Hughey and Clark posts victories at Metamora Meet

By Fred Kroner

Deangelo Hughey won two events and Ty Clark posted one victory on Friday (April 21) in the Metamora ABC meet.

The meet is so-named because schools could enter athletes in three divisions, A, B and C. The Class A entries  were each team’s top performers.

Hughey was triumphant in two Class A sprint events, the 200- and 400-meter races. The junior registered a personal-best time of 22.85 in the 200 and finished .30 ahead of the runner-up. In the 400, he also notched a PR (50.07) and won by 2.02 seconds. His time was the fourth-best ever at that distance by a Bulldog.

Clark’s win came in the Class A pole vault (12 feet, 6 inches).

M-S earned two other wins in Class A competition. The 400-meter relay was timed in 43.97 seconds and won by .68. Sharing the baton were Travis Hoffman, Jayvon Irwin, Cole Marshall and Hughey.

Marshall was victorious in the triple jump (41 feet, 11 inches).

In the Class A portion of the meet, M-S and Eureka tied for first place in the team race with 88 points apiece.

Eight other M-S athletes and one additional relay secured finishes among the top nine in the Class A segment of the meet.

The high-placing relay was the 1,600-meter foursome of Hoffman, Blake Dillman, Joshua Franklin and Parker Wilkins. They teamed up for a third-place finish. Their composite time was 3:37.42.

Other individual leaders in Class A included two-event placer Robert Byron. He took second in the discus (153 feet, 7 inches) and fourth in the shot put (45 feet, 11 inches).

High jumper Camden Snodsmith was sixth (5 feet, 2 inches).

Placing third individually were Hoffman (300-meter hurdles in 41.91 seconds). Marshall (personal-best 20 feet, 3 inches in the long jump) and Hayden Grotelueschen (3,200 meters in a personal-best 10:24.22). Lukas Carey wound up fifth in the 1,600 meters (personal-best 5:00.90) and Ethan Peterka was eighth in the 800 meters (2:17.78).

In the Class B portion of the meet, M-S ended fourth with 36 points. Galesburg (81 points) was the Class B winner.

The Bulldogs had no individual winners in Class B events, but three athletes and one relay claimed the runner-up position.

Marshall was second in the 200 meters (23.85 seconds), Franklin was second in the 400 meters (personal-best 52.96 seconds) and Hoffman was the runner-up in the triple jump (37 feet, 11 inches).

Also recording a runner-up finish was the 3,200-meter relay unit of Peterka, Henry McMurry, Kaden Jackson and Augie Gaudio. They posted a time of 9:00.96.

Placing third individually in Class B was Caleb Boykin (personal-best 43 feet, 7 inches in the shot put). He also added a fourth-place ending in the discus (personal-best 124 feet, 9 inches).

Two distance runners also crossed in fourth place: Lukas Nykaza (personal-best 5:04.64 in the 1,600 meters) and Ben Wallace (10:36.70 in the 3,200 meters).

Other standouts for M-S in Class B were Jack Meyer (sixth in the long jump with a personal-best 17 feet. 8 inches), Alex O’Brian (seventh in the 100 meters in 12.51 seconds) and Colin Johnson (ninth in the 800 meters in a personal-best 2:24.95).

M-S’ 1,600-meter relay entry of O’Brian, Jackson, Nykaza and Wallace was fourth in 4:00.76.

In Class C events, first-place Metamora scored 41 points. Third-place M-S collected 23 ½ points.

Two Bulldogs were Class C champions. Kaleb Kasper ran a personal-best 10:41.05 to win the 3,200 meters. Pole vaulter Seth Christensen cleared 10 feet, 6 inches.

Wilkins was the runner-up in the long jump (personal-best 17 feet) and Meyer was third in the triple jump (personal-best 33 feet, 8 inches).

Grant Smysor ran fourth in the 1,600 meters (5:00.89).

Oliver Smith placed eighth in the shot put (31 feet, 9 inches), Brock Kellenberger was ninth in the 100 meters (personal-best 13.17 seconds) and Gavin Fan took ninth in the 800 meters (2:30.92).

When scores from all three divisions were compiled, the meet champion was Galesburg (199 points). M-S was fourth (147 ½ points).

The M-S varsity will return to action on Tuesday (April 25) at the Pontiac Relays.

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On Saturday (April 22), a group of M-S athletes participated in the Monticello Freshman-Sophomore Invitational.

Team honors went to Monticello (180 points), followed by Tolono Unity (174), St. Joseph-Ogden (111), Sullivan (108) and M-S (103).

Some events were freshmen-only and sophomore-only while others had a combined freshman-sophomore look.

Three Bulldog sophomores were triumphant as was one freshman-sophomore participant.

The sophomore victors were Kaden Jackson (400 meters in 56.58 seconds), Blake Dillman (800 meters in 2:04.10) and Kaleb Kasper (1,600 meters in 5:03.53). The freshman-sophomore champion was Augie Gaudio (3,200 meters in 10:37.41), who beat teammate Henry McMurry to the finish line (10:38.31).

Other M-S sophomores who fared well were Lukas Nykaza (fifth in the 800 meters in 2:20.19) and Gavin Fan (fifth in the 1,600 meters in 5:19.64).

In freshmen-only competition, M-S’ Oliver Smith was a double runner-up. He placed second in the shot put (32-2 ¾) and the discus (87-2).

Ethan Peterka wound up second in the 800 meters (2:15.02) and teammate Corban McMinn was fourth in the same race (2:38.01).

Landen Dowers took sixth in the 100 meters (13.27 seconds), Bulldog Jael Briones was sixth in the 200 meters (27.92 seconds) and Jack Meyer was sixth in the long jump (16-5).

Other top M-S performers took place in freshmen-sophomore events.

Jackson Davis was second in the pole vault (9-0 ¼) and Camden Snodsmith was fifth in the high jump (5-2 ¼).

A freshmen-sophomore 400-meter relay finished fourth. The unit consisted of Camden Wood, Meyer, Snodsmith and Dylan Smith. Their composite time was 50.42 seconds.