Chagrin Valley Conference athletes collected 21 individual championships at three different district track meets on Saturday.
The bulk of those district championships occurred at Perry where CVC teams dominated the field.
Perry’s girls’ team finished as the district runner-up and Beachwood’s boys’ team also finished second.
Three athletes doubled up on district championships.
Beachwood’s Madison Torbert swept the shot put and discus to claim two individual titles. She threw the discus 100 feet and the shot put traveled 36 feet, 2 inches. Perry’s Brayden Richards won the 300-meter hurdles in 38.81 seconds and he cleared 14 feet, 6 inches to win the pole vault. Orange’s Brian Gent won the 800 (1:58.97) and the 1600 (4:19.18).
Other individual district champions at Perry included Beachwood’s Braylen Eaton (long jump) and Kylie Walters (long jump); Hawken’s Leila Metres (400); Orange’s Michael Robinson (110 hurdles); Perry’s Brian Cox (discus), Grace McKoon (3200), and Addy Trefzger (pole vault); West Geauga’s Daniel Kearns (3200) and Megan McGinnis (high jump); and Wickliffe’s Colby Humbert (400).
Chagrin Falls’ girls’ 4×800-meter relay team of Lilly Stukus, Bella Radomsky, Leah Kler, and Mila Gresh won the district title in 9:43.13, and Stukus, Riley McClintock, Gresh, and Radomsky won the 4×400 title in 4:09.30. West Geauga’s Grant Congdon, Matthew Dienes, Kearns, and Christopher Whiting won the boys’ 4×800 in 8:06.52.
The top four athletes in each event qualified for next week’s regional meet.
That group included Beachwood’s Vincent Crenshaw (2nd, 800), Dakota Houston (4th, 100), Alexandra Kheyfets (3rd, 3200), Lauren Luxenberg (4th, 200), Josh Rosenberg (4th, discus; 2nd shot put), and David Steckner (4th, 400); Chagrin Falls’ Nate Bruce (3rd, 110 hurdles), Gresh (2nd, 1600), Leah Kler (4th, 800), Sarah McCourt (3rd, shot put), Jonathan McGinnis (3rd, pole vault), Jimmy Mooney (4th, 1600), Norah Pope (4th, high jump), Stukus (3rd, 400), and Natalie Zalud (2nd, pole vault); Hawken’s Parker Carrus (2nd, 3200), Brielle Collins (4th, 3200), Nick Garcia-Whitko (2nd, 1600), Leila Metres (2nd, 100; 2nd, 200), Ethan Metz (2nd, pole vault), Tommy Mooney (3rd, 3200), Maddee Sands (3rd, high jump), and Gabrielle Turner (4th, discus; 2nd, shot put); Orange’s Naashon Calliens (2nd, 110 hurdles), Naomi Collins (2nd, 400), Brandon Gent (4th, 3200), Quriah Jarvis (2nd, discus), Michael Robinson (3rd, 300 hurdles; 3rd, long jump), and Lila Tye (2nd, 300 hurdles); Perry’s Anthony Anderson (4th, high jump), Casey Maruschak (3rd, shot put), Addison Renau (3rd, 800), Jordan Rowan (3rd, 300 hurdles; 2nd, pole vault), Sean Strahan (2nd, 300 hurdles), Charles Thomas (2nd, discus), and Holly Vis (3rd, 1600; 2nd 800); West Geauga’s Grant Congdon (4th, 800), Kara Deister (4th, 100 hurdles; 2nd, high jump), Dienes (3rd, 1600), McGinnis (3rd, 100 hurdles; 4th, 300 hurdles), Alyssa Mobley (3rd, discus), and Whiting (3rd, 800); and Wickliffe’s Cameron Chapo (4th, pole vault), Ian Miracle (4th, 300 hurdles), and Annabella Stoehr (4th, long jump).
Perry’s girls’ 4×800 and 4×100 relay teams also advanced to the regional meet along with Beachwood’s girls’ 4×100, boys’ 4×200, and boys’ 4×400; Chagrin Falls’ boys’ 4×800, girls’ 4×200, and boys’ 4×400; Hawken’s boys’ 4×800, Orange’s girls’ 4×200 and boys’ 4×400, and West Geauga’s girls’ 4×400.
Kirtland’s Izzie Copeland pulled off a stunning win in the 800-meter run at the Bedford Division II District.
She finished the first lap in 10th place and then kicked into overdrive to pass each of the 10 runners ahead of her to win the district championship in 2:24.98.
Copeland also qualified in the 4×800-meter relay with teammates Delaney Kuczkowski, Ainsley Borthwick, and Sylvia Vosicky to finish that race in fourth place with a time of 10:07.48.
Geneva advanced eight girls to the Lexington Regional including Caramia Boland (3rd, high jump), Gianna Deluca (4th, 100), Mya Evangelista (4th, 1600), Ella Haeseler (3rd, discus), Delaney Marrison (3rd, long jump), Alyssa Palmisano (2nd, shot put), Ava Sartini (3rd, pole vault), and Ava Allison Sochia (4th, 100).
Brooklyn’s Jenna Young punched her ticket to the regional meet with three top-four performances.
The defending state champion won the high jump by clearing 5-5 and she placed fourth in both the long jump (16-1) and 100-meter hurdles (16.65).
Brooklyn’s Chavon Holton placed second in the boys’ 300-meter hurdles and Lutheran West’s Richard Luecke was fourth in the shot put (49-10 ¾) to punch their tickets to the regional meet.
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