Girls’ track team finishes strong at league meet
By Mike BergerThe CHS girls’ outdoor track team placed fifth in the Hockomock League’s two-day championship meet in Wrentham last week. Canton finished six points behind fourth-place North Attleboro.
The team was led by veterans Anna Amico, Vicky Tondre, and Colleen Healy in the running events, and Chidimma Nwankwo, Amarachi Njoku, and Radiya Buchanan in the field events.
“The girls competed very well with many of them running personal bests,” CHS coach Conor Sheehan said. “The league championship is always a tough one, but the girls never backed down.”
Several Bulldogs will be moving on to the Class C Championships at Oliver Ames on Saturday.
Tondre finished second overall in the finals of the 200-meter dash at 26.49 seconds, just .44 of a second behind the winner.
Amico finished third in the 100-meter dash at 12.93 seconds, and Healy finished third in the 400-meter hurdles at 1:06.9, with teammate Kate D’Orazio right behind her in fifth place at 1:08.7
In the field events, Buchanan placed second overall in the triple jump at 36 feet, 2.75 inches, just five and a half inches behind the winner. Tondre placed eighth in the event at 34 feet, one inch.
Njoku and Nwankwo finished second and fourth overall in the shot put, with Njoku recording a best throw of 37 feet, two inches — two feet behind the winner. Nwankwo finished fourth at 35 feet.
Both followed with high placements in the discus. Nwankwo placed second at 107 feet, seven inches, and Njoku was seventh at 92 feet, five inches. Jess Raymond also competed and finished 21st at 66 feet, five inches.
Other top-ten placements included: Mellyn Costello, ninth, 100-meter hurdles, 17.52 seconds; Lila Singer-Berk, tenth, two mile, 13:01; and Amico, eighth, javelin, 88 feet, two inches.
The 4×100-meter relay finished at 51.05 behind Tondre, Ashleigh Hicks, Molly Phalan and Amico. The 4×400-meter relay ran 4:11 behind the effort of Jen Sidney, D’Orazio, Healy and Buchanan. The 4×800 relay finished sixth at 11:06 behind Sara Teague, Tara Saraf, Zarina Brune and Singer-Berk.
Other Canton participants included: Molly Phalan, 13th, 100-meter dash, 13.7 seconds; Shirley Han, 13th, 200, 28.87 seconds; Rebecca Pulcini, 24th, 100-meter hurdles, 19.29 seconds; Stephanie Mui, high jump, four feet, eight inches; and Stephanie Gowing, 17th, javelin, 75 feet, nine inches.
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Posted by Mike Berger
on May 27 2010. Filed under High School, Sports.
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