Hall boys overtake on NFA in final event to win Class LL indoor track title

Hall wins 4x440 relay to edge Wildcats for the team crown 60-59

New Haven — Hall won the finale event of the night, the 4x400-meter relay, to overtake Norwich Free Academy and win the CIAC Class LL indoor track and field championship on Saturday night at the Floyd Little Athletic Center.

The Warriors, who needed to win the event to overtake the Wildcats, scored the 10 points needed to edge NFA, 60-59, for the team title. The team of Joseph Morin, Tobias Ruffo, Muhammad Ali and Miller Anderson) won in 3 minutes, 31.34 seconds.

Jahiem Spruill won the long jump and placed second in the high jump to help lead NFA.

The Wildcats also picked up individual victories from juniors Osaretin Osagie in the 55-meter hurdles and Jacob Bazinet in the pole vault.

Spruill captured the long jump with a leap of 21 feet, 8.25 inches, then came back later in the meet to clear 6-2 and place second in the long jump.

Osagie, meanwhile, won the hurdles in 7.89 seconds and Bazinet cleared 13-6 to win the pole vault.

NFA, which finished second to East Lyme in last week's Eastern Connecticut Conference Division I championships, was also bolstered by the 2-3 finish of Cameron Belton and Adelino Daviega in the shot put. Belton had a throw of 53-4.5 and Daviega was close behind with a throw of 52-3.5.

The Wildcats' other place-winner was Nazaiah Paul, who finished fourth in the 300 (37.24).

Girls

Allyson Lewis set a meet record in the high jump while Paige and Madison Martin finished 1-2, respectively, in the pole vault to help the NFA girls finish fifth (34). Danbury edged Glastonbury, 74-73, for the team title.

Lewis cleared 5-6, tying the Class LL record set by Manchester's Elizabeth Lodge in 2016, while Paige Martin cleared 11-3 to win the pole vault followed by sister Madison, who vaulted 10-6.

The Wildcats' other points came via Kayla Park's fifth-place finish in the 1,000 (3:11.35), Jazz Toussaint's fifth-place finish in the 55 hurdles (9.32), and a fifth by the 4x800 relay team of Emma Ricketts, Catie Shannon, Eve Buckridge and Park (9:59.59).

Fairfield Ludlowe's Tess Stapleton had a big day, setting a meet record in the 55 hurdles in 8.25 seconds (the old record was 8.35 seconds by Simsbury's Vickie Milledge in 2016), and then coming back later in the meet to capture the long jump with a leap of 18 feet, 1/4 inch.