AUSTINTOWN—Following Day 1 of the Division II Austintown Regional Track & Field Meet, Beachwood’s girls’ squad is in first place.
Junior Maddie Alexander and sophomore Elizabeth Metz already have punched their ticket to the state meet.
Alexander won the high jump when she cleared 5-feet, 3-inches and Metz finished second in the shot put with a toss of 38-feet, 6 ½-inches.
Junior Ashley Perryman advanced to Saturday’s finals by placing third in the 100-meter dash prelims with a time of 12.12 seconds. Perryman also teamed up with freshmen Sydney Sarver and Amelie Cotta and senior Heidi Maier to finish fifth in the 4×400-meter relay (4:07) and she ran with juniors J’khai James, Sarver and Cotta to place third in the 4×100 relay with a time of 49.79. Both relays will run in Saturday’s finals.
Junior Langston Gaines-Smith advanced to the finals in two events for the Bison. He finished fifth in the 400 (50.69) and also ran a leg in the 4×400-meter relay, which finished seventh in 3:30. Senior Tyler Murphy, sophomore Jack McPhillips and freshman Greg Perryman also competed in that event.
Perry had two athletes punch their tickets to the state meet.
Freshman Javin Richards won the pole vault regional championship when he cleared 14-feet. His teammate, senior Tyler Silvis, finished third when he cleared 13-feet, 4-inches.
Chagrin Falls senior Mick Lawrence placed fourth in the long jump with a leap of 20-feet, 5-inches and the Tigers’ 4×800-meter relay team of freshmen Claire Coffey and Rose Hoelzel, junior Hannah Clark and senior Catherine Coffey also advanced to state after finishing third with a time of 9:43.
Other Chagrin Valley Conference athletes to advance to Saturday’s finals include Chagrin Falls’ 4×400-meter relay team of Tallulah Haskett, Hoelzel, Coffey and Coffey (7th, 4:08); Hawken’s 4×100-meter relay team of Jaylyn Tinker, Danijela Doncevic, Makayla White and Zaria Johnson (4th, 50.05), White (5th in the 200, 25.66), Mikhail Stiffler (4th in the 200, 23.32) and the Hawks’ 4×400-meter relay team of Doncevic, McKenzie McNitt, Laura Bucchieri and Ella Gilson (2nd, 4:05); Orange’s Jesseca Hudson-Turpin (3rd in 100 hurdles, 14.75 and 1st in 300 hurdles, 44.78), Kennedy Vickers (6th in 100 hurdles, 15.61), Diante White (5th in 200, 23.19), Gregory Beard (8th in 100-meter dash, 11.30), Armon Frey (1st in 300 hurdles, 39.01), 4×200-meter relay team of Hudson-Turpin, Jasmeen Maples, Haley Shedden and Casey Smith (7th, 1:48) and 4×200-meter relay team of Frey, Beard, White and Eddie Harrell (2nd, 1:29), and the 4×400-meter relay team of Frey, Brian Pernell, Michael McNeil and Harrell (4th, 3:29); Perry’s Leah King (1st in 100 hurdles, 14.34 and 2nd in 300 hurdles, 45.77) and Richards (8th in 300 hurdles, 40.67); West Geauga’s Nicholas Henry (3rd in the 100, 11.11) and the 4×100-meter relay team of Justin Renner, Henry, Trae Zimmerman and Mario Ghosn (3rd, 43.39); and Wickliffe’s Sarah Riedthaler (6th in the 400, 1:00).
VIDEO INTERVIEWS
BEACHWOOD’S ELIZABETH METZ
CHAGRIN FALLS’ MICK LAWRENCE
CHAGRIN FALLS 4×800-METER RELAY TEAM
PERRY’S JAVIN RICHARDS
PERRY’S TYLER SILVIS
