A report on this week's meet from East Greenwich assistant coach Paul Evasick:

EGHS Boys Track Results:

East Greenwich 45 vs Bishop Hendricken 50
East Greenwich 84 vs Pilgrim 11
Avengers: 3 wins, 1 loss on the season

Exciting Early season meet!!!

East Greenwich and Bishop Hendricken boys Indoor Track staged a great early season meet. The meet was nip and tuck the whole way with the score tied 45-45 going into the 4X1 lap relay. Hendricken has not lost an Indoor meet in over 10 years. There were some nice surprises for the avengers and some disappointments.
Coach E-“It was a classic meet, the way a competition was meant to be. Both teams poured their hearts out and there were some great performances.”

Sophomore sensation Nick Ross continued his assault on the EG record books and all other RI runners who stand in his way. He opened up the meet with a surprisingly easy win over Bronson Venable( 20078 Cross-Counrty State Champ) in the 3000M. Nick put the hammer down with 6 laps to go and then coasted in to his second best time ever of 9:08.4 Nick followed that up with a first place and new school record in the 1000M later in the meet, 2:39.9 “ Nick is just an outstanding runner, as I have said all along, the scary part is we have not seen his best yet. He is better and stronger every time he steps on the track.”

The Avengers kept the momentum going in the next two events as Junior Harrison Saunders and Senior Captain Wes Evasick took home first places in the 45 dash and 45 hurdles respectively, 5.8 and 6.8 seconds. Junior Captain Mark Feigen put down a personal best in the 1500M and finished first in a time of 4:19.1. Senior captain Andrew Glod pulled off an unexpected first place with his season best time in the 600M 1:29.9.

The disappointments came as junior Harrison Saunders put up a personal best time of 39.7 in the 300 and then was disqualified for cutting in too soon. He lost a second place finish and Hendricken then swept all 9 points in the event. Tom Davis had a mix up in his timing of events and missed his flight of the Shot Put and thus again the avengers were swept in that event. Tom Davis however wound up throwing a personal best in the weight throw 59-11.75 a New School record and taking a suprising first place finish in that event. Coach E – “It was just a great meet all around, whichever team wound up losing can just play what-if scenarios for almost all the events. We happened to come up short, but had some better then expected performances and we get another crack at Hendricken at the division championships. I know these boys will be hungry again!”

Coach E- “ We knew the team needed to be ahead by more then 5 points going into the relay in order to pull out the win tonight, BH has just a tremendous 4X1 relay and we would not and did not match their time.” I think the kids are disappointed but we as coaches are truly happy with the great performances and knowing we are right there with Hendricken. We get another shot at them on February 2nd, and the results have the potential to be reversed. Don’t miss it, because we won’t!!!
EG is off to the Dartmouth and Yale relays the next few weekends and back in action in the RIIL against Toll Gate on Friday January 25th.