Tuesday District Track Results

By ROB HAMILTON

In the first day of dis­trict track com­pe­ti­tion, a hand­ful of local ath­letes earned trips to next week’s regional meets.

On Tues­day, boys com­peted in field event finals, while girls did the 3200-meter relay finals and pre­lim­i­nary rounds in other run­ning events.

In the Divi­sion III meet held at Gahanna-Lincoln, the Mount Gilead girls’ 3200 relay team of Ray­chel Gress, Bryanna Bolha, Mikaela Bush and Rachel Bush took third place in 10:06.08 to advance.

Northmor’s squad of Dani Blum, Brie Heminger, Kelly Pope and Sarah Ruhl placed sixth in that event in 10:56.89, to miss mak­ing the top four and advanc­ing by two places.

The boys’ Divi­sion III dis­trict was divided into two groups. Locally, Gilead Chris­t­ian was placed in the first group; while Card­ing­ton, Mount Gilead and North­mor all are in the sec­ond group.

In the first group, Gilead Christian’s Danny Bruce took fourth in the long jump (20’8.5) to advance to region­als. Team­mate Aaron Mar­tin took eighth in the dis­cus with an effort of 104’2” to score points for the squad.

In the sec­ond group, both Mount Gilead’s Logan Chap­man and Northmor’s Tyler Beck advanced to region­als in the two throw­ing events. Chap­man was sec­ond in the shot put (42’3.5”) and dis­cus (131’3”), while Beck was third in both events. He threw the dis­cus 120’9” and heaved the shot 41’6”.

Cardington’s 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.

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

Mount Gilead’s Bran­son West took eighth in the pole vault by clear­ing 11’6” and Noah Scott was eighth in the high jump with a leap of 5’6” to score points.

While High­land didn’t advance any­one to region­als in Tuesday’s action in the Divi­sion II dis­trict meet at West­er­ville South, Colton Stan­ley placed in both throw­ing events. He was sixth in the shot put with an effort of 43’7.5” and took eighth in the dis­cus (112’7”).

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