By Senior Correspondent Marty Ogden, Editing and Graphics by Ron Knapp
In the third day of the four CIAC Indoor Track and Field Class Championships on Saturday, the Class S meet featured the Bloomfield girls who took home their 15th consecutive title by a wide margin while the Warhawk boys repeated as champions. Among the exciting competition were four meet records in the boys 1000m and 3200m, plus the girls shot put and girls 4x400m relay.
Girls Championship Highlights
The Bloomfield girls have had a stranglehold on Class S going back to 2010 but this was their most dominating performance as they scored 130 points, the most ever during the streak. Sacred Heart Academy took the runner-up spot for the 2nd year in a row with 61.5 points with Lyme-Old Lyme taking 3rd with 44 points.
Bloomfield kept piling on the points and not only scored in 10 out of the 15 events, they won seven and scored multiple people in four of them.
Anne Burrows, who has been with the program since 2009 and the head coach since 2011, felt the team could score 126 points going into the meet. “It was one of our ugliest ways to do it. We have had an off season with a few injuries and we had some mishaps today. But all of them are all back and we are making it work.”
Bloomfield girls CIAC S champions courtesy of CIAC
Bloomfield didn’t even qualify a 1600m sprint medley until Monday’s Last Chance Qualifying meet and on Saturday the baton was bumped out of Nacquelia Fletcher, their leadoff runner’s hand which caused them to be 20 yards behind at the first hand off. Here teammates Indya Norman, Soleigh Dixon and D’asia Duncan clawed their way back and won in 4:24.38, four seconds off their seed time. Points were lost as defending champion Jahniya Barclay crossed the finish line first in the 300m but was DQed for a lane violation.
Despite these setbacks they also won the 4x200m and the team of Duncan, Kiylah Williams, Soleigh Dixon and Barclay broke their own record in the 4x400m when they finished in 4:02.63, 15 seconds better than runner-up Sacred Heart Academy.
Bloomfield’s 55m sprinters simply dominated with four making the finals as Saphyr Brown won in 7.26 bringing home a total of 22 points in the one event.
Even with Barclay’s DQ in the 300m, they still went 2-3 behind the efforts of Caleah Baker (41.82) and Anaejah Gray (43.04).
Duncan, the All American heptathlete has been injured the past few weeks and still ended up winning the 600m…
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