys streak of medaling, as he ran 52.76 to take second in his heat and displace a ton of runners in the heats ahead of him with an eighth place finish. He's now medaled in both state class meets as a sophomore, rare for a guy sprinter! Kylie Lorenzen came back with a vengeance in the 400, running 58.76 for a seasonal PR and second place overall!
The second set of field events started, and both Ward sisters medaled in triple jump, with Madison taking sixth at 34'5.25, and Caroline placing eighth at 34'3, tops for freshmen. Kelly Alves placed 33rd at 77'6 in the javelin. Over on the track, Bridget Ghelli entered seeded in the 30s, but placed 13th overall with a time of 17.24, a PR of over two tenths of a second.
2-Milers Katie Salley and Addie Datz both PR'd, as Addie dropped her time to a 12:24 in 22nd place, while Katie PR'd in 11:46.74 to take 12th!
The boys 4x100 relay team was seeded at the bottom, but the quartet of Sam Ratcliffe, Liam Hebert, Mike Donovan, and Matt McIsaac (all underclassmen!) took 21st in 47.03, just off their best time by a couple tenths of a second.
The girls 4x400 relay team had the strongest Non-Division 1 field to contest, but the team of Bagley, Alexis Mejia, Helen Dolan, and Snow ran 4:09.11 to finish seventh.
The All-State schedule is in the post below for anyone interested.
