Kaleigh Fitzpatrick, Tufts:
The senior runner, who previously competed for Lynnfield High, found a way to super-size the Jumbos at this past weekend's NCAA Division 3 track and field indoor championships held at Ohio Northern University. Running the 400 meters as the second leg of Tufts's distance medley relay (sandwiched between the 1,200 and the 800, and capped by the 1,600), Fitzpatrick propelled the Jumbos to the top spot on the podium.
Two weeks after winning the event at the New England Open Championship at Boston University, Fitzpatrick, the team captain and most valuable player, along with teammates Catherine Beck, Stephanie McNamara, and Katy O'Brien, led from start to finish and set an ONU Sports Center record with a time of 11 minutes 46.79 seconds.
Gabriel Cruz of Oceanside, Calif., after being knocked out by Isander Beauchamp of Lynn:
The flyweight battle in Lincoln, R.I., lasted only three minutes (scheduled as a four-round fight), with Beauchamp picking up the fourth win and the first knockout of his career. Cruz and Beauchamp fought a little more than a year ago at the Mohegan Sun (Beauchamp's first professional fight) and Beauchamp picked up the unanimous decision in four.
Trinity College's baseball team:
The Bantams' diamond nine will be sun-soaked in Fort Myers, Fla., for an eight-day, 11-game stretch. After crafting a statistics line that earned him pitcher of the year in the New England Small College Athletic Conference as a junior last season (5-0 with a conference-best 1.37 earned-run average, two shutouts, and a 7.5-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio), former Swampscott High hurler Tim Kiely started 2008 by shutting out Denison, giving up three hits and striking out seven in a 5-0 win.
