{"id":334457,"date":"2026-05-27T14:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334457\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:35:09","slug":"lake-orion-girls-track-and-field-finishes-second-at-oakland-county-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334457\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Orion girls track and field finishes second at Oakland County Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/lakeorionreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-05-27\/24p1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198457\" class=\"wp-image-198457 size-large lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/24p1-1024x535.jpg\" alt=\"The Lake Orion girls track and field team placed second at the Oakland County Championships at Oakland University on Friday. Photo providedminutes.\" width=\"1024\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/535;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-198457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lake Orion girls track and field team placed second at the Oakland County Championships at Oakland University on Friday. Photo provided<\/p>\n<p>AUBURN HILLS \u2014 The Lake Orion girls track and field teams finished second out of 35 at the 67th Oakland County Championships at Oakland University on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The boys team finished 14th out of 34 teams with 19 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Lake Orion boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 track and field teams delivered strong performances, competing against some of the top programs in the county, said head track and field coach Andrew McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>Girls Team \u2013 Oakland County Runner-Up<\/p>\n<p>The Dragons continued their impres\u00adsive season by securing a runner-up fin\u00adish, showcasing depth and consistency across events, McDonald said.<\/p>\n<p>In the field events, senior Layla Thom\u00adas placed fourth in the long jump (17-feet, 0.5-inches), while freshman Veronica Gaberdiel added a seventh-place finish (16-feet, 10-inches).<\/p>\n<p>In the pole vault, junior Olivia Bagda\u00adsarian cleared 10-feet, 6-inches to place third, and senior Grace Carlson added a sixth-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>On the track, senior Sabrina DiMaggio earned a second-place finish in the 100m hurdles (14.68 seconds), while junior Abbey Neering had a standout day, placing second in the 400m (57.34 seconds) and fourth in the 200m (25.46 seconds). Sophomore Greta Colquitt added a second-place finish in the 300m hurdles (47.19 seconds).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLake Orion\u2019s relay teams were key contributors to the runner-up finish,\u201d Mc\u00adDonald said. \u201cNotably, Abbey Neering recorded the second-fastest 200m time in school history, highlighting an outstand\u00ading individual performance within a strong team effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 4x200m relay (Lexi McDaniel, Veronica Gaberdiel, Elisabeth Hetu, Abbey Neering) and 4x400m relay (Au\u00adbrey Nichols, McDaniel, Hetu, Neer\u00ading) both earned second-place finishes, while the 4x100m relay placed eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Boys Team Highlights<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lake Orion boys faced a highly competitive field and produced several strong performances throughout the meet,\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Max Houvener led the team with a third-place finish in the 3,200m, posting a personal best time of 9:33.64 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Braydon Har\u00adris added a season-best performance in the 110m hurdles, placing eighth (15.74 seconds), while senior Ben Lako con\u00adtributed with a fifth-place finish in the 200m dash (22.33 seconds).<\/p>\n<p>The relay teams continued to show strength, with the 4x100m relay (Do\u00adnovin Findlay, Malek Pulford, Cole Shoskey, Ben Lako) placing fourth (42.97 seconds) and the 4x400m relay (Shoskey, Pulford, Dominic Wloch, Luis Nava) finishing sixth (3:31.75 minutes).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the season moves to the MH\u00adSAA State Finals in Rockford, both teams will carry valuable momentum from their strong performances at the Oakland County Championships,\u201d McDonald said. \u2013 J.N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lake Orion girls track and field team placed second at the Oakland County Championships at Oakland University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-334457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}