Staff report
The first leg of the track and field postseason was held last week, and three teams emerged with district championships.
The Fort Loramie boys track team won the D-3 district title at West Milton Saturday, and both Minster teams won D-3 district titles at Spencerville.
The Fort Loramie boys won the 800 and 3200 relays and qualified in both the 400 and 1600 relays. In addition, on Saturday, Joe Ballas won the 800, Tom Ballas won the 1600 and Jake Rethman won the 3200, giving the Redskins a sweep of the distance events.
Jarrett Meyer added a first in the 110 hurdles.
Josh Miller of Botkins added a first in the shot put Saturday to go with his win in the discus earlier in the week. In the shot put, however, he set a new district record of 55 feet, 8.75 inches.
The Minster girls won three relays and finished second in the fourth, and also got wins from Paige Thobe in the long jump, Savanah Luthman in the shot, Emma Watcke in the 1600 and Madeline Magoto in the 800 in rolling up 148 points.
Watcke set a new district meet record in the 1600 of 5:07.44.
Max Prenger won the shot put for the Minster boys.
The Anna girls turned in a good effort in the D-3 meet at West Milton, finishing second behind Covington by just nine points.
Anna won the 400, 800 and 1600 relays, and also got a win from Kennedey Glover in the 800.
Fort Loramie’s Kennedi Gephart put on quite a show, winning both the 100 and 200 dashes and finishing second in the 400 to qualify for the regional in all three.
Teammates Alyssa Wrasman and Danielle Berning won the 100 hurdles and 1600, respectively, Houston’s Shelby Ayers won the discus and Russia’s Emily Bohman was first in the pole vault.
Division 1
Sidney competed in the D-1 district finals on Friday night and advanced a relay team and two individuals to the regional meet.
Devan Rogers finished third in the shot put and freshman Ana Adams was third in the girls 3200. In addition, the boys 400 relay team also advanced after placing fourth.
High school track
Local/area regional qualifiers
With district places
DIVISION 3
GIRLS
Saturday at West Milton
100 hurdles — 1. Alyssa Wrasman, FL, 16.08; 2. Adriana Jutte, Botkins,16.43; 4. Rylie Edwards, Anna, 16.77.
100 hurdles — 1. Kennedi Gephart, FL, 12.93; 3. Rachel Shoemaker, Anna, 13.08.
800 relay — 1. Anna (Shoemaker, Shoemaker, Gehret, Glover) 1:45.74; 3. Fort Loramie (Wrasman, Stang, Chaney, Gephart) 1:49.12.
1600 run – 1. Danielle Berning, FL, 5:30.63; 3. Paige Rethman, FL, 5:32.33.
400 relay — 1. Anna 50.9, 3. Lehman (McFarland, O’leary, McIver, O’leary) 53.08.
400 dash — 2. Kennadi Gephart, FL, 58.88; 3. Alanna O’Leary, Lehman, 58.99.
300 hurdles — 1. Hannah Shoemaker, Anna, 46.78; 2. Adriana Jutte, Botkins, 46.08; 4. Alyssa Wrasman, FL, 49.25.
800 run — 1. Kennedey Glover, Anna, 2:16.46; 2. Grace York, Russia, 2;16.59; 4. Shae Goubeaux, Russia, 2:25.09.
200 dash — 1. Kennedi Gephart, FL, 26.19; 3. Alanna O’Leary, Lehman, 26.61; 4. Krista Gehret, Anna, 26.78.
3200 run — None.
1600 relay — 1. Anna 4:05.81.
Discus — 1. Shelby Ayers, Houston, 110-2; 4. Claire Spicer, Anna, 104-8.
Long jump — 2. Madison Huelskamp, Fairlawn, 16-1.
Pole vault — 1. Emily Bohman, Russia, 11-0; 3. Hannah Shoemaker, Anna, 9-0; 4. Andrea Rodeheffer,FL, 9-0.
Saturday At Spencerville
3200 relay — 1. Minster (Francis, Albers, Watcke, Magoto) 9:57.5; 4. New Bremen (Heitkamp, Kremer, Speelman, Bronkema) 10:20.1.
100 hurdles — None
100 dash – 2. Macy Puthoff, NB, 12.97; 4. Natalie Rethman, Marion Local, 13.33.
800 relay — 1. Minster (Thobe, Prenger, Heitbrink, Francis) 1:49.25; 2. Marion Local (Rethman, Homan, Kramer, Albers) 1:49.62; 4. New Bremen (Puthoff, Homan, Goettemoeller, Jones) 1:50.30.
1600 run — 1. Emma Watcke, Minster, 5:07.44 (district record); 3. Kaitlynn Albers, Minster, 5:19.77; 4. Bailey Bronkema, NB, 5:24.68.
400 relay — 2. Minster (Thobe, Brandewie, Falk, Heitbrink 51.79.
400 dash — 2. Paige Jones, NB, 1:01.03.
300 hurdles — 3. Julia Goettemoeller, NB, 47.26; 4. Kylie Albers, ML, 47.93.
800 run — 1. Madeline Magoto, Minster, 2:20.0; 2. Cassie Francis, Minster, 2:21.99.
200 dash — 4. Paige Thobe, Minster, 27.4.
3200 run — 2. Emma Watcke, Minster, 11:39.42; 4. Bailey Bronkema, NB, 11:54.05.
1600 relay — 1. Minster (Francis, Prenger, Hirschfeld, Magoto) 4:08.34; 3. New Bremen (Puthoff, Goettemoeller, Kremer, Jones) 4:13.28.
Discus — 4. Savanah Luthman, Minster, 112-1.
High jump — 2. Jordyn Heitbrink, Minster, 5-3.
Long jump — 1. Paige Thobe, Minster, 17-3.25; 3. Macy Puthoff, NB, 16-6.25; 4. Jesse Kramer, ML, 15-9.5.
Shot put — 1. Savanah Luthman, Minster, 36-10.25; 3. Maddy Moeller, NB, 36-1.
Pole vault — 2. Celeste Kuck, NB, 10-4; 4. Grace Butler, Minster, 9-0
BOYS
Saturday at West Milton
110 hurdles — 1. Jarrett Meyer, FL, 15.73; 3. Cole Tebbe, Russia, 16.06.
100 dash — 2. Nathan Lessing, Fairlawn, 11.66; 4. Ollie Jacobs, Riverside, 11.7.
800 relay — 1. Fort Loramie (Meyer, Ward, Moore, Mescher) 1:33.77; 4. Houston 1:39.9.
1600 run — 1. Tom Ballas, FL, 4:30.99; 3. Ethan Knouff, Houston, 4:42.84.
400 relay — 3. Fort Loramie 45.08.
400 dash — 2. Ollie Jacobs, Riverside, 51.81.
300 hurdles — 2. Micah Smock, Botkins, 41.15.
800 run — 1. Joe Ballas, FL, 1:59.93; 2. Alan Holdheide,FL, 2:01.35; 4. Nick Brautigam, Fairlawn, 2:03.24.
200 dash — 3. Nathan Lessing, Fairlawn, 23.18.
3200 run — 1. Jake Rethman, FL, 9:55.61; 2. Austin Fullenkamp, Botkins, 10:25.42; 4. Noah Siegel, FL, 10:34.48.
1600 relay — 2. Fort Loramie 3:31.58; 4. Houston 3:35.12.
Shot put — 1. Josh Miller, Botkins, 55-8.75 (district record); 2. Joe Shuga, Botkins, 45-8; 3. Collin Detrick, FL, 45-2; 4. Ben Brautigam, Fairlawn, 44.4.5.
High jump — 2. Drew Poling, Russia, 5-10.
At Spencerville
3200 relay — 2. Minster (Pohl, Albers, Barga, Broering) 8:33.74.
110 hurdles — 2. Zach Heuker, Minster, 15.5.
100 dash — 4. Alex Blanco, Minster, 11.73.
800 relay — None
1600 run — 3. Andrew Broering, Minster, 4:45.03; 4. Matt Tangeman, ML, 4:46.15.
400 relay — None
400 dash — 2. John Tangeman, ML, 52.1.
300 hurdles — 2. Zach Heuker, Minster, 42.11.
800 run — None
200 dash — None
3200 run — 4. Luke Barga, Minster, 10:16.
1600 relay — 3. New Bremen (Kelly, Heitkamp, Powers, Hemmelgarn) 3:40.17; 4. Marion Local (Bruns, Pohlman, Wendel, Tangeman) 3:40.56.
Discus — 1. John Dirksen, ML, 147-1; 2. Max Prenger, Minster, 142-11; 3. Tony Winner, Minster, 138-6.
High jump — 1. Jake Hemmelgarn, NB, 6-0; 2. Ethan Smith, Minster, 5-10; 4. Joe Winner, Minster, 5-6.
Long jump — 3. Michael Kelly, NB, 18-10.
Shot put — 1. Max Prenger, Minster, 48-8; 3. Tony Winner, Minster, 46-7.75.
Pole vault — 3. Luke Brunswick, ML, 11-0; 4. Broc Miller, Minster, 10-6.
DIVISION 3
Saturday At Graham
GIRLS
Versailles qualifiers
100 hurdles — 3. Dana Rose 16.05.
100 dash — Ava Moran 12.9.
800 relay — First 1:47.09.
400 relay — First 52.33.
400 dash — 3. Camille Watren 1:00.43.
300 hurdles — 2. Ellen Peters 46.45; 3. Dana Rose 47.43.
800 run — Kenia McEldowney 2:29.06.
200 dash — 3. Ava Moran 26.56.
Discus — 4. Lindsey Didier 104-10.
Long jump — 2. Jenna Frantz 16-10.25; 4. Cassie Peters 15-5.5.
Pole vault — 1. Jenna Frantz 11-0; 3. Lucy Prakel 10-6.
BOYS
110 hurdles — 1. Josh Steinbrunner, Versailles, 14.9.
800 relay — 4. Versailles 1:34.5.
1600 run — 1. Joe Spitzer, Versailles, 4:23.79.
400 relay — 3. Versailles 45.13.
300 hurdles — 2. Josh Steinbrunner, Versailles, 40.4.
800 run — 2. Joel Gaier, Anna, 1:57.87.
3200 run — 2. Joe Spitzer, Versailles, 9:29.51; 3. Lucas Huber, Anna, 9:55.11.
1600 relay — 2. Anna 3:30.04.
Shot put — 4. AJ Ahrens, Versailles, 49-5.75.
DIVISION 1
Friday at Wayne
Sidney qualifiers
Boys 400 relay — Fourth (Hudgins, Hudgins, Bowser, Stockton) 44.57.
Girls 3200 run — 3. Ana Adams 12:14.25.
Boys shot put — 3. Devan Rogers 52-9.
