Epping track wins first meet
The Epping High School boys track and field team won its first meet in what coach Peter Foster called a “long, long, long time.”
Mike MacLeay, Dan Degrandpre, Chris Dunleavy and Dave Deschene won events for the Blue Devils, who racked up 171 points. Sant Bani (129), Sunapee (91½), Mascomba Valley (72½) and Moultonborough (27) rounded out the scoring in the five-team meet on May 12.
MacLeay, a senior, won the 200- and 400-meter dashes in respective times of 24.07 and 55.51 seconds. Degrandpre won the 100-meter dash in 11.93; Dunleavy, the long jump with a leap of 18 feet, 2 3/4 inches; and Deschene, the shot put with a heave of 35-10 1/2.
Epping’s 4×100 and 4×400 relays also won, the 4×100 in 46.73, the 4×400 in 3 minutes, 53.27 seconds.
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