Monadnock Ledger-Transcript - Track and field: Conant thrower brings home state title; Orioles, Vikings, Cougars in championship action
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 5/30/2021 9:50:03 PM Conant junior Garrett Somero became an unlikely state champion at Wednesday’s NHIAA Division III track and field championships at Gilford. Somero, a baseball player recruited by Conant track coach Bill Edson to try his hand at some field events, had only practiced the shot put twice this spring before tossing a qualifying distance at Conant’s last chance meet. On Wednesday, Somero took on the best of DIII – many of whom had been training for years – and hurled the shot put a personal best 45 feet to win the state title. “It...
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