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Marina Monrabal picked up not one, but two first-place finishes in East Lyme May 14.
It was a great way for the junior to get ready for the ECC and Class MM state championship meets still to come.
Unfortunately, for the Centaurs, it didn’t help all that much against the host Vikings who had a little too much firepower and scored the 111-39 victory.
“East Lyme has a heck of a program, a good tradition of track-and-field and some good coaching. We knew it would be a tough one,” said Woodstock Academy coach Josh Welch. “We just wanted to see if we could poke some holes in there and it was nice to see the 4 x800 team win by quite a margin. We went 1-2-3 in the 2-mile and picked up other points where we could.”
It ended the regular season for the Centaurs who finished with an 0-3 mark both in Eastern Connecticut Division I competition and overall.
“It was very quick,” Welch said of the regular season.
Monrabal won both the 100 and 200-meter sprints for Woodstock Academy.
In the process, the junior also qualified for state competition in both events.
“She had a very good day,” Welch said. “It’s great to have some sprinting talent. I did not really expect that level of talent that we would get from her at the beginning of the season.”
It was her first time running the 200-meter this season.
“We kind of threw it together and gave her a couple of workouts to prep her, thought she could get ready for states and she did. It was great to see. Putting points up against East Lyme was rather difficult and she was a great help in that,” Welch said.
Freshman Linsey Arends qualified for state championship competition by winning the 3,200-meter in 12 minutes, 10 seconds.
She already had qualified in the one-mile which gives Welch and her options in the states.
Gohn also placed second in the 800m against East Lyme.
Iris Bazinet finished runner up in the mile with Alexia Bourbeau just behind her in third.
Maddie Grube took second place in the 100-meter hurdles and third in both the long and triple jump.
The 4x800 meter relay team of Alexia Borbeau, Danuse Horka, Arrends and Meg Gohn also qualified for states in the win over the Vikings.
The quartet is also not all that far off the Woodstock Academy school record.
“They are within 12 seconds. It’s not super-close, but at the same time, it was the first time that the group was together and I know each one of them has a few seconds that they can shed. They can, at least, get in the neighborhood if they push for it. It will be interesting to see and I think they will be competitive in the ECC with that,” Welch said. “Right now, it’s not a super-competitive seed time for the states, but 12 seconds down, it could be in the ballpark to win a medal.”
The ECC championship took place May 20 —too late for this edition.
The 4 x 100 relay team of Monrabal, Gillian Price, Aochen Li and Grube has qualified for state competition and so has the 4 x 400 team of Gohn, Bourbeau, Arends and Horka.
Grube is also qualified in the long jump.
“It’s a pretty good number (of competitors) and it’s spread out over a few different events,” Welch said. “It’s nice to put a couple of relay teams in there so that we get some bodies in there and get them used to it and build off that,” Welch said.
The Centaurs will compete in the Class MM state championship May 29.
Marc Allard
Sports Information Director
The Woodstock Academy
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