Usually the Division 4 monitor and discipline relay championships have been dominated by a handful of colleges.
On Friday evening, that pattern continued on the Reggie Lewis Center.
Senior captain Will Acquaviva anchored Newburyport to a meet document time within the boys’ 4×50 yard sprint (22.01 seconds), in addition to a second-place end within the 4×400 meter run (3:37.15), because the Clippers captured their second straight boys monitor relay title with 42 mixed factors.
“Repeating was the hard thing,” mentioned Newburyport coach Don Hennigar. “We lost a lot of good seniors a year ago, but we have a very big senior class, a lot of experience and a lot of depth from the 55 to the distance medley. It was really the depth, and the work our assistants did with the other groups that made the difference.”
The Clippers didn’t essentially take too lengthy making historical past, as Acquaviva teamed up with Ryan Miles, Ean Hynes and Bryan Mendez-Heavellin to blaze to a first-place end throughout their preliminary race within the 4×50, besting Pembroke for the crown by .18 ticks. Both colleges ended up shattering the unique mark for the race set by Milton in 2016 (22.38 seconds).
“It’s amazing,” Miles mentioned afterward. “We were actually aiming to break our school record, which is a 22.6. We ended up beating the meet record, which is great. We are super excited.”
Meanwhile, North Reading went on to seize the Div. 4 crown within the women relays for a second straight season, racking up 57 staff factors between two teams. The Hornets dominated the sector competitions, most notably the lengthy leap relay.
During that occasion alone, the varsity had two groups place within the high three. North Reading’s ‘A’ group of Madison Vant, Giuliana Ligor and Ava McIntyre set a meet document with a mixed distance of 15.05 meters to put first, whereas its ‘B’ unit of Georgia Roberts, Kayla Budny and Katie Zimmerman completed third at 14.50 meters.
North Reading additionally benefited from a second-place end within the dash medley relay, with Roberts, Jenna Mahoney, Tiara Lamont and Annalise Butler clocking in at 4:24.22. It was the fifth women relay title for North Reading up to now seven years.
Not to say, the varsity additionally completed because the runner-up to Newburyport within the boys discipline, ending with 34 mixed factors.
“It feels great,” mentioned North Reading monitor coach Sotirios Pintzopoulos. “Especially having both teams do it. We’re a program that works together. We have three coaches for the boys, three for the girls, and we kind of combined forces. Everybody gets their specialty, with coaches at the jumps, the hurdles, the throws. It’s great to come together with this staff and with this group of athletes. I think all in all, there were 30 girls and 30 boys here. It was pretty special.”
Other particular person performances of be aware included Pembroke’s staff within the women’ 4×50, as Ally Johnson, Sarah Claflin, Catrena Ghattas and Melanie Butler mixed to complete with a meet document time of 24.31 seconds, topping the unique benchmark set by Old Rochester in 2012.
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