DeAngelo Hughey wins 200 and 400-m races at Spartan Classic
By Fred Kroner
DeAngelo Hughey was a two-event winner for the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ track and field team on Friday (April 27) in the Spartan Classic at St. Joseph-Ogden High School.
After placing third in the 100 meters (11.42 seconds), Hughey posted victories in the 200- (personal-best 22.84 seconds) and 400-meter (49.63 seconds) races.
He was also part of another win, anchoring the M-S 400-meter relay to a first-place finish in 43.24 seconds. He teamed up with Travis Hoffman, Jayvon Irwin and Cole Marshall as the foursome posted the fourth-quickest 400-meter relay time in school history.
Marshall (10.3 seconds) and Irwin (10.6 seconds) had the quickest splits.
Hughey’s 400-meter time is third on the all-time M-S list and ranks fifth in the state this spring among Class 2A runners.
The Bulldogs had one other relay that took home a title at the Spartan Classic.
The 3,200-meter grouping of Ethan Ramirez, Blake Dillman, Ethan Peterka and Lukas Carey sped to victory in 8:33.25. They had a 12.44-second margin of victory over the runner-up relay.
The 28-team meet at SJ-O also included some freshman-sophomore events that counted in the team standings.
Two M-S frosh-soph runners were triumphant.
Joshua Franklin clocked a personal-best 52.44-second time in the 400 meters. In the same race, teammate Kaden Jackson was fourth (personal-best 50.95 seconds). Franklin also registered a personal-best in the frosh-soph 200 meters (24.24), placing sixth.
Ramirez won the frosh-soph 1,600 meters (personal-best 4:41.29). Running fourth in the same race was Bulldog Auggie Gaudio (personal-best 4:48.09).
Hoffman was the runner-up in the varsity 300-meter hurdles (personal-best 41.49 seconds) as well as the third-place finisher in the frosh-soph 200 meters (23.98 seconds).
M-S had two third-place performers in field events. Robert Byron had a toss of 160 feet, 5 inches in the discus and Marshall landed a 42-foot, 4-inch leap in the triple jump.
Byron’s effort is the eighth-best in Class 2A thus far this season. Marshall posted a fourth-place finish in the 200 meters (personal-best 23.18 seconds).
Landing in sixth place for the Bulldogs were Marshall in the long jump (personal-best 20 feet, 4 inches) and Alex Carpenter in the pole vault (10 feet, 6 inches).
Other top-10 individuals for M-S in varsity events were Hayden Grotelueschen (seventh in the 3,200 meters (personal-best 10:16.74), Dillman (eighth in the 800 meters in 2:07.19), Peterka (ninth in the 800 meters in a personal-best 2:09.17), Caleb Boykin (ninth in the shot put at 43 feet, 6 inches), Kaleb Kasper (ninth in the 1,600 meters in a personal-best 4:49.39) and Ben Wallace (ninth in the 3,200 meters in a personal-best 10:28.55).
Other successful relays for the Bulldogs included the varsity 800- and 1,600-meter squads.
Headlining the seventh-place 1,600-meter foursome was Alex O’Brian, Parker Wilkins, Jackson and Dillman. Their cumulative time was 3:39.24. Dillman (53.1 seconds) and Jackson (54.6 seconds) had the fastest splits.
The M-S 800-meter relay featured Irwin, Brock Kellenberger, Matthew He and Ryken Kirby. Their total time was 1:36.86 and they ended in ninth place. The quickest splits were logged by Irwin (22.9 seconds) and He (23.3 seconds).
In the frosh-soph division, the Bulldogs’ 400-meter relay took fifth. The runners were Camden Wood, Jack Meyer, Landen McConkey and Dylan Smith. Their combined time was 49.24 seconds.
Five other Bulldog varsity competitors, who placed outside the top 10 individually, notched their top times or distances.
Boykin was 11th in the discus (127 feet, 6 inches), Carey was 11th in the 1,600 meters (4:53.89), Wilkins was 12th in the 400 meters (55.35 seconds), Quinten Goodie was 12th in the triple jump (38 feet, 8 inches) and Jaxon Themanson was 26th in the 110-meter high hurdles (20.65 seconds).
Mount Zion edged the Bulldogs for the team crown, 114-109.
M-S will return to action on Thursday (May 4) in the Apollo Conference Meet at Charleston.
