Wagner wins 100, 300 hurdles, 2 relays as Lady Zs finish 2nd behind Manchester

Hisey, Vance win throwing events, Walley takes pole vault as boys also take 2nd

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Maddie Bailon Maddox Jewell

The Rochester girls and boys track teams both finished second to Manchester in a three-way meet that also included Wabash at Barnhart Field Tuesday.

Manchester won the girls meet with 96 points while Rochester had 64, and Wabash had 24.

Manchester’s boys scored 87 points while Rochester had 63, and Wabash had 38.

The meet was held in chilly, brisk conditions with temperatures in the low 50s.

Girls

After skipping the 300 meter hurdles, the event in which she broke the school record earlier this month, in last week’s meet against John Glenn, Rochester senior Audrey Wagner returned to the event and won it 48.8 seconds, and she also showed off her sprinting form in winning the 100 meters in 12.9 seconds. In that event, she edged the Manchester duo of Raimi Vawter (13.0) and Ava Simcoe (13.1).

Wagner also ran the anchor leg on the victorious 4 x 400 relay, running on the outside of Manchester’s Samantha Shock and passing her in the final 100 meters to win in 4:35.9. Maddie Bailon, Allyson Calloway and Kyla Conley joined her on the relay.

Sophomore Kyra Doran also claimed two individual events, winning both the 100 hurdles in 16.0 seconds and the long jump with a leap of 15-4.

Doran said she jumped once. She was winning after her jump, and since no competitor overtook her, she was able to preserve energy.

The meet was held in chilly, brisk weather with temperatures in the low-50s. Doran said the wind was helpful. Her personal best is 16-1 ½, which she said she is hopeful to accomplish in better weather. She also said she missed assistant coach Karmin Reeves, who was hospitalized and missed the meet.

Doran also liked her 100 hurdles time. She said she started doing the 100 hurdles around midseason last year, and she said it took her about two meets to get comfortable with the three-step hurdling technique.

“I think it was a PR (personal record), so I’m feeling good about it,” Doran said. “I’ve been working on technique a lot in hurdles this year more than long jump, so I think it’s just that. … We’ve been working a lot on speed. We’ve been doing 200 repeats a lot every Monday, so I think I’ve got more speed than last year.”

Doran also anchored the 4 x 100 relay that also included Bailon, Wagner and Conley.

In addition to Doran in the long jump, the two other Rochester field event winners included Ashlynn Weyant in the shot put and Anne Horban in the pole vault. Weyant heaved the shot put 30-9 ½, beating the field by over three feet. She also took second in the discus with a throw of 77-7 ½.

“I’d say Ashlynn, she stands out,” Rochester coach Ryan Helt said. “She’s getting some consistency. Last year, she had results that were pretty similar to what you saw tonight, but she would bounce up and down. Now, she’s settled into a good floor, and we’re hoping to raise that ceiling for her.”

Horban cleared 4-6 in the pole vault. Sophia Baker also cleared 4-6, but Horban was declared the winner based on fewer misses.

“I have two new girls,” Helt said. “This is their first meet pole-vaulting. 4-6 isn’t a height that anybody’s going to get excited about or anything, but two girls who have never done track before, don’t know anything about it, if they can start to come around, that’s going to help us score some points at some meets.

“I’ve got some girls this week who are going to start high-jumping for the first time. So we’ve got kids who are looking for a role. They’re going to branch out a little bit, so I’m looking forward to that development in the next week or so.”

Boys

Rochester athletes won three of the 16 events, all in the field.

The winners included Mason Hisey, who threw the discus 131-4 to edge Wabash’s Braxten Beeks’ 127-7; Xavier Vance, who threw the shot put 45-7 ¼ to beat runner-up Hisey by nearly six feet; and Trevor Walley, who pole-vaulted 11-0 and beat teammate and runner-up Gage Zimpelman by one foot.

Hisey, who was second in the discus at last year’s sectional, said he attended a throwing camp last summer at Portage High School.

Hisey also plays football and wrestles, so the throwing camp was helpful given that it is hard to find time in the offseason to work on his throwing.

“I went to a camp over the summer,” Hisey said. “It had some pretty good coaches there. I’ve really just been lifting. It’s hard to do stuff during wrestling. Indoors, you can’t really do too much.”

While Hisey is already an accomplished discus thrower, he came late to the shot put. He did not throw the shot his first two years of high school, but assistant coach Ken Hughes saw him throwing the shot indoors in the auxiliary gym and told him he had to try it.

“The last two years, I haven’t been really good, so I just focused more on discus, but now they’re making me do it,” Hisey said. “These last two (meets) have been pretty cold, so I have not been throwing it as well, but I really am hoping to hit around 44, I think, by the end.”

In the first showdown of top hurdlers this season, Manchester’s Carson Heath edged Rochester’s Harrison Dunwoody to win the 110 hurdles in 14.9 seconds with Manchester’s Holden Poston and Eli Metzger taking third and fourth, respectively.

Meanwhile, Metzger won the 300 hurdles with Poston taking second, Dunwoody finishing third in 44.0, and Clarence Garrett taking fourth in 44.1.

Dunwoody and Garrett will see the Manchester trio again at the Three Rivers Conference meet at Wabash May 9 and the sectional at Plymouth May 22.

“Obviously, Harrison knew that the guys he was going to run against, they were guys that he met in the postseason last year,” Helt said. “I think he was ready for that. He ran a really nice time. I think that we had a little bit of a wind aid. But it was cold, so those factors might balance out a little bit. But he’s very competitive. I know he’s got his eye on getting himself better and giving himself another chance to go up against them in the sectionals and TRC. Harrison’s my guy. I’ll back him all the way.”

Other Rochester athletes scoring in multiple events included Grant Bailey, who was fourth in the 800 and second in the 1,600; Maddox Jewell, who was second in the 100 and third in the long jump; Bryce Baugher, who was third in the 200 and fourth in the long jump; and Garrett, who high-jumped 5-4 and took third to go along with his fourth-place finish in the 300 hurdles. 

Girls results: Manchester 96, Rochester 64, Wabash 24

Scoring on 5-3-2-1 basis for individual events and 5-3 basis for relays

Winners plus all Rochester scorers

100 m

1. Audrey Wagner (RHS) – 12.9 seconds

200 m

1. Vawter (MAN) – 27.8 seconds, 2. Kyra Doran (RHS) – 28.3, 4. Maddie Bailon (RHS) – 29.2

400 m

1. Fetters (MAN) – 1:12.9

800 m

1. Cashdollar (MAN) – 2:30.3, 2. Allyson Calloway (RHS) – 2:41.7

1,600 m

1. Fox (MAN) – 6:11.4, 3. Allyson Calloway (RHS) – 6:18.3

3,200 m

1. Fairchild (WAB) – 13:46.5, 2. Brooklyn Chandler (RHS) – 14:24.1

100 m hurdles

1. Kyra Doran (RHS) – 16.0 seconds

300 m hurdles

1. Audrey Wagner (RHS) – 48.8 seconds

4 x 100 m relay

1. Rochester (Maddie Bailon, Audrey Wagner, Kyla Conley, Kyra Doran) – 53.5 seconds

4 x 400 m relay

1. Rochester (Maddie Bailon, Allyson Calloway, Kyla Conley, Audrey Wagner) – 4:35.9, 4. Rochester (Addisyn Zimmerman, Adison Hayes, Ella Hake, Trinity Baine) – 5:13.0

4 x 800 m relay

1. Manchester (Cashdollar, Fox, Steely, Reichenbach) – 10:52.0, 3. Rochester (Addisyn Zimmerman, Brooklyn Chandler, Ella Hake, Adison Hayes) – 11:59.0

Long jump

1. Kyra Doran (RHS) – 15-4

High jump

1. Reichenbach (MAN) – 4-6

Discus

1. Harris (MAN) – 83-11, 2. Ashlynn Weyant (RHS) – 77-7 ½

Shot put

1. Ashlynn Weyant (RHS) – 30-9 ½

Pole vault

1. Anne Horban (RHS) – 4-6, 2. Sophia Baker (RHS) – 4-6

Boys results: Manchester 87, Rochester 63, Wabash 38

Scoring on 5-3-2-1 basis for individual events and 5-3 basis for relays

Winners plus all Rochester scorers

100 m

1. Kugler (WAB) – 10.6 seconds, 2. Maddox Jewell (RHS) – 11.6

200 m

1. Kugler (WAB) – 22.2 seconds, 3. Bryce Baugher (RHS) – 24.2, 4. Jabez Yarber (RHS) – 24.4

400 m

1. Acosta (MAN) – 53.5 seconds, 3. Owen Prater (RHS) – 54.7

800 m

1. Dale (MAN) – 2:07.4, 4. Grant Bailey (RHS) – 2:12.0

1,600 m

1. Dale (MAN) – 4:49.4, 2. Grant Bailey (RHS) – 4:59.8, 4. Leandro Javier (RHS) – 5:07.5

3,200 m

1. Bullins (WAB) – 10:14.5

110 m hurdles

1. Heath (MAN) – 14.9 seconds, 2. Harrison Dunwoody (RHS) – 15.1

300 m hurdles

1. Metzger (MAN) – 41.6 seconds, 3. Harrison Dunwoody (RHS) – 44.0, 4. Clarence Garrett (RHS) – 44.1

4 x 100 m relay

1. Manchester (Presl, Greer, Poston, Miller) – 45.6 seconds, 2. Rochester (Spencer Backus, Maddox Jewell, Jabez Yarber, Harrison Dunwoody) – 45.8, 5. Rochester (Kale Shotts, Ethan Bailey, Hunter Kamp, Wade Bowers) – 50.5

4 x 400 m relay

1. Manchester (Metzger, Poston, Acosta, Heath) – 3:37.2, 2. Rochester (Owen Prater, Grant Bailey, Bryce Baugher, Jabez Yarber) – 3:39.8

4 x 800 m relay

1. Manchester (Selleck, Showalter, Thomas, Fitzpatrick) – 9:04.0, 2. Rochester (Grant Bailey, Leandro Javier, Camdyn Furnivall, Reece Johnson) – 9:23.0

Long jump

1. Presl (MAN) – 19-4 ½, 3. Maddox Jewell (RHS) – 18-3, 4. Bryce Baugher (RHS) – 18-1

High jump

t-1. Wagoner (MAN) – 6-0, t-1. Heath (MAN) – 6-0, 3. Clarence Garrett (RHS) – 5-4, 4. Preston Luhnow (RHS) – 5-2

Discus

1. Mason Hisey (RHS) – 131-4, 4. Liam Pinder (RHS) – 120-4 ½

Shot put

1. Xavier Vance (RHS) – 45-7 ¼, 2. Mason Hisey (RHS) – 39-8 ¼, 4. Tyler Reese (RHS) – 39-6

Pole vault

1. Trevor Walley (RHS) – 11-0, 2. Gage Zimpelman (RHS) – 10-0, 4. Grayson Miller (RHS) – 8-0