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About a dozen Section V teams headed to Cornell for the Hurley-Quinney Invitational this weekend and they showed Section IV who’s boss!
With 44 teams competing in total, the Section V schools went 1-2-3 for the boys with defending Section V Class B Champion Greece Olympia taking it all, and Rush-Henrietta and Hilton in 2nd and 3rd. For the girls Rush-Henrietta and Penfield gave ‘em the 1-2 punch.
Some of our UNDEFEATED crew took it to Ithaca and couldn’t be defeated there either. Completely dominating their events were:
Batavia’s Erica Williams winning the shot put by over 6 feet with a throw of 41-4,
Greece Athena’s Brian Smith winning the 300M by over a second and a half with a 34.69,
and Warsaw’s Karmen Auble winning the pole vault by a foot with a 12’ jump, just 4” off the sophomore state record.
Hilton’s Pat Meyer went for three events in one meet and continued his undefeated season in long jump with a 22-7.75 and triple jump with a 46-4, but Greece Olympia’s Desmond Mobley beat him 6-6 to 6-4 in the high jump. (Meyer didn’t even get to do his best event, the 55M Hurdles).
Rush-Henrietta ‘s Victoria Shaffer extended her undefeated streak to 4 winning the high jump 5-2
Penfield’s Leila Mantilla continued her undefeated season in the 3000M winning with a 10:34.32.
Rush Henrietta’s Mickey Burke won the 3200M with a new Section V leading time of 9:41.62, and he’s run that once before and won, so he’s undefeated in the 3200M.
Greece Athena’s Keith Pease won the 1600M and lowered his Section V leading time to 4:24.61.
Greece Athena’s Terrance Harley got to step out of his teammate’s shadow and won the 55M with a 6.55.
Penfield won the Girls Distance Medley 12:32.20 (Katie Lembo, Lauren Sedita, Ilana Schnaufer, Leila Mantilla)
Gates Chili won the Boys Shuttle Hurdles 33.84 (Ryan Ellis, CJ Palozzi, Josh Hurley, Charles Coleman)
The rest of the winners from Section V were:
Maddie Kopp of Spencerport, 300M 40.85
Katie Lembo of Penfield, 1000M 3:02.84
Kyle Podgers of Hilton, Shot Put 45-04.75
Amanda Entress of Gates Chili, Triple Jump 34-10.24
Ok, back to our league meets at Chiro, there were some outstanding performances there too. In fact some of our athletes had performances at Chiro that were better than any of the performances at Cornell.
Starting with Ryan Cribbin of West Irondequoit who is the Section V boys shot put leader, Cribbin threw a 47-4 which was 2 feet farther than the winning throw at Cornell.
Next up, Autumn Albrecht of Brockport circled that Chiro gym pretty fast and her 4:55.08 would also have won at Cornell.
Finally, Amanda Burkey of Fairport brought it to Chiro’s gym floor and high jumped 5-2, same height as the winner at Cornell.
Eleonore Grant of Red Creek kept her undefeated streak in the hurdles with a dominating 8.30 (50MHH), but she took her first loss in the pole vault as she went head to head with Gabby Sherwood of Livonia who became the first vaulter other than Karmen Auble to make 10 feet.
Other outstanding performances included:
Aaron McGinnis Brockport, High Jump 6-4
Amir Rogers NE/NW College Prep, 50M Hurdles 7.41
Allison Phillips Palmyra-Macedon, 45M 6.44
by Reggie Henderson
Race of the Week: WEST Girls 300M
Photo by Ron Kalasinskas www.rochesterforkids.com
Coming into Friday night’s race at RIT Spencerport’s Maddie Kopp was the Section V leader in the 300M on the verge of a Milesplit 1st Team Elite mark of 41.50, and Aquinas Camaria Long was ranked 4th with a best of 42.84. But both girls obliterated the 41.50 standard and Long edged out Kopp, 40.77 to 40.82 which puts them both in the top 40 nationwide and top 10 for New York State.
Another great race was the WEST Girls 55M Dash. Edison Tech’s Tanisha Love came in with the seasons best mark of 7.40 and again it was Camaria Long chasing down the leader and matching her 7.40 mark, but Love went even faster to make a new leading mark of 7.35.
Nice meet for Camaria Long!
For the boys, the race of the meet was the WEST Boys 1600M where McMullen Mile Champ Keith Pease outleaned Gates-Chili’s Travis Jordon and won 4:26.85 to 4:26.98. Their times beat the previous leading marks by Rush Henrietta’s Burke brothers, Colby and Mickey, and they left behind 3 boys (including Mickey) from distance powerhouse Rush Henrietta.
THE UNDEFEATED
Who are the undefeated athletes in Section V? Let’s put a target on their backs so everyone can go after them.
Pat Meyer of Hilton is undefeated in 4 events. 55M Hurdles leading mark plus 4 wins, Long Jump 3rd best mark, but never beat head-to-head and has 3 wins, High Jump leading mark and 2 wins, Triple Jump leading mark and one win (note, not counting Tiger or other invites).
Brian Smith of Greece Athena is in the top 5 statewide for 300M and 55M and in the top 10 nationwide for the 300M. In Section V he is the Section V leader and undefeated in the 55M (4 races), the 300M (3 races, including a Section V record), and even in the 600M he won 3 out of 4 races.
Erica Williams of Batavia is ranked 5th nationally and is number 1 in New York State for the shot put. She’s undefeated in 4 competitions and has broken the Section V record 3 times this winter.
Karmen Auble of Warsaw is ranked 7th nationally and is number 1 in New York State for the pole vault. She is undefeated in 3 league competitions, and also undefeated in 4 non-league meets, Marine and Malloy Stanner at the Armory, Southern Tier at Cornell, and even beat the college kids at the Holiday Classic at RIT. She also tried long jump and won with the 2nd best mark in Section V and has the 3rd best mark in the Shot Put.
Eleonore Grant of Red Creek is undefeated in four 55M Hurdles races, has the leading mark in the Triple Jump which she entered once and won, is undefeated in two pole vault completions, and entered the Long Jump once and won.
Rebekah Champlin of Marcus Whitman is ranked 2nd in the state for the 1500M Racewalk and undefeated in 6 races.
Edison Tech Girls 4x200M are undefeated in 4 races, and no one else has run as fast as their slowest of those 4 races.
Jeremy Bartula of Gates-Chili has the leading mark and is undefeated in 4 Pole Vault competitions.
Alana MacDonald of Rush Henrietta has the leading mark and is undefeated in three 600M races. She also entered the 1000M once and won, and the 1500M once and won.
Victoria Shaffer of Rush Henrietta has the leading mark and is undefeated in 3 High Jump competitions. She’s also near the top for the long jump and triple jump.
Colby Burke of Rush Henrietta has raced the following once each, 600M, 1000M, 1600M and he won every time. He has the leading mark in the 600M.
Leila Mantilla of Penfield has only run the 1000M once, but she won it with the Section V leading time, she also won the 3000M the one time she entered that race.
So… if I missed someone or a relay team who has entered an event more than once, is undefeated, and has the leading mark in Section V, please let me know.
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.
Leaderboard
