Algonquin's Miles Lipka takes gold in Indoor Nationals pentathlon
On Friday, Peabody senior thrower Alex Jackson also capped off a dominant indoor season with a third in the shot put (65-3½) on his fifth of six attempts, finishing just one foot shy of Anthony Liakhnovich (66-3¾) of Hammonton, N.J. Then on Saturday, Jackson placed sixth in the weight throw behind his second attempt of the day (73-½).
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Brockton senior Lucas Andrade placed third in the boys' 60 hurdles (7.78 seconds) on Sunday, with senior Tyler Burgess of Palmyra, Penn., rolling to the victory in 7.68 seconds. In addition, Andrade led the charge for the Red Devils' shuttle hurdle relay squad, which earned fifth in 30.59 seconds.
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Brockton's Lucas Andrade was all smiles after his third-place finish in the boys' 60-meter hurdles at the New Balance Nationals.
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The 60 hurdles Andrade competed in at New Balance was a slight adjustment from the 55-meter hurdles offered in Massachusetts-based competition, where
On the girls' side, North Reading senior Giuliana Ligor came away with a fourth in the pentathlon with 3,568 points, led by 961 points from her second-place finish in the 60 hurdles (8.76) and 762 points from a fourth-place effort in the 800 (2:24.61).
On Sunday, Ligor led North Reading's shuttle hurdle relay unit to a seventh-place finish (34.48), with Callie MacLellan, Katie Zimmerman, and Hayden Maclellan chipping in.
Westford Academy senior Abigail Hennessy had a big weekend, finishing seventh in the girls' mile (4:42.72) on Sunday to set a new top time in Massachusetts this season. On Friday, Hennessy teamed up with Alexa Pantoja, Ashley Vinith, and Sydney Weiss to secure a fourth-place effort in the 1,600 sprint medley relay (4:05.55).
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In the final event of the meet, Haverhill senior Madeline Goncalves placed 11th in the shot put (40-9½), capping a season in which she won the event in all 11 Massachusetts-based meets she entered.
Star para athlete Delmace Mayo from Brighton broke his own meet record in the boys' wheelchair 1-mile (4:10.54), soaring to a personal-best mark by 6 seconds. Bristol-Plymouth sophomore Mary MacDonald competed in the girls' wheelchair 800 and finished in 3:44.89.
Emmanuella Edozien, a junior from Natick, prepares for a semifinal heat of the girls' 60-meter hurdles at the New Balance Nationals on Saturday in Brighton.
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