Tuesday, December 21, 2010

DCL dual meet; NSHS v Boston Latin

The second DCL dual meet was today at the very nice Boston University indoor track. Newton South ran against Boston Latin.
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Click here for photos by John Keklak (LS)

Dual County League - 12/20/2010
Meet#2 Boston University Dual Meet Scores - Through Event 31 
Women 
Lincoln-Sudbury 48.00 Acton-Boxborough  47.00
Wayland High School 54.00 Arlington  37.00
Concord-Carlisle 81.00 Bedford 10.00
Newton South 73.00 Boston Latin 17.00
Notre Dame Academy 68.00 Weston 27.00
Westford 46.00 Waltham 43.00
Men 
Acton-Boxborough 61.00 Lincoln-Sudbury 34.00
Wayland High School 53.00 Arlington 41.00
Concord-Carlisle 78.00 Bedford 17.00
Newton South 79.00 Boston Latin 14.00
Westford 63.00 Waltham 31.00

The results show Kathy O'Keefe running 2:55 in the 1000. That is a wow!! - a time faster than many varsity boys and a common all state winning time. Kathy ran this alone with no competitors close. I didn't expect that. In the 2 mile, Kathy and Andrea Keklak, (LS) allstate XC champ for the past few years started out. No one else seemed to dare go out in front of those two even though they were going slow. Steve M. yelled at Kathy "do not lead!" Kathy slowed even more so on the next lap it looked like the whole pack was walking. Kathy smiled in a bewildered way, arms up, almost saying, how?" Kathy didn't need to run fast to win. Andrea K. from LS wanted to win with as slow a time as possible so she could race hard in the next race, the 4 x 400 relay, because LS and Acton-Boxborough had a very close meet. Finally, the pace picked up to about a 6 min/mile. At about the mile mark or a little later, Andrea got impatient and went out smooth and fast to a very big negative split but still look rested at the end. She shortly after ran a 58 sec. 400 meter split in the relay with LS nipping AB by one point 48-47. Kathy picked up the pace also looking very comfortable but not "racing".
From NSHS v Boston Latin, Indoor track DCL league
NS was not running against LS but the photo looked good. All the large schools run the relay together but get scored just against the team they face in the dual meet.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

assuming that was Keklak in the 2mi
not "Valpey" at 11:20 ?
Coolrunning has the latter but I'm seeing pics...

George T. Toad said...

Keklak in 2M. must have been a number mixup.