Catching up with a report from East Greenwich assistant boys indoor track coach Paul Evasick on the Avengers' win over Toll Gate last Friday:

EGHS 71 vs TG 24 EGHS 4-1 overall

Hurdler establishes New school record

Friday night the avengers moved to 4-1 on the indoor season easily outpacing TollGate HS. The Avengers have one more meet left to the regular season on Wednesday evening at CCRI Lincoln, West Warwick and Cranston West are the opponents.

The avengers continue to show their strength and depth this indoor season as they cruised to an easy victory over TG with several key athletes on the sidelines. The avengers still put up an impressive points total without the services of Junior captain Mark Feigen and Sophmore Nick Ross. Coach E, “it was good to see some of the kids that never get a chance to score in meet do that for us this evening, athletes like Senior Gabe Hayek 3rd in the 3000M, Sophomore Austin Schaefer 3rd in 1000M.”

Three athletes that had big nights were Senior captain Wes Evasick, Senior (outdoor captain) Mark Regini and Senior captain Andrew Glod. Wes broke his own record he established last year in the 45 hurdles and lowered his time by another .10th He took first place in 6.7 seconds. Mark threw the shot put 5 feet better then his current PR and took 2nd place with a throw of 42’-9”. Andrew laid down an impressive 600M run to take home first place 1:28.4 almost a full second better then his previous best which vaulted him into the number 1 seed in the state in that event.

Coach E. “ Mark’s throw really opens up some possibilities for us going into championship season, anything over 42’ puts us consistently on the scoreboard, if he gets to 45’ he will be able to compete form a top six spot at States and a chance to go to New England’s. It was great to see that production out of Mark tonight, coach Mark Davis has been doing a great job with all the weightmen this season and some results are starting to show.” “Wes has been working hard all season to get ready for his championship season run. He really wants to compete for the state title and has been narrowing the gap between himself and the top hurdler in the state Kevin Alexander of NK. Wes still has a ways to go but every night like this where he improves he builds his confidence and rededicates himself to the chase.” “Andrew has been on a mission since last season to be the number 1 600M guy in this state, it looks like he has the right attitude and work ethic to make it happen this season.”

The rest of the team did their usual, Tom Davis 1st in weight throw 58-3, Alex Iwamoto 1st in High jump 5-8, Harrison Saunders 1st in 45 dash 5.8 and 2nd in 300M 40.9, Mike Pezzullo two first in the 3000M and the 1000M 9:25.2 and 2:56.1 respectively. Akash Chougule 1st in the 1500M 4:29.2. The 4X1 relay also took first with a season best time of 1:12.8, Iwamoto, Saunders, Schoettler, Baker.

The team is in action again in a make up meet Wednesday night against WW, CW. We will be resting many of our stars as we get ready for the Suburban Division championships this coming Saturday at CCRI Lincoln.