Published: May 02, 2008 11:14 am            

Indian boys, Trojan girls claim Big East track titles

GOOSE LAKE – Camanche boys track and field coach Mark Metzger was mobbed by his team members as it was announced that the Indians had taken the 2008 Big East Conference Championship and Metzger was named the conference coach of the year.

The Indians edged out meet host Northeast on their way to the title behind three wins and three runner-up finishes.

Northeast finished just seven points behind the Indians, as Camanche took the team title with 126 points, while the Rebels tallied 119.

Bellevue raced to a third place finish with 76 points.

Andrew tied with North Cedar for fourth place with 44 points, while Preston-East Central tied Lisbon for sixth with 38.

Prince of Peace and Calamus-Wheatland finished ninth and 10th respectively with 20 and 10 points.

Camanche’s first win came in the Shuttle Hurdle relay where the team of Blake Bark, Ken Snodgrass, John McElroy and Aaron Jewell ran a time of 1:02.48 for the win.

Julian Emert followed that with a win in the 100-meter dash in 11.36.

The Indians final win came in the 4x100 as Emert, Snodgrass, McElroy and Jewell turned in a time of 46.13 for the gold.

Camanche got second place finishes from their 4x800-meter relay team of Mike Sullens, Vince Schawl, Taylor Grim and Brad Maxwell. The foursome took second to Northeast with a time of 8:47.14.

The Indians got two more relay runner-ups in the 4x200 with Emert, Snodgrass, Sullens and Maxwell and in the 1600-meter medley with McElroy, Sullens, Codie Adams and Schawl.

Camanche head coach Mark Metzger was pleased with the total team performance the Indians turned in.

“We had a great night of performances,” Metzger said. “We had multiple great performances from the sprints to the distance. Jon Gonzalez had a big throw in the discus, our 4x100 came in seeded third and won. Codie Adams, Vince Schawl and Brad Maxwell had super running in the distance and our 4x400 pulled out third in a great effort.”

Northeast won nine events on the evening to take second to Camanche.

Junior Ryan Krogmann was voted by league coaches as the meet’s MVP as he won the 800-, 1,600-meter run and anchored the winning 4x400 team.

Krogmann won the 800 and 1,600 in conference record times of 2:00.67 and 4:32.66.

Krogmann teamed with Baron Loots, Jordan Howe and Shaun Eberhart to take the gold in a time of 3:36.88.

The Rebels got wins in the throws from Ivan Sandoval in the discus with a throw of 124-10 and from Derek Ketelsen in the shot put with a toss of 48-11.

Jacob Dever won the 110-meter hurdles in time of 16.02, narrowly edging out Bellevue’s Mitchell Michel by eight-hundreths-of-a-second.

Northeast got three more relay wins on the night in the 4x800, 4x200, and the 1600-meter medley relays.

The 4x800 team of Loots, Howe, Brent Blanchard and Eberhart won the event in 8:39.02.

Howe, Lucas Rorah, Eberhart and Derek Bormann won the 4x200 with a time of 1;37.57, while Rorah, Dever, Loots and Eberhart teamed to win the 1,600 medley in 3:50.46.

Prince of Peace’s Drew Sikkema won the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:55.57.

Andrew’s Cory Manders collected a pair of wins for the Hawks in the 400-meter dash (51.86) and the 400-meter hurdles (56.01).

BIG EAST CONFERENCE MEET

BOYS

At Goose Lake

Team Scores

1, Camanche 126; 2, Northeast 119; 3, Bellevue 76; 4(tie), Andrew 44; 4(tie), North Cedar 44; 6(tie), Lisbon 38; 6(tie), Preston-East Central 38; 8, Olin 33; 9, Prince of Peace 20; 10(tie), Calamus-Wheatland 10; 10(tie), Midland 10.

MVP

Ryan Krogmann, Northeast, Jr.

Coach of the Year

Mark Metzger, Camanche.

Winners and area placewinners

High jump-1, Dan Inglis (O) 6-2; 2, Chris Schroeder (B) 5-8; 3, Jake Baughman (P EC) 5-6; 5, Jon Gonzalez (C) 5-4; 6, Lance Goettsch (CW) 5-0.

Discus-1, Ivan Sandoval (NE) 124-10; 2, Zach Reed (B) 124-8; 3, Derrick Trenkamp (P-EC) 120-9; 4, Gonzalez (C) 120-6; 5, Matt Shaw (C) 114-5; 6, Reece Rickertsen (NE) 112-2.

Shot put-1, Derek Ketelsen (NE) 48-11; 2, Sandoval (NE) 43-10; 3, Trenkamp (P EC) 43-9; 4, Gonzalez (C) 42-9; 5, Patrick McManus (C) 39-5; 6, Reed (B) 36-10.

Long jump-1, Jessy Gutweiler (NC) 18-0 1⁄4; 2, Dustin Banta (CW) 17-10; 3, Aaron Jewell (C) 17-8; 4, Mike Sullens (C) 17-6; 5, Tyler Ernst (B) 17-2 1⁄2; 6, Kyle Feller (P-EC) 17-0.

3,200-1, Drew Sikkema (POP) 9:55.57; 3, Brandt Moore (B) 10:19.79; 4, Codie Adams (C) 10:26.83; 6, Sean Jankowski (POP) 11:34.55.

4x800-1, Northeast (Baron Loots, Brent Blanchard, Jordan Howe, Shaun Eberhart) 8:39.02; 2, Camanche 8:47.14; 4, Preston-East Central 5, Bellevue 8:55.41.

Shuttle hurdles-1, Camanche (Blake Bark, Ken Snodgrass, John McElroy, Jewell) 1:02.48; 2, Andrew 1:04.08; 3, Bellevue 1:04.19; 4, Northeast 1:04.21.

100-1, Julian Emert (C) 11.36; 4, Jewell (C) 11.64; 5, Casey Blake (B) 11.99; 6, Andrew Herch (NE) 12.05.

400-1, Cory Manders (A) 51.86; 2, Loots (NE) 53.14.

4x200-1, Northeast (Howe, Lucas Rorah, Eberhart, Derek Bormann) 1:37.57; 2, Camanche 1:37.89; 4, Bellevue 1:38.60; 5, Preston-East Central 1:40.16.

110 hurdles-1, Jacob Dever (NE)16.02; 2, Mitchell Michel (B) 16.10; 3, McElroy (C) 17.30; 4, Bark (C) 17.55.

1,600-1, Ryan Krogmann (NE) 4:32.66; 2, Sikkema (POP) 4:44.23; 3, Adams (C) 4:46.22; 4, Moore (B) 4:51.36; 5, Vince Schawl (C) 4:52.21; 6, Adam Herrig (B) 4:57.44.

800-1, R. Krogmann (NE) 2:00.67; 3, Brad Maxwell (C) 2:07.98; 4, Herrig (B) 2:08.44; 6, Sikkema (POP) 2:12.11.

1,600 medley-1, Northeast (Rorah, Dever, Loots, Eberhart) 3:50.46; 2, Camanche 3:55.62; 3, Preston-East Central 3:58.84; 5, Bellevue 3:59.33; 6, Calamus-Wheatland 4:17.11.

200-1, Mason Smith (O) 23.38; 3, Emert (C) 24.04; 4, Keevyn Kilburg (P-EC) 24.60; 5, Blake (B) 24.72.

400 hurdles-1, Manders (A) 56.01; 2, Brandon Wagner (A) 1:01.52; 3, Michel (B) 1:02.14; 4, Tony Stoll (C) 1:02.49; 6, Charlie Wilson (NE) 1:03.74.

4x100-1, Camanche (Emert, Snodgrass, McElroy, Jewell) 46.13; 2, Bellevue 46.67; 3, Northeast 46.64.

4x400-1, Northeast (Loots, Howe, Eberhart, R. Krogmann) 3:36.88; 2, Andrew 3:45.24; 3, Camanche 3:46.89; 6, Preston-East Central 3:51.16.

Girls

The Preston-East Central girls track and field team put together a solid team performance to take the 2008 Big East Conference Championship at Goose Lake on Thursday.

The Trojans won the team title with 106 team points, while Bellevue was a close second with 99.

Meet host Northeast took third place with 88 points on the evening.

Calamus-Wheatland (fourth) and Camanche (fifth) finished neck and neck with 70 and 69 points respectively.

Prince of Peace was seventh with 37 points and Andrew took eighth with 30.

The Lady Trojans won three events and took second in four others on their way to the title.

Junior Tiffany Bormann and senior Lauryn Camp got Preston-East Central off to a good start with wins in the field events.

Bormann won the high jump with a height of 5-2 and Camp won the shot put with a toss of 35-1 to beat Northeast’s Brittany Witt by two feet. Camp also took second in the discus with a distance of 109-4.

The Trojans’ Trista Shannon passed Prince of Peace’s Kylee Hyde in the last 30 meters of the 400-meter dash to take the win in 1:00.93.

Preston-East Central was second in a trio of relays.

The 4x800 team of Emily Henningsen, Nicole Trenkamp, Ellen Schulz and Jalynn Tebbe finished second to Bellevue who won the event in a time of 10:30.22. The Comets team consisted of Andrea Frank, Olivia Ambrosy, Madeline Schroeder and Katie Flogel.

Northeast won the shuttle hurdle relay with the team of Shalyn Gerlach, Danika Loots, Mallory McLaughlin and Shawna Spain. The team won the event in the time of 1:10.94, almost three second in front of the Preston-East Central team of Alicia Lane, Haley Andersen, Kaylee Driscoll and Brook Tebbe.

The Trojans sprint relay team of Tebbe, Lane, Brena Smithson and Shannon were second in the 800-meter sprint relay behind the Prince of Peace foursome of Ari Aquilani, Kimberly Bertram, Katie Isenhour and Kylee Hyde who won the event in a time of 1:58.59.

Preston-East Central coach Mike Kelly knew his team would have to get points from his whole roster to get the win.

“We knew it would be close,” Kelly said. “We were very balanced tonight. We knew we would have to get points from various area to win and we got them. The kids that needed to come through did and the field events were huge with Tiffany (Bormann) and Lauryn (Camp) getting wins.”

Kelly was selected by his peers as the Big East Conference Coach of the Year.

Meet host Northeast came away with four gold medals on the evening.

Sophomore Morgan Casey was selected by conference coaches as the MVP of the meet after leading the Rebels with three wins.

Casey won the 800- and 1,500-meter runs and anchored the winning distance medley team of Maria Rickertsen, Demi Diedrich and Audrey Moehr.

Morgan won the 800 in a time of 2:24.24 and the 1,500 with a clocking of 5:19.72.

The distance medley team won the event with a time 4:20.25.

The Camanche Indians won two events on the evening.

Sarah Powell won the discus with a toss of 111-9 and Ashley Gonzalez won the 100-meter hurdles in a time of 15.74.

Other area winners included Prince of Peace’s Brooke Craig taking gold in the long jump with a distance of 15-9.

Calamus-Wheatland’s Molly Slattery won the 3,000-meter run in a time of 11:21.99.

Bellevue’s Molly Sieverding was first in the 100-meter dash with a clocking of 12.84. The Comets also got a relay win from the 4x200 team of Sieverding, Becca Roth, Ashley Reed and Paige Dougherty. The foursome also teamed up for the win in the 4x100 relay in a time of 51.70.

Andrew’s Michelle Deppe broke the tape in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:11.50.

BIG EAST CONFERENCE MEET

GIRLS

At Goose Lake

Team Scores

1, Preston-East Central 106; 2, Bellevue 99; 3, Northeast 88; 4, Calamus-Wheatland 70; 5, Camanche 69; 6, North Cedar 54; 7, Prince of Peace 37; 8, Andrew 30; 9, Midland 26; 10, Olin 10.

MVP

Morgan Casey, Northeast, So.

Coach of the Year

Mike Kelly, Preston-East Central.

Winners and area placewinners

High jump-1, Tiffany Bormann (P-EC) 5-2; 3, Leah Goettsch (CW) 4-10; 4, Ashley Gonzalez (C) 4-10; 5, Katie Asmussen (A) 4-8; 6, Mariah Adolphs (P-EC) 4-4.

Discus-1, Sarah Powell (C) 111-9; 2, Lauryn Camp (P-EC) 109-4; 3, Karissa Turner (C) 104-8; 5, Brittany Witt (NE) 89-8; 6, Nicole Ruchotzke (P-EC) 89-7.

Shot put-1, Camp (P-EC) 35-1; 2, Witt (NE) 33-1; 3, Powell (C) 31-3; 5, Meghan Janssen (CW) 30-9; 6, Brienna Hayes (CW) 28-6.

Long jump-1, Brooke Craig (POP) 15-9; 2, Kiersten Hansen (CW) 14-9 1/2; 3, Brook Tebbe (P-EC) 14-8 1⁄2; 6, Kristin Hanrahan (NE) 12-10 1⁄2.

3,000-1, Molly Slattery (CW) 11:21.99; 2, Anne Bruno (A) 11:54.50; 3, Kaitlin Kilburg (B) 12:22.73; 4, Chrissy Kokjohn (POP) 12:29.91; 5, Bree Moore (B) 12:41.64; 6, Sydney Gray (P-EC) 12:47.26.

4x800-1, Bellevue (Andrea Frankm Olivia Ambrosy, Madeline Schroeder, Katie Flogel) 10:30.22; 2, Preston-East Central 10:32.49; 3, Calamus-Wheatland 10:52.69; 5, Northeast 11:07.34; 6, Camanche 12:12.88.

Shuttle hurdles-1, Northeast (Shalyn Gerlach, Danika Loots, Mallory McLaughlin, Shawna Spain) 1:10.94; 2, Preston-East Central 1:13.76; 3, Calamus-Wheatland 1:13.80; 4, Bellevue 1:15.08; 6, Andrew 1:21.11.

100-1, Molly Sieverding (B) 12.84; 4, Demi Diedrich (NE) 13.13; 6, Ashley Reed (B) 13.81

Distance medley-1, Notheast (Maria Rickertsen, Diedrich, Audrey Moehr, Casey Morgan) 4:20.25; 3, Bellevue 4:32.25; 4, Calamus-Wheatland 4:39.61; 5, Preston-East Central 4:45.51; 6, Prince of Peace 4:47.85.

400-1, Tristan Shannon (P-EC) 1:00.93; 2, Kylee Hyde (POP) 1:01.88; 3, Anna Lampe (B) 1:05.02; 5, Sara Davis (CW) 1:05.90; 6, Sam Lippens (P-EC) 1:07.56.

4x200-1, Bellevue (Sieverding, Becca Roth, Reed, Paige Dougherty) 1:52.15; 2, Camanche 1:53.21; 3, Preston-East Central 1:53.42; 4, Northeast 1:58.08; 6, Prince of Peace 2:01.18.

100 hurdles-1, Gonzalez (C) 15.74; 2, Michelle Deppe (A) 15.90; 3, B. Tebbe (P-EC) 16.68; 4, Gerlach 16.87; 5, Spain (NE) 16.90; 6, Rebecca Christensen (CW) 17.18.

1,500-1, Casey (NE) 5:19.72; 2, Slattery (CW) 5:26.58; 3, Nicole Trenkamp (P-EC) 5:34.43; 5, Bruno (A) 5:39.44; 6, Schroeder (B) 5:44.07.

800-1, Casey (NE) 2:24.24; 2, Flogel (B) 2:34.51; 3, Slattery (CW) 2:36.29; 4, Emily Henningsen (P-EC) 2:37.27; 5, Kimberly Bertram (POP) 2:38.41; 6, Brittni Jones (CW) 2:39.75.

200-1, Molly Pilcher (NC) 26.83; 2, Sieverding (B) 27.20; 3, McKinzie McDaniel (C) 27.21; 4, Brena Smithson (P-EC) 27.42; 5, Diedrich (NE) 28.19; 6, Dougherty (B) 28.38.

400 hurdles-1, Deppe (A) 1:11.50; 2, Lampe (B) 1:15.18; 3, Erin Hermiston (CW) 1:18.99; 4, Danika Loots (NE) 1:17.28; 5, Hanrahan (NE) 1:17.58; 6, Goettsch (CW) 1:18.07.

Sprint medley-1, Prince of Peace (Ari Aquilani, Bertram, Katie Isenhour, Hyde) 1:58.59; 2, Preston-East Central 1:59.20; 3, Camanche 1:59.49; 4, Northeast 2:01.41; 5, Calamus-Wheatland 2:04.68; 6, Bellevue 2:06.03.

4x100-1, Bellevue (Sieverding, Roth, Reed, Dougherty) 51.70; 2, Camanche 54.16; 4, Preston-East Central 55.59; 6, Northeast 56.38.

4x400-1, North Cedar 4:17.81; 2, Northeast 4:20.35; 3, Bellevue 4:23.39; 4, Camanche 4:23.57; 5, Preston-East Central 4:27.03; 6, Prince of Peace 4:27.21.

        

• Click to discuss this story with other readers on our forums.