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At yesterday's Division 1 relays, Methuen earned three qualifiers for the Mass state meet.  In the 4x200, Josh Adams, Josue Henriquez, Adam Avedsian and Mark Dougherty finished fifth overall in a time of 1:34.94.

Adderly Gonzalez won the 1,000, Luis Cruz took the 2-mile and they ran on the winning 4x400 relay as Lawrence downed Tewksbury 49-37 for its first MVC win in at least five years. Sam Kim and Marco Belliard also ran on the relay.

Newburyport improved to 5-1 with a win over North Reading as Kyle LeBlanc (55m, shot put), Sean Hickman (2-mile), Tom Svirsky (300), Tyler Stotz (high jump), Thayer Adsit (600), and Greg Englehart (1000)

Newburyport improved to 5-1 by defeating Triton as Kyle LeBlanc (55m), Sean Hickman (2-mile), Tom Svirsky (300), Thayer Adsit (600), and Greg Englehart (1000) all picked up first place finishes.

Methuen senior Josh Adams placed second in the long jump, at 21-1 and then finished 5th in the 55-meter dash (6.69) at the Dartmouth Relays. Both results qualified Adams for the Massachusetts Class A meet, on Feb. 21.  Also qualifying for the states were Stephen Fitzsimmons and Andrew Stamatopulos who finished the two mile with times of 9:56.10 and 9:57.98, respectively, and Jared Reddy who ran the mile in 4:32.38.

Andover's Chris McConnell won the 55-meter dash in a time of 6.52 at yesterday's Winter Festival, at the ReggieLewis Center. MConnell then ran with Mark Vetere, Brenden Campbell and Kerrick Stevens to win the 4x200 in a time of 1:32.65.

Haverhill and Central Catholic boys and girls indoor track split with the Central boys winning 59-27 and the Haverhill girls winning 51-35.

On the boys' side, Central got huge contributions from Mike Sullivan, who won the hurdles in 6.6, and Chris Wilbar, who took first in the 600 with a time of 1:21.4. Also picking up wins for Central were John DiBitetto (50 yard dash), Andy Scott (1,000), Kevin Soucey (mile), Jeremy Hall (shot put), and Armando Bucciarelli (high jump). 

Triton got a solid win over Lynnfield as Billy Tindle (hurdles and high jump), Andrew Buckless (2-mile), Tony Mirandi (600), Zach Peabody (1000), Nate Shelter (mile), Nate Allard (shot put), and the 4x400 relay team of Adam Jones, Jared White, Buckelss, and Peabody all picked up first place finishes.

Kevin Johnston (40) and Stephen Levarity (shot put) each picked up first place finishes for Amesbury, despite the Indians loss to Hamilton-Wenham.

 The Timberlane boys and girls track teams both threw around their weight to finish second at 11-team meets at UNH.

For the Owl boys, Cam Lyle was first in the shot put (48-7 1/2) and Casey McDonnell was third while Vicky Polito was first in the shot put for the girls. Also for the boys, Chris Dow was first in the 600 while Katherine Grzejka,  (long jump, 16-3 1/4), Taylor Ordway (300, 45.7) and the 4x 160-meter relay also grabbed firsts.