{"id":10985,"date":"2024-02-12T06:27:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T06:27:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"Coe-Brown-s-Jamie-Lano-wins-two-events-to-lead-Bears-to-back-to-back-titles-54013625\/","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nne-concord-monitor-2.newspackstaging.com\/?p=10985","title":{"rendered":"Indoor track: Jamie Lano wins a pair of titles to lead Coe-Brown boys to championship defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Coe-Brown\u2019s
Coe-Brown\u2019s Jamie Lano pumps his fist in celebration as he crosses the line to win the 1,500-meter title at the NHIAA Division II indoor track & field championships on Sunday\u00a0at Plymouth State. Lano also won the 3,000 and finished second in the 1,000 to lead Coe-Brown to back-to-back team titles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"John
John Stark\u2019s Joel Douzanis throws the shot put at the NHIAA Division II indoor track & field championships on Sunday at Plymouth State. Douzanis won the event with a toss of 47 feet, 2.5 inches, to lead John Stark to second place as a team.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"John
John Stark\u2019s Rio Calle clears the high jump bar at the NHIAA Division II indoor track & field championships on Sunday\u00a0at Plymouth State. Calle won the event by clearing 6-1 in a jump off and also finished second in the long jump to lead John Stark to second place as a team.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Bow\u2019s
Bow\u2019s Hannah Pawlowski races towards the finish line to claim the 600 meter title at the NHIAA Division II indoor track & field championships on Sunday at Plymouth State.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Concord\u2019s
Concord\u2019s Ella Goulas clears the high jump bar at the NHIAA Division I indoor track and field championship on Sunday\u00a0at Plymouth State. Goulas won the high jump title by clearing 5-4.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>

PLYMOUTH \u2013 \u201cIf you\u2019ve got the horses, you might as well ride them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quoting former indoor track league director Larry Martin, those were Coe-Brown Northwood Academy head coach David Zink\u2019s words regarding the Coe-Brown boys\u2019 indoor track team\u2019s path to victory.<\/p>\n

Senior Jamie Lano won the 3,000 meters in 8 minutes, 48.38 seconds and the 1,500 in 4:09.79, finished second in the 1,000, and ran the anchor leg of the fourth-place 4×400-meter relay to secure back-to-back Division II titles for Coe-Brown on Sunday at Plymouth State University.<\/p>\n

Fellow senior Sunny Nomula finished third in the 1,000, fourth in the 1,500 and anchored the fourth-place 4×800 relay, and senior Elias Warner finished second in the shot put.<\/p>\n

Juniors Luc Kerouac (sixth 1,000) and Cameron Lee (sixth 55-meter hurdles) rounded out Coe-Brown\u2019s individual scorers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey came out with their \u2018A\u2019 games today and they really stepped it up,\u201d Zink said. \u201cJamie and Sunny, there were stud racehorses today and they carried us through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike last year when the Bears scored 101 points (runner-up Oyster River scored 34) and scored in nine events with contributions from a variety of athletes, Coe-Brown entered Sunday\u2019s championship with the top seed in six events, three of them from Lano, and relied much more heavily on the team\u2019s top athletes to perform to those standards.<\/p>\n

Lano took an early lead in the 3,000 and controlled the pace the entire way to win without too much trouble, but that was anything but the case with the 1,000.<\/p>\n

Lano, ranked No. 3 in the nation in the 1,000, battled with Hanover\u2019s Lucian Gleiser the entire way and dove over the line in 2:27.71, just .09 seconds behind Gleiser. Both runners broke the preview Division II record of 2:32.40, set by Bow\u2019s Jonathan Vinnenberg in 2012, but it wasn\u2019t enough for Lano to hold his top seed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew going into the 3,000 that it was a race he could control, more than the other two races,\u201d Zink said. \u201cHe was very comfortable in that 3,000. The recovery between the 3000 and 1000 wasn\u2019t really in question. It was between the 1,000 and the 1,500 that was the question mark about how he could recover from that. But he knew the team rested on his shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lano sat behind the leaders in the 1,500, but pulled ahead with two laps to go to defeat Portsmouth Christian\u2019s Jonas Teeter and Kearsarge\u2019s Daniel Dalbec by two seconds for his second state title of the day.<\/p>\n

Coe-Brown\u2019s relays also provided valuable points, with Kerouac, junior Landon Graveline, Spina and Nomula finishing fourth in 4×800, and Kerouac, sophomore Blake Spina, Nomula and Lano finishing fifth in the 4×400.<\/p>\n

Coe-Brown expected the meet to be close, but John Stark wasn\u2019t expected to be the main challenger.<\/p>\n

Stark took an early lead through the field events thanks to junior Rio Calle\u2019s victory in the high jump (cleared 6-1 in a jump off) and second-place finish in the long jump, and a win from junior Joel Douzanis in the shot put (47-2.5), who beat his personal record by more than three feet to outdo his fourth seed.<\/p>\n

Seniors Logan Montgomery (second 300, fifth high jump) and Eli Lemire (fifth 1,000), and junior Sam Kinsey-Turner (third high jump) were John Stark\u2019s other individual scorers, while Calle, Lemire, senior Alex Keirstead and Montgomery formed the third-place 4×400.<\/p>\n

The team title came down to the penultimate event, the 4×400 relay, with the Generals just six points behind the Bears. Stark competed in the second heat, posting a time that would end up securing third in the event, meaning that Coe-Brown had to score at least two points in the 4×400 to defend its title.<\/p>\n

Just as he had all day, Lano delivered, anchoring the fifth-place relay that produced exactly the two points required to lift Coe-Brown to the title.<\/p>\n

\u201cI give (John Stark) a lot of credit,\u201d Zink said. \u201cThey put together a heck of a 4×400 and gave us a scare. It was those two points that helped us win. Any one of those times where we change one position around, we lose those two points.\u201d<\/p>\n

For John Stark head coach Joel Kress, who revived the Generals\u2019 indoor track program last year after being dormant for over a decade, coming home to Weare with a runner-up plaque was far greater than anything he expected for his squad of just seven boys.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew we had a good team and we knew we had a chance for third place and an outside chance for second,\u201d Kress said. \u201cThe kids outperformed all expectations. All our kids went wild. It was awesome to watch. Coe-Brown is such a talented, deep team, we didn\u2019t even have them in our sights, but then we realized \u2018holy moly, we might actually do this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Souhegan (43), Portsmouth Christian (28) and Monadnock (26) rounded out the top five team scores.<\/p>\n

Bishop Brady (14) finished 12th behind senior Josh Gentchos\u2019 title in the 300 (36.03 seconds) and fourth-place finish in the 55 dash.<\/p>\n

Merrimack Valley (10) tied for 13th with Pride junior Mychal Reynolds winning the 600 (1:27.35).<\/p>\n

Bow (9) finished 15th and was led by Alden Betterley (fourth 1,000), Kody McCranie (sixth 300) and the fourth-place 4×400 of Betterley, Thomas Sargent, Owen Miller and McCranie.<\/p>\n

Dalbec (third 1,500) led Kearsarge (6) to 18th.<\/p>\n

The team standings on the girls\u2019 side went as expected with Oyster River winning five and scoring in nine of the 13 events to cruise to the title with 100 points.<\/p>\n

Kearsarge finished second with 36 points and was led by sophomore Maelle Jacques\u2019 victory in the high jump at 5-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seniors Molly Ellison (second 3,000, fourth 1,500) and Amelia Lefebvre (third high jump), and the second-place 4×400 of Ellison, junior Ellie Wimer, sophomore Juliet Faria and Lefebvre scored the other points for the Cougars.<\/p>\n

Newmarket (28), Kennett (28) and Sanborn (23.5) rounded out a tightly-contested top five, with Bow (19) tying for sixth behind junior Hannah Pawlowski\u2019s title in the 600 (1:40.60). Sophomores Charlotte Larochelle (fourth long jump) and Julia Hou (fourth 1,000), and the sixth-place 4×200 of Pawlowski, Larochelle, Camden Wilson and Emily Fauteux also scored for the Falcons.<\/p>\n

Isabella Grenier came in third in the shot put, Bristol Shirland finished fourth in the 55 hurdles and also anchored the fifth-place 4×200 with Shannon Ross, Delaney Manning and Tessa Kouchoukos as Coe-Brown (12) tied for 11th overall.<\/p>\n

Belmont\u2019s Ava Lacasse (fourth 55 dash, fourth 300), Adeline Takantjas (sixth 55 hurdles) and sixth-place 4×400 (Jaelyn Nialetz, Eleni Papadopoulos, Takantjas and Lacasse) led the Raiders to a tie for 13th (10 points).<\/p>\n

John Stark\u2019s fifth-place 4×800 (Kayla Barriere, Ayris Beliveau, Rylee Barnard and Anna Chasse) led the Generals to a tie for 22nd and MV\u2019s Sydney Spack (sixth 600) scored the only point for the 25th-place Pride.<\/p>\n

Division I<\/p>\n

Concord junior Ella Goulas won the high jump, clearing 5-4, to highlight the night session at Plymouth State for the Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n

Bedford (74 points), Exeter (54) and Pinkerton (52) were the top three girls\u2019 teams. Concord finished seventh with 20.5 points.<\/p>\n

Senior Morgan Doherty (fourth 55 hurdles, sixth long jump), junior Madeline Muller (fourth 600) and senior Kelley Mikelson (tied fifth high jump) also scored for the Tide.<\/p>\n

The boys\u2019 sixth-place 4×200 of sophomores Tim Fahnbulleh and Deagan Hines, junior Connor McGahan and senior Jackson Borkush scored Concord\u2019s only point in the boys\u2019 standings. Concord finished 18th.<\/p>\n

Pinkerton (111), Bedford (72) and Nashua South (42) were the top three teams.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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