It was a perfect night for a track meet! Temperature was great, not much wind, and no rain in site! The Batesville Bulldogs took advantage of it and had some incredible performances.
The guys captured the Conference Title as they outscored their
opponents by just over 20 points and continue their undefeated season. The Bulldogs put together a score of 155 points to Rushville’s 134.5. East Central was third with 87, followed by Connerville-65, Franklin County 51, Greensburg 46, South Dearborn 43
and Lawrenceburg 24.
Despite some adversity on the girls side and finding out this week that 3 varsity girls would be out because of injury, the other girls stepped up their game and put together some awesome performances. Seeded to receive 3rd place, the lady Bulldogs were just 3 points shy of a conference championship and proudly accept the runner up honors. Just outscoring the Bulldogs were the East Central Trojans with 134 points to Batesville’s 131. (Batesville was only seeded to score 112 points!) They were followed by Greensburg with 127.5, Connersville 80.5, Franklin County 52.5, Rushville 50.5, South Dearborn 21.5 and Lawrenceburg 8.5. B
Batesville also proudly claimed the guys MVP award
given to Peter Heil! Peter had a stellar night winning in all 3 of his individual events, the 110 hurdles with a personal best of 15.43, the 300m hurdles, also with a personal best of 40.21, the long jump with another personal best of 20’9.25″ and was a part of the 4 x 400 relay which ran a personal best of 3:30 and coming in second place by 1/2 a second.
Batesville also had some other individual conference champions on the night. They were: Connor Bell in the 800m run (2:03.55),
Clare Bruns in the 300m hurdles with a PR (49.10), Kelsey Gausman in the 800m run (2:28.37), the boys 4 x 800 team of Garrett Yorn, Caleb Moster, Cole Nuhring and Connor Bell, both the boys and girls 4 x 100m relay of Jacob Koehne, Tanner Ayette, Garrett Yorn, Michael Tunny and Madeleine Robben, Haylee Harmeyer, Mary Elizabeth Elkins, Clare Bruns, and the girls 4 x 400m relay of Haylee Harmeyer, Madeleine Robben, Mary Elizabeth Elkins and Clare Bruns with a PR (4:13.00).
Just missing out as Conference Champions by less than a second, but breaking their own school record by another 3.5 seconds was the girls 4 x 800 team of Mary Poltrack, Maria Wessel, Sarah Poltrack and Kelsey Gausman. (10:07.32).
Batesville also had several other runner up awards to hand out and they went to:
Clare Bruns-100m hurdles
Tanner Ayette-100m dash and 200m dash
Michael Tunny-400m dash
Mary Elizabeth Elkins-400m dash and long jump
Madeleine Robben-200m dash
Caleb Moster-3200m run
Mary Poltrack-3200m run
Samantha Heidlage-shot put
Boys 4 x 400 team of Garrett Yorn, John Moody, Peter Heil and Michael Tunny
3rd place finishers were:
Caleb Moster-1600m run
John Moody-400m dash
Alison Muckerheide-long jump
Kevin Bedel-high jump
4th place went to:
Jessica Wagers-pole vault
Luke Forbeck-discus
Timothy Tunny-high jump
5th place finshers were:
Haylee Harmeyer-100m dash and 200m dash
Grant Meyers-1600m run
Kelsey Gausman-1600m run
Garrett Wagner-300m hurdles
Cole Nuhring-800m run
Michael Tunny-200m dash
Scoring in 6th place:
Samantha Heidlage-discus
Kevin Bedel-discus
Maria Wessel-3200m run
Chris Riffle-3200m run
Maddie Pierson-400m dash
Sarah Poltrack-1600m run
Jacob Koehne-100m dash
Garrett Wagner-110m hurdles
There were no 7th place finishers for Batesville, but finishing out the scoring in 8th place were:
Emma Gausman-800m run
Robert Strobel-pole vault
Avni Patel-shot put
Again, as the weather was beautiful for a track meet, there were a plethora of personal records turned in by the Bulldogs and they were:
110/100m hurdles-Peter Heil and Clare Bruns
100m dash-Tanner Ayette
200m dash-Madeleine Robben, Haylee Harmeyer
300m hurdles-Peter Heil and Clare Bruns
400m dash-Mary Elizabeth Elkins
800m run-Emma Gausman
1600m run-Caleb Moster and Grant Meyers
3200m run-Chris Riffle, Mary Poltrack and Maria Wessel
Long Jump-Peter Heil, Alison Muckerheide
Shot Put-Avni Patel
Discus-Luke Forbeck
4 x 800 splits of Mary Poltrack and the whole team’s total time
4 x 400 splits of Garrett Yorn, Madeleine Robben and Clare Bruns as well as both team’s (boys and girls) total team time
The Bulldogs are looking strong as both teams now head into Sectional competition next week. The girls compete Tuesday at Franklin County and the boys’ Sectional is Thursday at East Central. Best of luck!
The JV Track and Field team will finish out their season this Saturday as they compete in the JV Conference meet at South Dearborn. Action begins at 10am.
Courtesy of Bulldogs Coach Lisa Gausman.