LHS Indoor Track Teams Compete at State Meet

The girls’ indoor track and field team finished tied for 12th overall, while the boys’ team finished tied for 22nd at the MIAA Division 1 state meet at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston on Friday.

With seven total points, the LHS boys tied with Everett High School, Xaverian Brothers of Westwood and Weymouth High School.

New Bedford scored 49.50 as a team to finish ahead of Acton-Boxborough, which scored 39. Newton North and Andover both scored 36 to tie for third, while Lowell rounded out the top five with 26 points.

On the girls’ side, the Minutemen scored 16 points to match Waltham High School and the Boston Latin School.

Newton North’s girls’ team won with 55 points. Andover was second with 48, Lincoln-Sudbury was third at 42, Wachusett Regional of Holden had 37 for fourth and Franklin had 30 points for fifth.

The Minutemen were especially strong in the relay events in the girls’ meet. The 4x400 team – Shannon Boudett, Caroline Hammond, Camila Isern and Emily Walker – was fifth with a time of 4:07.12.

LHS’s entry of Ali Boreiko, Kristen Fiore, Sarah Foster and Saaya Maeda was sixth in the 4x800 in 9:55.40.

Isern also performed well individually. She placed second in the 600 meters with a time of 1:36.09. Event winner Kendal Knous finished in a meet-record time of 1:34.43.

Sophomore Tulie Finley-Moise finished off Lexington’s scoring with an eighth place in the 55 meters. She had a time of 7.75 seconds.

Lexington senior Matthew Hunter scored five of the boys’ team’s points by placing fourth in the 55-meter hurdles. He crossed the finish line in 7.827 seconds to barely finish ahead of Lowell’s Josh McGlaughlin, who finished in 7.829.

Sophomore Nathaniel Adams picked up a point in the 2-mile run, which he finished in 9:51.22 for eighth place.

The 4x800 relay team capped the Minutemen’s scoring with an eighth-place finish. The team of Amanual Abate, Adams, Thomas Ballenthin and Peter Schirripa completed the event in 8:23.70.