Candle in the Wind: ‘Cats Light It Up at Freshmen-Sophomore Track Meet

Battling unseasonably cold temperatures with a fierce wind to boot, a combined 23 Weston track and field standouts competed in the 16th Annual Rt. 228 Freshman-Sophomore Invitational Meet hosted by Notre Dame Academy in Hingham on Saturday.

Sophomores Geoffrey Pendergast and Matt Herzig and freshmen Fini Bichara and Matt Keefe led the day for the Wildcats. Pendergast finished second in the 800 meter in a time of 2:06.29, while Herzig placed fourth in the two-mile, crossing at 10:11.82 .Pendergast also competed in the long jump, placing 24th with a leap of 16 feet, 3 inches.

Bichara, meanwhile, took fifth place in the triple jump with a leap of 32 feet, 8¼ inches, while Keefe finished sixth in the pole vault jump with a leap of 7 feet, 6 inches. Bichara just missed scoring in the high jump, where she tied for fifth on height but fell to ninth place on total jump tiebreakers.

The rest of the Wildcat contingent included, for the boys, sophomores Alexis Mundo (8th Javelin 114-10, 61st Discus); Nick Brackett (8th Pole Vault 7-00.00); Daniel Lang (18th Javelin 104-06); Rajah Nagarajah (28th Discus 77-01, 52nd Javelin 28-03); Adam Dvorak (36th Mile 5:18.19); Wyatt Maurer (37th 800M 2:26.60), Clarence Ng (40th Javelin 78-03), Eli Curme, (55th Mile); and freshmen Daniel Rigobon (9th Pole Vault 7-00, 61st 800M 2:44.31), Josh Breneville (30th 100M 12.85), Deondre Molyneaux (39th 400M 1:02.64), Andrew Connolly (42nd 800M 2:29.56), and John Condakes (71^st Shot Put 19-11.75).

And the rest of the Weston girls group included sophomores Edom Wessenyeleh (11th 800M 2:36.44); Catherine Cebulla (16th Long Jump 13-06.00); Jasmine Austrie (17thTriple Jump 28-04.00, 52nd Discus 43-07); Kayla Lawrence (20th 200M 29.79); and Jillian Belgrad (92nd 200M 32.50); and freshman Anna Neufeld (43rd Discus 49-07, 49th Shot Put 20-07.25, 54 th 400M 1:17.48).

Weston will compete against archrival Wayland on Thursday.