Crestwood swept both the girls’ and boys’ competitions at the 2024 Chagrin Valley Conference Valley Division championships at Berkshire on Thursday.
The Red Devils edged Kirtland for the girls’ championship, 149-148, and won the boys’ competition with 146 points. Berkshire finished second with 121.
Crestwood won seven individual CVC titles and two relays.
Freshman Livia Martini made quite a debut in her first CVC meet as she won the 100-meter dash in 12.70, the 200 in 26.66, and the 400 in 1:00.51. Junior James Durham won two events for the Red Devils. He claimed the title in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.60 and he won the 300 hurdles in 43.03.
Junior Augie Schweickert won the 800 in 2:07.21 and freshman Jackie Blasiole won the girls’ 300-meter hurdles with a time of 52.47.
The Red Devils won both the 4×400-meter relay and the boys’ 4×800-meter relay. They finished the 4×400 in 3:43.23 and the 4×800 in 8:46.20.
Cardinal’s Ethan Bosch and Max Soltis, Kirtland’s Ainsley Borthwick and Will Sayle, and Wickliffe’s Jacob Peklay each won two individual CVC titles.
Bosch won the 100-meter dash in 11.55 and the 200 in 24.35 while Soltis claimed the title in the discus with a best throw of 153-0, and the shot put with a toss of 48-11 ½. Borthwick won both the girls’ 1600 and 3200-meter runs in 5:25.02 and 11:44.15, respectively, while Sayle won the long jump with a best leap of 19 feet, 9 inches, and the 400-meter dash in 52.72. Beklay won the boys’ 1600 and 3200 in 4:43.64 and 10:32.53, respectively.
Other individual CVC title winners included Berkshire’s Kirsten Shaffer (high jump, 4-8), Cardinal’s Olivia Krebs (shot put, 35-11), Grand Valley’s Reagan Boiarski (long jump, 16-3), Alex Hunt (pole vault, 8-3) and Robert Rogers (high jump, 6-2), Kirtland’s Izzie Copeland (800, 2:26.18), Chloe Hansen (discus, 101-4), and Lauren Palagyi (100 hurdles, 17.36), and Wickliffe’s Cameron Chapo (pole vault, 10-6).
Berkshire won the boys’ 4×100-meter relay (47.03) and the boys’ 4×200 (1:37.68), Kirtland won the girls’ 4×200 (1:55.55), 4×400 (4:17.88), and the girls’ 4×800 (9:54.90), and Wickliffe won the girls’ 4×100 (55.61).
Team Scores:
Girls
1. Crestwood 149
2. Kirtland 148
3. Grand Valley 103
4. Cardinal 92
5. Berkshire 70
6. Wickliffe 61
Boys
1. Crestwood 146
2. Berkshire 121
3. Kirtland 111
4. Cardinal 96
5. Wickliffe 80
6. Grand Valley 69
