Michael Peret helped the Souhegan boys track team to a fourth-place finish in Class I.
NORTHWOOD – Michael Peret has been a point machine for the Souhegan High School boys track team this year.
In February, he single-handedly won the Sabers their first indoor track title by winning the high jump, the 55-meter and 300-meter dashes and by running a leg of the 4×200 relay. The senior scored 40 of Souhegan’s 53 points, which tied them with Lebanon for first place overall.
On Saturday, in the Class I outdoor championship meet, Peret repeated his four-for-four performance.
He won the 100 in 11.16 seconds and the 200 in 22.7. He finished first in the high jump with a leap of 6-feet, 4-inches. And he teamed with Chris Champagne, Grant Raymond and Dennis Elverson to win the 4×100 relay.
Again, Peret had a hand in 40 of Souhegan’s 50 points, which was good enough for fourth place.
“That was my goal, to repeat indoor,” Peret said. “Get first in all my events.”
Peret was helped out a little by the order of events. With the field events starting earlier than in dual meets, the high jump was over with before he had to do any of the running events.
“I was so glad that was first because it was so much easier than running back and forth,” he said. “That definitely warmed me up and got me stretched out.”
But it also meant he had a while to wait between the 4×100 and the 200.
“I probably had about an hour,” Peret said. “I was always moving around, looking at other events and cheering everyone. That was my toughest event (the 200). That’s my last event and it’s the longest race.”
Of the events, the one that meant the most for Peret was the relay.
“It’s a team effort,” he said. “Dennis is a sophomore, he’s young. The rest of us are seniors. Some of them have never gotten a banner before, so that’s fun. It takes the most practice. Handoffs have to be exact. Anything is possible.”
Including a senior winning every event he possibly can during his final year of high school track.