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Pentucket junior McKenna Kilian placed fourth in a field of 61 at the North Sectional heptathlon. She racked up 3,834 points to beat some talented locals including All-State hurdles champ Cole Godzinski of North Reading (6th, 3,578).

Central Catholic's Madison Arndt won the pole vault (12-0) to help the Raiders to fourth place in the EMass. Division 2 meet.

North Andover took sixth place behind a strong performance from Katie McManus, who took second in the shot put (37-8.25).

HAVERHILL — The last few weeks had been rocky, to say the least, for Andover triple jumper Hannah Chapman.

“I had just matched my personal best (37-2), then I injured my quad and was out,” said the Eagle-Tribune All-Star. “Then the day I got back from that, I got strep throat for the next six days. It was a rough stretch.”

North Andover junior Alexandra Layne had personal-bests in the shot put (35-8) for second and 105-5 in the discus for first to key the Knights over Lowell 73 1/2-71 1/2.

Jenna Smolag won the 200 and led a sweep of the 100 with Taylor Crane and Kaitlin Fotino to lead North Andover to an exciting 73-72 win over Central Catholic. The Knights' Mary Lavery won a tight battle in a much-anticipated 400 hurdles showdown with Central's Katie Equi, who won two other events.