2013 Section V Indoor Track Week #7 – January 26

Written by Reggie Henderson on . Posted in Indoor Track
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Rush Henrietta Girls Run and Greece Olympia Boys Jump to Wins at the Rochester Relays at RIT

Rush Henrietta’s girls team won the Rochester Relays (large school division) with some fast running.

Rush Henrietta and Penfield left the rest of Section V in the dust in the Girls 4x800m.  Rush (Xaelel Allen-Caballaro, Ceara Watson, Alex Cooper, Alana McDonald) beat Penfield (Megan Sedita, Britney Swarthout, Ilana Schnaufer, Katie Lembo) 9:40.90 to 9:42.31 but both cut about 20 seconds off the previous season best girls 4x800 in Section V and they now rank 9th and 11th respectively in the state.  Can’t wait to see the rematch at State Q’s.

Rush and Penfield’s girls met again in this meet for the 4x400m, Rush (Emily Zeafla, Alex Cooper, Elvira Martinez, Alana McDonald) beat Penfield (Alex Teglash, Megan Sedita, Katie Lembo, Britney Swarthout) again and they finished 1-2 with 4:17.60 and 4:20.91. 

The Rush and Penfield girls 4x800m and 4x400m teams have all qualified for the Penn Relays.

The Rush girls also won the 2x3000m, Sprint Medley, and 2x1500m Racewalk.

Greece Olympia’s boys team won the Rochester Relays (large school division) by jumping farther and higher.

State long jump leader Dezmond Mobley and teammate Craig Hardgers jumped 23-1.75 and 21-4 to win the 2-man long jump relay by a wide margin. 

Mobley and teammate Tremaine Moore won the 2-man high jump with 6-6 and 5-8 respectively. 

Hardgers and teammate Ja’marie Jefferson won the 2-man triple jump with 44-07.25 and 43-01.75 respectively.

Olympia also won the challenging 8x200.

And to round out the jumping events Olympia even scored points in the pole vault with Terry Taylor and Nick Faber taking 6th.

Demonica Stanley of Edison Tech flew 18’ for the 3rd best long jump in the state this year, she also had the fastest 55m time (7.47) and Edison Tech won the 55m x 4 Person by taking the top 3 spots; Stanley, Imani Obieke, Tanisha Love, with Royality Gavin rounding out the 4 person team.

Greece Athena Boys 4x200m (John Hampton, Terrance Harley, Julio Santos, Brian Smith) made a new Section V leading mark of 1:33.65, Athena Boys also won the 4x400m (Terrance Harley, Julio Santos, Keith Pease, Brian Smith).

Rush Henrietta girls are not the only fast ones, their boys 4x800m (Bobby Exler, Mike Schantz, Brennan Root, Pat Shenal) avenged last spring's State Q loss to Brighton (Ty Joseph, Mason Vodacek, Will Ronchetti, Andrew Mullen) with their win today, with Brighton a distant second.  Brighton has some boys out sick though, so could be a good race again at indoor State Q's.

The consistently dominant Gates-Chili boys pole vaulters won but almost got upset by Canandaigua.  Gates' Ryan Ellis 13' and Jake Trieste 12'6" tied Canandaigua's Sam Harding 13'6" (ties Max Curran for Section V lead) and Kevin Palmisano 12', but the tie was broken by total misses.

Hilton girls vaulted over the rest with Zoe Camillacci and Sarah Pirnie combining for an incredible 20’.

In the small schools the boys winner was Aquinas and they won the 55m x 4 person (Alonzo Turney, Josh Hanna, Terrance Richards, Greg Pardner), 4x200m, Sprint Medley, High Jump (Isaac Darling, Joe Frost), and Long Jump (Alonzo Turney, Khris Greggs) relays.

Batavia won small school girls with 90 points while only winning one event, the Triple Jump (Kelsey Hill, Sydney Durawa).  They scored in nearly every event and had a lot of second place finishes.

Hurley-Quinney Invitational at Cornell, January 26, 2013

A couple of our girls trackstars, Karmen Auble of Warsaw and Maddie Kopp of Spencerport, headed down to Cornell on Saturday for the Hurley-Qunney Invitational featuring 25 teams, mostly from Section IV, and they dominated.  Auble won the Pole Vault (12'0) and Long Jump (16'10.5") and was awarded the field event MVP, and Kopp won the 300m (40.92) and 55m (7.34) and was awarded the Track MVP.  Kopp lowered her Section V leading time in the 300m to 40.92, and her 55m time broke Edison Tech's Stanley-Obieki hold on 1-2 in Section V, she didn't catch Stanley's 7.24 but did beat Obieke's 7.42.