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Update: December 23, 2010:

Watertown Girls Indoor Track team opens season with win over Belmont

By Frank Santarpio, correspondent

Wicked Local Watertown

Posted Dec 23, 2010 @ 09:02 AM

WATERTOWN —

The Watertown High girls indoor track team kicked off their dual meet season in style with a 47.5-38.5 win over rival Belmont on Wednesday night in a meet held in Woburn.

"I was expecting this to be a close meet," Watertown head coach Dave Mastro said. "But I thought the difference was seeing a lot of our younger girls step up for us."

Among the first place finishes for the Lady Raiders included Lauren Basile's performance in the 300. Basile won the race in 47 seconds but had to rally down the stretch to earn her team five points.

"That was the race of the day," Mastro said. "Coming down the last turn Lauren showed great determination and grit and ending up winning a big race for us."

Other Raiders who came up big winning their events included Waleska Alves in the two mile (13:16), Jessica Doggett in the 1000 (3:39), Roop Kaur in the shot-put (24' 1/2"), Meaghan Kelly in the hurdles (9.3), and Rachel Thomas in the high jump (4'8").

Earning key second place points were Thomas in the dash (7.5), Jamie Russo in the mile (6:25), Bryanna Dowcett in the shot-put (24'), and Talia Flores in the high jump (4'8") while coming in third were Michaela Poland in the shot-put (completing the team sweep with a toss of 23 feet), Christelle Madou in the dash (8.1), Kelly in the high jump (tied for third with a leap of 4' 3"), Calista Diehl in the mile (6:24), Brianna Natale in the hurdles (10.5), and Flores in the 600, who despite participating in an unfamiliar event, recorded a time of 1:58.

"This was a great way to start," Mastro said. "It was a really good meet and I was very proud of their effort."

On Saturday, Dec. 18 the girls participated in the Winterfest held at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center. One of the team's highlights was the performance of the 4 x 2 relay team. Thomas, Basile, Kelly, and Flores combined to come in second and in the process nearly break a school record with a time of 1:51.77.

Other quality outings included a third place finish in the high jump by Thomas (five feet), a sixth place finish by Kelly in the hurdles (9:49), and a 10th place finish from Flores in the 300 (44.94).

Watertown, 1-0, will travel to Lexington next Tuesday for their next dual meet.

Update: December 23, 2010:

Watertown boys indoor track team loses home opener to Lexington

By Frank Santarpio, correspondent

Watertown TAB & Press

The Watertown High boys indoor track team lost its opener by a 60-16 count to Lexington in a meet held at Woburn on Tuesday night.

"At last week's seedings meet we finished tenth and the Lexington was first so the outcome wasn't surprising," Watertown head coach Tom Wittenhagen said. "But considering how young we are and how new some of the kids are it wasn't a bad performance. We had ten personal bests so that was encouraging."

The Raiders had two first place finishes on the night, which included James Holland's efforts in the 300 meters. The senior captain won the race with a time of 40.1 while the other Watertown winner came courtesy of junior Kevin Eskici who won the mile in a time of 5:14.01.

In the shot-put event the Raiders had two of the top three finishers with Billy Stohlman coming in second with a distance of 40' 1/2" while Pat Lally finished third with a toss of 36' 5".

The most improved athlete of the week went to Erik Hoiseth who finished third in the mile while also improving dramatically in his part in the 4 x 400 relay.

Watertown, 0-1, will take on Woburn next Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. in a meet held in Reading.

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