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Former Attleboro High School and Bryant College track great Hafiz Greigre recently returned from the World Indoor Championship Track meet in Valenica, Spain as a member of Liberia's 4x400 relay team, running the second leg for the ninth-place (3:12) finishers.

Greigre will be heading to Ethiopia in late April for the African National Championships, hoping to also qualify for the 300 meter sprint. He had run at 47.58 time in the World Meet trials, but turned an ankle and could not meet the qualifying 47.10 standard.

"It's a growing experience," said Greigre, who has been training at AHS, Bryant (where he graduated from in December) and Brown...

Former King Philip High whiz kid Alli Cuozzo of Norfolk, a sophomore at Union College, won the 800 meter run at the ECAC Division III Championship Meet at Harvard University with a school-record time of 2:12.8, qualifying for the national meet at Ohio Northern University, where she finished second place, gaining All-America statusn...

Former North Attleboro High Rocketeer Kyle Hitchcock, the MSTCA Pentathlon champ as a senior and currently a sophomore at Arizona State (after transferring from Temple) was a member of the Sun Devils' NCAA Division I championship indoor track team which took home the title last weekend from Fayetteville, Arkansas... By taking third place at the Nike Indoor National Track Meet, Bishop Feehan hurdlers Jason Brown, J.P. Hendrix, Nick L'Homme and Chris Conway received All-American status...

North Attleboro High junior Nick Wade finished 30th at the National Interscholastic Track Meet in New York City in the 800 meter run at 1:59.87...

At the breakup dinner for Mark Houle's Attleboro High boys' basketball team, Mac Borgellas received the Offense MVP award, Ryan Cronin received the Defense MVP award and Jared Linhares received the Bombardier Award. Co-captains-elect for the 2008-09 squad are Andrew Anderson and Cronin...

North Attleboro High hoop great Mike Babul was tournament-bound, the assistant at University of Texas-El Paso and the Miners (19-13) were in the new CBI postseason tourney for non-NCAA and NIT Division I teams. The Miners started the season at 9-2 and won three of their last four...

Attleboro High hockey player Bryce Mollman received the Old Colony League Sportsmanship Award proudly announced Bombardier boss Mike Cripps, while goalie Derek Goulet finished third in the OCL with a 3.7 goals against average...

At the breakup dinner for Mike Coppola's King Philip High boys' hoop team, Chad Perry received the Warrior MVP award; Chris Horne received the Unsung Hero award and was selected as a captain-elect for the 2008-09 team with Jake Cintolo, Connor Richards and Joe Rose. More importantly, KP Athletic Director Steve Schairer announced the the Warriors received the MIAA Division 2 Sportsmanship Award...

Former Mansfield High football great and two-way end Corey Eason, who briefly attended Boston College, is enjoying gridiron life renewed at UMass-Amherst as spring practice is about to begin...

Bishop Feehan High hoop standout Amy Lepley, the Shamrock junior guard/forward, is practicing with her AAU New England Crusader team, the first stop on the spring tournament slate in Philadelphia. And the Shamrocks' other superstar Jenna Roncarati is just back from Las Vegas, playing with the South Shore Select soccer team in a showcase tournament...

Thirteen-year old Julia Wood of North Attleboro was named to the Mass. Charter Schools Athletic Organization All-tournament team after scoring a game high 14 points (three three-pointers) at UMass-Boston as the Foxboro Regional Charter School beat Prospect Hill Academy 40-32 to finish with a 21-0 slate. Wood was the only non-high school player (seventh grader). selected to the MCSAO first all-star team and will play with the N.H.-based New England Crusaders under-13 AAU team...

Tri-captains-elect for Kevin Deschenes' Attleboro High football team are quarterback/cornerback Mike Barry, running back/safety Phil Elias and guard-linebacker Nick Mazurkiewicz... "She ran under the radar all season," related North Attleboro High girls' track coach Ann McGrail of sophomore Christy Deininger, the Red Rocketeers' Unsung Hero and third-leading pointer getter,who took won the Auerbach Meet and took second in the hurdles at the Hockomock League meet...

At the breakup dinner for Kate Farrington's Seekonk High boys' swimming team, sophomore freestyler-backstroker Mike McCormick and first year team member Ian Novotny, a freestyler, were named the Most Improved Warriors...

Batting in the leadoff position and starting in centerfield for the Bridgewater St. College baseball team is former Dighton-Rehoboth High Falcon Brad Koneski...

"He's such a hard worker up and down the ice, he skates his lane so well," said Bishop Feehan High hockey coach Phil Hulbig of Evan McMorrow, who totaled 12 goals and eight assists this season.

PETER GOBIS can be reached at 508-236-0375 or at pgobis@thesunchronicle.com.