By Senior Correspondent Marty Ogden, Editing and Graphics by Ron Knapp
On Wednesday, the Eastern Connecticut Conference divided their outdoor championships into two meets, the D1&2 divisions hosted by East Lyme HS and the D3& D4 divisions held at Griswold HS.
ECC Division 1 & 2 Championships
East Lyme HS, East Lyme
Last year’s champions were bumped to the runner-up spots as Norwich Free Academy defeated defending champion East Lyme by a score of 140-129 on the boys side and Woodstock Academy held off Norwich Free Academy by a margin of 145.5 to 123.5 in the girls competition.
Boys Highlights
NFA pulled out the win with a total team effort, scoring in 16 of 18 events and prevented a 5-peat for East Lyme. Junior Fernando Flores had his greatest day of his career setting two PRs in both the 110m hurdles and 300m hurdles. He won the shorter hurdle race in 14.69 which is 3rd in Class LL and took 2nd in the longer race, running 39.16 which is 2nd in his Class.
Jayvon Thompson joined his teammates Reese Newson, Joal Barros and Oliver Aubin to win the 4 x 100m and earned his 2nd gold as he set his PR of 50.85 to win the 400m and finished off his day with a runner up finish in the 200m. In his first season of outdoor track, Dajeenly Desardouin has quickly taken to the triple jump. He came away with a win in the event in a near PR of 42’ 0.0 and he also scored a point in the high jump as well.
East Lyme has ruled the ECC in the distance events for the past few years so when NFA started off the meet winning the 4x800m, that was a bit of a surprise. Patrick Croughwell, Joshua Wucik, Jesse Croteau and Michael Fusaro joined together to run 8:11.79. The amazing thing is that the Wildcats won it without their best 800m Kyle Kornacki who they saved to run the 800m fresh. That gamble paid off as he set a PR of over a second, winning in 1:56.07.
East Lyme was 2nd at the State Open and New Englands in cross country and their success has really made the other distance runners in the conference step up. Sam Leone was the New England mile champion this winter and Sean McCauley was the State Open runner up in the 3200m this past February. Leone set his PR of 4:16.52 and MCauley was hot on his heels running 4:18.63 on Wednesday. But neither expected the race Christian Menounos was about to run. He was far behind them in cross country and usually runs the 800m in track. The Woodstock Academy senior not only broke 4:20 for the first time, he ran an incredible…
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