Rebels' depth leads to Class B track crown
Javelin thrower Taylor Marge contributed to the Rebels' success.
The South Kingstown boys outdoor track team may have only had two individual winners at Saturday’s R.I. Interscholastic League Class B Championships, but the host Rebels were still running fast enough and throwing far enough to capture the team title.
``I’m really proud of my guys,’’ said coach Pat Egan, whose South Kingstown squad held off second-place Mount Pleasant, 146 ½-125. ``I think some of them were still tired from the meet before, which was just four days earlier. But we have got quite a bit of depth, so we were able to cover most events. I think we scored in just about every event except the 3,000.’’
South Kingstown was particularly strong in the jumps, accumulating 54 points in those events, as seniors Sean Meehan and Artur Belov captured the Rebels’ lone gold medals in the long jump and triple jump, respectively.
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In addition to winning the long jump with his leap of 21 feet, 4 ½ inches, Meehan took second in the 400 meters and ran a leg of South Kingstown’s 4x400-meter relay that placed third.
Belov, meanwhile, added to his triple jump win of 40 feet, 1 inch by placing third in the long jump and fourth in the 110-meter high hurdles.
Silver medalists contributing to the Rebels' point total were Justin Stadnick (800 meters), Josh Perry (high jump), Nate Crouse (pole vault), Mason Wilson (long jump), Carl Reynolds (hammer), Taylor Marge (javelin) and the 4x100-meter relay team of Evan Keith, Matthew Floskis, John Zhang and Wilson.
Meehan, Marge and Stadnick teamed up with Micheal Giles to finish third in the 4x400. Stadnick also anchored the third-place 4x800 relay, which included Connor, Daniel McCloskey and Connor Nelson. Derek Gould picked up six points for his third-place finish in the hammer, as did Marge in the high jump, Giles in the triple jump, Wilson in the 100 and Stadnick in the 1,500.