Clippers break school records

Sean Laverty (3000 meters) and Meaghan Scullin (long jump) break Cumberland records

It was a weekend that featured several indoor track & field records broken at one local high school and one local thrower who finished with a pair of second-place finishes while competing in two meets held in different states.

At the East Coast Invitational, which took place Friday and Saturday at the Providence Career & Technical Academy field house, Cumberland High senior Meaghan Scullin captured the long jump with a school-record leap of 18-5 ¼. Also in the same meet, Scullin placed third in the high jump (5-2).

Joining Scullin in the gold-medal club at the East Coast Invitational was classmate Madison Soullier, who cap- tured the 55-meter hurdles (9.3).

Cumberland senior Sean Laverty also figured in the Clippers’ recordbreaking crew. Competing in the 34th annual Yale High School Invitational on Saturday, Laverty set a school record in the 3,000-meter run (8:36.39).

Woonsocket junior Jared Briere competed and fared quite well in both aforementioned track invitationals. On Friday, Briere went to the Yale meet and scored a second-place finish in the weight throw (66-2). Competing in the same event a day later but this time in Providence, Briere once again earned runner-up status (68-1 ½).