Boys Relays
4x200m
LaSalle came in as the big favorite, but the Rams got a scare from Hall who held the lead and the all-important inside lane until the final turn. LaSalle powered home at the end to get the win though in a season's best 1:31.28. Hall held off a fast-closing Duxbury squad for the silver as both teams also posted season's bests.
1 LaSalle Academy 1:31.28 2 Hall High School 1:31.82 3 Duxbury High School 1:31.86 4 Bishop Hendricken HS 1:32.42 5 Greenwich High School 1:33.04 6 Windsor High School 1:33.19 7 Weymouth High School 1:33.70 8 Sheehan High School 1:33.73 9 Naugatuck High School 1:34.29 10 Danbury High School 1:35.26 11 Lincoln High School 1:35.43 12 Portsmouth High School 1:35.44
4x400m
Hall fell a little short in the earlier 4x200m relay, but in the final race of the day with a lot fresher legs than the Warriors had to claim the CIAC state championship at 3:31.18, the team could not be denied. Hall got the lead over Austin Prep and Classical in the final seeded section and just kept opening the gap to its final 5 1/2 second margin for a giant season's best. Classical edged out Austin Prep at the finish, but both teams were about two seconds behind the mark that Greenwich put down in the next-to-last third section to get the silver.
1 Hall High School 3:23.84 2 Greenwich High School 3:27.33 3 Classical High School 3:29.23 4 Austin Prep School 3:29.30 5 Nashoba Regional HS 3:30.18 6 Central Catholic HS 3:30.42 7 Lunenburg High School 3:30.63 8 Staples High School 3:30.67 9 Portsmouth High School 3:31.11 1 10 South Kingstown HS 3:32.16 11 Ellington High School 3:32.21 12 New Milford HS 3:32.46
4x800m
The 4x800 was a race of changes as Conard held a small lead after the first leg, Wakefield was on top at the halfway point and expanded it somewhat on the third leg. But it was Lowell, top seeded among the teams in the race, and CT champ Staples that made the big moves on the anchor leg to take the gold and silver at big season's bests of 7:56.19 and 7:56.76, while Wakefield also dipped under 8:00 for the bronze. In the battle of big anchors, Manchester's Aidan Puffer held off Conard's Gavin Sherry for 4th.
1 Lowell High School 7:56.19 2 Staples High School 7:56.76 3 Wakefield Memorial HS 7:59.49 4 Manchester High School 8:03.29 5 Conard High 8:03.42 6 Lexington High School 8:05.42 7 Hall High School 8:05.51 8 E.O. Smith High School 8:06.48 9 Guilford High School 8:10.71 10 Westerly High School 8:19.65 11 Newburyport HS 8:21.59 12 Smithfield High School 8:27.83