Irish boys capture another Pioneer championship

In dominant fashion, the Falls City Sacred Heart boys’ track team captured the team championship – their fifth this season – at Saturday’s Pioneer Conference Meet in Auburn. With six gold medals and more than one top-6 finisher in eight events, the Irish boys tallied a season high 152 points. Sterling was second with 114.33 and Pawnee City was a distant third with 81 points.

Chaz Dunn, a junior, led the way with 26 points for FCSH with first-place finishes in both the 400 (53.2 seconds) and 800-meter (2:04.8) runs, as well as a third-place finish in the long jump.  Senior Clay Finck took home a trio of gold medals as the top performer in the 100 (11.5) and 200-meter (23.8) dashes and was also a member of the Irish’s first-place 1600-meter relay team. Finck was joined by sophomores Sawyer Kean and Austin Malone and senior Lane Barnhill on the 4×400 team. Junior Sean Strasheim captured the other gold medal for FCSH in the pole vault with his vault of 12-feet even. The Irish placed three in the top five in the pole vault with Kean finishing fourth and senior Matt Mullins finishing fifth. Kean also took home a fourth-place finish in the long jump.

Irish junior Yianni Haralabidis was second in both the 100 and 200, as well as earning fourth in the triple jump. Henry Arnold, who is just a freshman, had his best meet so far for FCSH. Arnold was second in the 400, went over 40 feet in the triple jump to earn second place and helped the 3200-meter relay team of Malone, Barnhill and senior Thomas Froeschl finish fourth.

 

Senior Will Burenheide and junior Colin Niemeyer were second and third in the 110-meter hurdles. Niemeyer finished just in front of Strasheim – 2-hundreths of a second – for third place in the 300 hurdles, while Burenheide was sixth.

 

Collectively, the Lady Irish also competed well and took home second place with 102 points. Friend was first with 114 points, Sterling was third with 65 points, followed by Wymore Southern (63) and Pawnee City (56).

 

Freshman Maggie Goltz and sophomore Kelsi Fouraker, as they have been all spring, were the top point-scorers for the Lady Irish. Goltz was first in the triple jump with a distance of 33 feet, 2.75 inches, third in the 400 (1:06.5), fourth in the long jump (14-10) and fifth in the 200 (28.8).

 

Fouraker earned four silver medals on the day, individually in the 400 and 800-meter runs and as a member of the 4×100 and 4×400 relay teams. Junior Rachel Parrish and senior Kathryn Bieker joined Fouraker on both those relays, while senior Toni Kean was the fourth member of the 4×100 and sophomore Elizabeth Magdanz was the fourth member of the 4×400. Sophomore Emily Rohrer took home first place in the shot put and third place in the discus.

 

Joining Elizabeth on the 3200-meter relay team, which took fourth place, were Bieker, Nicole Fiegener and Natalie Kreifels.

 

Parrish was fifth in both the 100 and 300-meter hurdle events; Elizabath Magdanz finished third in the pole vault and fourth in the 800, while her sister, Abby, was fourth in the pole vault; Fiegener was fifth in the 1600, as was Bieker in the 3200.

 

The Irish track teams finish up the regular season this Friday at the Tecumseh Invitational, then travel to Auburn next Wednesday for the district meet.

 

PIONEER CONFERENCE

@Auburn

April 27, 2013

 

BOYS TEAM STANDINGS

FC Sacred Heart152

Sterling114.33

Pawnee City81

Wymore Southern42

Diller-Odell37.33

Lewiston35.33

NC Lourdes Central24

Humboldt-TR-S19.5

Friend 12

Johnson-Brock9

INDIVIDUAL BOYS

100-meter dash – 1. C. Finck, FCSH, 11.5; 2. Y. Haralabidis, FCSH, 11.6.

200 – 1. C. Finck, FCSH, 23.8; 2. Y. Haralabidis, FCSH, 24.1.

400 – 1. C. Dunn, FCSH, 53.2; 2. H. Arnold, FCSH, 54.8.

800 – 1. C. Dunn, FCSH, 2:04.8.

1600 – 1. Z. Creevan, WS, 4:56.6.

3200 – 1. K. Stohs, D-O, 11:10.8.

110 hurdles – 1. C. Wenzl, Ster., 16.6; 2. W. Burenheide, 16.8; 3. C. Niemeyer,

300 hurdles – 1. C. Wenzl, Ster., 42.2; also, 3. C. Niemeyer, FCSH, 44.5; 4. S. Strasheim, FCSH, 44.7; 6. W. Burenheide, 45.0.

400 relay – 1. NC Lourdes, 47.5; also, 4. HTRS, 48.8.

1600 relay – 1. FCSH (S. Kean, C. Finck, L. Barnhill, A. Malone), 3:47.3.

3200 relay – 1. Wym. Souther, 8:35.5; also, 4. FCSH (H. Arnold, A. Malone, L. Barnhill, T. Froeschl), 8:59.1.

High jump – 1. A. Smith, PC, 6-04.

Pole vault – 1. S. Strasheim, FCSH, 12-00; also, 3. B. Railsback, HTRS, 11-04; 4. S. Kean, FCSH, 11-00; 5. M. Mullins, FCSH, 10-06.

Long jump – 1. A. Smith, PC, 19-05.5; also, 3. C. Dunn, FCSH, 19-02.5; 4. S. Kean, FCSH, 19-00.25; H. Arnold, FCSH, 18-05.75.

Triple jump – 1. A. Smith, PC, 41-04.75; 2. H. Arnold, FCSH, 40-11; 3. A. Malone, FCSH, 40-10.5; 4. Y. Haralabidis, FCSH, 37-07.5.

Shot put – 1. S. Borcher, PC, 50-09; also, 5. B. Cromer, FCSH, 44-04.

Discus – 1. S. Borcher, PC, 141-08.

 

GIRLS TEAM STANDINGS

Friend114

FC Sacred Heart102

Sterling65

Wymore Southern63

Pawnee City56

Johnson-Brock45

NC Lourdes Central38

Diller-Odell29

Humboldt-TR-S14

Lewiston1

INDIVIDUAL GIRLS

100-meter dash – 1. J. Creek, WS, 13.6; also, 3. T. Kean, FCSH, 13.7

200 – 1.N. Carbajal, J-B, 28.3; also, 5. M. Goltz, FCSH, 28.8.

400 – 1. N. Carbajal, J-B, 1:04.3; 2. K. Fouraker, FCSH, 1:05.2; 3. M. Goltz, FCSH, 1:06.5.

800 – 1. T. Menke, Friend, 2:32.7; 2. K. Fouraker, FCSH, 2:34.2; also, 4. E. Magdanz, FCSH, 2:42.9.

1600 – 1. T. Menke, Friend, 5:54.2; also, 5. N. Fiegener, FCSH, 6:20.7.

3200 – 1. A. Zarybnicky, D-O, 13:01.6; also, 5. K. Bieker, FCSH, 13:55.8.

100 hurdles – 1. S. Hundley, PC, 16.8; also, 5. R. Parrish, FCSH, 18.1.

300 hurdles – 1. S. Hundley, PC, 48.5; also, 5. R. Parrish, FCSH, 52.6.

400 relay – 1. WS, 55.2; 2. FCSH (R. Parrish, K. Fouraker, K. Bieker, T. Kean), 55.3; also, 5. HTRS, 59.7.

1600 relay – 1. Friend, 4:30.8; 2. FCSH (K. Fouraker, E. Magdanz, R. Parrish, K. Bieker), 4:34.5; also, 5. HTRS, 11:45.9.

3200 relay – 1. Friend, 10:29.6; also, 4. FCSH (E. Magdanz, K. Bieker, N. Fiegener, N. Kreifels), 11:34.1; HTRS, 11:45.9.

High jump – 1. H. Girmus, Friend, 4-10.

Pole vault – 1. T. Menke, Friend, 8-08; 2. L. Railsback, HTRS, 8-02; 3. E. Magdanz, FCSH, 7-08; 4. A. Magdanz, FCSH, 7-04.

Long jump – 1. J. Creek, WS, 7-07.5; also, 4. M. Goltz, FCSH, 14-10.

Triple jump – 1. M. Goltz, FCSH, 33-02.75.

Shot put – 1. E. Rohrer, FCSH, 37-00.

Discus – 1. J. Lempka, Ster., 122-11; also, 3. E. Rohrer, FCSH, 98-08.