By Kim J. Harmon

NEW MILFORD – It wasn’t about finishing first, it was about taking a measure of themselves.

The Newtown High School boys’ track and field team headed into New Milford on Monday afternoon focused largely on the Green Wave – not that the Nighthawks expected to hand the Wave their first defeat of the season, but because they wanted to compete.

And compete they did.

Newtown went 2-1 on the day … defeating Stratford (104-47) and Bethel (100-50) and competing fairly well in a loss to undefeated New Milford (88.5-61.5). The ‘Hawks pushed their record to 7-4, with one quad meet remaining on the regular season schedule.

Peter Terrance continued to dominate by winning both the 110 high hurdles and 400 meters and coming in second in the 200-meter dash. And Matt Miller continued to push the bar higher and higher in the pole vault, taking first with a vault of 11-6.

John Collins (second in the 400), Eric Taylor (second in 300 hurdles), Joe Sgammato (second in long jump), Tim Robinson (second in pole vault), Evan Forstrom (third in long jump, third in 400 meters) and Tim Carlisle (third in 110 hurdles) all had strong performances for the ‘Hawks.

Newtown will conclude the regular season on Monday when it hosts Immaculate, Weston and New Fairfield. The SWC championship meet will be held Tuesday, May 27, at 4:30 pm, at Bethel High School.

The results:

NHS 104, Stratford 47

NHS 100, Bethel 50

New Milford 88.5, NHS 61.5

Track Events

4x800 relay – 1. New Milford (John Freeman, Pat Vicklin, Mike DeCrecenzo, Ben Danton) 8:47, 2. Newtown 9:01, 3. Bethel 9:47; 4x100 relay – 1. New Milford (Andy Bellon, Nick Anderson, Mike Russo, Matt Clady) 45.7, 2. Newtown 46.5, 3. Stratford 47.7, 4. Bethel 48.9; 4x400 relay – 1. Newtown (Konneker, Collins, Forshman, Terrance) 3:36, 2. New Milford 3:43, 3. Bethel 3:52, 4. Stratford 4:10; 100 dash – 1. Russo (NM) 11.4, 2. Alex Ivanor (S) and Clady (NM) 11.5, 3. Bellon (NM) 11.6, 4. Taylor (N) and Anderson (NM) 11.9; 110 high hurdles – 1. Terrance (N) 15.4, 2. Janofsky (B) 15.6, 3. Carlisle (N) 16.5, 4. Babington (B) 16.6, 5. Albert DiGiacomo (NM) 17.1; 1600 meters – 1. Reed McEwen (NM) 4:34, 2. Nick DeCrecenzo (NM) 4:43, 3. David Hunt (NM) 4:44, 4. Brian MacWilliams (NM) 4:48, 5. Dittmar (N) 4:56; 400 meters – 1. Terrance (N) 51.6, 2. Hood (NM) and Collins (N) 54.3, 3. Forstrom (N) 54.4, 4. Kris Nowell (NM) 55.3, 5. Ferraro (S) 55.5; 300 intermediate hurdles – 1. Janofsky (B) 41.4, 2. Taylor (N) 42.4, 3. Anderson (NM) 43.8, 4. Carlisle (N) 43.9, 5. Weiss (B) 44.9; 200 dash – 1. Ivanor (S) 23.1, 2. Terrance (N) 23.3, 3. Clady (NM) 23.7, 4. Bellon (NM) 23.9, 5. Janofsky (B) and Hood (NM) 24.2; 800 meters – 1. McEwen (NM) 2:02, 2. Jordan Akselrod (NM) 2:06, 3. Freeman (S) 2:08, 4. N. DeCrecenzo (NM) 2:08.3, 5. Moser (B) 2:10; 3200 meters – 1. Danton (NM) 9:29, 2. Hunt (NM) 10:22, 3. MacWilliams (NM) 10:34, 4. Vicklin (NM) 10:35, 5. Zencey (N) 10:44.

Field Events

 

High jump – 1. Kenny Smalls (S) 5-8, 2. Nick Farrell (S) 5-6, 3. Tim Robinson (N) 5-6, 4. Ian Babington (B) 5-6, 5. Ryan Scalis (B) 5-2; Triple jump – 1. Stebbinson (S) 40-¼, 2. Ivanor (S) 39-11, 3. DiGiacomo (NM) 38-2, 4. Robinson (N) 38-0, 5. Joe Sgammato (N) 36-11; Javelin – 1. Chris Shaw (NM) 151-4, 2. Derek Vincent (NM) 132-7, 3. Bartkus (B) 127-5, 4. Leach (B) 126-7, 5. Robinson (N) 126-2; Long jump – 1. Ivanor (S) 20-4, 2. Sgammato (N) 19-5, 3. Forstrom (N) 19-1¼, 4. DiGiacomo (NM) 19-¼, 5. Steve Baptiste (S) 18-9¼, Discus – 1. Doug Pet (NM) 126-11, 2. Dube (B) 112-3, 3. Fogarty (S) 99-6, 4. Chris Shaw (NM) 91-0, 5. Vincent (NM) 91-0; Pole vault – 1. Matt Miller (N) 11-6, 2. Robinson (N) 10-6, 3. Chase Shaw (NM) 10-0, 4. Keuck (S) 10-0, 5. Jack McCaffrey (NM) 9-6; Shot put – 1. Pet (NM) 41-9, 2. Reed (B) 40-0, 3. Ben Baldy (NM) 36-4, 4. C.J. Creighton (NM) 36-3, 5. Dube (B) 35-7.