Maddy Lane made her races look easy at the NHIAA Division III championship and then at the Meet of Champions. On Saturday, she did the same thing at New Englands.
Lane, a Hopkinton High junior, won the 3,200 meters at the New England Interscholastic Track and Field Championships, taking the lead at the end of the second of eight laps and cruising to yet another victory on Saturday at Noble High School in North Berwick, Maine.
She successfully defended her 3,200 crown with a time of 10 minutes, 20.45 seconds, which is faster than the 10:32.66 she ran to win the New England title a year ago. This year’s winning time was 17 seconds faster than the runner-up, Zoe McNabb of Champlain Valley Union High School in Vermont.
This is Lane’s third New England title. She was the girls’ cross country champion this past fall.
Concord sophomore Thomas Saysaw finished third in the boys’ triple jump at 45 feet, 11.5 inches. His state record-setting mark of 48-10.5 at last weekend’s Meet of Champions not only set the state record, it is the best high school triple jump mark in the entire nation this season by a sophomore.
Other area girls who placed well at New Englands were Bow’s Camden Wilson (tied fourth high jump), Julia Hou (tied eighth pole vault) and Madison Pfister (14th pole vault).
Coe-Brown’s Bristol Shirland finished ninth in the 100-meter hurdles, just 0.10 seconds outside of qualifying for the finals. Teammate Lilah Fitzpatrick was 18th in the 200 and 19th in the 100, and the pair also ran with Riley Hawkes and Jazzlyn Curry on the 11th-place 4×100-meter relay.
Lane’s teammate, Maisie Emerson, was 14th in the 3,200, Aisling Madden was 17th in the 400 and the Hopkinton 4×800 of Sofia Upton, Elli Gregory, Gemma Guadagno and Hannah Clarner came in 19th.
Merrimack Valley freshman Genevieve Blanchette was 25th in the discus.
For the area boys, Concord’s Robby Marcelin (11th triple jump), Josiah Conley (11th 1,600) and Travis Dunbar (11th discus, 28th shot put) just finished outside the top 10.
Coe-Brown’s Sam Youngs was 14th in the 3,200 and the 4×400 of Mateo Ferguson, Blake Spina, Jackson Doran and Anthony Szatko also finished 14th.
Pembroke’s Brandon Lurvey (15th 300 hurdles), Hopkinton’s Hunter Eckner-Naylor (20th javelin) and Merrimack Valley’s Owen Turner (20th high jump) all finished in the top 20.