AVON — Anytime a team can win a conference championship is a good time.
But if that team wins when it’s hosting the meet, it makes it even sweeter.
The Avon boys pulled off that feat Friday, winning their third West Shore Conference track championship with 189 points. North Ridgeville was second with 148.
“This means a lot to us and our community,” said junior Brentten Wiley, who won the 110- and 300-meter hurdles and helped the 800 relay break the WSC record. “It really is a great thing to have it here and to be winning it as well.
“It’s been a great day. I worked really hard to get to today, and I’m just really proud of what the outcomes are for me and my teammates. I couldn’t be any happier.”
On the girls side, Vermilion gave Rocky River a fight, but the Pirates won the league title for a seventh time in seven tries.
Wiley, Antonio Orr, Jake Bitter and John DeMarco’s winning time of 1:31.48 broke the record originally set by Avon in 2009 by two-tenths of a second.
Sophomore Austin Fasciana was another multiple winner for the Eagles, taking first in the 3,200 and running the anchor leg in Wednesday’s winning 3,200 relay. He also finished second in the 1,600 behind Bay’s James Fell by a little over a second.
Sophomore Austin Fasciana was another multiple winner for the Eagles, taking first in the 3,200 and running the anchor leg in Wednesday’s winning 3,200 relay. He also finished second in the 1,600 behind Bay’s James Fell by a little over a second.
“I do feel really good about my performance,” said Fasciana, who won the 3,200 in 10:10.47. “This is truly the best of the best in our conference meet, and everyone ran and performed really well today. I had a good day Wednesday in the 4-by-8 and a good day today in the mile and the two mile.
“Our goal coming into this meet was to take at least second in our individual events and to win our relays. I think we succeeded for the most part, which is why we were able to win.”
Paul Sturm won the discus with a toss of 125 feet, 7 inches to help the Eagles’ cause.
“It feels great,” Avon coach Scott Ulery said. “One of our goals coming into this season was to win the conference championship as a team.”
Ulery also credited senior Tyler Linchak — a last-minute replacement in the third-place 400 relay and the runner-up 1,600 relay — for his performances.
The North Ridgeville boys did their part to steal some of the Eagles’ thunder, setting four meet records and winning six events.
Zach Bowden broke the WSC record in the 100 dash with a time of 11.03 seconds and helped David Bowden, Christian Watkins and Paul Sonego break the 400 relay record by full second with a time of 43.64.
“A lot of first places today,” Bowden said. “We were a bad handoff away from winning the 4-by-2 as well. I gave it my all, and we all gave it our all today.”
Sonego broke the 400 record by 1.13 seconds, winning the event in 50.13. He also ran the anchor leg in the record-setting 1,600 relay (3:29.44).
The Rangers’ Mitch Bugala added a win in the shot put with a toss of 50-1.
Vermilion standout Emily Cunningham made her final WSC meet memorable, breaking records in three of the four events she won, and setting the 100 record during Wednesday’s preliminaries.
Cunningham swept the 100 and 200, breaking her own WSC record in the 200 by nine-hundredths of a second, while running the anchor legs in the record-setting 400 and 800 relay victories.
“I definitely didn’t expect to do as well as I did,” she said. “I know that’s not good to say about yourself, but I kind of lowered my expectations coming in. I’m really excited about my performances, especially in the prelims.”
Sophomore Hannah Bartilome was also a part of both record relays, and also broke records in the high jump (5-4) and long jump (16-10.5) to help the Sailors.
“We broke our school record in the 4-by-2 by just over two seconds, which is crazy for this time of year,” she said.
Boys
TEAM STANDINGS: 1. Avon 189, 2. North Ridgeville 148, 3. Midview 89,4. Bay 84, 5. (tie) Vermilion 55, Rocky River 55, 7. Elyria Catholic 35.
Individual Results
SHOT PUT: 1. Mitch Bugala (North Ridgeville) 50-1, 2. Joe Karres (Vermilion) 45-9, 3. Cory Furnas (Avon) 43-9.75, 4. Aaron Osborne (Midview) 43-8.25, 5. Jonah Bowden (North Ridgeville) 43-6.75.
DISCUS: 1. Paul Sturm (Avon) 125-7, 2. Jon Hinson (Rocky River) 124-8, 3. Cory Furnas (Avon) 122-2, 4. Jonah Bowden (North Ridgeville) 120-6, 5. Mitch Bugala (North Ridgeville) 118-7.
HIGH JUMP: 1. Jeffrey Ondo (Midview) 6-4, 2. Josh Hudson (North Ridgeville) 6-4, 3. Drew Lawrence (Avon) 6-0, 4. Tim Hannon (Vermilion) 5-10, 5. Jordan Lawrence (Avon) 5-10.
LONG JUMP: 1. Conrad Doehne (Midview) 20-3, 2. Chris Maxwell (Avon) 19-3, 3. Christian Watkins (North Ridgeville) 19-1, 4. Allen Chan (Rocky River) 19-0, 5. John Maxwell (Avon) 18-6.75.
POLE VAULT: 1. Conrad Doehne (Midview) 14-6, 2. Marek Mutch (Bay) 14-0, 3. Lucas Ball (Elyria Catholic) 14-0, 4. Will Hobson (Rocky River) 13-0, 5. Mitch Tomlin (Avon) 12-6.
3,200 RELAY: 1. Avon (Ben Smith, Nick Telidis, Corey Hermann, Austin Fasciana) 8:29.12, 2. Bay 8:29.87, 3. Elyria Catholic 8:37.30, 4. North Ridgeville 8:46.20, 5. Vermilion 8:54.83.
110 HURDLES: 1. Brentten Wiley (Avon) :15.35, 2. Cameron McCrae (Bay) :15.85, 3. Tyler Lenchak (Avon) :16.12, 4. Daniel Pritchard (Rocky River) :16.23, 5. Jason Lucas (North Ridgeville) :16.78.
100: 1. Zack Bowden (North Ridgeville) :11.03 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 11.05 set by Avon’s Bryant Robertson in 2008), 2. David Bowden (North Ridgeville) :11.42, 3. Jake Bitter (Avon) :11.46, 4. Andy Barbour (Bay) :11.50, 5. Antonio Orr (Avon) :11.57.
800 RELAY: 1. Avon (Brentten Wiley, Antonio Orr, Jake Bitter, John DeMarco) 1:31.48 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 1:31.69 set by Avon in 2009), 2. North Ridgeville 1:31.93, 2. Midview 1:34.77, 4. Vermilion 1:35.82, 5. Bay 1:36.68.
1,600: 1. James Fell (Bay) 4:29.31, 2. Austin Fasciana (Avon) 4:30.55, 3. Justin Reynolds (Rocky River) 4:37.83, 4. Sean Kane (Avon) 4:43.93, 5. Matt Kretschmer (North Ridgeville) 4:46.89.
400 RELAY: 1. North Ridgeville (Christian Watkins, Paul Sonego, Zack Bowden, David Bowden) :43.64 (MEET RECORD: Old record of :44.62 set by Rocky River in 2010), 2. Midview :45.44, 3. Avon :45.45, 4. Bay :46.26, 5. Vermilion :47.52.
400: 1. Paul Sonego (North Ridgeville) :50.13 (MEET RECORD: Old record of :51.26 set by Avon’s Kevin Krakora in 2010), 2. John DeMarco (Avon) :50.63, 3. Elijah Radosevich (Midview) :51.73, 4. David Elwer (Elyria Catholic) :51.98, 5. Zack Baumgard (Bay) :52.60.
300 HURDLES: 1. Brentten Wiley (Avon) :40.91, 2. Cameron McCrae (Bay) :42.06, 3. Tyler Lenchak (Avon) :42.13, 4. Jason Lucas (North Ridgeville) :42.37, 5. Daniel Pritchard (Rocky River) :43.26.
800: 1. Zach Siefker (Midview) 2:03.18, 2. Corey Hermann (Avon) 2:03.44, 3. Forrest Boyd (Vermilion) 2:06.19, 4. Matt Kretschmer (North Ridgeville) 2:06.34, 5. Griffin Thompson (Bay) 2:06.40.
200: 1. Zach Bowden (North Ridgeville) :22.55, 2. Paul Sonego (North Ridgeville) :22.96, 3. John DeMarco (Avon) :23.41, 4. Antonio Orr (Avon) :23.46, 5. Andy Barbour (Bay) :23.67.
3,200: 1. Austin Fasciana (Avon) 10:10.47, 2. Jacob Amato (Elyria Catholic) 10:13.19, 3. Justin Reynolds (Rocky River) 10:18.02, 4. Blake Pecoraro (Avon) 10:18.63, 5. Evan Collier (North Ridgeville) 10:35.34.
1,600 RELAY: 1. North Ridgeville (Alex Awad, Issac Reed, Brad Sundheimer, Paul Sonego) 3:29.44 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 3:30.60 set by Bay in 2010), 2. Avon 3:30.45, 3. Midview 3:35.32, 4. Elyria Catholic 3:37.80, 5. Vermilion 3:38.43.
Girls
TEAM STANDINGS: 1. Rocky River 161, 2. Vermilion 135, 3. Bay 122.5, 4. Avon 116, 5. North Ridgeville 54.5, 6. Elyria Catholic 46, 7. Midview 22.
Individual Results
SHOT PUT: 1. Amelia Strickler (Bay) 41-8.25 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 39-4 set by Avon’s Christina Herbst in 2009), 2. Savannah Mowry (Vermilion) 33-8.5, 3. Kayla Dobbins (Midview) 33-7, 4. Maddy Michelich (Avon) 32-1, 5. Bridget Brown (Vermilion) 31-0.5.
DISCUS: 1. Amelia Strickler (Bay) 134-6 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 128-9 set by Avon’s Christina Herbst in 2009), 2. Paige Decker (Avon) 108-0, 3. Savannah Mowry (Vermilion) 99-8, 4. Bridget Brown (Vermilion) 92-11, 5. Maddy Michelich (Avon) 91-1.
HIGH JUMP: 1. Hannah Bartlome (Vermilion) 5-4 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 4-10 set by Vermilion’s Bourisseau in 2006), 2. Kalynn Daniels (Elyria Catholic) 5-1, 3. Victoria Gimben (Vermilion) 5-1, 4. (tie) Jillian Krebs (Rocky River), Katie Bobbitt (Rocky River), 5-0.
LONG JUMP: 1. Hannah Bartlome (Vermilion) 16-10.5 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 16-4 set by Avon’s Brittani Cox in 2010), 2. Eva Rezek (Bay) 16-3, 3. Mallory Morris (Vermilion) 16-0, 4. Holly Johnson (Avon) 15-4.5, 5. Jessica Vitou (Rocky River) 15-3.75.
POLE VAULT: 1. Kaylee Kish (Bay) 9-6, 2. Abbey Decrane (Rocky River) 8-6, 3. Shiloh Snavely (Rocky River) 8-3, 4. Alex Darus (Avon) 8-0, 5. Angela Dietz (North Ridgeville) 7-6.
3,200 RELAY: 1. Rocky River (Madi Connelly, Anna Eversman, Maddy McDonough, Elyse Bierut) 9:37.31 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 9:47.44 set by Rocky River in 2009), 2. Bay 9:48.79, 3. Avon 9:58.22, 4. Elyria Catholic 10:48.14, 5. North Ridgeville 10:52.78,
100 HURDLES: 1. Morgan Berg (Rocky River) :15.55, 2. Eva Rezek (Bay) :16.32, 3. Abbey Bodeker (Vermilion) :16.59, 4. Monica McDonough (Rocky River) :16.64, 5. Alicia Senart (North Ridgeville) :16.99.
100: 1. Emily Cunningham (Vermilion) :12.47, 2. Isabella Mercurio (North Ridgeville) :12.88, 3. Brandy Daniels (Elyria Catholic) :12.97, 4. AuBree LaForce (Vermilion) :12.99, 5. Kalynn Daniels (Elyria Catholic) :13.03.
800 RELAY: 1. Vermilion (AuBree LaForce, Hannah Bartlome, Mallory Morris, Emily Cunningham) 1:43.71 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 1:46.19 set by Rocky River in 2009), 2. Avon 1:46.45, 3. North Ridgeville 1:47.31, 4. Rocky River 1:49.24, 5. Elyria Catholic 1:51.56.
1,600: 1. Elyse Beirut (Rocky River) 4:59.42 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 5:11.20 set by Rocky River’s Maddy McDonough in 2009), 2. Maddy McDonough (Rocky River) 5:18.71, 3. Maddie Britton (Bay) 5:19.25, 4. Linda Morales (Avon) 5:21.19, 5. Maddie Voiers (Bay) 5:35.59.
400 RELAY: 1. Vermilion (Abbey Bodeker, Hannah Bartlome, Mallory Morris, Emily Cunningham) :49.25 (MEET RECORD: Old record of :50.39 set by Vermilion in 2010), 2. Avon :50.36, 3. Elyria Catholic :50.41, 4. North Ridgeville :51.52, 5. Rocky River :53.15.
400: 1. Sarah Lesiecki (Rocky River) :59.01, 2. Regan Betts (Avon) :59.50, 3. Madi Connelly (Rocky River) :59.71, 4. AuBree LaForce (Vermilion) 1:00.46, 5. Sarah Wildenheim (Midview) 1:00.96.
300 HURDLES: 1. Monica McDonough (Rocky River) :46.13, 2. Eva Rezek (Bay) :46.95, 3. Abbey Bodeker (Vermilion) :47.16, 4. Payton Mitchell (Avon) :49.45, 5. Morgan Berg (Rocky River) :50.15.
800: 1. Madi Connelly (Rocky River) 2:20.07 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 2:22.69 set by Rocky River’s Megan O’Keefe in 2010), 2. Hallie Bechtel (Bay) 2:20.70, 3. Sarah Christel (Bay) 2:25.69, 4. Maddy McDonough (Rocky River) 2:26.49, 5. Michaela Foisy (Elyria Catholic) 2:27.51.
200: 1. Emily Cunningham (Vermilion) :25.60 (MEET RECORD: Old record of :25.69 set by Vermilion’s Cunningham in 2009), 2. Morgan Dwulat (North Ridgeville) :26.59, 3. Isabella Mercurio (North Ridgeville) :26.68, 4. Mallory Morris (Vermilion) :26.82, 5. Sarah Lesiecki (Rocky River) :27.04.
3,200: 1. Elyse Bierut (Rocky River) 11:13.63 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 11:30.27 set by Fairview’s Jessica Zangmeister in 2008), 2. Alli Clark (Avon) 11:53.21, 3. Maddie Britton (Bay) 11:59.98, 4. Hanna Sterle (Bay) 12:18.59, 5. Anna Eversman (Rocky River) 12:29.02.
1.600 RELAY: 1. Rocky River (Mary DeVito, Monica McDonough, Madi Connelly, Sarah Lesiecki) 4:03.93 (MEET RECORD: Old record of 4:10.23 set by Rocky River in 2007), 2. Avon 4:04.95, 3. Bay 4:11.21, 4. Vermilion 4:23.66, 5. Elyria Catholic 4:30.36.
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