By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER The first ever Knights Cup was held at Southington High School’s track and field facilities this past week. The event is a community-wide track and field series for only elementary and middle school athletes that was hosted by the YMCA and Southington High School track and field teams. To ensure a safe and timely meet, the kids are offered half of the events seen in a normal high school track and field meet. Events that the athletes competed in were the 4x100m preliminaries, 100m, 400m, 1600m, 4x400m, 4x100m finals, long jump, shot put, and turbo javelin. The elementary and middle schools compete against each other, in order to obtain the ‘Knight’s Cup’ trophy, which will reside at their school for the next year with their school name and date engraved in it. After the next Knight’s Cup, the trophy will be passed along to the next winning school. Southington elementary school division competed on Monday, June 8 at the high school. Derynoski (83) took first in the overall team results, followed by Thalberg (67), and Strong (38). The elementary school winners were: Thalberg (4x100m), Kevin Hubert (100m), Owen Hunt (1600m), Sofia Scalise (400m), Nathan Hunt (shot […]
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER The first ever Knights Cup was held at Southington High School’s track and field facilities this past week. The event is a community-wide track and field series for only elementary and middle school athletes that was hosted by the YMCA and Southington High School track and field teams. To ensure a safe and timely meet, the kids are offered half of the events seen in a normal high school track and field meet. Events that the athletes competed in were the 4x100m preliminaries, 100m, 400m, 1600m, 4x400m, 4x100m finals, long jump, shot put, and turbo javelin. The elementary and middle schools compete against each other, in order to obtain the ‘Knight’s Cup’ trophy, which will reside at their school for the next year with their school name and date engraved in it. After the next Knight’s Cup, the trophy will be passed along to the next winning school. Southington elementary school division competed on Monday, June 8 at the high school. Derynoski (83) took first in the overall team results, followed by Thalberg (67), and Strong (38). The elementary school winners were: Thalberg (4x100m), Kevin Hubert (100m), Owen Hunt (1600m), Sofia Scalise (400m), Nathan Hunt (shot […]