The indoor track & field squads participated in two meets over the holiday break and started the new year with a successful showing at the County Relays on Monday, 1/4. The boys team placed 5th and the girls 9th at the relay championships, an improvement on last year's 7th and 11th. The highest placing team was the girls high jump duo of Gianna Pastena and Laura Goodfriend who took silver. Taking bronze in the same event on the boys' side were Matt Herb and John Johnson. Matt Herb has impressed in each outing throughout the season by consistently jumping 6 feet. At the county relays, his jump was the highest in the competition. Herb and Johnson teamed up with Byron Reed and Chris Duran to take 4th in the shuttle hurdles while Goodfriend led off the 6th-place 4 x 800 (Bridget Phillips, Casey Garcia, Stephanie Smith). The girls got two more 6th places in varsity competition in the sprint med (Sam Tavalare, Jacinta Ford, Armani Blair, Val Zielinski) and shot put (Ford, Alissa Hoffman). The boys got a 4th in the distance med with Scott Rennalls, Aeron Gilson, Chris Orihuela, and Jon Weiss and in the sprint med (Gilson, Dan Maya, Juan Rios, Rennalls), a 5th in the 4 x 800 (Zach Miller, Chris Schneider, Orihuela, Weiss). The 4 x 200 group of Rios, Johnson, Jake Podolnick, & Maya placed 6th in the 4 x 200.
The j.v. teams had an outstanding night to demonstrate the team depth. The lone gold for the night was grabbed by the boys in the 4 x 800 with Alex Joss, Steve Wagner, Chris Coyle, & Bryan Kveglis. Their time would have placed them 10th in the varsity. The boys' A & B 4 x 200 teams took 2nd and 4th (Jamal Davis, Jamore McBurroughs, Jake Boylan, Mike Gonzalez/Nick SanGiacomo, Pat Heitkamp, Justin Bakelmun, Chris Duran) while the girls 4 x 2 took 6th (LaNija Mendes, Anna Poggi, Sam Bakelmun, Danielle Halikias). The girls 4 x 8 team of Alex Schneeberg, Amanda Meisel, Marissa Bello, & Ashley Torres took bronze and so did the 4 x 4 of Kelly Sagi, Poggi, Erin Miller, & Steph Smith. Gonzalez, SanGiacomo, Duran, and Schneider grabbed more medals placing 3rd in the 4 x 4. Rounding it all out were Matt Deptula and Nick Parra in 6th place in the shot, both winning their first medals ever.
Next up:
Frosh/Soph Relays--Friday, 1/8
Conference Championships--Saturday, 1/9
Frosh/Soph Championships--Monday, 1/11
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