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Hornet track dominates Ypsilanti meet
Hornets win all but eight of 30 events, ready for SEC slate
By Jerry Hinnen, Staff Writer
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2007
In their first full outdoor meet of the young season, the Saline track teams showed that they're ready to pick up where their championship 2006 season left off.
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Although competing against a limited field due to several region school systems' spring break (and without team scores being kept), the Hornets were nonetheless impressive in winning 22 of 30 events across both boys' and girls' competition at Saturday's Ypsilanti Spring Break Invitational.
Saline was especially dominant in relay events, taking first place in 11 of 12. The Saline girls made it a clean sweep, with Alex Leptich, Melanie Conn, Gina O'Brien, and Meagan Creutz winning the 3200-meter relay in 10:25; Lauren Zakrajsek, Corrie Castro, Taylor Franz, and Kate Carter winning the 1600 relay in 4:21; Franz, Moriah Grooms, Katie Turrentine, and Creutz winning the sprint medley relay in 4:32.6; and Mary Rzepka, Franz, Stephanie Gallardo, and Castro taking the 800 relay in 1:49.5
Not to be outdone, the Hornet boys won the 400 relay (45.775), 800 relay (1:34.51), medley relay (3:48.49), and 1600 relay (3:36.91) as well.
They also ruled the meet's field events, highlighted by a 1-2-3 finish in the discus by Gabe Helmuth (136'7"), Quinn Dawson (126'8"), and Joey Everett (124'9"). Everett also took first in the shot put with a throw of 50'1", while Helmuth added a second in the high jump by clearing 5'9". Drew Jurgenson won the long jump with a leap of 19'7" and Jackson Martin finished first in the pole vault after clearing 11' flat.
In girls' field events, Kim Miller-Tolbert (15'11"), Rzepka, and Turrentine posted their own 1-2-3 finish in the long jump while Grooms, Turrentine, and Emily Solan repeated the feat in the pole vault.
The Saline foursome of Grooms, Miller-Tolbert, Lindsay Pascoe, and Angie Johnston also took first in the shuttle hurdles while Miller-Tolbert (50.923) won the 300-meter hurdles ahead of teammate Karen Gallardo.
Branden Post won both the boys' 300 hurdles (in 41.358) and 100 hurdles (in 14.967).
Hornets claimed the top four positions across the girls' two individual distance events as Carter (5:36.9) and Lindsey Cummings (5:37.2) finished 1-2 in the 1600 meters and Leptich (12:03) and Cummings (12:12) did the same in the 3200.
Brian Hernandez posted the top finish for an individual boys' distance runner, claiming second in the 1600 in 4:49.
Saline opened their dual meet season against SEC rival Bedford Tuesday in Temperance. Full details will be available in next week's edition of the Reporter.
Staff Writer Jerry Hinnen can be reached at 429-7380 or at jhinnen@heritage.com.
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