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Kristen Bourque won the 55 meter dash (7.5) and Amanda Szymanski won the 1,000 (3:06.8) to lead Londonderry to a team victory at a 15-team New Hampshire meet yesterday. 

Pentucket's Molly Smith, Rachel Perry, Chase Marcotte and Ali Attenasio took second place in the shuttle hurdle relay (31.52) at the Division 3 Relays while also breaking a school record that was set back in 2001.

North Andover eaned victories in the shut put relay with a 101-0, besting No. 2 Central Catholic (89-1 1/2) as the Scarlet Knights placed first overall as a team at the Division 2 state relays with 29 points. Members of the winning relay were Courtney Green, Katie McManus and Alexandra Layne. Leading the Raiders was a second in the sprint medley relay in 4:22.08, run by Maggie Carey, Erin Dwinell, Taylor DePalo and Alexa Poulin.

Maddie Kobrenski won the 300, shot put and 4x440 relay to power Greater Lawrence to a 55-31 win over Lynn Tech.

Pentucket's Tori Spofford ran a personal best to win the 300 (49.92), then was a part of the winning 4X400 team, which posted a PR of 4:34.32, and also included Marisa Lundy, Kristin Fitzgerald and Paige Wesolowski.

Londonderry's Yorgelis Ortiz won the high jump (4-10) and her teammate Patty Driscoll won the shot put (35-2.5) to lead the Lancers to a second-place finish at their 10-team New Hampshire meet. 

Andover's girls track team finished second at the State relays yesterday, fueled by first places in the long jump, shot out, shuttle hurdle relays. Jill Gamache and Hannah Chapman were on both the long jump and shuttle relays. Andover placed in seven events overall.

Allie Marks (dash), Melissa Mackey (hurdles), Maggie Carey (600) and Colleen Slein (shot) won with personal bests as Central Catholic rolled to a 67-19 win over Chelmsford.

Andover's Cassie Kobelski set a new personal best with a throw of 38-10, smashing her old PR of 36-8 3/4, as Andover bested Haverhill 69-17.

Brenna Logan had a personal-best high jump of 4-6, winning the event for the first time ever as Pentucket dealt Newburyport its first loss, 47-39. "This was an exciting meet that came down to the last event," said Sachems coach Steve Derro. "We were both fighting illness and injuries but both teams fought extremely hard through that adversity."