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Thursday,
May 28, 1996
BG's Turcott answers
call
By
ANDRES CAAMANO
Telegraph Correspondent
Pressure.
What pressure?
Bishop Guertin ninth-grader Jen Turcott responded to her coach's
challenge with four first-place finishes at the Telegraph
Junior Olympics on Monday at Nashua High School.
"Coach (Mike Palermo) told me to win them all, so there was no pressure
at all," said Turcott, who won her specialty, the 400-meter dash, but
added wins in the 100- and 200-meter dash events and ran a leg on the
winning 4x200 relay.
Team highlights belonged to the Londonderry boys and girls teams,
which swept the 7th/8th grade division. The boys dominated their division,
winning seven of 12 events to beat Mastricola Middle School of Merrimack,
148-102, and the girls also beat Merrimack for the team title,
94-70.
In the ninth-grade competition, the Hollis-Brookline program held
off the Turcott-led Cardinals, and the Merrimack boys clipped Alvirne
with a dramatic finish in the last event of the day.
Turcott, who walked away with Telegraph Junior Olympic t-shirts for
almost every day of the week, was surprised with her performance. Typically,
Turcott runs only in the 400-meter dash. For this event, though, she was
asked by Palermo to run in the extra events.
The meet, which pitted the area's junior high school track
and field athletes on Memorial Day, had over 20 schools
participate this year.
One of the most impressive showings was by the Londonderry boys,
who finished with firsts in the 100 hurdles, 400, 800, 1600, shot put,
and in the 4x100 and 4x200 relays. The team earned a dominating victory
over Merrimack in the 4x200, beating Merrimack by almost nine seconds.
The Londonderry girls finished with firsts in the 800, 1600, shot
put and long jump.
While Merrimack could not finish first in team scoring, it swept
the MVP honors in the 7th/8th grade division. The MVP that was chosen
for the boys division was Bryan Fiscale,
as he finished first in
the 100-meter dash,
holding off Derek Dimartino of Timberlane by three-tenths of a second,
finishing at 11.95.
In the girls division, Jen Chouinere, also of Merrimack, earned the
MVP by finishing first in the long jump, trouncing the competition
by over a foot, with a jump of 14-3. Chouinere also earned a second-place
finish in the 400 meters, losing out to Blair Curran of Nashua Catholic
by two-tenths of a second.
The winners in the ninth grade boys division also was Merrimack,
which had to fight off the push from Alvirne. The Tomahawks defeated
the Broncos, 72-69, with the Tomahawks holding off the Broncos by edging
the Broncos by one-hundreth of a second in the 4x200 relay for a third-place
finish, and as a result, received two points that Alvirne would have
needed to earn the top spot.
There were co-MVPs chosen in the ninth grade boys division: Andy
Paul of Elm Street Junior High and Phil West of Londonderry. Paul
won the 1600-meter run (4:49.0) and the 800 (2:10.0). West also was
a double winner, taking the 200 (24.2) and the 100 (11.8). He was second
in the long jump.
The winners of the freshmen girls division was Hollis-Brookline,
which finished first with a score of 113, holding off Bishop Guertin,
which totaled 84 points.
For the Cavaliers, coach
Lou Korcoulis considered the victory only possible with the depth
his team displayed on the track.
“The kids performed real well. In most every event, we did a bang-up
job, almost always coming away with points," noted Korcoulis. "We have
a nice bunch of freshmen, and they are very competitive. They were
very focused...having the great team depth definitely helped us win." |
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