Sebastian Adugalski scored the first points for St. Thomas More Collegiate in the B.C. high school multi-events championships this weekend.
Adugalski garnered three team points for the Knights following a seventh-place finish in the B.C. high school boys' decathlon at Jane and Gerry Swan Track in Abbotsford on Saturday.
The senior Knight won both the 400- and 1,500-metre races while posting top-three finishes in the 100m and pole vault. He also claimed the fourth-best height in the high jump.
Adugalski finished up the first day of competition, winning the metric quarter-mile in a time of 51.33. He also wrapped up the two-day, 10-event competition with a resounding win in the 1,500m, outpacing the field by more than four seconds with a winning time of 4:46.92.
Adugalski finished with an overall total score of 5,454, just 200 points shy of fourth place.
Ben Daly-Grafstein of St. George's won the event with an overall point total of 6,384. Jake Powrie, uattached, and Nick Fyffe of Vancouver College were close behind in second and third place, respectively.
Adugalski opened the competition with an 11.32 sprint in the 100m. He also cleared a height of 1.76m in the high jump. On the second day, Adugalski scored the third-best jump in the pole vault.
In the girls' heptathlon, Hannah Dickson of New Westminster Secondary placed sixth overall. New West teammate Manisha Kandola finished in 11th place.
Dixon scored consistently in the middle of the 13-athlete field to garner 3,474 points in the girls' seven-event competition.
Langley Secondary's Georgia Ellenwood won a third consecutive heptathlon title, easily outdistancing the field with 4,955 points, almost 700 points better than runner-up Keel Watts-Watling of Kelowna.
Dixon finished the first day in seventh place, but continued to put up consistent numbers in the long jump, javelin and 800m to edge out Hannah Beaton of Langley Fundamental, who had a strong second day rallying from 11th place on the opening day of competition to finish seventh.
Kandola posted a second-best height in her specialty the high jump, clearing the bar at 1.59m.
The B.C. high school track and field championships will be held this weekend at Swangard Stadium June 1 and 2.
