Both the Boys and the Girls Batesville High School track teams competed in their first big invitational of the season last night at Franklin Community High School in the Bill Self Invitational. In the beginning, the sun was shining and the temperature wasn’t too bad, but as the sun went down the temperatures kept dropping.
However, the Bulldogs fought through these conditions and came away with both teams getting runner up in the 7-team invitational, getting beat by only Franklin Community. For the boys, it came down to the last event, the 4 x 400m relay. The Bulldogs were sitting in 3rd place at the time and we needed to win the event to jump into 2nd place. The boys did not disappoint, winning the event moving our team score just a half a point ahead of Perry Meridian.
Scores were: (Girls)- Franklin Community 204.5, Batesville 114.5, Martinsville 100, Perry Meridian 97.5, Jennings County 42.5, Connersville 32 and Shelbyville 21… (Boys)-Franklin Community 146.33, Batesville 128.5, Perry Meridian 128, Connersville 69.83, Jennings County 65.5, Martinsville 54.5 and Shelbyville 19.33.
Batesville had several champions in the night with JJ Kuisel, Benjamin Moster and Gabe Gunter being multiple champs. JJ in the 400m dash (51.81) and was the anchor on the winning 4 x 400m relay. Benjamin won the 1600m run, right at the line, with a BIG personal best of 4:33.55 (.09 ahead of Martinsville’s Carson Heath-4:33.64) and he was the lead off for the 4 x 400m relay. Gabe Gunter won both the high jump (6’0″) and pole vault, where he jumped a personal best of 11’6″. Other members of the 4 x 400m relay were, Vonley Hund (personal best split of 54) and Austin Cornn. Also taking home blue ribbons were the girls 4 x 800m relay team, running a team personal best of 10:18.62 and beating the rest of the field by 20 seconds. Members of this group were: Katie Olsen, Kaylie Raver, Megan Allgeier and Ava Hanson. Great job everyone! This meet also recognized one senior boy and girl of each school that represented both community, school and scholastic qualities. For Batesville, it was Nathan Villani and Katie Bedel that received this award.
Other ribbon winners for the night were:
2nd place: Lily Pinckley-1600m run, Eli Pierson-100m dash and 200m dash, girls 4 x 100m relay of Madelyn Pohlman, Lily Meyer, Lizzy Nobbe and Elena Kuisel and the boys 4 x 800m relay of JJ Kuisel, Ean Loichinger, Adam Hollowell and Benjamin Moster.
3rd place went to: Lily Meyer-100m dash, Katie Olsen-800m run, Lily Pinckley-3200m run, Ella Moster-300m hurdles, Katie Bedel-pole vault, Benjamin Moster-800m run, Deacon Hamilton-110m hurdles, Kurt Siefert-long jump, and the girls 4 x 400m relay of Kaylie Raver, Ava Hanson, Carley Pride and Katie Olsen.
4th places were: Megan Allgeier-800m run, Ava Hanson-1600m run, Lily Meyer-long jump, Katie Bedel-discus, Deacon Hamilton-300m hurdles and the boys 4 x 100m relay team of Vonley Hund, Eli Pierson, Kurt Siefert and Gabe Gunter
5th places: Elena Kuisel-200m dash, Kaylie Raver-400m dash, Faith Tekulve-discus, Ean Loichinger-3200m run, Deacon Hamilton-long jump
6th place finishers: Madelyn Pohlman-100m dash, Maria Lopez-3200m run, Ella Moster-100m hurdles, Elena Kuisel-pole vault, Georgie Doll-shot put, Sam Robben-110m hurdles, Chase Hamilton-300m hurdles
7th places were: Carley Pride-400m dash, Cora Deputy-300m hurdles, Ean Loichinger-1600m run, Adam Hollowell-3200m run and Nate Deputy-pole vault
and 8th places went to Chase Hamilton in both the shot put and discus.
Getting personal bests for the evening were:
Long jump-Kurt Siefert, Deacon Hamilton, Lily Meyer and Lizzy Nobbe
Pole Vault-Gabe Gunter
Shot Put-Georgie Doll
800m run-Benjamin Moster and Dillon Murray
1600m run-Benjamin Moster, Lily Pinckley and Ava Hanson
3200m run-Adam Hollowell
300m hurdles-Ella Moster
100m hurdles-Ella Moster
4 x 400m splits-JJ Kuisel and Vonley Hund
4 x 800m splits-JJ Kuisel, Ean Loichinger, Adam Hollowell, Kaylie Raver and Megan Allgeier
The Dogs have a pretty busy week next week as they will be competing at home on Tuesday and then traveling to East Central at the end of the week for the Trojan Invitational. The JV will compete on Thursday and varsity on Friday.
Courtesy of Bulldogs Coach Lisa Gausman.