Kayshaun Eveillard is the D-2 state champ in the 400M dash
Everett High track star Kayshaun Eveillard won the Division 2 State Championship in the 400 meter dash with a time of 49.38 this past Sunday afternoon at Bridgewater State University.
The D-2 state title was the crowning achievement of a superlative performance by Kayshaun over the weekend. On Friday, he brought home a second-place medal in the 200 dash, racing to a new EHS school record of 22.04 (that broke his own mark of 22.64) that was just 0.06 behind the first-place finisher.
Then on Sunday evening, Kayshaun ran a leg of the Tide’s 4 x 100 relay team that earned a seventh-place medal with a clocking of 44.24.
Eveillard qualified in both the 200 and 400 for the MIAA Meet of Champions, which will be held later this week at Merrimack College.
Teammate Kervens Joseph also turned in a superb weekend at the D-2 meet. Kervens brought home an eighth-place medal in the 200 dash with his time of 23.33 (Kervens ranks as the second-fastest boy in the 200 in the EHS record books behind Eveillard) and was a member of the seventh-place 4 x 100 relay team, along with teammates Sandesh Pun and Saymon Silva.
Kervens also competed in the 100 dash and finished 15th with a sprint of 11.43.
Another highlight of the meet for the Tide boys was the performance of the 4 x 800 relay quartet of Lucas Nunes, Carlos Pagan Landeo, Cristhopher Portillo Cruz, and Jeremy Whitlow, who broke their own school record, running a time of 9:11.
Altogether, coach Jehu Cimea’s Crimson Tide boys’ squad tallied 21 points, which was good for 15th-place in the D-2 team standings.
On the girls’ side, the quartet of Emelly DeJesus, Marissa Cadet, Zoe Massiah, and Shinead Riley brought home a seventh-place medal with a time of 52.12 that broke the previous EHS school mark of 52.12 that had stood since 2015.
Riley also competed individually in the 100, finishing in 13th place with a dash of 13.32.
EHS flag football awaits playoff status
The Everett High girls flag football team split its final two contests of the regular season last week at Bertram Field in Salem, defeating KIPP Academy, 36-6, but falling to Triton, 22-8.
The split leaves the Crimson Tide with a 6-10 record in its inaugural season, a record that placed the Crimson Tide in 12th place in the 20-team Northeast Division.
Coach Duane Sigsbury and his squad were awaiting confirmation of their playoff status and first-round opponent as the Independent was going to press.