UNIVERSITY PARK — State College boys won four events and Shannon Mullin accounted for two of the State College girls’ three gold medals as their team hosted its third indoor track and field meet on Wednesday, Feb. 16 at Penn State’s Multisport Indoor Facility Building.
Bellefonte and St. Joseph’s also were among the 17 schools represented at the meet.
Little Lion runners Sean Adams, Trent Dinant and Ryan Lindenberg all turned in elite performances in finishing first in their respective events. Adams posted a time of 1 minute, 55.73 seconds in the 800-meter run, Dinant completed the mile in 4:21.25 — about 8 seconds ahead of teammate and runner-up Charles Endres — and Lindenberg clocked 50.22 in the 400 dash.
Adams and Lindenberg also were part of a second-place 1600 relay with Salahuddin Abdul-Hamid and Mathew Staniar that ran an excellent 3:30.16, and Lindenberg joined Nolan Markowski, Dylan Grunwald and John Sicree to take second in the 800 relay.
Mitchell Maher rounded out the gold-medal list for the Little Lions by throwing the shot 49 feet, 5 inches. State’s Ben Spencer finished second in the event.
Staniar was runner-up to Adams in the 800. Max Bodner and Tanakrid Suwannasaeng were third in the high jump and 60 meters, respectively. Bodner also was fifth in the long jump.
Placing fourth for the State College boys were Abdul-Hamid in the 400, Sicree in the 60 hurdles, Landon Leidy in the long jump, Duncan Loviscky in the triple jump and Tony Tzolov in the 800. Ian Dorefice and Sam Bell placed fifth and sixth for State College in the pole vault, which also got sixth-place showings from Dylan Grunwald in the 60, Ethan Morningstar in the 800 and Reese Steidle in the high jump.
State College finished with three teams in the top six in the 1600 relay, with Tzolov, Ian Savitski, Endres and Morningstar fourth and Dinant, Peter Hulbert, Michael Moeny and Nathaniel Money sixth.
Rounding out State College’s boys’ medal-winners were Grunwald (eighth, 60), Sam Viglione (eighth, mile) and the 800 relay of Nathaniel Money, Holden Roth, David Brown and Ben Fisher (seventh).
Mullin, meanwhile, continued her jumping excellence on the girls’ side, leaping 37-7 in the triple and 17-9.5 in the long to win both events.
Grace Morningstar joined her on the top spot of the medal stand by breaking the tape in the 800 meters in 2:16.17. Teammate Marlee Kwasnica was fourth in the event but still posted an excellent time of 2:22.21 in the loaded field.
Kwasnica also posted an elite time of 5:12.29 in finishing third in the mile, where Amy Devan did the same with a 5:18.46 to place seventh.
Kwasnica and Morningstar were the bookends for State College’s third-place 1600 relay, with Chloe Poindexter and Natalie Koncoski running the middle legs. The Lady Little Lions’ 800 relay of Grace Lundy, Ashley Mitchell, Kate Lundy and Katelyn Peachey was fourth.
Zia Bodnar placed third in the shot put for the State College girls. Other Lady Little Lion fourth-place finishers were Alex Antoniono in the triple jump and Poindexter in the 400 dash, while Koncoski, Irene Garcia and Mia Iceland were fifth in the 800, shot put and pole vault, respectively.
Rounding out State’s individual girls’ medalists were Devan (sixth, 800), Caroline Simon (sixth, shot put), Claire Hicks (seventh, pole vault), Sarah Tate (seventh, 60 hurdles), Abigail Bigger (eighth, 800), Maggie Bopp (eighth, pole vault) and Grace Lundy (eighth, 400).
Bellefonte had two boys finish in the top seven individually — William Spratt was sixth in the shot put and Landyn Miller seventh in the triple jump.
The Raider of Daniel Mussett, Dillon Sette, Chase Ebeling and Alex Mansfield was fourth in the 3200.
St. Joseph’s Taylor James and Asa Reynolds notched fifth-place times in the boys’ 200 and boys’ 800, respectively.
