Hawken’s Christian Anderson and Geneva’s Connor Boland both won individual championships at the indoor state track meet at SPIRE over the weekend.
Anderson, who helped the Hawks win the 4×100-meter relay state championships at the outdoor state track meet last spring, won the Division II/III state title in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.78 seconds. He also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a time of 21.92 seconds.
Boland, who won the 400-meter dash state championship last spring, won the indoor state championship in 48.7 seconds, and he placed third in the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.03 seconds.
Several Chagrin Valley Conference athletes finished as the indoor state runner-up in their respective events.
Brooklyn’s Jenna Young, the reigning Division II state high jump champion, finished second in the event at the indoor meet by clearing 5 feet, 3 inches. She also placed sixth in the long jump with a mark of 16-6.25.
Independence’s Casey Adams, a two-time state qualifier in the long jump, placed second in the event on Friday with a mark of 36 feet, 11 inches.
Hawken’s Leila Metres finished as the indoor state runner-up in the 400-meter dash with a time of :58.56, and she also placed sixth in the 200 with a time of :25.99.
Beachwood’s Braylen Eaton finished second in the long jump with a mark of 21-5.5 and Wickliffe’s Colby Humbert was second in the 400-meter dash with a time of :49.27, and Trinity’s Jordan Seay-Thompson was the state runner-up in the high jump after clearing 5 feet, 4 inches.
Humbert also placed second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.27 and eighth in the 200 with a time of 22.68.
Other top eight finishers from the CVC included Beachwood’s Dakota Houston (3rd, long jump, 17-3.5), David Steckner (4th, 400, 49.70), and Kylie Walters (7th, long jump, 16-5.5); Edgewood’s Sarah Coxon (4th, shot put, 40-0.25); Hawken’s Nick Garcia-Whitko (6th, 1600, 4:25.70) and Ethan Metz (6th, pole vault, 14-0); and Orange’s Brian Gent (3rd, 1600, 4:20.42).
Beachwood’s 4×200-meter relay team of Mattix Revells, Osita Ogor, Strahinja Dimitrijevic, and Steckner placed fourth in 1:32.57, and the Bison 4×400 team of Peter Adobamen, Jonathan Perry, Caleb Berns, and Steckner placed eighth in 1:32.57.
Hawken’s 4×800-meter relay team of Garcia-Whitko, Sam Cohen, Parker Carrus, and Tommy Mooney finished eighth in 8:20.23.
The Hawks placed third as a team in the boys’ competition while Beachwood was fourth.
Alan Kornspan contributed to this story
