Seekonk boys capture Div. 5 track crown

Although it didn’t have an athlete walk out of yesterday’s Div. 5 state meet with an individual championship, the Seekonk boys track team did enough to take the title at the Reggie Lewis Center.

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A dominant display of topthree finishes in two of the three relays, as well as second-place finishes by Henry Jordan and Andrew Cabral, carried the Warriors to the top spot (39 points) after finishing 23rd in the meet last year. Meanwhile, the Littleton girls team benefited from three gold finishes by Sarah Roffman en route to a winning score of 50 points for a third straight state title.

East Bridgewater tied Ipswich for second (34 points) in the boys meet, while Bromfield (42) finished second and Amesbury took third (38) for the girls.

“Every point matters in a meet like this, so we just kept plugging along,” Seekonk coach Matt McCartin said. “It’s kind of been the story of this team (not taking gold in events). We don’t get down, we just kept fighting.”

Jordan took second in the 1,000 meters with a time of 2:37.97, while Cabral finished second in the 2-mile (9:43.93). Jordan, Cabral, Brandon Gomes and Hunter Studley helped take second in the 4x800 relay (8:32.14), and Jake Gausland, Matt Silveira, Matt Dundas, and Matt Alvarez took third in the 4x200 relay (1:36.91)

“It’s just awesome. We have a great team,” Jordan said. “We worked so hard together. … Coming off last year, I just wanted to do better than I did. I did that in both the events I ran.”

On the girls side, Roffman cruised to a win in the 2-mile to set a new meet record, edged Murdock’s Lilly Digman in the 600 meters, and helped win the 4x800 relay.

Her twin sister, Kaitlyn, took third in the mile, while Kasey Ricard (shot put), McKenzie Clark (600) and Riley Clark (1,000) also had top-three finishes.

“This was probably the hardest (championship). We had a tough season,” Littleton coach Marc Saucier said. “We had a great team win.”

Only one other athlete finished with multiple championships, as Watertown’s Mange Camara barely missed out on meet records while placing first in the boys 55 meter dash (6.50) and the 300 (34.72). That helped his team finish tied for fourth , while Innovation Academy’s Aiden Felty scored most of his team’s points with a first-place finish in the shot put (64 feet, 8.5 inches) after setting the state record earlier this year.

Girls basketball

Ali Brigham scored 20 points, including the 1,000th of her career, as Franklin (17-1) earned a 53-51 win against Oliver Ames in the Hockomock League. … Katelyn Mollica dropped 23 points as Foxboro (15-2) coasted past Sharon, 61-34.

Boys hockey

It took only a matter of moments for any momentum Canton built with its first two leads to be wiped away by Hanover. But on the third occasion that the Bulldogs jumped in front, they learned from their previous letdowns and kept pushing.

Johnny Hagan and Chris Lavoie’s goals 39 seconds apart late in the second period were ultimately the difference as host Canton (18-0-0) remained undefeated by edging Hanover (14-2-2), 4-3.

“We got tested in this game in some ways that we hadn’t been tested before, in particular the pushback after we scored goals,” Canton coach Brian Shuman said. “We did what we had to . ... Just a good high school hockey game between two of the better teams in the state.”

Girls hockey

Olivia Lampasona lit the lamp four times and Elizabeth Loftus netted three, leading Watertown (2-16-1) to a 7-4 victory against Middlesex League foe Burlington.

Maggie Malloy notched the 100th point of her career, as Canton (10-3-5) recorded its fifth consecutive shutout, an 8-0 romp of Stoughton in the Hockomock League.