Rams’ relays moving on, TC’s going home
Fostoria high jumper Cassidy finishes secondZach Baker
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Regional Track
Boys
Division II at Lexington
Eastwood 72 1/2, Orrville 56, Defiance 52, Perkins 41, Delta 34, Creston Norwayne 34, Clyde 34, Medina Buckeye 33, Wooster Triway 27, Huron 25, Edison 24, Caledonia River Valley 23, Mansfield Ontario 19, Napoleon 17, Massillon Tuslaw 12, Genoa 12, Newark Licking Valley 11, Kenton 11, Navarre Fairless 10, Marion Pleasant 10, Wauseon 9, Ottawa-Glandorf 9, Pataskala Licking Hts. 8, Akron Manchester 8, Fostoria 8, Norwalk 8, Columbian 8, Shelby 6 1/2, Mifflin 5, LaGrange Keystone 5, Bellevue 5, Bryan 4, Swanton 4, Norton 4, St. Marys Memorial 3, Van Wert 3, Johnstown Northridge 2, Galion 2, Columbus South 1, Millbury Lake 1
(State qualifiers and area placers)
Shot - 1. Matt Hoty (Per) 64-8 1/4*!; 2. Marcus Vicars (Gen) 58-3 1/4; 3. Justin Welch (Ea) 55-9 3/4; 4. Ben Bacni (Per) 55-7
High jump - 1. Ken Hosp (MP) 6-4; 2. Matt Cassidy (Fos) 6-3; 3. Juho Hietanen (Cly) 6-3; 4. Anthony Lombardi (MT) 6-2
110 hurdles - 1. Sam Miller (Orr) 14.55; 2. Crosby Schemenauer (Ea) 15.0; 2. Steve Shehy (WT) 15.08; 4. Nolan Croy (O-G) 15.22
100 - 1. Cody Miller (CN) 10.96; 2. Michael Craig (Orr) 11.1; 3. Cody Siefert (Ea) 11.15; 4. Shawn Cordes (MB) 11.18
4 x 200 - 1. Clyde (Logan Garcia, Travis Lauer, Ryan Scharf, Kade Kramer) 1:29.87; 2. Mansfield Ontario 1:30.18; 3. Huron 1:30.46; 4. Orrville 1:30.68; 6. Columbian (Brandon Stephens, Ethan Kagy, Luke Shaffer, Derek Kneeskern) 1:31.41
1,600 - 1. Kyle Miller (MB) 4:19.3; 2. Zac Wiles (Def) 4:21.14; 3. Zach Lathrop (CVR) 4:24.68; 4. Trevin Flickinger (Def) 4:25.42
4 x 100 - 1. Eastwood (Taylor Depew, Josh Hoodlebrink, Matt Schlumbohm, Cody Siefert) 43.03; 2. Kenton 43.31; 3. Medina Buckeye 43.43; 4. Orrville 43.58; 6. Columbian (Than Worland, Derek Kneeskern, Ethan Kagy, Luke Shaffer) 44.42
400 - 1. Miller (CR) 48.44; 2. Craig Thorne (Hur) 48.92; 3. Korbin Smith (Del) 48.97; 4. Jorell Davis (Mif) 49.94
300 hurdles - 1. Ben Rumbaugh (WT) 38.7; 2. Colt Denig (PLH) 39.08; 3. Jake Boettner (MB) 39.35; 4. Zach Strine (Shel) 39.6
800 - 1. Lathrop (CVR) 1:52.68; 2. Sean Murray (Def) 1:58.07; 3. Weston Strayer (Ed) 1:58.35; 4. Steve Weaver (Nap) 1:58.65
200 - 1. Craig (Orr) 21.65; 2. Smith (Del) 22.02; Cordes (MB) 22.16; 4. Kramer (Cly) 22.26
3,200 - 1. Chase Robinson (NF) 9:35.56; 2. Zac Wiles (Def) 9:41.7; 3. Tim Majoy (Ed) 9:55.81; 4. Colin Fisher (Del) 9:56.6
4 x 400 - 1. Clyde (Garcia, Kramer, Scott Koenig, Scharf) 3:22.54; 2. Huron 3:22.59; 3. Eastwood 3:23.43; 4. Creston Norwayne 3:25.87
* Meet record
! Divisional state record
Girls
Division II at Lexington
Akron Arch. Hoban 67, Akron Buchtel 61, Mansfield Ontario 46, Shelby 42, Defiance 41, Lima Shawnee 39, Napoleon 37, Wauseon 24, Massillon Tuslaw 24, Upper Sandusky 23, Milan Edison 23, Doylestown Chippewa 21, Canal Fulton Northwest 19, Canton South 19, Oak Harbor 15, Ottawa-Glandorf 15, Coldwater 14, Norwalk 13, Orrville 11 1/2, Galion 11, Perkins 9, St. Mary Memorial 8, Bellevue 8, Willard 8, Port Clinton 8, Margaretta 6, LaGrange Keystone 5 1/2, Genoa 5, Clyde 5, Elida 5, Clear Fork 4, Bryan 4, Van Wert 4, Lexington 4, West Salem Northwestern, Delta 3, Tontogany Otsego 3, Eastwood 2, Wooster Triway 1, Paulding 1, Fostoria 1
(State qualifiers and area placers)
Pole vault - 1. Chelsea Lucas (LS) 10-8; 2. Julia Walters (Bel) 10-8; 3. Maria Wernert (Cold) 10-0; 4. Amandalee Rabender (Wau) 10-0
Discus - 1. Anna Knapski (CS) 119-6; 2. Whitney Roth (Nor) 119-5; 3. Sara Weaver (Nap) 118-8; 4. Kelly Barnhill (MO) 118-7
Long jump - 1. Kendall Homan (Nap) 17-10 1/2; 2. Andrea Glenn (LS) 17-6 1/4; 3. Meagan Shipley (DC) 17-3; 4. Cami Shine (Ed) 16-11; 8. Katonya Lawson (Fos) 16-2 1/4
100 hurdles - 1. Melissa Wohlheter (MT) 14.91; 2. Macy Caldwell (PC) 15.21; 3. Homan (Nap) 15.3; 4. Brooke Lime (Def) 16.0
100 - 1. Brittany Brown (AAH) 12.09*; 2. Christy Campbell (AB) 12.25; 3. Keyana Roberts (CF) 12.6; 4. Kieona Foster (LS) 12.71
4 x 200 - 1. Akron Buchtel (Joan Davis, Ava Woods, Charnae Coleman, Campbell) 1:43.24; 2. Mansfield Ontario 1:44.21; 3. Upper Sandusky (Ashleigh Kline, Emily Caudill, Shanae Ankney, Lynzi Daughenbaugh) 1:44.83; 4. Shelby 1:45.37
1,600 - 1. Julianna Libertin (AAH) 5:12.66; 2. Kaitlyn Chrostowski (AAH) 5:16.02; 3. Brooke Benner (Orr) 5:16.27; 4. Anna Meyer (Def) 5:17.31
4 x 100 - 1. Akron Buchtel (Indya Williamson, Joan Davis, Arnita Johnson, Unity Sykes) 50.2; 2. Upper Sandusky (Kline, Caudill, Ankney, Daughenbaugh) 50.45; 3. Oak Harbor 50.53; 4. Canal Fulton Northwest 50.82
400 - 1. Brown (AHH) 57.33; 2. Karli Hartings (Shel) 58.07; 3. Ava Woods (AB) 58.43; 4. Lexi Elliot (MO) 59.04
300 hurdles - 1. Wohlheter (MT) 44.05; 2. Erica Collins (Shel) 44.51; 3. Amanda Fowler (MO) 45.11; 4. Tierra Moore (CS) 45.2; 5. Daughenbaugh (US) 45.29
800 - 1. Libertin (AAH) 2:17.54; 2. Mikaela Tolbert (Def) 2:18.32; 3. Jasmine Lofton (AB) 2:20.36; 4. Andrea Glenn (LS) 2:20.94
200 - 1. Campbell (AB) 24.75; 2. Hannah Kaufman (O-G) 25.32; 3. Roberts (CF) 25.41; 4. Quanisha Mcfadden (Eli) 25.65
3,200 - 1. Holly Baird 11:29.25; 2. Rachel Huddle (Nap) 11:50.31; 3. Megan Vogelsong (Def) 11:51.08; 4. Sarah Rospert (Ed) 11:58.18
4 x 400 - 1. Akron Arch. Hoban (Chrostowski, Brown, Libertin, Lindsey Nickolich) 3:59.03; 2. Shelby 3:59.22; 3. Akron Buchtel 4:02.26; 4. Upper Sandusky (Ankney, Caudill, Tayler Daughenbaugh, L. Daughenbaugh) 4:03.97
Associate Sports Editor
LEXINGTON - One area school's relay teams left the Division II regionals in disappointment. The other's left in jubilation.
Neither of Columbian's boys' relays - the 4 x 100 and the 4 x 200 - were able to finish in the top four and advance to state competition. Each squad finished sixth in its respective race, ending its season.
Upper Sandusky's girls fared better.
The Rams will send three relay teams to Columbus - the 4 x 1, 4 x 2 and 4 x 400 teams. It's the fourth-straight year coach Tim Pohlman has a relay team going to state.
Fostoria high jumper Matt Cassidy also qualified for Columbus, clearing all of his jumps until he reached 6-3. He placed second, and became the first Redman boy to make state since Martin Burke reached in the 110 hurdles in 2004.
Columbian's 4 x 200 team of Brandon Stephens, Ethan Kagy, Luke Shaffer and Derek Kneeskern ran in 1:31:41.
"The kids ran hard, that's all I can say," said Columbian boys coach Marcia Focht. "It didn't go our way today."
The 4 x 100 team of Kagy, Shaffer, Than Worland and Kneeskern finished fifth at state last year. But the team rarely ran together this season because of injury. It finished the race in 44.42.
"We struggled through the season to have them together a lot," Focht said. "We needed to (set a personal record)."
Kagy ran on each relay Saturday.
"When you come to regionals, you have to run your best race," said Kagy, a senior.
Kagy said the 4 x 1 squad would probably have done better had it been together more this season. But he said part of the reason it wasn't was to score more points at meets.
"When you get here, you have to think team-first, which we did," said Kagy, referencing the Tornadoes' Northern Ohio League meet title.
Upper Sandusky certainly had a team-first day. It's 4 x 200 team of Ashleigh Kline, Emily Caudill, Shanae Ankney and Lynzi Daughenbaugh placed third in 1:44.83. Those same four girls finished second in the 4 x 100 in 50.45.
"A huge accomplishment," said Ashleigh Kline, the only senior on the two relays.
In some ways, the 4 x 400 race was even more impressive. The Rams' team of Ankney, Caudill, Taylor and Lynzi Daughenbaugh came into the race with the eighth-best time. You would never have guess that in the final, with an Upper Sandusky runner in one of the top three spots much of the way.
"We all just ran good," Caudill said.
Pohlman said he was concerned after Wednesday. The Rams have been so successful in the relays at Lexington the last few years, he said, they might have been too relaxed.
"They were comfortable," Pohlman said. "They didn't have butterflies."
That's great for a blood pressure test. But Pohlman said he told the girls it would hinder their state hopes.
"They'd have to improve or they wouldn't be moving on," Pohlman said.
The warning worked.
"The girls came together as a team," Pohlman said. "I didn't see them apart from each other for a moment or two."
The only disappointment for the Rams came in the 300 hurdles, where Lynzi Daughenbaugh missed qualifying for state by nine-hundredths of a second, running 45.29 to end fifth.
Cassidy said that making state was a goal of his since the beginning of the season. When said when he cleared 6-3 Saturday, he knew he'd accomplished it.
"No need to push it if I know I'm going," said Cassidy, who was dealing with a sore hip.
Cassidy also gave credit for his strong jumps to an adjustment he made just before districts.
"I started back six feet further," he said. "Pretty big difference."
