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    Thursday, May 09, 2024

    Indoor track: NFA rules ECC Large

    New London - Dan Cardin won three events for the Norwich Free Academy boys' indoor track team Saturday, as the Wildcats scored 168 points to win the Eastern Connecticut Conference Large School Championship at the Coast Guard Academy.

    Cardin took the 1,000 meters (2 minutes, 45.71 seconds), 1,600 (4:33.70) and 3,200 (10:10.25), with NFA outdistancing Fitch (117 points) and East Lyme (75) in the team standings.

    The NFA girls team also won, outscoring East Lyme 184-124.5. Bacon Academy was third with 47.5 points. Fitch's Brandy LeClair was a double-winner in the girls' meet, taking the 1,600 (5:25.98) and the 3,200 (11:57.47).

    The NFA boys also got individual wins from Kyle Liang (600), Evan Hyde (pole vault) and Martin Lewerk (long jump), while Liang ran legs on the Wildcats' winning 4x360 relay and sprint medley relay teams.

    John Coleman (55 hurdles) and Lexus Gordon (high jump) won events for Fitch and Spencer Dimock won the shot put for Bacon Academy.

    Brianna Lenehan of NFA won the girls' 600 meters (1:40.00) and ran a leg on the winning sprint medley team. East Lyme's Eva Christensen won a closely contested 1,000-meter race in 3:10.66, with Lenehan, the top seed, second at 3:10.99. Christensen was then second to LeClair in the 1,600.

    NFA also got wins from Dyshelle Pemberton (55 dash), Camille McKenzie (55 hurdles), Katherine Gabriel (high jump), Allie Sullivan (pole vault) and Brittany Grabill (long jump). Bacon Academy's Charisse Townsend won the shot put.

    Shoreline Championship

    • Old Saybrook cruised to the Shoreline Conference girls' title at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven, while Old Lyme finished second in the boys' meet.

    Old Saybrook had 135 points to easily outdistance East Hampton (71.5) for the girls' title while Haddam-Killingworth edged Old Lyme 105-97 in the boys' team race. Old Saybrook finished fourth (69) in the boys' meet and Old Lyme placed eighth (32) in the girls' meet.

    The Old Saybrook girls captured a pair or relay events. Katie Beezer, Brianna Hanley, Kimberly Glorioso and Christie De'Antonis won the 4x200 (1:51.61) and Ali Daley, Erin Daley, De'Antonis and Glorioso won the 4x400, setting a meet record in 4:16.42.

    The Rams also picked up seconds from the 4x800 relay team of Marykate Cziepiel, Kelsey Sparrow, Christina Gosselin and Mahlah Givehand (10:35.94), Beezer in the 55 hurdles (9.13), Hanley in the 55 dash (7.80), De'Antonis in the 600 (1:41.81), Glorioso in the 300 (44.31), Jen Gamble in the shot put (30-3.5), Alyssa Giegerich in the pole vault (9-0) and Ashley Vigorita in the high jump (4-10); and thirds from Erin Daley in the 600 (1:45.16), Givehand in the 1,600 (5:45.91), the sprint medley relay team of Lauren Pascoe, Jen Sullivan, Erin Daley and Ali Daley (4:38.23), Gosselin in the 3,200 (12:29.45) and Vigorita in the long jump (15-5.5).

    For the Old Lyme girls, Ali Scott won the 600 in a meet record 1:41.74 and Amy Lee was second in the 1,000 (3:10.66).

    In the boys' meet, Old Lyme's 4x800 relay team of Devin Byrne, Nick Walker, Pat Wilczynski and V.J. Marafito won in 8:26.63. Marafito also won the 600 (1:26.08), Aaron Clippinger won the high jump (5-10) and Byrne, Marafito, James Barri and Jeff Winters teamed up to win the 4x400 relay (3:39.05). The Wildcats also picked up seconds from Nick Walker in the 1,600 (4:27.25) and 3,200 (9:51.64) and Byrne in the long jump (19-7.25), while Jon Whitaker was third in the shot put (38-10.5).

    For Old Saybrook, the 1,600 relay team of Casey Gowrie, Greg Daley, Spencer Arbige and Sean Hughes won in 3:51.12. Daley added a second in the 55 hurdles (8.30), Hughes was second in the 1,000 (2:45.84), and Nick Sumby was second in the pole vault (11-6) and third in the 55 hurdles (8.61).

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