Blue Devil Relay Crushes Field
The Huntington High School boys’ winter track and field team turned it up a few notches late last week as the Blue Devil freshman/sophomore 4 x 200m relay crushed a field of more than three dozen opponents, crossing the finish line in 1:40 to take first place in the Suffolk Winter Relays.
Freshman Tyriek Johnson ran the relay’s first leg and gave sophomore Conor Reilly a slight lead over Brentwood, Longwood and Commack. Reilly then put his foot to the floor and in the first curve opened a gap of about 20 meters.
“I was at the other end of the track and there was actually a one to two second time span where you couldn’t see the athletes running because they were behind the bleachers,” head coach Ron Wilson recalled. “That’s when I saw Reilly open up on the other three teams that had appeared to be right on his heels when Johnson handed him the baton.”
When his leg was complete, Reilly passed off to sophomore Jared Thorbourne, who easily increased that 20 meter lead to about 50 meters over the rest of the field. Thorbourne then made the exchange to sophomore Tyre Brown who, after seeing the huge lead his teammates had given him, eased up in the last 100 meters before claiming the gold medal in classy style.
Huntington’s freshman/sophomore sprint medley relay also placed first, finishing in a time of 4:01. In that race, the rules require the first leg to run 400m, with the second and third legs running 200m each, respectively, before the anchor leg runs the final 800m.
Thorbourne was the lead leg for the first 400m. He jumped out first and established an early lead before handing off to Reilly, who increased the Blue Devil advantage. Sophomore Trayvon Toney adeptly took care of the third leg of the exciting race and sophomore Ryan Ackerman, a talented distance runner, sprinted home with a clear lead of 40 meters, much to Wilson’s delight.
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