Congratulations to the Batesville Bulldog Track and Field team as both the men and the women claimed the County Championship Title tonight. The scores were close to the same for both teams. The men scored 124 points to Milan’s 46, South Ripley came in close 3rd at 41 points and Jac-Cen-Del-27. The women scored 123 points to Jac-Cen-Del’s 46, South Ripley-35 and only one point behind with 34 points, Milan.
Despite the hot temperatures, there were many great performances and Batesville was also announced with the MVP awards. Peter Heil was the men’s overall MVP, winning all three of his individuals events, 110 and 300 hurdles (16.23 and 42.86) and long jump (19’10.5″). On the women’s side, Batesville’s Kelsey Gausman shared the MVP crown with Jac-Cen-Del’s Kelsey Bowling. Kelsey was on both the winning 4 x 800 relay and 4 x 400 relay and won the 800 (2:38.88) and the 1600m run (5:47.97). Congratulations Pete and Kelsey!
The Bulldogs were also able to crown all 6 relay teams and 15
different individuals as County Champions. Individually, besides Peter and Kelsey, here is the list of the other individual champions:
Tanner Ayette-100m dash (11.59)
Connor Bell-800m run (2:08.61)
Michael Tunny-400m dash (52.75)
Caleb Moster-3200m run (10:37)
Kevin Bedel-discus (118’0″)
Robert Strobel-pole vault (10’9″)
Kim Tidman-high jump (4’10”)
Mary Elizabeth Elkins-long jump (15’5″)
Jessica Wagers-pole vault (8’0″)
Samantha Heidlage-Shot Put(32’8.25″)) and Discus (97’9″)
Clare Brun-300m hurdles (49.35)
Madeleine Robben-200m dash (27.83)
Mary Poltrack-3200m run (12:16)
And all the relays:
4 x 100m relay of Jacob Koehne, Tanner Ayette, Garrett Yorn, Michael Tunny(44.28)) and Madeleine Robben, Haylee Harmeyer, Mary Elizabeth Elkins, Clare Burns(52.86)
4 x 400m relay of Garrett Yorn, John Moody, Jacob Koehne, Michael Tunny(3:41.62) and Haylee Harmeyer, Kelsey Gausman, Mary Elizabeth Elkins, Clare Bruns(4:21.53)
4 x 800m relay of Caleb Moster, Cole Nuhring, Calvin Lehman, Connor Bell(9:24.14) and Mary Poltrack, Maria Wessel, Sarah Poltrack and Kelsey Gausman(10:29.37)
Runner up honors went to:
Tim Tunny-high jump
Nathan Bedel and Lexi Hatcher-pole vault
Mitchell Gudgeon-shot put
Luke Forbeck-discus
Garrett Yorn and Audrey Hall-400m run
Cole Nuhring-800m run
Chris Riffle-3200m run
Grant Meyers-1600m run
Mary Elizabeth Elkins-200m run
Brooke Drake-800m run
Maria Wessel-3200m run
Clare Bruns-100m hurdles
Sarah Poltrack-1600m run
3rd place finishers were:
Jared Ilderton-high jump, Garrett Yorn-long jump, Neal Nobbe-shot put, Jacob Koehne-100m dash, Haylee Harmeyer-100m dash, Libby Stenger-100m hurdles
4th place finishers were:
Trevor Gartenman-300m hurdles, Reed Streuwing-200m dash, Alison Muckerheide-long jump, Avni Patel-shot put, Maddie Pierson-400m dash, Libby Stenger-300m hurdles
and finishing out the scoring, at 5th place were:
Chris Laymon-110m hurdles, Hannah Canady-high jump, Avni Patel-discus, Paige Current-100m dash
There were several personal records broken tonight and they were:
Chris Laymon-110m hurdles
Robert Strobel-pole vault
Mitch Gudgeon-shot put
Luke Forbeck-discus
Clare Bruns-300m hurdles
Brooke Drake-800m run
Mary Elizabeth Elkins-200m dash
Samantha Heidlage-discus
4 x 100 relay team of Jacob Koehne, Tanner Ayette, Garrett Yorn and Michael Tunny
4 x 400 split of Haylee Harmeyer
Reed Streuwing-200m dash
The Bulldogs now have a week to prepare for the EIAC (Conference) Meet which is next Thursday at South Dearborn.
Courtesy of Bulldogs Coach Lisa Gausman.