With Mansfield graduating an all-star cast that holstered not only multiple All-Americans but a handful of National Champion athletes it may be time to crown a new king of Massachusetts T&F. Many would look to Lowell and hope they could repeat their dominate performances from this past fall and winter to earn their triple crown. Only a few teams have had the distinction of winning state titles each season of the year and if Lowell could somehow put it together to win this spring season it would certainly be considered one of the greatest years of athletics in their city’s history.
Unfortunately for Lowell, Newton North and Newton South appear to be far too strong this spring. Much like this past winter the more exciting event battles will take place in the field. In past years team battles have gone back and forth between strengths and weaknesses. Here, the battles appear to be strengths vs strengths. Newton North will put Carl Whitman in the Shot (55-04.75), David Oluwadora in the Triple Jump (47-03.75) and Nick Fofana in the High Jump (6-04.00) each with a number 2 seed and on paper coming out of the field on top to score 24 points to South’s 20. South will look to Ryan Kim in the Shotput (54-06) and Discus (161-0), and Ben Eisenberg in the Pole Vault (13-06). The tape measures won’t lie come final call and if either team would like a title they’ll need the full team involved. North will gain support from team and state leader 400m runner Ryan Lucken (48.95), Gabe Montague in the 800m (1:55.1) and Mike Schliting in the 2-mile (9:26.5). Newton South will hope to counter with their ace, Jung Park in the 110mHH (14.47) and then a grand finale which has potential point scorers in each of the three relays.
Milesplitmass put together this scorecard based on the Performance list for Saturdays All State meet. We tried our hardest to keep this as accurate as possible, but a huge factor is that the computer had to split all the tied places.
BOYS SCORECARD VIA THE PERFORMANCE LIST
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