Chagrin Valley Conference athletes fared well at the 2025 Beachwood Invitational on Saturday.
The host Bison finished second in the girls’ division and fifth in the boys, and CVC athletes won eight individual event titles. Independence’s boys placed fourth while the Blue Devils were 11th in the girls’ division. Chagrin Falls finished eighth in both the boys’ and girls’ events, and Hawken placed seventh in the girls’ division and 16th in the boys’.
Individual event winners included Beachwood’s Peter Adobamen (800, 2:02.63), Meena Abdul-Bassar (400, 57.27), and Kyrsten Ginn (100, 12.81); and Chagrin Falls’ Tommy Mooney (3200, 9:49.72).
Beachwood won a pair of relays, including the girls’ 4×100-meter and girls’ 4×200-meter.
Ambyr Paul, Sydney Anderson, Ginn, and Marley Readance teamed up to win the 4×100 in 50.60 seconds. Abdul-Basser, Ginn, Ky’Dyn Harris-Tate, and Readance won the 4×200 in 1:42.96.
Independence won the girls’ 4×100 throwers’ relay in 55.49. Emily Gibbons, Elyse Grill, Keira Donovan, and Julia Jurkiewicz competed in that event.
Chagrin Falls won the boys’ 4×800-meter relay.
Mooney, Kelan Byrne, Zach Huey, and William Asplin finished that race in 8:29.24.
Other top four finishers included Beachwood’s Meena Abdul-Basser (3rd, 200, 26.46) and Morgan Jackson (4th, discus, 89-0; 4th, shot put, 31-5.75); Chagrin Falls’ Nate Bruce (3rd, 110 hurdles, 16.45), Gabi Byrne (2nd, 3200, 11:33.31), Kelan Byrne (3rd, 3200, 9:59.29), Zach Huey (3rd, 1600, 4:40.57), James Marcin (4th, 1600, 4:46.86), Katie Rosner (3rd, long jump 14-7.75), and Mackenzie Verderber (2nd, 1600, 5:41.48); Hawken’s Brielle Collins (3rd, 3200, 11:48.17), Lila Morley (4th, 1600, 5:54.98), and Gaby Turner (2nd, discus, 101-6; 2nd, shot put, 33-6.5); and Independence’s Carter Howard (4th, 300 hurdles, 45.52), Julia Jurkiewicz (3rd, triple jump, 28-2.5), Stephen Mlynarczyk (2nd, triple jump, 39-0.5), Rocco Ressler (3rd, high jump, 5-10), Jackson Scarcella (4th, triple jump, 31-0), and Alex Waski (4th, discus, 135-4; 3rd, shot put, 45-1).
Beachwood placed second in the boys’ 4×100 throwers’ relay with a time of 53.14 seconds. Raghav Iyer, Elijah Kriwinsky, Elan Shcherbakov, and Eric Scott competed in the race. The Bison also placed fourth in the boys’ 4×400. Peter Adobamen, Henrik Burda, Caleb White, and Braylon Moultrie finished that race in 3:39.82. Beachwood’s 4×100 thrower’s relay team of Julia Bravo, Morgan Jackson, Stormy Johnson, and Jocelyn Owens placed fourth with a time of 1:01.20. The Bison also finished as the runner-up in the boys’ 4×800-meter relay. Adobamen, Burda, Dirck Van Tassel, and Desmond Thatcher finished that race in 8:34.09.
Chagrin Falls was the runner-up in the girls’ 4×800-meter relay. Lilly Stukus, Gabi Byrne, Mackenzie Verderber, and Juliet Oliver finished in 10:12.88.
Independence placed fourth in the girls’ 4×400-meter relay in 4:24.58. Peyton Bechlem, Alberta Moreal, Avery Bechlem, and Gianna Carlucci teamed up in that event.
