From the Ipswich Chronicle, Thursday, February 24, 2005
Energetic ending
It was the last bus ride home from the Reggie Lewis Center for the Ipswich-Georgetown co-op boys track squad.
Was it sad, considering no one from the team will advance to All-States on Saturday? Not at all, 38-year head coach Ken Spellman said.
"We were kind of happy coming back on the bus," Spellman said. "Hopefully, [the performances at the Feb. 20 Class C championship] will give us a spark for the spring."
Indeed, in two of the boys team's three events they took part in at the Class C championships, runners from Spellman's team picked up personal bests - in their final runs ever.
Ipswich senior Cameron Lovell finished off his indoor track career by posting a career fastest time in the 55-meter hurdles with a 8.34-second run in the preliminaries. Though his time dropped a bit in the semifinals of the event to 8.61 to finish outside the finals cut, Spellman was delighted with Lovell's performance at the very swift championship meet.
"He ran well, he did a really good job," Spellman said. "Cameron's made himself into a real fine hurdler. He's going to be with us in the spring."
The highest-ranking performance came from the 4 x 400-meter relay team of Ipswich's Parro, Lovell, Franklin Pike and Georgetown's Kevin Duncan. They finished seventh overall (two spots out of the All-State cutoff) with a 3:39.07 time.
"They didn't run their personal best, but they ran really well," Spellman said. "I'd love to have seen them come out with a medal, but it didn't quite work out that way.
"They had a really good year, they set the school record in the relay," Spellman added. "They're obviously a talented bunch."
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