PEOPLE NEWSPAPERS
Greenhill sweeps MISC track meet
BY GREG FORD Sports Editor
The Greenhill boys and girls track teams didn’t run
everybody they wanted to at last week’s Metroplex Independent School
Conference Track Championships at Greenhill.
That didn’t turn out to be a problem, though, as both
clinched first-place finishes in the competition.
The Greenhill boys’ team barely defeated Cistercian,
199-193, in a match that was decided when Greenhill barely won the last
event of the day: the mile relay.
The Lady Hornets, behind another strong performance by
April Holliness, who won four individual events, finished well ahead of
second-place Hockaday, 177-147.
Greenhill will try to repeat the performance today and
Friday at the Southwest Preparatory Conference championships at
Greenhill.
“We were happy,” Greenhill head coach Tom Holodak said.
“We didn’t run all of our events the way we normally do, because quite
honestly we were resting up for (the SPC).
“We basically had a couple of kids perform beyond the
norm.”
The boys’ competition came down to the mile relay in
which Greenhill beat Cistercian, 3:33.23-3:33.26. Two members of the
winning team, Blake Staub and Travis Blakeley, do not normally run the
event, Holodak said.
“We had the lead the whole way, but (Cistercian’s) David
Aird made it close at the end,” Holodak said.
Aird was the winner of three individual events; the high
jump (6-0), the long jump (21-1) and the 400-meter run (50.54).
Cistercian’s Joe Meier was first in 110-meter high
hurdles with a time of 17.02. Alex Gette was the victor in the 100 meters
with a time of 11.35. Michael Tinker finished first in the 300-meter
intermediate hurdles with a time of 43.79.
However, all that was not enough to overcome Greenhill,
which had six first-place finishes overall, and also scored points with a
number of second and third place finishes.
The Hornets’ William Mitchell won the discus throw with
a toss of 119-10, while Kent Siri was tops in the pole vault competition
with a mark of 11-0. Aaron Brown beat out Siri in the 200-meter run,
22.51-22.91.
The quartet of Turner Wright, Blake Davenport, Paul
Thibodeau and David Harford won the two-mile relay with a time of 8:49.29.
Both Davenport and Wright were substitutes for Lucas
Koehler and David Knowles, Holodak said. Both Koehler and Knowles will run
in the event at the SPC Championships.
Davenport, a freshman who had never run in the relay,
ran the anchor leg in a time of 2:11, Holodak said.
The Hornets also won the 400-meter relay with a time of
44.22.
Holliness won both the long jump and triple jump,
despite only being allowed to jump twice in each event in order to rest
for the SPC, Holodak said.
She finished first in the long jump with a leap of
18-03.24 and won the triple jump with a mark of 39-06.25.
Holliness also won the 100-meter dash with a time of
12.43, and took first in the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.66.
Other local athletes who finished first in individual
competition included Hockaday’s Tina Gray, who won the discus throw with a
toss of 93-09.25.
Hockaday’s Chichi Acho won the girls shot put with a
throw of 29-10. LaTodra Williams won the 300-meter low hurdles in a time
of 46.16.
The Daisies’ 3,200-meter relay team of Williams, Tess
Bilhartz, Charlotte Johnson and Ashley Cone won their race with a time of
10:18.16.
Greenhill’s Autumn Erickson won the high jump with a
leap of 4-6, while teammate Kim Briant was the winner in the pole vault
competition with a mark of 9-0.
Greenhill’s 400-meter relay team won its event with a
time of 49.45.
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