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Field Day: North boys tear it up off the track, claim second in state

By Hector Longo - Special to The Telegraph | May 28, 2022

Hector Longo photo -- Nashua North's Jack Sullivan sets a personal best of 21-5.5, winning the long jump on Friday. The junior also took the triple jump win at the Division I State Championships.

SALEM – Portsmouth High, scoring 97.5 points overall, left little doubt who is tops on the track this spring, winning the 2022 Division I State Meet.

The Nashua North boys carved their own little niche, though, here on Friday night. Consider the second-place Titans “finest in the field.”

North scored every single one of its points in the field – zero points on the track – and still nipped Londonderry (57), who took third.

Jack Sullivan led the way for the Titans, racking up 20 points in the weirdest of ways.

Entered in all three jumps, he only cleared 5-6 in the high jump and took a disappointing 10th. The anguish didn’t last long.

“In long jump, my leg was dead from high jump. I had a really bad day in high jump, but I wanted to bring it back in long jump,” the junior said. “I actually switched my jumping foot. I jumped off my right foot and I PR’d by a foot and four inches!”

Soaring 21-5.5, he beat Dover’s Brady McInnes by three inches for the win.

“In triple jump I was seeded No. 1, and my goal was to win it,” Sullivan said. “I didn’t have my best jump, but I pulled it out.

“(The double win) was unexpected. I’m just happy with how my team and I competed here today.”

Another Titan junior, Toby Brown, snagged a state title as well. Toby Brown unleashed a monster throw of 52-0.25 on his first shot-put attempt, and nobody else came close. The final margin of victory for Brown was nearly five feet. Senior Jack Washam added third in the event with a 45-1.

Nashua South and Alvirne tied for sixth with 34 points.

Senior Eden Damis was the Panther champion, scoring the win in the javelin with a solid throw of 149-8.

Alvirne’s Alvin Thumi made it a clean sweep for Telegraph Country, winning the discus. The senior’s top toss of 138-10 was just four inches better than North’s Washam, who was second.

Merrimack scored 10 points in the form of Samuel Epstein’s pole vault win. The senior cleared 12-feet, the only athlete to do so in the event.

Bishop Guertin also netted 10 points as Nathaneal Fondakowski, fourth in the 3200, was the lone Cardinals’ individual scorer.

LOCAL BOYS RESULTS

TEAM SCORES: 1. Portsmouth 97.5; 2. North 59; 6. (tie) Alvirne, South 34; 14. (tie) Merrimack, BG 10

200: 5. Jack Ashworth (Alv) 22.94

800: 5. John Crawford (Alv) 2:00.87

1600: 5. Nicholas Marcotte (Alv) 4:35.73

3200: 4. Nathaneal Fondakowski (BG) 9:39.14

300 Hurdles: 2. Ashworth (Alv) 40.23; 3. Rory Olsen (South) 40.40

4×400: 3. Alvirne 3:33.52; 4. South 3:35.86

4×800: 3. BG 8:23.39; 5. South 8:31.56

High Jump: 2. Sami Witta (South) 6-2

Pole Vault: 1. Samuel Epstein (Merr) 12-0; 4. Aedan Pickett (North) 10-0

Long Jump: 1. Jack Sullivan (North) 21-5.5; 4. Witta (South) 20-9.25

Triple Jump: 1. Sullivan (North) 41-6; 4. Preston Thompson (North) 40-1; 5. Ethan Preston-Texeira (North) 39-3.5

Shot Put: 1. Toby Brown (North) 52-0.25; 3. Jack Washam (North) 45-1; 4. Alvin Thumi (Alv) 45-0.25

Discus: 1. Thumi (Alv) 138-10; 2. Washam (North) 138-6; 4. Brown (North) 131-8; 6. Darius Smith (North) 126-10

Javelin: 1. Eden Damis (South) 149-8

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