Track athletes reach regionals

By ROB HAMILTON

Both Mount Gilead and North­mor had big meets in the Cen­tral Dis­trict Divi­sion III track and field cham­pi­onships last week.

In the meet, which was held Tues­day, Wednes­day and Sat­ur­day at Gahanna-Lincoln High School, North­mor fin­ished sec­ond in the boys’ meet and fourth in the girls’ meet; while the Indi­ans were third in both.

The boys were seper­ated into two dis­trict meets, while all the girls’ teams com­peted in the same meet.

The Lady Indi­ans scored 74 points to only fin­ish behind Colum­bus Acad­emy (83) and Grand­view Heights (77) in a meet where 23 teams scored at least one point.

In the first two days of the meet, a num­ber of girls advanced to the regional meet.

Shelby Rizor won the pole vault for the Indi­ans by clear­ing 12’. In the dis­cus, Jessie Baldridge took third with a throw of 108’7” and Marisa Nel­son was fourth with an effort of 102’. Also, the 3200 relay team of Ray­chel Gress, Bryanna Bolha, Mikaela Bush and Rachel Bush took third place in 10:06.08 to advance.

On Sat­ur­day, Mikaela Bush won both the 1600 (5:08.61) and the 800 (2:18.04). Rizor took sec­ond in the 200 in 27.53, while Rachel Bush fin­ished third in the 300 hur­dles in 48.09.

Also, the team took third in the 1600 relay, as Rachel Bush, Bolha, Gress and Mikaela Bush ran the race in 4:15.21.

Not qual­i­fy­ing for dis­tricts, but still plac­ing were Baldridge in the shot put (fifth), Rachel Bush in the pole vault (tied for sev­enth), Kara McNamee in the shot put (eighth) and Sophia Friesen in the 3200 (eighth).

North­mor claimed fourth place with 70 points in the meet. Over the first two days, Kris Pfis­ter won the shot put with a throw of 34’6”, while team­mate Kyn­dall Williams placed third with an effort of 33’9.75”. Chantel Cline also moved on, as she took third in the long jump with an effort of 15’2.75”.

On Sat­ur­day, the 400 relay of Cline, Tayler Coul­son, Gabrielle Woods and Allie Tupps claimed first place in 52.9. Tupps also qual­i­fied in the 400, where she was sec­ond in 1:00.73. The Knight fresh­man added a fifth-place fin­ish in the 200.

Dani Blum placed sec­ond in the 3200 in 11:58.87 and also was sixth in the 1600. Coul­son added a third-place fin­ish in the 200 (27.55).

While they didn’t move on to the regional meet, Lau­ren Bood placed sixth in the pole vault and Alisha Pletcher claimed eighth in the dis­cus. Also, the 3200 relay squad of Dani Blum, Brie Heminger, Kelly Pope and Sarah Ruhl placed sixth and the 1600 relay team of Cline, Heminger, Ellen Petulla and Tupps placed eighth.

Gilead Chris­t­ian fin­ished with eight points in the meet, all scored by Lyn­dee Say­ers, who fin­ished sec­ond in the 300 hur­dles with a time of 47.97.

Card­ing­ton also com­peted in the meet, but didn’t score any points on the girls’ side.

For the boys, Gilead Chris­t­ian was in the first of two dis­trict meets, while North­mor, Mount Gilead and Card­ing­ton were in the other.

Gilead Chris­t­ian fin­ished with 20 points as Danny Bruce moved to region­als in two events. He placed third in the 200 in 23.45 and was fourth in the long jump (20’8.5”).

Bruce also was fifth in the 100 and sixth in the 300 hur­dles, while team­mates Aaron Mar­tin and Caleb Mosher took eighth in the dis­cus and 3200, respectively.

In the sec­ond meet, Northmor’s total of 87 was sec­ond to Grand­view Heights’ score of 125 points.

Clint Crose moved on to region­als in two indi­vid­ual events and two relays. He won the 200 in 23.28 and was sec­ond in the 100 in 11.62.

Also, he teamed with Gar­rett Karcher, Lorin Camp­bell and Tyler Beck to take sec­ond in the 400 relay (45.82) and with Campbell, Beck and Jamie Baldridge to take fourth in the 800 relay (1:35.49).

Both Beck and Bran­don Ney­man advanced in two indi­vid­ual events. Beck took third in both the dis­cus (120’9”) and shot (41’6”), while Ney­man ran the 3200 in 10:57.66 for third place and the 1600 in 4:47.66 to take fourth.

Three more Knight boys advanced in the field events. Ethan Nichols (13’3”) and Baldridge (12’6”) took sec­ond and third, respec­tively, in the pole vault; while Karcher cleared 5’10” to place fourth in the high jump.

Also advanc­ing was the 3200 relay team of Eric Linn, Ney­man, Jacob Hill and Bran­don Loyer, who took fourth in the 3200 relay in 9:03.54.

Also, Loyer took fifth in the 1600, as did Camp­bell in the 200. Also, the 1600 relay of Trevor Pryor, Camp­bell, Baldridge and Loyer fin­ished eighth.

Mount Gilead’s 77 points put them in third place. For the Indi­ans, Ethan Har­ris won the 110 hur­dles in 15.22, was first in the 300 hur­dles in 40.93 and took sec­ond in the long jump with an effort of 19’2.25”. He also teamed with Jason Hea­cock, Logan Chap­man and Kolby Sny­der to win the 1600 relay in 3:33.96.

Chap­man also advanced to region­als in the two throw­ing events. Chap­man was sec­ond in the shot put (42’3.5”) and dis­cus (131’3”). Also, Hea­cock took third in the 400 in 52.14 and the 3200 relay of Paul Melcher, Bran­son West, Cam­den West and Hea­cock was sec­ond in 8:52.35.

Sny­der also was sixth in the 400 and long jump, while Bran­son West took eighth in both the pole vault and 3200 and Noah Scott placed eighth in the high jump.

Card­ing­ton sent two ath­letes to the regional meet, as they scored 20 points at districts.

Zach Zvan­sky won the high jump with a leap of 6’1” and took fourth in the pole vault (12’6”) to also move on in a pair of events. Also, Mitchel Yake placed fourth in the 800 in 2:06.53.

Divi­sion II

The High­land boys advanced two ath­letes to this week’s regional meet, as they scored 34 points at their Divi­sion II dis­trict held at West­er­ville South.

Logan Eber­sole placed third in the 3200 with a time of 11:09.26, while Shawn Beltz took fourth in the 300 hur­dles in 41.79. Beltz also was fifth in the 110 hurdles.

The team’s 1600 relay also was fifth, while the 3200 relay was sixth. James Hub­bard was sixth in the 1600, while Josh Irvin took that same place in the 3200 and Kyle Minyo was sev­enth in the 110 hur­dles. In the field events, Colton Stan­ley was sixth in the shot and eighth in the discus.

The girls scored 19 points, but advanced Amanda Mosier to region­als. The junior hur­dler won the 100 hur­dles in 15.8.

Casey McCarty placed sev­enth in the shot put, while the 400 relay was sixth and both the 800 relay and 1600 relay took seventh.

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