The Conant track and field team began its title defense on Tuesday, and while the Orioles lost some key pieces from last year’s boys’ championship team, they should be right back in contention for the best in Division III.“A lot of people are looking.
The Mascenic girls’ cross-country team finally got their day in the sun Saturday, striding their way to a second-place finish at the NHIAA Division III championship race at Manchester’s Derryfield Park and finally pinning down that elusive trip to the.
The Manchester Invitational serves as the annual measuring-stick meet, showing cross-country teams with championship aspirations how far they’ve come at the halfway point of the season and how far they’ll need to go if they want to ascend the podium.
Records fell, state champions were crowned and New England Championship berths were secured at Saturday’s NHIAA Meet of Champions at Sanborn, where Conant, ConVal, Mascenic and Wilton-Lyndeborough competed against the state’s best across all.
Four years of grit and grind paid off in a storybook ending for the Conant track team on Sunday, as the Oriole boys won their first state championship since 1998 at the Division III meet in Pelham.“I’m a little speechless right now, but it’s amazing,”.