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BOSTON — The Seekonk High School indoor track and field and boys’ swimming and diving teams each competed in their respective division state championship meets in different parts of “The Hub” last weekend.

The SHS boys’ and girls’ track squads vied in the Division Four Meet Saturday, Feb. 18, at the Reggie Lewis Center near Northeastern University in the center of the city. The SHS boys’ swim side, meanwhile, headed out to Cambridge and Havard University’s Blodgett Pool for the Division II Championship Meet the same afternoon.

Track notes

Junior standout Jake Robitaille accounted for all 10 of Seekonk boys’ points in the D-Four meet with his winning effort in the shotput. Robitaille threw a distance of 52 feet, 6.5 inches to take the top spot, which was about 18 inches better than the second-place effort of Auburn’s Steve St. Jean (50’11.5”).

The 10 points Robitaille provided placed the Warriors 17th in the team standings. Norwell won the D-Four boys’ crown with 52 points. Ursuline was second with 35 and Weston third with 33.

Also of note for the Seekonk boys, their 4x800-meter relay team of Matt Salit, Bryan Salit, Nick Accardi and Brendan Mullen ran 13th overall in 9 minutes, 5.53 seconds. Individually, Bryan Salit had the best finish on the track for the locals, running 15th (1:30.58) in the 600 meters.

The tandem of senior Vanessa Noelte and sophomore Lucy Belt provided the Seekonk High girls with their points, as they placed second and fourth, respectively, in a long jump.

Those 13 points, eight for Noelte and five for Belt, placed the Warriors 15th in the girls’ team standings. Newburyport won the D-Four crown with 67. Weston finished second with 39.5 and Whitinsville Christian third with 32.

Noelte covered 16’1.75” with her best attempt while Belt’s best was 16’6.5.” The distances for both were personal bests and noteworthy because Seekonk does not compete in the event during the South Coast Conference regular season. Norwell senior Nikki Dempsey won the long jump with a distance of 17’5.” The same Seekonk pair also had the top track efforts for the girls, with Belt running 10th (44.27) and Noelte 13th (44.42) in the 300 meters. Norwell soph Danielle Griffin won the event with a 41.6.

Swim notes

At Harvard, the SHS swim & dive crew placed 21st out of 45 teams with 32 points. Weston won the D-Two title with 235.5. Concord Carlisle was second with 222 followed by King Philip in third with 210. Southern Conference champ Bishop Stang was sixth with 115.

Senior John Grant accounted for 27 of the Warriors’ points with his fourth-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke and seventh-place effort in the 200 individual medley.

Grant clocked a season-best time of 1:00.83 seconds in the breast. Max Kearns of Stang won the event in 59.19. He clocked a 2:04.01 in the medley, which Milford’s Kevin Bradley won in 1:54.58.

Fellow senior Mike Burke tallied the Warriors’ other five points with his 12th-place finish in the one-meter dive competition. Burke finished with a total of 324.65 points. Concord’s Sean O’Brien won the competition with a new meet-record total of 696.05.

John Roy finished one-hundreth of a second out of placing in the 100 free with his time of 50.82 in the event. Roy was also slightly out of contention in the 50 free.