Section V Steeplechasers shine again as Palermo, Ranke, Cole and Root all place in top 5  along with Mobley in the Long Jump and Burke in the 2 Mile for All-American Honors

Long Jump

Desmond Mobley of Greece Olympia 2nd 7.33m (24-00.75)

2000m Steeplechase GIrls

Valerie Palermo of Webster Schroeder 2^nd  6:47.62  

Hannah Cole of HF-L 4^th   6:50.60  

Karli O'Neill of Spencerport 18^th  7:21.19

2000 Meter Steeplechase Boys

Tyler Ranke of Hilton 3^rd  5:55.05  

Brennan Root or Rush Henrietta 5th  5:57.84  

2 Mile Boys

Mickey Burke of Rush Henrietta 4^th 9:00.30 (so close to breaking 9!)

2 Mile Girls

Katie Lembo of Penfield 10th  10:26.77  

Eileen O'Hara of Webster Thomas  23rd  11:02.45  and 19th in the 1 Mile 5:03.29

400m

Madeline Kopp of Spencerport  16th 56.05

Discus

Sydney Kurtic of Honeoye Falls-Lima 26^th  35.23m  (115-07)

5000m

William Ronchetti of Brighton 40^th  15:39.88 

(Federation Results Only)

Greece Olympia scored 27 points for the highest total of any Boys team in New York State!

Desmond Mobley scored 15 winning the long jump with 24-9, and tying for 3rd in the High Jump with 6-6.

Greece Olympia's Boys 4x100 Team of Desmond Mobley, Craig Hardgers, Ja’marie Jefferson, and Carnell Noble won the 4x100 with a 42.03 for 10 more points.

And the last 2 points came from Craig Hardgers with a 5th in the long jump at 22-01.25.

Section V dominated the whole meet with 8 Federation wins (4 boys, 4 girls), but especially dominated the steeplechase and girls distance races.

Valerie Palermo of Webster Schroeder winning the girls with a 6:43.78 and…

Brennan Root of Rush Henrietta winning the boys with 9:09.08 followed by Tyler Ranke of Hilton in 2nd at 9:14.93.

Katie Lembo of Penfield won the 3000 with 9:41.67 and…

Eileen O’Hara of Webster Thomas won the 1500m with 4:28.94 with Lembo taking 6th at 4:35.43.

Brian Smith of Greece Athena won the 200 in both Championship (21.36) and D1 (21.31).

Maddie Kopp of Spencerport won the 400 at 54.99 and Ceara Watson of Rush-Henrietta took 5th with 56.94.

Rubin Owens of LeRoy won D2 took 2nd Federation (on misses) in the high jump with a 6-7.

Isabel Hirtelen-Booker of HAC took 3rd in 100 Hurdles at 14.66.

Amir Rogers of Franklin/NE-NW took 3rd in 110 Hurdles at 14.48.

Sydney Kurtic of Honeoye Falls-Lima took 4th in the Discus (126-09) and 10th in the shot put (37-02.5)

Mickey Burke of Rush-Henrietta took 4th in the 3200 at 9:02.13 (wow! he nearly broke 9!)

Korey Beasley of Gates-Chili took 4th in the 100 at 10.83.

Zoe Camilacci of Hilton took 4th in the pole vault and Ireland Armstrong of Bath-Haverling took 5th both at 11-3.

Keith Pease of Greece Athena took 5th in the 1600 with 4:12.39.

Kaishaun Cathey of Edison Tech took 5th in the triple jump with 46-09.75.

DJ Ohlson of Alexander took 6th in the high jump with 6-5.

Aquinas Institute, jockeying back and forth this season with Greece Athena for fastest 4x400, set a new Section V Season Best at 3:22.30 (Khris Greggs, Ben Drexler, Josh Hanna, Isasac Darling) for 11th Federation and 2nd D2 and broke the Aquinas school record!

Desmond Mobley of Olympia long jumped a state leading 24-5.75 (12th in the nation). Mobley also won the high jump with a 6-6, took 2^nd to Amir Rogers in the 110 hurdles with his first sub-15 time of 14.91, and was on Greece Olympia’s 4x100m team (Hardgers, Jefferson, Mobley, Moore, Noble, Presley)  which set a state leading mark of 41.74.

Amir Rogers of Franklin beat Mobley in the 110 hurdles with a 14.64 and also qualified in the 400 where Colby Bleier of Pittsford Sutherland broke 55 with a 54.64.

Rubin Owens of LeRoy and DJ Ohlson of Alexander both hit 6-5 in the high jump, with Owens winning D2 on misses.

Brian Smith of Greece Athena kept his unbeaten season going with wins in the 100-200 at 10.63 and 21.26.  2^nd best of the night in both was Korey Beasley of Gates-Chili at 10.83 and 22.06.  Smith also anchored Athena with a 47.8 leg along with Julio Santos, Alex Wiegand and Calvary Jones for the fastest 4x400 (3:23.56) of the night and the season. 

Sydney Kurtic of HF-L threw the discus a huge 133-0 to win D2 and be ranked 4^th in the state (overall), while Maria Jackson of Hilton won D1 with 126-0 over Steevie Hill of Victor at 117-6.

Marshall Brady of Wellsville had the best Pentathlon of the night with a 3221 which puts him 5^th in the state.

Maddie Kopp of Spencerport didn’t go for a full-season undefeated triple of  100-200-400, opting to skip the 200 and just go 100-400 which she won in D1, but Pittsford Sutherland’s Davida Hawkes pushed her in the 100m (12.65 – 12.72) and Rush-Henrietta’s Ceara Watson pushed her in the 400m (55.80 – 55.85), probably the closest anyone’s got to her this season.

The girls 100m dash was speedy with the fastest time of the night coming from Shannon Gordinier of Keshequa at 12.59 leading a super-packed D2 girls 100m dash race with 7 girls going under 13.  Briyanna Brinkley of S.O.T.A. took the 2^nd spot with a 12.65.  Justina Sanders-Schifano had a better chance to make states if she was in a D1 school with her 12.72.

The girls 200m was dominated by D2 girls with Briyanna Brinkley of S.O.T.A. and Heather Anderson of Penn Yan running the best times of the night (25.84 – 26.12)

Isabel Hirtelen-Booker of HAC continued her 100m Hurdles undefeated streak (multi-year within Section V I think) with a 14.91 D2 win, and Canandaigua’s Christine Lyttle broke 15 for the first time to win D1 with a 14.98.

Rush-Henrietta’s 4x800 Boys team (Burke, Larkin, Root, Schantz, Shenal, Wray) blazed a season-leading 7:51.70 to beat McQuaid which had the top seed going in from their great performance at Penn Relays.

Katie Lembo of Penfield did a difficult 1500m -3000m double and won both with Eileen O’Hara of Webster Thomas also doing that same double and taking second in both.

Sam Harding of Canandaigua blew the field away in the pole vault with a PR of 14-7 which is the highest outdoor mark for the past  5 years in Section V and 6^th best in the state this year.

Hilton’s Zoe Camilacci and Sarah Pirnie handled the dark conditions better than others in the girls pole vault and swept the D1 spots (11-0, 10-6).  Jessie DeAngelo of Alexander had the only PR among the 6 girls coming in with state standard marks as DeAngelo jumped 11’ to win D2 over Ireland Armstrong of Bath-Haverling at 10-6.  State leader Karmen Auble (12-7) no-heighted along with 3 other girls in the field of 14.  Auble won the shot put with the farthest throw of the night of 39-7.5.  Armstrong had the only NYS mark of the girls 400m Hurdles with a 64.93 to win D2.

Canandaigua Girls 4x100 (Carro, Colmerauer, Gleason, Lyttle, Washburn, Wied) ran a blazing 48.83 for the win.

Denzel Knight of Brockport and Josh Wray of Rush-Henrietta set new Section V leading marks in the 400 with 49.00 and 49.08.  Knight also qualified in the triple jump with a 46-02.25, only surpassed by Kaishaun Cathey of Edison Tech who went 46-5.5.

Andrew Mullen of Brighton clocked Section V’s first sub 1:55 800 of the season with a 1:54.65.

Keith Pease of Greece Athena put up another sub 4:20 1600m to win with 4:17.20.

Mickey Burke of Rush-Henrietta  put up another sub 9:20 3200m to win with 9:19.73.

Ryan Cribbin had the farthest shot put of the night with 52-5.25.

The big discus throwers were in D2 this year with Ian Gillens of Marion winning at 160-0 followed by Joe Verkey of Newark at 150-2.

Davida Hawkes of Pittsford Sutherland won the triple jump with 37-7.25.

Alyssia Colson of Gates-Chili reached 17-6 to win the long jump.

Class AA Girls Penfield 95 Rush-Henrietta 94 

Class AA Boys Rush-Henrietta 136 Greece Athena 68

Class A Girls Pittsford Mendon 134 Canandaigua 114

Class A Boys Greece Olympia 126 West Irondequoit 81

Class B Girls Honeoye Falls-Lima 131.66 Bath-Haverling 74

Class B Boys Aquinas Institute 124 Batavia 121

Class C Girls Geneseo 104 Kendall 76

Class C Boys Geneseo 138 Dundee 74

Class CC Girls  Letchworth 72.5 South Seneca-Romulus 63

Class CC Boys Wellsville 101 Perry Central 92

Class D Girls Keshequa 138  Alfred-Almond 95

Class D Boys Alfred-Almond 148  Notre Dame-Batavia 96

With 19 events plus overall team, and 6 classes times 2 genders, a total of 240 Section V Track & Field Champions were crowned yesterday.  Here are some of the state-wide top 10 individual performances.

Brian Smith of Greece Athena has the top times in the state in the 100 and 200 continued his dominance winning the class AA 100-200 for an undefeated season.  Smith also pulled off the Madiee Kopp triple by winning the 400!

Karmen Auble of Warsaw has the top pole vault in the state and 5^th best pentathlon, won the class CC pole vault with a new all-time-all-class Section V meet record of 12-4.  After weighing in at 8:30am and waiting through the boys and girls competitions, it was after 7pm when they set the bar at 12-8 for a new Section V record but she didn’t have the juice left.  She also took 2^nd in shot put.

Eileen O’Hara of Webster Thomas has the fastest 3000m time in the state and she won the class AA 800 (2:20.40) and 1500 (4:38.05).

Maddie Kopp of Spencerport continued her season of undefeated triple-wins in the 100-200-400 and lowered her 100 to 12.08 for 4^th in the state, her County 400 time of 55.37 is 3^rd in the state,  and her His-Her 200 time of 25.02 is 8^th in the state.

Isabel  Hirtelen-Booker of HAC scorched the field in the 100m Hurdles with a season best of 14.71 to win Class C which also moved her up to 3^rd on the state leaderboard.  Izzy also won the 100, 200, and anchored HAC to a 2^nd in the 4x100m.

Katie Lembo of Penfield with the 3^rd best 3000m in the state won the AA 3000m and took 2^nd to O’Hara in the 1500m.

Amir Rogers of Franklin won Class AA High Hurdles with a 14.40 which ranks him 4^th in the state.

Victorie Kothor of Greece Athena won Class A Shot Put with a  40-1 and is ranked 6^th in the state.

Ryan Cribbin of West Irondequoit extended his season best in the shot put to 54-8.25 which ranks him 8^th in the state.

Sydney Kurtic of HFL won Class B Discus with a 120-11 which puts her at 9^th in the state, she also won the shot put.

Desmond Mobley scored 38 points for Greece Olympia winning the Class A high jump, long jump, 110 hurdles and taking a 2^nd in the 200m.

Mickey Burke of Rush-Henrietta won Class AA 800m 1:56.46 and 1600m 4:30.68.