Seekonk and Old Rochester hit high notes

The South Coast Conference ran the Reggie Lewis Center yesterday, then surely set Route 195 ablaze with celebratory music.

The Seekonk boys held off Weston, 43-42, for their second state Division 4 relay title in a row , and the Old Rochester girls got wins in the high jump and 4 x 50 hurdles and cruised to a 45-33 decision over Bromfield.

After receiving the trophy on the infield, the Bulldogs were led by senior Lindsay Smith in an a cappella rendition of "I Like to Move It" by Mark Quashie, The Mad Stuntman.

"I don't know how it came about, but one day in practice we just started singing it," said Smith. When prompted for the artist, she yelled to her teammates, "Check your iPods."

Coach Bill Tilden said the girls in the 4 x 50 win -- captain Abby Oldham , followed by Courtney Kirker , Molly McCarthy, and Brittany Costa -- could have been a little tighter. "We tried to work on the passing all week, but the weather was just nasty," said Tilden.

"I thought the 4 x 400 was also crucial," said Tilden of his team's third-place finish in the final event. "The girls had confidence because they knew how strong the 4 x 400 was, and it took some of the pressure off of the kids and they performed better because they knew the 4 x 400 was going to pull it out for them."

Seekonk never was able to relax. Weston could have taken the title by finishing fourth or better in the 4 x 400, but the Wildcats finished fifth.

With not enough players to compete in all events, Seekonk played small ball, winning only one event, the shot put, led by senior captain Bobby Archambault , Nick DiLorenzo, and Dan Grela . Coach Eli Mello knew the Warriors were going to have to get all possible points to emerge victorious.

Placing fifth (2 points) in the long jump and sixth (1 point) in the high jump may not have been something to shout about, but the Warriors weren't concerned with looking pretty, they wanted to win.

"We got our points wherever we could," said Mello. "For two events, we couldn't enter anybody just because we didn't have any guys, in the 4 x 200 and the 4 x 400. We spread everybody around because we knew second place [ distance medley], third place [1,600 sprint medley], fourth place [4 x 50, 4 x 50 hurdles], they all add up."

"We didn't even have a long jump," said Mello. "Our league doesn't have the facilities for it. We've got some guys in the spring who do the long jump, so we just put something together. Sure enough we placed fifth, which is the difference between first and second place."

In the girls' distance medley, the Bromfield A quartet -- Eliza Ives, Maddie Darden , Bo Dunn, and Emily Jones -- smashed their own old Class D record of 12:43.34 by winning in 12:26.17.

In the boys' 4 x 400, Westwood (3:33.91), Oakmont (3:35.75), and Watertown (3:36.92) smashed the old Class D record of 3:39.40 , set by Foxboro in 2005.

In the boys' 4 x 50 hurdles, North Reading's Ty Lobo, Kyle Monohan, Mark Pawlowski, and Josh Kelly beat the old Class D time of 28.80 set by Marblehead in 2004 by winning in 27.54.