ConVal’s boys’ and girls’ track and field teams each finished in third place at a meet at Hollis-Brookline High School on May 9, an event that featured a new school record in the boys’ 4x100 relay.

The boys scored 71 points, with the 4x100-meter relay team of juniors Anthony Cadwallader and Jack Harris, along with sophomores Kendrick Edwards and Elliot Featherstone, breaking the ConVal school record with their 45.09-second run, besting the previous record of 45.42 seconds.

Harris also won the pole vault with a jump of 10 feet, and Edwards won the long jump with a leap of 18-feet, 8.75-inches. Other first-place finishers were sophomore Bishop Benham with a 35-foot, 8-inch shot put throw, and sophomore Maxx Telofski with a 98-foot, 8-inch discus throw.

For the girls, who scored 50 points, junior Tasha MacNeil won three events: the 100-meter run in 13.08 seconds, the 200-meter run in 27.58 seconds and the javelin with a throw of 100-feet, 8-inches. Other first-place finishers were senior Brianna Decker with a 28-foot, 10-inch triple jump, and junior Elise Robbins with an 8-foot pole vault.

GIRLS’ TENNIS’ConVal breaksinto win column

An inexperienced ConVal girls’ tennis team hosted an inexperienced Milford team Tuesday, and the Cougars notched their first victory of the season Tuesday, sweeping the match 6-0.

Christine Broderick won 8-0 at first singles, as did Makenna Proctor at second singles and Abby Shumway at fourth singles. Ally Hodgen was an 8-2 winner at third singles.

The team of Broderick and Proctor won 8-1 at first doubles,and Hodgen and Shumway were 8-3 victors at second doubles.

Before this year, ConVal had not fielded a team since 2019. This year’s 12-player squad includes Inaya Vaidya, Hazel Armstrong-McEvoy, Proctor, Emma Rodenhiser, Hodgen, Annabelle DeLisle, Savannah Bremer, Shumway, Campbell Maggs, Gesu Saidova, Allie Larson and Broderick. They are coached by Liz MacEachran.

The team was 0-7 prior to Tuesday’s win, including a 9-0 loss to Souhegan Monday. Broderick lost 8-0 at first singles, as did Hodgen at fourth singles and the third doubles team of DeLisle and Shumway.

Proctor, Larson and DeLisle each fell 8-1 at second, third and fifth singles, respectively, as did the first doubles team of Broderick and Proctor and the second doubles team of Larson and Hodgen. Shumway lost 8-7 at sixth singles.

"I'm feeling good. I think it's not fun to lose, but just being able to play tennis is really fun. Even though we might not get a win, just the little things matter and so you just have to look at the little things that you do and then it's super fun,” Proctor said. 

Proctor added that it’s good they are a new team, "because we're all in the same boat.”

“We all are lifting each other up and I think that we don't do hierarchy stuff so being new everyone is positive and cheering and no one looks down because you don't get the serve right,” she said. “Everyone is just continuing to stay positive and I think that really helps making this year an important one."

To give all the players a chance to play, matches can include non-scoring exhibition matches such as the one Bremer and Maggs won against Souhegan.

"I feel good. It's the first doubles match we've won, so I think it went well." Bremer said. "I think that for being all new we've done really well and grown a lot since the start of the season."

-- Maddie Carpentiere contributed to this story.

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