Just a week before, Ursuline’s Amy Piccolo was unleashed on the 600-meter field at the Auerbach Small Schools Freshman-Sophomore Championships and came away with a stunning new meet record.
At Sunday’s Div. 4 Coaches Relays, the upperclassmen got a good look at Piccolo’s enormous talents. Truth be told, Piccolo admits she sometimes feels somewhat bad being so far ahead of the rest of the field in a relay race. But the feeling is fleeting for the sophomore phenom. Piccolo enjoys running the competition into the ground far more than sparing the feelings of the tracksters in arrears. Massachusetts’ female tracksters may just have to learn to deal with because Piccolo has no intention of making it easy for anyone when she steps on the track.
Piccolo built an enormous lead in the opening 800 leg of the sprint medley with a 2:20.8 split and teammates Elizabeth Joseph, Kathryn Brady and Merissa Wright ran solid legs to give the Bears a meet-record victory in 4 minutes, 17.24 seconds on the Reggie Lewis Center oval. Gone by just over a second was the long-standing 4:18.9 set by Bromfield back in 2002. And in the final event of the meet, Piccolo anchored Ursuline to a win in the 4x400 in another meet record time of 4:06.67.
“We didn’t know what the meet record was,” said Piccolo of the sprint medley. “We wanted to break the school record. I felt a little bad (being so far ahead), but you try to make things easier for your teammates.”
Old Rochester picked up a pair of victories in to edge Ipswich (32 points) in the girls’ team competition with 35 points. The team of Morgan DaSilva, Hannah Walsh, Paige Santos and Ally Saccone clocked 1:49.60 to win the 4x200 while the foursome of Meagan Bell, Kristen Fuller, Santos and Saccone dominated the hurdles in 30.18.
Records were the theme of the day as the team of Kylie Chartier, Anna Capps, Renee Capps and Krista Webb combined to give Narragansett the meet record in the 4x800 (9:32.27) and distance medley (12:52.77). Uxbridge’s 4x50 shuttle hurdle lineup of Debora Lopes, Emily Cahill, Jessica Fitzgerald and Emily Roxo eclipsed Foxboro’s 2004 mark of 25.35 with a rousing 25.00.
The 4x50 team of Craig Shytle, Josh Breneville, Collins Ebozue and Olubji Ojo ran 22.88 to give Weston its lone win of the meet. The squad also had three top-three finishes to capture the team title with 38 points. The Wildcats took second in the long jump (56-6), 4x200 (1:36.66) and the shuttle hurdles (29.97). Old Rochester was second with 35.6 points and Seekonk finished with 30 points.
Nick Carleo of Newburyport made up 50 meters on the field with a 4:30 mile in the anchor leg of the distance medley for the win in 10:52.78. Carleo teamed up with Joe Santo, James Nutter and Sawyer Updike to break the Hudson mark of 10:53.37 set in 2009.