CONFERENCE TRACK & FIELD NOTES
At New Haven (NE8 Meet)
-Haleigh Wesley finished fourth in a highly-competitive field in the 100 as Leo’s Karis Davis cruised to victory. Wesley’s 13.11 was just shy of her season best of 13 flat, although she did run a 13.02 in the prelims to get to the finals. -Wesley did set a season best in the finals of the 200, finishing third in 26.93.
-Keeley Carpenter set a new personal best to finish tenth in the 800, cutting her best time in 2022 by nine seconds. -Mackenzie Selzer set a season best and broke the sevenminute mark to finish 12th in the 1600. -Huntington North’s Addy Wiley, the defending state champion in the 1600, breezed to victory in the mile and then turned it on for the two-mile race, winning in 10:44.63, a time that would have been good for fifth place at last year’s State Finals. -Bellmont’s 4x400 relay of Ashlyn Walker, Sydney Keane, Taylor Louis and Madison Witte set a new team best for 2022 to finish sixth in 4:35.62.
-In the 4x800, Bellmont was within a tenth of their season best time and finished fifth.
-Addie Kintz cleared seven feet again in the pole vault to finish tenth. She continues to be the only girl in the county to clear that height this season.
-Sierra Schmidt was second in the discus with a throw of 105-08, finishing second to Makenna Dommer of New Haven. -Sierra Schmidt had a great throw of 31-03.5, but it was only good enough for fifth, as Haley Thompson, this year’s state runner-up at heavyweight, threw 37-11.25 to win the shot put.
-Landon Caston set a new PR in the prelims of the 200 (23.77) to reach the finals, where he finished eighth.
-Brett Johnson was fourth in the 400 with a new PR of 52.87. -Ian Webb (4:43.91) came within a second of Deion Guise’s county-best time in the 1600, but had to settle for eight place in a loaded field. Huntington North’s Harrison Niswander won the race in 4:23.94, a time that would have been top 12 at last year’s State Finals.
-Deion Guise lowered his county-best time of 2022 in a showdown with Columbia City’s Austin Hall, but Hall ran away from Guise at the end, winning comfortably by 15 seconds. Both boys would have won last year’s regional with those times.