The Times Herald (Norristown, PA)
Dock sweeps competition with pair of titles
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“I had 28 rookies come out for this team, between the guys and the girls,” Dock coach Tim Eger said Saturday afternoon. “We were kind of starting over in a lot of ways.”
But it is still finishing up in much the same fashion. The Dock boys and girls track squads — with several new faces populating the lineup — still produced double trophies this weekend out at Coatesville Area High, as the Pioneers pulled off a District 1-2A sweep for the second consecutive season.
“I was just really impressed when I started to see the kids notch district qualifiers, and at that point, it’s like ‘where are we? What can we do?’” said Eger, who has guided the Pioneer girls to five titles in the past six years and the boys to four district crowns in the past eight seasons. “My girls came out and they battled. I was very, very proud of them today.
“The boys got that 4x1 team through (to states), and Austin Nice, he’s just a monster.”
Nice dashed to a gold medal in the 100 meters, crossing in 11.52 seconds, long jumped to another gold with a leap of 21 feet, 7 inches, and anchored home the first-place 4x1, joining Thomas Schreiber, Roman Kuhn and Bryce Kauffman to go 44.81, out-kicking second-place Girard College (44.88).
“Our 4x1 making it to states is crazy. We didn’t expect that at all,” Nice said. “I was coming in not expecting too much because I had been dealing with an injury for the past couple weeks.
“But to be able to come out with three wins and a bronze (in the 4x4) is really nice.”
Xander Duerksen threw to a second-place finish in the javelin (151-2) and a third-place finish in the shot put (40-10.5). Adam Berry was second in the discus (113-3). The points began to pile up for Dock, which outscored runner-up Church Farm 120.5-101.
“It feels pretty good, being able to repeat and win three times in the past four years,”
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