The boys’ track team suffered its first defeat at the hands of Hoover 75-52 but in
actuality it was much closer than the score indicates. Lacking depth because of a
suspected stress fracture to Jake Ruzevick’s foot and the loss of several athletes to
club soccer and senioritis early in the season, the Islanders found themselves in a
mathematical lock for Hoover to win with the triple jump, 3200 and 4x400 left to contend.
Since Brad Munns was scheduled to run both the 3200 and relay, and had just won both the
1600 and 800 meter runs in two tough races, we elected to save him for the Frosh/Soph
championships on Saturday, allowing Hoover to have all the points in the 3200 and 4x400.
Hoover won the triple jump with Jason Meier and Adam Munns picking up the 2nd and 3rd
spots for Coronado. The Frosh/Soph championship was rescheduled for next weekend
because of rain but it was impossible to win the meet even with Brad winning the 3200 and
with a relay win. Had that happened we still would have lost by a score of 65-62. Our
4x100 team of Brad Stark, Reid McLean, Jason Trueblood and Brady Fitelson looked good
winning a close match-up in windy conditions in 45.4. Stark won the 400 in 54.3 and tied
for 2nd in the 300 hurdles in 44.9. Trueblood placed 3rd in the 100 hurdles in 16.7.
McLean won the 200 in 23.3 followed by Fitelson in 2nd with 23.5. McLean also long jumped
19’ for 2nd and high jumped 5-8 along with Adam Munns at the same height for 1st and
2nd. Our only point in the throws came from David Zodrow with 3rd in the discus. The wind
was a factor all day down the 100 meter lanes as Fitelson streaked to an 11 flat win in
the 100, only two tenths of a second off the school record. The boys record now
stands at 4-1.
The girls remained unbeaten at
5-0 while cruising to an easy 81-42 win. Katherine Wingert won all the distance events
(1600, 800 and 3200) with Ashley Walsh 2nd in the 1600, 3rd in the 800 and Caitlin Bigham
2nd in the 3200. Jamie Klages won her signature events with 4-10 in the high jump,
16.3 in the 100 hurdles and 51.5 in the 300 hurdles. The 16.3 hurdle mark was under the
current electronic school record of 16.64 but, because of the tail wind, must be
considered wind-aided. Christina Coy placed 3rd in 18.1. The tail wind was also a factor
in the 100 as Nila Heurtelou posted a time of 12.3, a full 2 tenths of a second under the
school record. As with the 100 hurdles, this must be considered a wind-aided mark. Ashley
Houston placed 3rd in 13.5. Later the two teamed up to place 1-2 in the 200 with Heurtelou
running 26.7. Beth Wittry and Morgan Gary placed 1-2 in the 400 and 1-3 in the
triple jump with Megan Mushovic filling in the second spot in the triple jump for the
sweep. Gary also won the long jump and placed 3rd in the shot put for our only point in
the throws. |