BELLEFONTE — Nine Bellefonte boys posted topthree finishes as the Raiders finished second in the team race at the Mountain League Track and Field Championships on Tuesday, May 10, at Rogers Stadium.
The Raiders finished with 84 team points. Hollidaysburg won both the boys’ and girls’ team titles.
The top six finishers in each event scored points.
William Spratt was Bellefonte’s only gold medalist, throwing the shot put 43 feet, 2.5 inches. Spratt also was third in the discus.
Chase Ebeling, meanwhile, was second in the 3200 meters and third in the 1600 meters. Eric Bennett also garnered silver-medal standing in the 800, as did the Raiders’ four-by-400 relay team.
Landyn Miller and Caleb Vinnedge copped bronze medals in the triple jump and 3200, respectively, as did Bellefonte’s boys’ 3200 relay.
Miller was fourth in the long jump, as was William Brininger in the javelin and the team running the four-by-100, while Collin Sharp placed fifth in both the 100 and 200, Jacob Showers took fifth in the 110 hurdles and Grady Garrison placed sixth in the 400.
Penns Valley and Bald Eagle Area were fifth and sixth, respectively, in the boys’ scoring, while Philipsburg-Osceola was eighth.
Micah Good sparked the Rams, taking first in the 400 meters with a time of 43.65 seconds, in addition to placing fourth in the 200 and sixth in the 100. Penns Valley also was first in the 400 relay with a time of 44.76.
Bald Eagle’s lone boys’ goal medalist was pole vaulter Kevin Taylor, who achieved 12-3.
Zach Braucht won silver for Penns Valley in the triple jump and bronze in the 100, while Colin Niewinski was runner-up in the javelin.
McClain Reamer took fourth in the 1600 and fifth in the 3200, Jonathan O’Donald was third in the 400 and Richard Butler was sixth in both the 110 hurdles and the high jump.
Isaac Karp and Jackson Romig took fifth in the shot put and javelin, respectively.
The Rams’ 1600 relay, long jumper Logan Crater and pole vaulter Gavin Robb were sixth.
Shot putter Kieren Jodon and discus thrower Matthew Knepp scored second-place points for Bald Eagle Area, which also got bronze-medal efforts from Owen Irvin in the 100, Chase Thompson in the pole vault and the 1600-meter relay.
Knepp was fifth in the shot put and Max Yetsko fifth in both the 300 hurdles and the triple jump. BEA’s sixthplace finishers were Camden Comley in the 800 and Colton Wagner in the 1600.
Chad Muckey was Philipsburg-Osceola’s top boys’ finisher, placing second in the mile. Josiah Kephart took fourth in the discus, Matthew Reese sixth in the pole vault and the Mounties’ 3200 relay fifth.
Bellefonte also had the best team girls’ team showing among Centre County schools, placing third with Emma Liadis running 13:11.23 to win the two-mile run.
Penns Valley’s Abby Stitzer won the 800 with a time of 2:28.06, while Anna Stitzer triumphed in the 1600 with 5:36.06. Bald Eagle’s Abby Hoover threw 101-4 to capture gold in the discus, and Philipsburg-Osceola’s Kalista Butler and Reilly Vroman won the javelin and shot put with a distances of 113-10 and 31-8.5, respectively.
Ashleigh Aukerman finished a spot behind her teammate Liadis in the two-mile run, while Bellefonte’s 3200 relay was third. The Lady Raiders’ Kerri Shutika rolled up the points with fourth-place finishes in the 100, 200 and 100 hurdles.
Other Bellefonte competitors to place fourth were Gabrielle Deitrich in the discus, Ruthann Smoyer in the 300 hurdles and the teams in the 400 and 1600 relays. Aukerman was fifth in the mile, as was Sara Proctor in the long jump. Kate Rarrick took sixth in the mile.
Hoover also was second in the javelin and fifth in the shot, where teammate Katie Snyder placed third. Snyder also was third in the javelin.
Heather Leskovansky had the fourth-best height in the pole vault while also placing sixth in the 100. Jordan Franks wound up fourth in the 400, while 200-meter sprinter Olivia Taylor and the Lady Eagles’ 1600 relay finished fifth.
For Penns Valley, Alexis Durn was the second to the finish line in the mile and Cameron Upcraft took fourth in the high jump. All three Lady Rams’ relays scored — the 3200 was second, the 400 fifth and the 1600 sixth.
P-O’s Kylie Timko placed third in the 1600, Jaylee Cook fourth in the 3200 and Starcia Bainey was fourth in the triple jump, fifth in the 100 hurdles and sixth in both the high jump and long jump. In the relays, the Lady Mounties were fourth in the 3200 and sixth in the 400.
STATE SHINES AT ALTOONA CLASSIC
State College got a bit of a psychological upper hand on District 6 archrival Altoona, edging the hosts in both boys’ and girls’ competition at the rain-soaked Altoona Mountain Lion Classic on Friday, May 6 at Mansion Park Stadium.
Many of the teams scheduled to attend pulled out of the meet because of steady rain and several others didn’t send full teams. However, Bellefonte, Penns Valley and Philipsburg-Osceola all competed along with State College.
The meet also was condensed to only three attempts in all field events and no preliminaries on the track.
Both State College teams finished in second place in the Class 3A division. Led by Shannon Mullin, Marlee Kwasnica and Grace Morningstar, the Lady Little Lions scored 92 points, six behind Greensburg Hempfield for the team title and two ahead of Altoona.
Mullin jumped 38-9.25 to win the triple jump and finished second to Altoona’s Brooke Long in the long jump with a 17-9. Meanwhile, Morningstar completed the halfmile in 2:19.96 to garner gold there, while Kwasnica was runner-up in the 1600 with a time of 5:09.55.
State College also won the 3A girls’ 1600 relay, timing 4:09.62.
The State College boys picked up four gold medals on the track. The Little Lions’ 3200 relay ran 8:10.70, while Ryan Lindenberg clocked 41.37 in the 300 hurdles, Nick Sloff posted a 4:29.83 in the 1600 meters — just ahead of teammate Trent Dinant — and Charles Endres outpaced Samuel Endres with a time of 9:53.36 in the 3200.
State College’s Nathan Haas also finished second in the javelin, while Max Bodner, Mitchell Maher and Tony Tzolov were third in the long jump, shot put and 800, respectively.
State’s 1600 relay also captured bronze. The Little Lions scored 108 team points, 11 ahead of Altoona and eight behind first-place South Western.
Other placewinners for the State College boys were Matthew Staniar (fourth, 400), the four-by-100 (fourth), Ben Spencer (fifth, discus), Holden Roth (seventh, 110 hurdles; seventh, 300 hurdles), Nolan Markowski (eighth,
100) and John Sicree (eighth, 110 hurdles).
Amy Devan (second, 3200), Sarah Tate (third, 100 hurdles; seventh, 300 hurdles), Chloe Poindexter (third, 400), the 3200 relay (fourth), Alex Antoniono (fifth, long jump), Kylie Field (fifth, 100), Natalie Koncoski (fifth, 1600) and Clare Banker (eighth, javelin) also medaled for the State College girls.
Bellefonte’s best showings in Class 3A were by Landyn Miller and the boys’ 3200 relay, both of which took fourth.
For the Lady Raiders, Ella Underwood was sixth in the javelin, while Josie Underwood was sixth in the triple jump and Sara Proctor sixth in the long jump. Bellefonte’s girls’ 400 relay was seventh, and the 1600 and 3200 relays both took eighth.
Zane Hummel placed fifth in both the boys’ long jump and triple jump and the Raiders 1600 relay was seventh.
Two event champions sparked Penns Valley to a fourth-place team finish in the Class 2A girls’ section of the meet. Abby Stitzer’s 2:25.77 was the best time in the 800 meters, while Cameron Upcraft cleared 5-0 in the high jump.
Stitzer also placed second in the 400.
Other Lady Ram medal winners were Anna Stitzer (third, 3200), Alexis Durn (fourth, 1600), the 400 relay (fifth), Chamiqua Gentzel (sixth, high jump), Hannah Clark (seventh, 200) and Cate Goodwin (eighth, 100).
Philipsburg-Osceola placed ninth out of the 14 girls’ teams in 2A. The top Lady Mountie finisher was Starcia Bainey, who took third in the triple jump and fourth in the long jump. P-O’s girls’ four-by-400 also took fourth.
Madison Barger (fifth, 200; seventh, 100), Kalista Butler (sixth, javelin), Jaylee Cook (seventh, 1600), Megan Holenchik (seventh, 400), Reilly Vroman (seventh, shot put) and the 400 (seventh) and 3200 (eighth relays) completed the list of Lady Mountie medalists.
The Philipsburg-Osceola boys were fourth in Class 2A, sparked by Chad Muckey’s winning time of 10:07.47 in the mile. Braeden Fenton was second in the long jump, Andrew Faust third in the 110 hurdles and fifth in the 300 hurdles and Braydon Little fourth in both the 200 and 400.
The four-by-400 also took fourth, as did Matthew Reese in the javelin. Josiah Kephart was fifth in the discus and sixth in the javelin and Scott Frantz eighth in the mile.
McClain Reamer’s second in the 3200 and sixth in the 1600 helped the Penns Valley boys take ninth place. Greyson Kimler and Jackson Romig were third in the 300 hurdles and javelin, respectively, while Zach Braucht and Jonathan O’Donald were sixth in the long jump and 400 and Matthew Wheeland placed eighth in the 800.
