Sports
By Don Lyons - October 27, 2005
Lauren Lucas of Tisbury and Signe Baumhoffer of West Tisbury flew over the hurdles but did not figure in the scoring. Photos by Ralph Stewart
Island schools fit to be tied
The annual quadrilateral interscholastic track meet at the MVRHS oval, Friday, was like no other previous meet in its 31-year history. (According to Bob Tankard, former PE teacher at Tisbury, later principal at West Tisbury, he and Joe Thibodeau of the Edgartown school organized the first meet to replace flag football, "the year the new West Tisbury school opened" which, Manny Estrella says, was 1974.)
The Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury girls tied, 31-31, and now share the Island girls crown. The Tisbury and Edgartown boys also tied, 35-35 jointly occupying the Island throne.
The first four athletes in each event, except the relay, scored for their school - five, three, two or one points. Only the first two finishers scored in the relay, five for the winner, three for the runners-up.
It was an overcast, cool day, not bad for a track meet.
Meaghan Dreyer of West Tisbury was all alone at the finish line of the mile.
The girls meet
OB and WT were neck and neck with OB one point ahead, 12-11, after completion of the three field events. Tisbury was not far behind with eight.
Shot Put: (1) Maili Scott, WT, 21' 3 1/4", (2) Olivia Gross, WT 21' 1" (3) Taylor Hughes, OB, 20' 9 3/4" (4) Maggie Howard, OB, 19' 1/4".
Discus: (1) Taylor Hughes, OB, 54' 5" (2) Gail Herman, OB, 52' 9 1/2" (3) Eva Fisher, Edg., 48' 9", (4) Sarah Hall, OB 45' 4".
Long Jump: (1) Allie Flake, Tis., 12' 5 1/2" (2) Andrea Tierney, Tis., 11' 9 1/2", (3) Signe Baumhofer, WT, 10' 9", (45) Mia Benedetto, WT, 10' 8 1/2".
Oak Bluffs edged further ahead in the sprints collecting 11 points to WT's nine.
100 meter dash: (1) Susannah Clancy, WT 15.07 (2) Caroline Davey, OB, 15.19 (3) Allie Flake, Tis, 15,22 (4) Alicia Oliveira, OB, 15.36.
200 meter dash: (1) Caroline Davey, OB, 31.94 (2) Susannah Clancy, WT, 31.97 (3) Angela Casey, OB, 32.80 (4) Crystal Miske, WT, 33.5.
Tisbury produced the winning hurdlers: (1) Allie Flake, the high pointer with 12, was first at 8.48 followed by (2) Andrea Tierney, Tis, 8.5 (3) Abbey Entner, WT, 8.73 (4) Taylor Perrotta, OB, 8.9.
Owen Villard gave Tisbury a first in the shot put with a 33'11" heave.
The up-Islanders edged ahead, picking up six points in the mile to OB's two (1) Meaghan Dreyer, WT, 7:13 (2) Eva Faber, Edg, 7:27.1 (3) Taylor Perrotta, OB, 7:58.1 (4) Hallie D'Angelo, WT, 7:58.5.
Oak Bluffs needed to win the final event, the 4x100 relay, and they did. (1) OB, 1.04.0 (2) WT, 1:05.7 (3) Tis., 1:08.4 (4) Edg., 1:10.8.
Final tallies: Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury 31, Tisbury 19, Edgartown 5.
The boys meet
Tisbury flexed its muscles in the field events, leading Edgartown 18-11 after the shot, discus, and long jump.
Shot Put: (1) Owen Villard, Tis., 33' 11" (2) Erik Dolliver, Tis., 33' 1/2" (3) Ray Perry, Edg., 31' 9 1/2", (4) Fillipi Gomes, Edg., 24' 6 1/2".
Discus: (1) Ray Perry, Edg., 96' 7" (2) Owen Villard, Tis., 88' 1" (3) Lance Todd, OB, 79' 11" (4) Devin Balboni, OB, 76' 10".
Long Jump: (1) Erik Dolliver, Tis., 13' 8 1/2" (2) Fillipi Gomes, Edg., 13' 7" (3) Liam Gude, Tis., 12' 11" (4) Ronnie Miske, WT, 12' 10 1/2".
Erik Dolliver, the boys meet high scorer with 13 points, won the 100 for Tisbury at 13.45, followed by (2) Fillipi Gomes, Edg., 29.01 (3) Filipe Freitas, Edg., 13.72 (4) Hunter Cottrell, OB, 14.20.
Darren Gazaille ran the third leg of Edgartown's winning relay team.
200 Meter dash: (1) Fillipi Gomes, Edg., 28.98 (2) Felipe Freitas, Edg., 29.01 (3) Josh Baker, OB, 29.44 (4) Ronnie Miske, WT, 29.76.
Hurdles: Derek Andrade, Tis., 8.67 (2) Luke Dunlop, OB, 8.86 (3) Liam Gude, Tis., 8.90 (4) Lamar Moreis, Edg., 9.38.
Mile: (1) Richard McAuliffe, Edg., 5:48.7 (2) Max Conley, WT, 5:57.6 (3) Mark Nickowal, Tis., 6:12 (4) Taylor Smith, WT, 6:27.8
As in the girls meet, the final 4x100 relay race would determine the outcome. Edgartown needed to win and it did: (1) Edg., :59.3 (2) Tis., 1:02.6 (3) WT 1:04.6 (4) OB 1:07.3
The Charter school entered runners in the 100 and the hurdles but finished out of the point spread.
Final tallies: the Edgartown and Tisbury boys tied at 35. Oak Bluffs finished with 9 and West Tisbury, 6.
Each of the four competing schools had earned a slice of the championship pies and there were smiles all around.
