RIT Tiger Invite + RWTL Week #5 + Marine Corps + Dartmouth Relays

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Rush Henrietta’s Distance Medley and Sprint Medley

and Greece Athena’s Brian Smith break Section V Records!

Marine Corps & Dartmouth:

Over the break Rush Henrietta took their top runners to the Armory in NYC for the Marine Corps High School Invite on December 27th and they won the Distance Medley and broke the Section V record last set by McQuaid in 1985 with a new record of 10:20.54.  The splits were:  Colby Burke 3:10.0, Peter Behnk 51.5, Alex Raymond 1:58.5 and Andrew Sweeney 4:20.3.   The same 4 guys also ran in the 4x400M and set the new Section V season best with a 3:28.70.   And they brought a 4x800M relay team of Brennan Root, Mickey Burke, Nate Kozyra and Mikey Schantz who set the Section V season best with a 8:23.54.  Then on Friday Jan. 6th Rush took runners  to the Dartmouth Relays in New Hampshire where they broke the Section V record in the Sprint Medley at 3:36.86, (Malcolm Fowler, Peter Behnk, Josh Wray, Andrew Sweeney).  Meanwhile they already had the Section V leaders in the 3200M (Mickey Burke 9:56.92), the 1600M (Colby Burke 4:29.93), the 1000 (Andrew Sweeney 2:32.82),  the 600 (Colby Burke 1:24.50), and they even have a girl mid-distance leader with Alana MacDonold leading the 600M with a 1:42.30.

Also at the Marine Corp meet, Warsaw’s Karmen Auble improved her Section V leading mark in the pole vault to 11’6”.

Tiger:

The Tiger Invite on Saturday January 7th at RIT saw another Section V record fall with Greece Athena’s Brian Smith breaking the 300M record with a 34.64 to best the record last set by Gates-Chili’s Tracy DeWitt in 2003 at 34.66.  This puts Smith at 3rd in the nation in 1st in the state.  The Buffalo area sent their top speedster in the person of Sweet Home’s Wayne Gordon who was ready to attack.  But Gordon could not break Smith’s undefeated seasons in neither the 300M (where Gordon took second at 35.82) nor the 55M which Smith won with a new Section V season’s best mark of 6.45 over Gordon’s 6.48.

Hilton’s Pat Meyer, a one-time leader in 4 different events, took back his Section V seasons best in the high jump with a leap of 6-6 which tied Greece Olympia’s Desmond Mobley for the season best, and beat Mobley at the Tiger Invite where Mobley jumped 6-4.   Meyer also won and extended his seasons best in the triple jump with a 45-2.5.

Pole Vault history was made at the Tiger Invite with Gates-Chili having FOUR BOYS CLEAR 12-6!  Event winner CJ Palozzi and Jeremy Bartula cleared 13’ and Ryan Ellis and Jacob Trieste cleared 12-6. Had it not been for Jared Brucker of Hamburg, the Gates-Chili vaulters would have swept the top 4 spots.  Only two other vaulters in all of Section V have cleared 12-6 or higher this season.

Wilson Magnet meanwhile dominated the boys long jump with Donovan Wallace (22-11.5) and Ismail El-Amin (22-5) taking 1-2 for the meet, and positions 1 and 3 on the leader board.  (Pat Meyer is at 2nd).

For the girls the Edison Tech sprinters were dominant.  In the 55M Williamsville’s Kailyn Arcury prevented a  1-2 sweep by Edison Tech when she out leanedTanisha Love for the win with a 7.39.  Love’s 7.40 is the new seasons best, and Demonica Stanley took 3rd with 7.62.

Edison Tech’s girl sprinters also won the 4x200M by a wide margin over 5 Buffalo area teams that chased them with a 1:46.39, and they won the 4x400M with a 4:18.20.

Penfield’s Leila Mantilla won the McMullen Mile and broke her own meet record with a time of 5:05.07.  Her teammate Katie Lembo stayed up with her for most of the race, but towards the end Mantilla pulled away and then Webster Schroeder’s Valerie Palermo and Webster Thomas’s Eileen O’Hara pulled away from the pack for a dramatic battle for 2nd that ended up Palermo, Lembo, O’Hara.

For the boys Greece Athena’s Keith Pease won with a 4:31.86 in a race that ran in a fairly tight pack for many laps, Victor’s Conor Hayward lead for much of the race, but Pease overtook him in the final lap.

RWTL Week #5

Friday night’s league meet at RIT produced a very exciting race with McQuaid’s Nick Rausher winning over Batavia’s Collin Mulcahy with times of 9:51:.17 and 9:51.23 respectively.  Both times pushed Rush Henrietta’s Mickey Burke’s time of 9:56.92 from week#2 down to 3rd on the leaderboard.