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CAMBRIDGE — Central Catholic senior David Kitchen made no attempt to hide his excitement last night.

“This was definitely the best performance of my high school career!” he said. “I am psyched.”

Behind freestyle domination from Eric Zhao, Andover rolled to a convincing victory in the MVC league meet yesterday.

The Golden Warriors piled up 378 points, outdistancing runner-up Chelmsford (305) and third-place Central Catholic (254).

North Andover had plenty of track highlights over the weekend. At Saturday's State Coaches Invitationals, Kyle Quinn ran a school record 1:25.31 to place third in the 600 meters. Patrick Irwin took third with a personal best 6-2 in the high jump. At Sunday's Elite Meet, the 4x800 team of Dan Marino, Chris Dalke, Jacob Johns and Zach Frahlich ran a school record 8:19.26.

Nick Roy won the 100 butterfly (1:00.13) and 100 backstroke (1:03.57) and also helped Haverhill's 200 medley relay to victory (1:52.34). The Hillies won 85.5-73.5 over North Andover in boys swimming. 

Freshmen Josh Driscoll, Tim Carbone, Matt Bonner and Matt Amedeo won the 200 freestyle relay in 1:44.07, a new Haverhill freshmen record  in the Hillies' 87-58 victory over Melrose. 

Freshman Matt Amadeo won four events and surprisng sophomore Demani Cartagena won two individual events as Haverhill held off Burlington, 85-77.

David Kitchen won the 50 and 100 freestyle in convincing fashion and was on two winning relays as Central Catholic defeated Haverhill 92-78.