By Senior Correspondent Marty Ogden, Editing and Graphics by Ron Knapp
The 37th Annual New England Indoor Track & Field Championships have arrived and will take place at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center in Boston this Saturday with the first events to begin at 1 pm with doors opening at noon for spectators. Let’s check out some of the top CT athletes who just might be competing for a medal.
First of all it must be noted that the order of events is different at New Englands than each state championship for the six states that send athletes. Massachusetts runs their relays at the end of the meet and their athletes might be fresher in the 4x200m and 4x800m that are held at the beginning of the program. Also at New Englands, the 55m and 55m hurdles are held on the infield before the events on the oval take place so that may allow the athletes in those events to not run the 4x200m before like they do here in CT. Take out the sprint medley relay and several CT 4x400m should become stronger. Also, Rhode Island allows athletes to compete in four events, so the races are often more tactical since many of the top athletes may not lay it on the line to run their best times; instead their focus might be on team points. This is a long way of saying, there should be plenty of surprises and more than any other meet anything can happen on Saturday.
Boys 55m hurdles
This event should start the meet off with a bang. CT brings four of the top dozen hurdlers in state history but they just might hit a brick wall because the Bay State brings Lucas Andrade of Brockton who ran 7.29 at his state meet which is under the New England meet record and his rival Khai Yin of Lowell who was .02 seconds back. Five of the top 31 times in the nation come from this region. CT State Open champion Davian Johnson is not entered but the Nutmeg state will be well represented by Lyman Hall’s Owen Rich, Delante Senior of Bloomfield, Jeremiah Smith of Killingly and Hillhouse’s William Gibson, all who could potentially make the finals.
Boys 55m dash
This will be the fourth week in a row Bethel’s Luke Richardson and Jayson Vanterpool of Bunnell will go head to head. Vanterpool has a 2-1 edge but Richardson has the bigger prize as he easily won the State Open in a New England leading time of 6.33. After this pair, there are several boys who have run in the low 6.4s which should make this a very tight race.
Boys 4x800m
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