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On Wednesday May 17 at the Regis College track, the Acton-Boxborough outdoor track and field teams competed in the Dual County League championship against the 10 other DCL teams.

The A-B boys placed first with 168 points. Coach Brian Crossman said, The 2017 DCL championship was the outdoor boys first title since 2013. It was the first and only DCL title for many of our seniors. The boys came to compete and had laser precision focus on every event.

Highlighting the meet were several first-place finishes: the 4x400 meter relay (Matt Antes, Colin Grip, Liam Murray, and Ben Rubin) at 3:26; the 4x800 relay (Pat Nero, Jack Culhane, John Gardiner, and Winston Thompson) at 8:23; Colin Grip (50.35) in the 400; Nero in the 2-mile; Adam Yang (21-02) in the long jump; Antes (22.36) in the 200; and Jack Maddox in the pentathlon.

With the top eight placements scoring, several points were earned in the sprinting events: Antes (11:20), Jonathan Wu (11.46), and Noah Sweeney (11.48) took second, fifth, and sixth in the 100 meter dash; Brendan Flaherty (23.22) and Colin Plukinsky (23.81) were fourth and eighth in the 200; and Rubin (51.13) and Murray (53.04) were second and fifth in the 400.

In hurdling, Murray (58.08), Liam Bettez (58.89), and Gabe Lundy (1:00) placed second, fifth, and eighth in the 400; and Yang (15.57) and Andrew Dressler (15.67) were second and third in 110. Liam Smith (10:27) was fifth in the 2-mile, and Dressler was third in pentathlon.

In field events, Sweeney (19-08) was sixth in long jump and Andrew Fleming (113-0) was sixth in discus. In pole vault, Matt Cox (11-6) caught the competition by surprise with a huge improvement over his previous 10-0 personal best to take sixth.

In the 800, Culhane (2:00), Justin Robb (2:04), and Gardiner (2:06) took second, sixth, and eighth places. Crossman said, The 800 took on a life of its own with several athletes taking a tumble about two seconds into the race. Culhane took a beating, but showed guts and courage on the restart and charged to a personal best by three seconds.

The A-B girls placed second at the DCL championship with 105 points, behind Newton Souths 139.

Contributing several points by completing in multiple events were senior Samantha Cannarozzi (first in long jump at 17-1, and second in the 200 meters at 25.66), sophomore Stella McDermott (first in the 400 hurdles at 1:09, and seventh in the long jump at 15-7), and Alex Saganich (fifth in the 200 at 26.91 and third in the high jump at 5 feet). All three were also on the first-place 4x400 relay (4:07), along with Sara Mitchell.

In distance events, Margaret Flaum (2:30) was seventh in the 800; Mitchell (5:23) was fourth in the mile, and Nicole Sedler (13:18) was eighth in the 2-mile. In hurdling, Lisa Zhou (17.23) was fourth in the 100, and eighth (1:14) in the 400. Phoebe Alex was eighth in the 100 meter dash (13.26).

In field events, Daniellle Beerman was third in high jump (5-0) and fifth in triple jump (33-6); Paige Roberts (28-5) was sixth in shot put; and Aditi Siriskar (8-6) and Leah Mills (8 feet) were third and fifth in pole vault.

Placing fifth were the 4x800 relay (Ally Glode, Haley Greico-Page, Sydney McCullen, and Ellen Malloy) at 10:23, and the 4x100 relay (Alex, Ally Fenniman, Annika Maas, and Nicole Leers) at 52.23. Gabby Sullivan and Anna Rychlik were second and fifth in the pentathlon.

Link:
DCL track: Acton-Boxborough boys win meet - Wicked Local Boxborough