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Manchester boys' lap field to win metric relay title
Girls place third in relays, teams prepare for conference meet
By Ed Patino, Staff Writer
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2007
Stepping outside of league competitions, where they've dominated, the Manchester varsity track teams didn't miss a beat.
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The Manchester boys' team won six events and placed second in five others to capture first place in the Manchester Metric Invitational Saturday. Meanwhile, the girls' team placed third overall after winning one event and recorded five second-place finishes.
The Flying Dutchmen won the boys' meet with a team score of 117. Blissfield scored 76 to finish second and beat out third-place Onsted, which had 75. Adrian Madison was fourth with 62, while Brooklyn Columbia Central (47) and Michigan Center (24) placed fifth and sixth respectively.
Madison won the girls' event with a team score of 135. Blissfield was second with 84, while the Flying Dutch scored 82 for third. Napoleon placed fourth with 55 and Onsted was fifth with 50. Columbia Central placed sixth with a score of 36 and Michigan Center placed seventh.
The Manchester boys used several different combinations in their six relay wins. Tom Crawford teamed with Brian Fargher, William Heslip and Zach Greca to win the Manchester relay with a time of 1:37.52, then Greg Schaible joined Crawford, Fargher and Greca to win the 800-meter relay in 1:32.25, setting a new meet record. Jesse Forner, Crawford, Schaible and Greca won the 400-meter relay (45.75 seconds) for Manchester, while Fargher, Forner, William and James Heslip captured the freshman/sophomore relay (3:57.76).
James Hughes, Andrew Tindall, Jake LaCross and Carl Wharam won the middle distance relay with a time of 5:08.47 and the 1,600 relay team of Tindall, LaCross, Greca and Schaible finished in 3:32.23 for another Manchester victory.
The Dutchmen finished second in the 3,200 relay as Tindall, Hughes, Wharam and Adam Colvia finished in 8:49.73. Wharam and Hughes teamed with Kyle Gagneau and Zach Seguin to place second in the 6,400 relay with a time of 19:53.91.
Manchester's shot put relay squad of Brian Flahie, Nick Ross and Derrick Von Broda placed second with a combined distance of 114-9, while the long jump relay team of Fargher, Zach Margraves and Nick Dunny finished second with a combined 52-5.
The Dutchmen also recorded a second and third place finish in two individual events. Forner was second in the pole vault with a jump of 11-6.01, barely losing to Madison's Stephen Sweet, who jumped 11-6.02. Schaible placed third in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.38 seconds.
The Manchester girls' team recorded its lone first place in the middle distance relay, as Katie McDowell, Katie Sheler, Amanda Mutchler and Kate Brown posted a time of 7:25.28.
Katelyn Spring, Katelyn Horning, Stephanie Steele and McDowell placed second in the freshman/sophomore relay (4:49.73), while Mutchler, Presley Hone, Brooke Fuller and Tracy Schaible finished second in the 1,600 relay (4:23.67).
The long jump relay team of Laura Coltre, Shelby Lalik and Schaible combined for 40-4 to place second for Manchester. Lalik teamed with Gagneau and Ally Way to finish second in the high jump relay (13-3), while Kyla Wilberding, Marissa Olmstead and Candice Weidmayer combined to throw 85-11 in the shot put relay for another second place finish.
A pair of new meet records was set in the girls' competition. Madison's team of Carrie Zubke, Morgan Maxwell, Macie Gonzalez and Vonavia Quinn set a meet record in the 1,600 relay with a time of 4:17.22. Columbia Central set a new meet record in the Manchester relay as Lindsay Kourtjian, Samantha Scouten, Tayire Reed and Paige Webb finished in 1:53.51.
Manchester will compete in the regional meet at Erie Mason beginning Friday morning.
Manchester vs. Grass Lake
Both of Manchester's varsity track teams will head into next week's Cascades Conference meet with perfect league records.
The Manchester boys' team won nine events en route to a 71-66 victory over the Grass Lake Warriors in a Cascades dual meet May 8. The girls' team also won nine events and placed second in six in a 73-62 victory over the Warriors.
Six of the boys' victories came in individual events. Brian Flahie won the discus with a throw of 122-4. Sam Brown won the high jump (5-8) and Jesse Forner captured the pole vault (11-0) for the Dutchmen. James Hughes won both the 1,600-meter run (4:47.23) and the 3,200-meter run (10:20.42), while Tom Crawford took first in the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.54 seconds.
Greg Schaible, Carl Wharam, Andrew Tindall and Hughes teamed to win the 3,200 relay in 8:27.54. Crawford, Schaible, Brian Fargher and Zach Greca won the 800 relay (1:34.08), while Crawford, Schaible, Greca and Jesse Forner combined to win the 400 relay (44.93 seconds) for Manchester.
The girls' team won eight individual events. Kyla Wilberding took first in the shot put with a 28-1 1/2 throw. Megan Simmons won the discus with a toss of 89-6, while Kelsey Gagneau captured the high jump at 4-6 3/10. Presley Hone jumped 8-1 to win the pole vault for the Dutch, and Laura Coltre took first in the long jump at 15-8 1/4.
Katie Sheler won the 110 hurdles with a time of 18.57 seconds and captured the 300 hurdles in 55.02 seconds. Elizabeth Timoszyk won the 1,600 run in 5:56.92 for Manchester.
The 800-meter relay team of Tracey Schaible, Candice Weidmayer, Amanda Mutchler and Brooke Fuller posted a time of 1:56.24 for first place.
Wilberding took second in the discus at 82-0 for the Dutch, while Shelby Lalik placed second in the high jump at 4-6 2/10. Tarah Bondy jumped 8-0 in the pole vault for another second place finish. Schaible placed second in the long jump (14-8 3/4) for Manchester. Hone, Schaible, Fuller and Mutchler finished second in the 1,600 relay with a time of 4:27.97.
The Cascades Conference meet will take place May 22.
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