BELLEFONTE — The Bellefonte Area High School boys won four events and the Raiders finished second as a team at the Mountain League Track and Field Championships on May 9 at Rogers Stadium.
Penns Valley was third in the boys team standings. Bellefonte was the highest-scoring Centre County girls team, taking third with Sara Proctor winning the long jump, while Penns Valley won three distance runs and Bald Eagle Area’s Abby Hoover was gold medalist in the javelin and shot put.
Hollidaysburg took home both team titles.
Alex Crist ran on the Raiders’ winning 4-by-400 (3 minutes, 34.13 seconds) and 4-by-800 (8:31.97) relays and won the 800-meter run (2:00.36) in addition to placing second in the 1600 to front the Bellefonte boys. Sherman Lowry accounted for Bellefonte’s other gold medal by clocking 15.89 in the 110-meter hurdle finals.
Collin Sharp medaled in all four of his events, taking second in the 100, anchoring the Raiders’ runner-up 400 relay and placing third in the 200 and fifth in the long jump. Individually, Chase Ebeling came in second in the 3200 and third in the 1600, as did teammate Zane Hummel in the javelin and triple jump, respectively.
Bellefonte scored 131 team points. The top six finishers medaled and scored in the eight-school event.
Micah Good won the 400 and was second in the 200 to lead the way for Penns Valley’s boys, who finished with 77 points. He also ran on the runner-up 1600 relay team. The Rams’ Miles Brooks tripled jumped 45-3 to place second in that event, also took second in the long jump and was third in the 100 after posting the second-best time in that event’s preliminaries, while Greyson Kimler posted the best time of the meet in the 300 hurdles.
Bald Eagle Area’s Kieran Jodon provided the county with its only other boys gold medal with his performance in the shot put.
Bellefonte had three other boys bronze medalists — Wyatt Lowry in the javelin, Logan Proctor in the shot and Caleb Vinnedge in the 3200.
Other Raiders medalists included Trey Wagner (fourth, 300 hurdles), Ethan Wilson (fourth, 400), Grady Garrison (fifth, 800), Landyn Miller (fifth, triple jump) and Wyatt Lowry (sixth, discus).
Good’s winning time was 51.25, while Greyson Kimler registered a 42.38 to receive his gold. Penns Valley got a third from Gavin Robb in the pole vault, a fourth from McClain Reamer in the 3200, a fifth from Greyson Kimler in the 110 hurdles and the 3200 and 400 relays and sixths from Cedar Kimler in the triple jump, Cameron Kubalak in the 400 meters and Noah Patel in the high jump.
Jodon threw the shot 42-10.5 and also garnered a silver medal in the discus; the Eagles finished fourth with 41 team points. Tre Greene finished second to Jodon in the shot.
Gavin Brooks was fourth in the high jump, matching the placement of the Eagles’ 3200 relay. Isaac Dechow and Kaiden Gates took fifth in the 3200 and high jump, respectively, while Talon Thompson was sixth in the javelin and Colton Wagner was sixth in the 3200.
Philipsburg-Osceola’s boys scored 12 points, getting a second from Chad Muckey in the 800 meters and a fourth from Matthew Reese in the pole vault. Muckey didn’t run his marquee event, the two-mile run.
Bellefonte finished third in the girls meet with 76.25 points. Sara Proctor was the Lady Raiders’ lone event winner by jumping 17-0.25, but Bellefonte had five girls medal in multiple events individually and had 16 medalists in all.
The Lady Raiders’ Madison Miller placed second in the shot put and was fifth in the javelin, while Ruthann Smoyer was third in the 100 hurdles and sixth in the 300 hurdles, as was Victoria Schellenberg in the pole vault and javelin. Sara Proctor also took fifth in the 100.
Anna Tyson was fourth in the 300 hurdles and tied for fourth in the high jump.
The Lady Raiders’ 4-by-800 scooped up a bronze medal, the 4-by-400 team and 3200 runner Emma Liadis were fourth and half-miler Anna Cernuska and the 4-by-100 were fifth. Finishing with sixth-place points for the Bellefonte girls were Ashleigh Aukerman in the 3200, Lauren Benner in the 100 hurdles, Alyssa Hopkins in the 800, Madyson Miller in the long jump and Josie Underwood in the triple jump, while Paige Jodon tied for sixth in the pole vault.
The Lady Rams made their money in the distance runs en route to 70.25 team points and a sixth-place showing. Alexis Durn won the 1600 with a time of 5:36.78, Lillyanna Smith took the 3200 in 12:14.55 and Abby Stitzer prevailed in the 800 by timing 2:28.65.
The Lady Rams also took silver in the 3200 relay.
Rounding out Penns Valley’s girls medalists were Chamiqua Gentzel (third, javelin), Miley Hubler (third, high jump; fourth, 100 hurdles), the 4-by-400 team (third), Ayva Fetterolf (fourth, 1600; fifth, 3200), the 4-by-100 team (fourth) and Kassi Harpster (tie for sixth, pole vault).
Also fourth in the discus, Hoover secured her golds by throwing the javelin 117-7 and the shot 31-4. Her teammate, Claudia Irvin, was the silver medalist in the javelin and won bronze in the 300 hurdles.
The Lady Eagles scored 52 team points to place seventh.
Heather Leskovansky and Olivia Taylor were fourth in the pole vault and 400 meters, respectively, and Sybil Thompson placed fifth in the 1600. Both the 3200 and 1600 relays took sixth, as did Grace Crestani in the discus and Khloe Cunningham in the 400.
P-O’s points came from its 4-by-800 and 4-by-100, which were fifth and sixth, respectively.
