By Senior Correspondent Marty Ogden, Editing and Graphics by Ron Knapp
The past two days, the Southern Connecticut Conference held their West and East Sectional championships to determine team titles as well as to qualify athletes for their SCC Championships on Tuesday May 27th at Amity Regional HS in Woodbridge.
SCC West Sectional
North Haven HS, Monday, May 19
Sacred Heart Academy girls defended their title and defeated Hillhouse by a score of 153-112 and Daniel Hand, who won the Eastern Division last year, won the Western Division over Sheehan 157-112.
Boys Highlights
Daniel Hand hit hard in certain events to pull out the win. Lucas Nolte (49.41) and Matthew Petersen (49.77) went 1-2 in the 400m and Emmett Merschman (6-02) and Braydon Shields (6-00) did the same in the high jump. Stone Leckey set his PR in the javelin at 172-09 and Sean Arms won the pole vault at 13-06. The 3200m saw the Tigers take four of the top eight spots and they took the win in the 4x400m (3:26.45) and runner up spots in the 4x100m and 4 x 800m.
Fairfield Prep’s Jack Davis went from a decent mid 11-second 100m sprinter to becoming one of the best in the state. His winning times of 10.58 in the 100m and 21.64 in the 200m, while wind aided are the 3rd best times in the state this season. His time in the shorter event is the 12th fastest time in state history under all conditions. He also helped his team claim gold in the 4x100m with their time of 42.89.
Taking another double victory was Sheehan’s Tyler Deme. The senior, who will attend Quinnipiac next year, easily won both the 1600m in 4:33.21 and 3200m in 9:52.36.
Willam Gibson set two PRs in the hurdle races. The Hillhouse senior is now ranked top six in the state in both events. He won the 110m hurdles in 14.68 and the 300m hurdles in 38.75.
Lucas DeCrescenzo of Lyman Hall came away with a new PR in the shot put and another win in the discus. He improved his shot to 52-2 and threw 156-5 in the discus.
Girls Highlights
Behind the efforts of Maya Quaranta and a strong distance team, Sacred Heart won another division title. Quaranta, the State Open champion in the shot this past winter, won her speciality with a distance of 38-3 and discus in 113-3. While they won the 4x800m, the distance events were responsible for 46 points in that area by scoring multiple people in the three longest individual events. Also earning her first significant win of her career, sophomore Abigel Finta set a PR in the…
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