Mass. All State Championships 7 June 2008

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Newton South girls win all state championship by one point over Bromfield and two over Mansfield. 84 girls teams scored at least one point. Remember that many teams have nobody even qualify for this meet. Scorers for the girls were:
In the two mile Kelsey Karys stayed with Bromfield's Emily Jones for about half the race with Emily maintaining and Kelsey dropping off a little. Kelsey finished with a solid 2nd in 10:55 (Jones 10:33). These were very good times with the heat. Madeleine Reed finished in 9th place, one position out of points in a time of 11:17. Newton North's Margo Gillis a freshman, finished in 6th in 11:08.
In the 800, Juliet (7th seed) was held out to be fresh for the 4x800 relay. Carolyn Ranti from Newton North was the winner in a great race. see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbVVJLTO6sE
In the mile Bridget Dahlberg took 2nd and Katherine O'Keefe was 5th in times of 5:03 and 5:05. Bridget ran a great race considering she has not been able to train for the last few weeks because of a hamstring strain. She held off 3rd place by 0.03 seconds!
In the triple jump Ezra Banks jumped 35'-5 3/4" for 9th place. Ezra is a sophomore. This bodes well for future teams.
Nalis Mbianda was a little off in the shot getting 34' - 3 1/4" for 12th place. But, she came back strong in the Javelin setting a PR in 118' - 10" to take 6th place and score 3 important points.
The girls 4x800 was another critical race. We led Bromfield by 3 points going in. Bromfield put all their best runners in this relay and looked like they going to win until Lincoln-Sudbury nipped them right at the wire. NS was back a few seconds in 3rd. Bromfield picked up only 2 points on us thanks to LS. The score was now NS 29-Bromfield 28.
Neither team had a 4x100.
It was coming down to the last event, the 4x400. South had a slower seed and was in 1st of 3 heats ranked slowest to fastest. NS ran 4:06.37 and had to wait and see what 4th seed (4:03) Bromfield would do in the fast heat. I don't know why but Bromfield faded to 4:11 sealing the deal for South. The NS 4x400 ended up in 9th not scoring points but it didn't matter.

The boys scored 22 points for 9th place looking very good.
Since it is 95° at the computer and it and I threaten to go on strike, this report and photos will have to wait at least a little.
See Jon Waldren's Newton North report along with videos at:
http://nnhsxc.blogspot.com/
Search you-tube for "Mass state track 2008" for more videos.
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