What an incredible and fun night it was at the 5-way meet at Lawrenceburg. The weather was pretty perfect for a track meet as the athletes finally got to compete in warmer conditions and almost zero wind. Something we haven’t gotten to experience yet this season. The Bulldogs took full advantage of this as there were two school records broken tonight along with 17 events taking first place finishes and 9 runner-up finishes. This all led to both the boys and girls winning the meet and both scoring 111 points. On the boys side, it was Jennings County coming in 2nd outscoring Switzerland County by 8, 78-70. Lawrenceburg placed 4th with 52 points and Rising Sun was 5th with 1. For the girls, Switzerland County took the 2nd spot at 85 points with Jennings County just ahead of Lawrenceburg 58-49.5 and Rising Sun in 5th with 8.5.
But some of the fun came in the middle of the meet when the boys 4 x 100m relay ran an awesome race to break the school record, beating the old school record held back in 2011 by Trevor Tucker, Tyler Leising, Conner Jeffers and Chris Giesting with a time of 43.91. Tonight, it was the team of James Rowland, Brock Mahon, Noah Davis and Chris Stenger crossing the finish line at 43.80! Way to go guys! Then towards the end of the meet, Jake Chapman and Jennings County’s Kraedyn Young battled it out in the 800m run, with Kraedyn just nudging ahead of Jake by .3 of a second with amazing times of 1:53.37 to 1:53.67…it was an incredible race and finish by both young men. This time by Jake, broke the second school record for the night, which was held by both Hayden Merkel (2012) and Adam Moster who tied it in 2019 at 1:55.02. This also ranks Jake as the 2nd fastest time in the 800m run posted so far this season! Congratulations Jake!
Those contributing to that 111 point score and placing first were:
Brock Mahon-discus (156’9″), shot put (46’4″) and the 4 x 100m relay (43.80)
Chris Stenger-100m dash (11.37), 200m dash (23.10) and the 4 x 100m relay (43.80)
Ayden Eckstein-high jump (6’4″) and long jump (21’5″)
Noah Davis-4 x 100m relay (43.80) and 4 x 400m relay (3:36.06)
Ella King-shot put (39’7.5″) and discus (117’5″)
Maggie Jelinek-100m hurdles (16.97), 300m hurdles (52.10) and 4 x 400m relay (4:21.83)
Jayla Bedel-1600m run (5:31.14) and 800m run (2:30.74)
Addison Luers-400m dash (1:02.70) and 4 x 400m relay (4:21.83)
Bayleigh Demaree-4 x 800m relay (10:20.66) and 4 x 400m relay (4:21.83)
Paige Allgeier-4 x 800m relay
Caitlin Raver-4 x 800m relay
Maycee Holtkamp-4 x 800m relay
Abby Miller-4 x 400m relay
Cash Myers-4 x 400m relay
Blake Hornberger-4 x 400m relay
Ethan Lacey-4 x 400m relay
Those runner up were:
James Rowland-100m and 200m dash
Ethan Lacey and Savannah Pohlman-long jump
Talan Rowlett-400m dash
Jake Chapman-800m run
Kaylynn Bedel-1600m run
Abby Miller-400m dash
Boys 4 x 800m relay of Cash Myers, Blake Hornberger, Brad Tekulve and Griffin Koester
3rd places went to:
Nora Weideman-long jump
Katie Lipps-100m dash
Paige Allgeier-300m hurdles
Griffin Koester-800m run
Girls 4 x 100m relay team of Savannah Pohlman, Nora Weideman, Maggie Jelinek and Katie Lipps
Worth noting…Noah Davis was 3rd in the 100m dash, but only 2 can score, meaning we took 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the 100m dash
4th places finishes were:
Caitlin Raver-3200m run
Abby Miller-200m dash
Gavin Britch-110m hurdles
Owen Ramsey-discus
And finishing out the scoring tonight in 5th place were:
Marc Meneses-shot put
Savannah Pohlman-200m dash
Now for my favorite part…personal bests. The kids work hard to improve their times, form, starts, finishes and it’s great to see it all pay off. As I mentioned above, we had over 60 personal bests for the evening and I will list them by event below:
100m dash-Chris Stenger, Noah Davis, Lukas Lovins, Winston Garrett, Nic Tirado, Isaac Butz, Kaden Lamping, Parker Oldham, Aarush Allala, Savannah Pohlman, Jersey Trenkamp, Isabel Meyer, Payton Krekeler, Gianna Franklin
200m dash-Chris Stenger, James Rowland, Lukas Lovins, Isaac Butz, Parker Oldham, Aarush Allala, Kaden Lamping, Eric Hertel, Abby Miller, Gianna Franklin
110/100m hurdles-Gavin Britch, Maggie Jelinek, Reillee Adams
300m hurdles-Maggie Jelinek, Reillee Adams
400m dash-Cash Myers, Talan Rowlett, Sam Adams
800m run-Jake Chapman, Griffin Koester, Ryan Benz, Brad Tekulve, Addy Weiler
1600m run-Conner Shields, Gage Sullivan
3200m run-Caitlin Raver
Shot Put-Sarah Bedel, Leah Meyer, Jolene Dirkising, Ayden Meyer
Discus-Leah Meyer, Ella King, Brock Mahon
High Jump-Nic Tirado
Long Jump-Ethan Lacey
4 x 100m relay team of James Rowland, Brock Mahon, Noah Davis, Chris Stenger and the team of Max Walters, Winston Garrett, Gavin Britch and Ayden Eckstein and the team of Jersey Trenkamp, Isabel Meyer, Payton Krekeler and Reillee Adams
4 x 400m relay splits of Ethan Lacey, Noah Davis, Brad Tekulve, Henry Jelinek, Gavin Britch and Sam Adams
4 x 800m relay splits of Bayleigh Demaree, Caitlin Raver, Blake Hornberger, Brad Tekulve and Ryan Benz
Congratulations to everyone!!!
The Bulldogs will travel back to South Dearborn on Friday where the Varsity squad will compete in the 11+ team invitational! Good Luck Dogs!
Win the Day!
