EASTON — Anna McElhinney was chilly and moist from the pelting rain and uncooked situations at Sunday’s Div. 3 State Relay Championships. But by meet’s finish, the Billerica distance ace’s smile was huge and shiny.
McElhinney put collectively an enormous day on the observe with mile splits of 5:12 and 5:19 within the dreary situations to anchor the Indians to wins in each the space medley (12:58.10) and 4xMile (21:53.52). Billerica by no means took its foot off the fuel on the best way to capturing the workforce title with a whopping 82 factors. Masconomet was a distant second however nonetheless put up a formidable 56.13 factors.
“We definitely knew we had a good chance,” stated McElhinney, who completed second within the 2-mile at All-States through the winter. We have all kinds of expertise on the workforce. We didn’t lose anybody from indoors and we gained some athletes.”
Billerica head coach Scott Arsenault is aware of simply how a lot expertise he has on the roster.
“All the way around we had point scorers in the field events to running events to jumping events,” stated Arsenault. “So overall it was all three areas combined. We had a few younger athletes step up which is awesome, so it was an all around great day. Coming in we knew we had a good shot and this meet is on our radar just because we wanted to follow up the indoor season. We won that this past season.”
The Stoughton boys gained only one occasion, the shuttle hurdles in 1:06.99, however had the depth to carry off the sector with 42 factors. Plymouth South was second with 40 factors and Milton put up 39 factors for third.
Matt Singletary led all excessive jumpers with a leap of 6-2 within the tough situations. He additionally had the very best lengthy soar at 21-11 3/4.
“We have incredible kids in the field events, incredible sprinters and hurdlers,” stated Stoughton head coach Dave Barbato. “They’re all incredibly talented. Honest to God it’s amazing that we have three guys that can long jump over 20 feet and three guys close to six feet and one way over.”
Oliver Ames had some stable performances on its’ dwelling observe because the foursome of Grace Okocha, Julia MacLaine, Jenna Gilman and Katie Sobieraj gained the dash medley and broke the varsity file with a time of 4:15.02. Ryan Sarney had a scalding mile cut up of 4:15 because the Tigers’ lineup of Alex Pierce, Aidan Dupill and Brendan Thomas broke their very own meet file time within the 4xMile with a time of 18:00.43.
“It was a team similar to the team we had last year. They set their sights on the meet record they had,” stated Oliver Ames head coach Kyle Sousa.
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