Central Mass Championships: Wachusett and Westborough are team champions as Nadia Eke sets records

 

Central Mass Championships

Meet Results 

Highlights

  • The Wachusett girls and the Westborough boys collect team titles.
  • Nadia Eke of Holy Name set two meet records!  She won the long jump (18'8.25") and the triple jump (41'1").
  • Katie Carlson of Wachusett and Abby Hurd of Nashoba would push the pace in the second half of the 2 mile and finished in 11:05.68 and 11:09.20 respectively.  
  • Emily Clark of Nashoba won the 400m hurdles in 63.93.
  • Laura Williamson of Wachusett won the 800m in 2:13.97; pulling freshman Alexia Lipman of Bromfield to second place in 2:16.44.
  • John Murray of Shrewsbury won the 2 mile in 9:27.60; well off his 2010 winning time of 9:07.38.  But there is always a plan when it comes to Murray and the post season.
  • Richard Sterndale of Westborough won the javelin with a throw of 185'5".
  • Matt Thompson of Clinton won the discus at 151'2".
  • Jeremy Bennie of Wachusett won the mile in 4:20.94.  He was followed by Dan Zawalich of Saint John's (4:23.57), Brendon Robertson of Westborough (4:24.53), and Anthony Fierimonte of Algonquin (4:25.73).  Zawalich would later finish second in the 800m (1:58.87) behind Alex Jagelsky of Wachusett (1:57.95).
  • Sarah Hilton of Groton-Dunstable got the win in the 100m (12.59), but freshman Domonique Hall of Shrewsbury had another fine showing, finishing second in 12.65.
  • Emily Dawidczyk of Oxford won the 200m in 25.77.
  • Mimi Narbonne of Bromfield led 4 girls under 60 seconds in the 400m.  She won the event in 58.25.
  • Erin Silva of Westborough won the pole vault at 10'6".
  • Brett Buskey of Blackstone-Millville ran 10.94 to win the 100m and just missed the meet record of 10.90 set in 2008 by Ryan Ruffing.
  • Jair Cruikshank of Nashoba set a new meet record with his winning time of 55.38 in the 400m hurdles.  Geoffrey Gichuhi of Doherty finished second in 56.88.
  • It was a close boys 4x400m race, but Whitinsville Christian would get the win in 3:29.04.  Doherty was second (3:29.74), and Wachusett was thrid (3:29.81).
  • Westborough continues to be the Massachusetts powerhouse in the pole vault.  They took the top 3 spots in the event, led by Will Plummer at 13'6".
  • Shane Ruffing of Westborough won the triple jump (43'8.5") and the 110m hurdles (15.13).