SECTION V WEEK #8 JAN 27-28 and Hurley-Quinney Invite at Cornell
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