HART — The Hart boys' team defended its home turf Saturday with a
victory at the Pirates' annual Hart and Sole Music Invitational, which
featured eight teams.
The Pirates scored 121.5 points, beating
out runner-up Traverse City St. Francis, which had 99 points. The Hart
girls finished third behind Ludington and St. Francis. Walkerville also
competed, placing seventh in the girls' meet.
Chase Lorenz
picked up wins in all three sprint events for the Pirates, including
setting a personal best in the 400-meter dash, where his time was 49.71
seconds. Lorenz also recorded times of 11.31 seconds in the 100 and
23.29 in the 200. He also helped the 1,600 relay team to a win, joining
Lyric Fielder, Bryce Vander Kodde and Jack Slotman to take a time of
3:33.3.
Fielder added a win for Hart in the 300 hurdles, posting a time of 41.92 seconds.
Hart's Joselyn Flores leaps over the high jump bar during Saturday's Hart and Sole Music Invitational. Flores won the event.
Second-place
Pirates were Trevor Vander Kodde in the high jump (5-10), Slotman in
the pole vault (10-0) and the two sprint relays. Julian Tejada, Elon
Babbin, Lucas Edwards and Pablo Ortega-Rubio was the 400 relay team
(47.46), and the 800 team was Babbin, Ortega-Rubio, Bryce Vander Kodde
and Jaxson Oomen (1:37.5).
Taking third for Hart were Grant
Ackley in the pole vault (10-0), Silas Ackley in the 3,200 (10:24.1),
Slotman in the 400 (54.46), and the 3,200 relay team of Mason Opalewski,
Owen VanderVlucht, Grant Ackley and Trevor Vander Kodde (8:54.0).
Hart's
girls team took three wins. Joselyn Flores won the high jump (5-0),
Shelbie Choponis set a personal best to win the discus (119-11.5) and
Alaina Schaner won the 800-meter run (2:38.2).
Choponis also
took second in the shot put (30-7), and Lauren Hopkins was second in
pole vault (8-6). Ellie Gross finished second in the 100 hurdles
(17.78), and Addison Hain was second in the 400 (1:03.9). The 400 relay
team of Lilian Payne, Chloe Simpson, Ashlyn Smith and Lilianna Camacho
placed second (57.39), as did the 800 team of Gross, Camacho, Flores and
Emery Velat (1:58.4).
Hart's Dayshanay Hollings races ahead of Walkerville's Paige Sadenwater-Riggs in the 100-meter race at Saturday's Hart and Sole Music Invitational.
Hain also finished third in the 100
(13.46), and the Pirate distance relays each finished third. The 1,600
team was Velat, Hain, Flores and Natalie Rosema (4:34.99) and the 3,200
team as Martina Saenz, Emma Miller, Schaner and Rosema (10:44.8).
Isabel
Babbin brought home Walkerville's top finish at the meet, placing third
in shot put (29-8). She set a personal best in that event and in the
discus, where she was sixth (73-9). Hugh Tanner posted the Wildcat boys'
best finish, coming in 11th in shot put (37-3.5) and setting a personal
best in both that event and in the discus, where he was 15th (88-6). In
all, the 'Cats set 18 PRs.
