Section V Track Week #3 – December 23, 2011

Written by Reggie Henderson on . Posted in Indoor Track
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One Event before Christmas

Everyone got to do one event at the best facility just ahead of Christmas and there were some great performances.

Pat Meyer of Hilton is starting out his senior year just owning the jumps (the vaulters should be relieved he’s not doing their event too).  Meyer who is already is the Section V leader in the high jump (6’4”) and the long jump (21’9”) entered the triple jump and now leads that event with a 43’ 2¼” performance.

Brian Smith of Athena ran the 300M even faster with an even wider margin over the rest of the field.  Smith’s 34.94 breaks 35 and might be the fastest 300M on a non-banked track in the nation.

Maddie Kopp of Spencerport got within a whisper of the Milesplit US First Team Elite time of 41.50 as she ran a 41.67 (she would definitely be crushing it on the Armory’s banked track).

The DEF 1000M race was a scorcher with Rush Henrietta’s Andrew Sweeney blazing a 2:32.82, and Victor’s MJ Erb and Brighton junior Andrew Mullen battling it out for 2nd with Erb hitting a 35.01 and Mullen barely missing the US First Team Elite standard of 35.5 with his 35.58.

Colby Burke had the big performance for Rush Henrietta’s Burke brothers with the first sub-4:30 1600M of the season.

Leila Mantilla of Penfield hit the first sub-3 1000M for the girls, and would be repeating last year’s feat of holding the lead in the 3000, 1500 and 1000, but her teammate sophomore Katie Lembo outpaced the rest of Friday night’s field by 12 seconds with a 4:49.28 which also clipped Mantilla’s season leading time in the event.  By the way, I missed the race last week where 4 of the top 5 cross country runners faced off in the 3000M.  Hobart’s track didn’t produce the fastest times, but when you get Canandaigua’s McComick sisters in a race with the Penfield duo of Mantilla and Lembo its always exciting and you never know who will win, last week if fell this way: Mantilla, Meghan McCormick, Lembo, Katie McCormick.

The girls 55M produced an unbelievable photo-finish TIE for first with a season leading time of 7.50 for both Aquinas’ Camaria Long and Edison Tech freshmen Demonica Stanley.

In the pole vault Gates-Chili’s Jeremy Bartula hit the first 13’ jump of the season.