Girls finish fourth at Parkview meet
By Dan Truttschel
Correspondent
The East Troy High School boys track and field team finished first, while the girls were fourth at Saturday’s Don Albright Invitational in Parkview.
East Troy’s boys tallied 152.5 points, to finish just ahead of Parkview’s 148.5. Kenosha St. Joseph was third with 132.5 points.
Rounding out the team scores were Edgerton with 89.5 points, the Home School Eagles with 42, Palmyra-Eagle with 34 and South Beloit with 33.
On the girls’ side, Parkview was first with 159 points, followed by Edgerton with 124, St. Joseph with 119, East Troy with 109, Palmyra-Eagle with 96, the Home School Eagles with 32 and South Beloit with 16.
The boys came home with six first-place finishes, including two each by Eli Leising and Jacob Wendt.
Leising won the 110-hurdles (19.07) and the 300-hurdles (45.67), while Wendt was first in the shot put (51-8) and the discus (154-6).
Also bringing home victories were Denver Roberts in the high jump (5-8) and Sean Cox in the pole vault (9-6).
Placing second were Miles McCarthy in the 110-hurdles (19.26) and the 300-hurdles (49.15); the 400-freestyle relay team of Logan Roberts, Sean Cox, Jake Pieper and Denver Roberts (49.24); and the 400-throwers relay in 53.42.
The 1,600-relay team of Nolan Dallas, Cox, Daniel Cuellar-Cardona and Jake Dessart (4:02.97); the 3,200-team of Dallas, Jack Harris, C.J. Scrabek and Ethan Sweet (10:28.85); McCarthy in the long jump (17-6); and Sweet in the triple jump (33-1) finished third.
On the girls’ side, East Troy’s Sami Mudlaff won the Trojans’ only title, as she was first in the 100-hurdles (18.12).
Finishing second were Morgan Bartlett in the 800 (2:40.02); Mudlaff in the 300-hurdles (55.08) and the 3,200-relay team of Hannah Avendanu, Bartlett, Mackenzie Lindow and Kaylee McFarland (11:16.56), while third-place efforts were turned in by Lindow in the 800 (2:46.79); the 800-relay team of Haley Sheperd, Izzy Martino, Taylor Schmitt and Allison Slusar (2:01.71); the 1,600-team of Mudlaff, Bartlett, Lindow and McFarland (4:49.76); Avendanu in the pole vault (7-0); and Schmitt in the triple jump (29-9 ½).
