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In the North Sectional heptathlon, which was held Monday and Tuesday at North Reading High, Pentucket senior McKenna Kilian dominated the 68-competitor field. The versatile and talented Kilian had a 101-point lead after Day 1 (2,366 to 2,265) and built on it in a big way with the three events Tuesday. She racked up 4,066 points to easily beat runner-up Katie Maehl of Waltham (3,624). Kilian, who will compete at Central Connecticut, is now ranked fifth all-time in the area. Julia Valenti of North Reading was fifth with 3,435 points.

North Reading's Julia Valenti broke the EMass. Division 4 meet record with a 12-7.5 in the pole vault. That also added 1.5 inches to her all-time area mark. Jenna Raffael won the pentathlon and Cole Godzinski took the gold in the 100 hurdles and was second in the triple jump.

Multi-sport wiz McKenna Kilian continued her dominant senior season, winning the long jump (17-3) and high jump (5-2), running on the victorious 4x100 relay and taking second in the 400 in a career-best 60.10 to help Pentucket tie North Reading for the title at the Cape Ann League championship. Both teams scored 100 points.

Junior Julia Valenti cleared a school record 12-6 and won four events, including the shot put in 35-2 in her first try at the event, to pace North Reading's girls to a sweep on Ipswich and Masconomet and their second straight Cape Ann League title. Freshman Meredith Griffin won the mile in 5:28 for the Hornets, who are 17-0 in meets over the last two years.