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At the Frank Mooney Invitational at Wrentham, it was a good day for the Methuen boys and the Haverhill girls.

For Methuen, Freddy Coleman won the sophomore race with a terrific time of 16:22.87 while teammate Xavier Metivier was runner-up in the senior race with a time of 16:36.58.

LOWELL — Junior Jack Bicksler ran a terrific all-around race to place second overall to pace North Andover's boys to second as a team at the Merrimack Conference meet Saturday.

Xavier Metivier had a senior day to remember, finishing Methuen's 2.77-mile track in a course-record 15:08 to lead his Rangers to a tri-meet win over Haverhill and Tewksbury. Teammate Freddy Coleman was not too far behind, finishing second in 15:16.

North Andover senior Jeff Stad ran perhaps the best race of his career to finish third overall with a 16:43 time for 5K, beating Central's James Pothier and Methuen's Xavier Metivier, in a quad-meet at Lowell. The Knights won two of three meets.

With two sophomores iin the trio, Methuen's top relay team finished an impressive ninth at the Clipper Relays Saturday. Senior Xavier Metivier led the way with a 9:56 for two miles while sophs Freddy Coleman and Jason Dibble ran 10:10 and 10:52. Both times were nearly a minute better than last year and Dibble ran slightly more than two miles as the anchor leg.