Central, Memorial athletes compete at NHIAA Indoor Relays

DURHAM, NH — Athletes from Central and Memorial were at the University of New Hampshire, Sunday morning, for the annual Division I NHIAA Indoor Relays.

In addition to the traditional relay competitions, such as 4x160m, 4x400m and 4x800m, schools enter three athletes each in the 55m hurdles, 55m and long jump. The results of the three athletes are combined to arrive at their team “relay” result.

Some athletes competed individually in the 55m, 55m hurdles and long jump, if their team didn’t have three athletes to enter. In all, 19 schools were represented at the Division I meet.

Memorial

The top placing team for Memorial was the 4x160m relay squad of Jordan Courter, Ayomide Sanni, Victoria Ford and junior Hannah Rodriguez, which placed 4th in a time of 1:29.40.

The 55m team of Rodriguez, sophomore Victoria Ford and sophomore Charlene Jackson placed 7th in 24.41. Rodriguez had the 10th best time of any runner with a leg of 7.87 seconds.

The boys 4x800m relay team of Blake Bickford, Rudy Fricker, Stephen Denio and Owen Davis placed 6th in 9:15.73.

The boys 55m team (Chase Burris, Ledum Adumene and Brayden Merchant) placed 10th in 21.69. The 4x400m relay team placed 13th, while the 4x160m relay team was disqualified for interference.

Central

Junior Kaedin Gagne had the top finish for Central, placing 10th in the 55m in a time of 7.01 seconds. Junior Sean Venator was 13th in the long jump with a best leap of 17-05.00.

Central’s 4x800m relay team of Colin Eagen, Liam Patten, Maxwell Robert and Thomas Montminy placed 13th in 9:55.05. The 4x160m and 4x400m teams each placed 14th.