PERFORMANCE LIST
Anything can happen in a championship meet, but it looks like a lot will have to happen to prevent the Newton North boys and the Newton South girls from not capturing their respective team titles at Saturday's meet. Both squads are loaded with talent and the overwhelming favorites to bring home the team hardware. There a few events that should draw quite a bit of interest in this one. The boys' 600 is a match-up between two sub 1:22 runners - Newton North's Theo Burba (1:21.92) and Acton-Boxborough's Colin Grip (1:21.83). It could be a nail-biter in the 300m dash where top-seed Rudiano Ramosn of Brookline owns a best of 35.48 and two seed Matthew Antes of Acton-Boxborough toes the line with a 35.89 effort this season. The mile looks like it will come down to the wire with 1-2 seeds Tristan Shelgren of St. John's (4:19.14) and Lowell's Chris Polanco (4:20.68) the class of the field. Can we see a sub 2:30 in the boys' 1,000m? It could happen. At the start is Lexington's Thomas Lingard, who clocked a PB of 2:30.82 at the Middlesex League Championships on Feb. 6, a time that ranks No. 13 in the nation. Nikolas Reardon could be a big point-scorer for St. John Prep, a team that's capable of scoring high. Reardon holds the top seed in the high jump with a best of 6-7 and also has done 22-3 for the long jump, the top distance among his rivals. In its quest for the title, Andrew Mah of Newton North should score 10 points in the two mile where his best of 9:17.62 is far ahead of his competitors. The Tigers also have a gifted quartet in the 4x200m relay that has done a very fast 1:30.99 this season. There's an abundance of talented athletes in the girls' meet. Newton South has potential for a 1-2 finish in the mile and 1,000. For the eight-lapper, Caroline Barry (5:11) and Katherine Collins (5:14.55) own the top two seeds. Teammates Clare Martin (2:58.85) and freshman Lucy Jenks (3:01.40) are the two fastest in the 1K. Collins' should get it done in the 3,000m where she enters the meet with the No.1 seed of 11:05, a time that is nearly 25 seconds faster than the next seed. Worcester Technical's Adja Seckor has potential to leap to a meet record in the long jump. She has the No. 1 seed and is tied for No. 12 in the country with her PR of 19-2, which she did at the East Coast Invitational in R.I. back in January.