Beachwood’s girls’ and Perry’s boys’ track teams finished among the top three teams at the Division II Austintown Fitch Regional championships on Saturday.
The Bison scored 52 points while the Pirates scored 36.
Beachwood had two athletes and two relay teams advance to the state meet.
Meena Abdul-Basser won the 400-meter dash in 56.56 seconds and also placed second in the 200 with a time of 26.04, while Kyrsten Ginn finished as the runner-up in the 100-meter dash (12.59) and fourth in the 200 (26.18).
Abdul-Basser and Ginn teamed up with K’Dyn Harris-Tate and Marley Readance to win the regional title in the 4×200-meter relay in 1:42.62. Ginn, Harris-Tate, Ambry Paul, and Marley Readance won the regional title in the 4×100-meter relay in 49.15.
Perry’s boys’ team clinched a pair of regional titles as Armani Chiappone won the high jump (6-4) and Traxton Richards claimed the regional title in the pole vault (15-3).
McKoy Richards also punched his ticket to the state meet by finishing fourth in the pole vault (12-4).
The Pirates also advanced their boys’ 4×100-meter relay team to state.
Chiappone teamed up with Dane Pike, Xavier Jackson, and Brody Krantz to finish second in the 4×100 with a time of 42.82.
Orange’s Naashon Calliens won a pair of regional titles.
He won the 110-meter hurdles in 14.83 and the 300 hurdles in 39.43.
Chagrin Falls’ Natalie Zalud won the regional title in the girls’ pole vault by clearing 11-1, and West Geauga’s Kara Deister won the high jump by clearing 5-5. Perry’s Emily Mechenbier won the shot put regional title on Thursday with a meet record throw of 45-10.50.
Deister also advanced to state in the 100-meter hurdles by finishing third in 15.82 and the 300-meter hurdles by placing fourth in 46.06.
Other state qualifiers who finished among the top four at the regional meet included:
Chagrin Falls
- Gabby Byrne: 3200 (3rd, 11:09.13)
- Tommy Mooney: 1600 (3rd, 4:21.72)
- Girls 4×800 (4th, 9:43.81)
Conneaut
- Vivianna Cellini: 1600 (3rd, 5:10.72); 800 (2nd, 2:20.08)
Crestwood
- Augie Schweickert: 800 (2nd, 1:57.44)
- James Durham: 110 Hurdles (3rd, 15.17)
- Livia Martini: 100 (3rd, 12.82); 400 (4th, 58.64); 200 (3rd, 26.11)
Edgewood
- Maddie Crooks: 800 (4th, 2:22.19)
Orange
- Brandon Gent: 3200 (2nd, 9:33.23)
Perry
- Addy Trefzger: Pole Vault (2nd, 10-0)
