MIDDLETOWN — Bryant Stuttle, Rachel Hutchinson and Megan Cornelius of
Dryden all came home with medals in Saturday’s state high school track &
field championships, held at Faller Field on the campus of Middletown High
School.
The scheduled two-day championships were
compressed to a single day after rain and flooding concerns scrapped Friday’s
competition.
In Division 2 competition , Stuttle
placed third in the triple jump with a leap of 44 feet, 11½ inches. He was 10th
overall, three spots better than Ithaca High junior Mande Semon (44-7½), who
took ninth in Division 1.
Hutchinson finished fourth in the
Division 2 girls’ 1,500 meter race, crossing the line in 4 minutes, 39.82
seconds. She took 11th overall, and was just five seconds behind Division 2
winner Meredith Rizzo of Bronxville. Hutchinson finishes her Dryden career as
the holder of four individual school records and part of four relay records.
Cornelius finished fourth in the
Division 2 pole vault with a leap of 10 feet, good for 14th overall. Hayley
Wigsten of Lansing was 19th (9-0).
Also earning a medal was Newfield’s
Erica Carney, who placed third in Division 2 (14th overall) in the long jump
with a leap of 16-9.
The Dryden girls’ 400 relay team of
Amy DeGaetano, Rachel Wojcik, Mackenzie Todd and Abbey Yatsko placed 29th
overall (14th in Div. 2) in 51.75. The Division title was won by Elmira Notre
Dame, in 49.65. Yatsko, a freshman, also placed 15th in Division 2 in both the
100 and 200 meters, with times of 12.84 and 26.35, respectively.
Ithaca’s Jordan Hackworth placed
ninth overall (fifth in Div. 1) in the boys’ long jump with a best effort of
21-8¼. Semon placed 17th in Division 1 in the 100 meters (11.33 seconds). And
the Little Red’s 400 relay quartet of seniors Tevin Smith and Roosevelt Lee,
junior Jordan Hackworth and senior Bruce Greene placed 18th overall (12th in
Div. 1) with a time of 44.12, well off their qualifying effort of 42.94.
For Ithaca’s girls, Lauren Trumble
placed 24th overall (13th in Div. 1) in the 800 with a time of 2:24.49.
Sophomore Sabrina Southerland of Cardozo set a meet record with her victory in
2:06.09.
Ihotu Onah placed 20th overall (12th
in Div 1) in the discus with a throw of 107-2, and Emma Denman matched her
pentathlon finish from last year with an 11th-place effort on Saturday, with a
point total of 2,644. Her best finishes in the five-discipline event came in
the 100 hurdles (9th, 16.07) and the long jump (10th, 15-8¼).
Lansing pole vaulters Dylan Bland
and Max Jordan placed 13th and 16th overall, respectively.
• NOTE: Stuttle of Dryden and
Carney of Newfield were named the Section 4 Sportsmanship Winners, as voted on
by Section 4 track coaches and coordinators. Stuttle is headed to Cornell in
the fall, while Carney will be going to Liberty University in Virginia.
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