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 High jumper Matt Sidney ties league record with 6-9 jump

By Mike Berger
Citizen Staff

CHS junior Matt Sidney tied a Hockomock League Championship Meet record with a best jump of six feet, nine inches as he won the event and highlighted the team’s sixth-place finish in the league meet.

Sidney tied the mark of Phil Allessi of North Attleboro, who jumped the 6’9” mark in 1995. Recently, Sidney was jumping in the range of 6’2” to 6’3” and CHS head coach Chris Elgar said a goal was for Sidney to hit 6’5”. He will now move on to the Class C championships this weekend.

“To enjoy a five-inch personal improvement and break the CHS high jump record is amazing,” coach Chris Elgar said. “Matt is very close to adding 6’10” to his resume. Honestly, I would not have been surprised to see 6’6” or 6’7”, but what he did was beyond description. I have never in a decade heard the Reggie Lewis Center so quiet. You could hear his footsteps as he made his approach.

Besides Sidney’s achievement, Canton’s next highest finishers were junior Jon Vaughn, who finished third in the 55 meter hurdles with a best time of 8.24 seconds, and senior Christian Bates, who finished third in the 1,000 meter run with a time of 2:39.

Canton also had success in the long jump with three of the top 10 performers. Junior Jared Hobbs finished fourth at 18 feet, four inches, followed by junior Tom Kerikas (6^th, 17’1”) and freshman Joey Sabbatino (10^th, 13’6”).

In the preliminaries of the 55-meter hurdles, Vaughn finished fourth with a time of 8.32 seconds. Canton’s other entries in this event were Kerikas, who finished 15^th at 9.42 seconds, and junior Chris Haidul, who finished 19^th in 11.99 seconds.

Other Canton  finishers included (300 meter) Jordan Guyton, 7^th, 37.23 seconds, and Marty Fauche, 11^th, 38.72 seconds; (600) Chris Ha, 12^th, 1:34, Vlad Leopard, 13^th, 1:35, and Gautam Madineedi, 17^th, 1:38; (1,000) Robert  Bronstein, 18^th, 3:06; (mile) Joey Ward, 8^th, 4:59, Saeed Vossoughi, 12^th, 5:09, and Paul Damico, 26^th, 6:15; (two mile) Michael Bronstein, 9^th, 10:46, Sean Akey, 22^nd, 11:49, and Luke Hanna, 23^rd, 11:49; (high jump) Vaughn, T-8^th, 5’6”, and Fauche, T-14^th, 5’4”; (shot put) Chris Walker, 16^th, 36’4”, James Karnes, 21^st, 33’5”, and James Grella, 22^nd, 32’6”.

In the 55-meter dash preliminaries, junior Tyler Briggs finished 12^th at 7.17 seconds, followed by sophomore Derek Seto (7.42) and junior Wesley Mok (26^th, 8.83).  

February 18, 2010
 

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