Several athletes from Lackawanna Track Conference schools had successful weekends as the indoor season continues.<\/p>\n
Mid Valley freshman Olivia Thomas placed second in the triple jump with a mark of 35 feet, 11.75 inches at the 11th annual Ocean Breeze Invitational. Wyoming Area\u2019s Taylor Gashi won the event with a distance of 36-0.<\/p>\n
In addition, Thomas was fifth in the 55-meter hurdles in 8.34 seconds. Dallas\u2019 Julia Natitus finished second in the 55 hurdles in 8.06.<\/p>\n
Others had top 8 finishes at various meets.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights had a big medal haul on Tuesday night at The Varsity Classic at The Armory in New York. Anna Pucilowski finished second in the 1,600 (5:12.94), Julia Healey was fifth in the 3,200 (13:06.72), Aliya Lucarelli finished fifth in the long jump (16-9.75), and the 1,600 relay team of Pucilowski, Lucarelli, Allison Rothenberger, and Addisyn Mummert was fifth (4:29.24) in the girls\u2019 meet. Anthony Piccotti was third in the pole vault (12-0) in the boys\u2019 meet.<\/p>\n
Delaware Valley\u2019s Emma Simmons finished third in the 60 hurdles (9.66) and ran a personal-best 9.62 in the preliminary heats. She also finished seventh in the 60 (8.32) and added a personal-best time (8.25) in the preliminaries at the Bison High School Invitational at Bucknell University.<\/p>\n
Also at the Bison Invitational, Western Wayne\u2019s Robert Carrelle finished fourth in the pole vault. He equaled his personal best height by clearing14-0. He also had a seventh-place finish in the 60 hurdles in 9.29.<\/p>\n
Western Wayne\u2019s Olivia Haines finished seventh in the triple jump (31-9), eighth in the long jump (15-5), and added a ninth in the 60 (8.43).<\/p>\n
Holy Cross\u2019 Brandon Fadl was fifth in the shot put with a mark of 49-1, and Western Wayne\u2019s Sadie Booths was second in the weight throw (33-11) and fourth in the shot put (32-3).<\/p>\n
Western Wayne\u2019s Vinny Baldini finished second in weight throw (42-4), and teammate Aiden Albert was third (35-5).<\/p>\n
Wallenpaupack\u2019s June Brown was fifth with a personal-best 2:28.72 in the 800, and teammate David Mrowka placed eighth in the 400 (54.39).<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Mid Valley\u2019s Jacob Borelli finished fourth in the 3,000-meter run at the Penn Relays Winter Showcase at the Jane and David Ott Center in Philadelphia. He ran a time of 8 minutes, 65.88 seconds.<\/p>\n
Ocean Breeze Invitational<\/p>\n
Lakeland sophomore Bria Hill finished 10th in the 400 with a personal-best time of 59.50. She also raced in the 200 and finished 33rd with a time of 26.37. Both efforts rank first among athletes from LTC schools this season, according to pa.milesplit.com.<\/p>\n
North Pocono\u2019s Alia Rava finished 25th in the 55 (7.95), 31st in the 400 (1:11.42), and 40th in the 200 (29.01).<\/p>\n
Among athletes from Wyoming Valley Conference schools, Lake-Lehman\u2019s Bodhi Cronin won the 800 in 2:01.47. Finn Cronin finished 11th in the 800 with a time of 2:06.12.<\/p>\n
Holy Redeemer\u2019s Caden Morecl was 12th in the One Mile Run (4:56.36).<\/p>\n
Bison High School Invitational<\/p>\n
Holy Cross\u2019 Liza Froncek finished 13th in the high jump (4-4).<\/p>\n
Western Wayne\u2019s Kaitlyn Kloss finished ninth in the 3,200 with a time of 12:15.37;<\/p>\n
Juleighanna Eldred was ninth in the pole vault (9-0); Abbie Washine was 10th (9-0), and Olivia Moyer 13th (8-0).<\/p>\n
Western Wayne\u2019s Aiden Matthews finished 13th in the pole vault (11-0), and Alex DeCandis was 14th (10-6).<\/p>\n
Members of Wilkes-Barre Area had an outstanding meet at the Bison Invitational.<\/p>\n
Kevon Creech won the 60 (7.01) and the 200 (22.38). Da\u2019von Underwood won the long jump with a mark of 22-8. Underwood has the fourth-best long jump (23-0) of the season from the Golden Bear High School Invitational on Jan. 9. Jazaiah McCoy was second in the 400 (53.21) for the Wolfpack.<\/p>\n
For the Wilkes-Barre Area girls team, Jaida Underwood finished fourth in high jump (5-2) and sixth in long jump (15-11). Alexa Prushinski was 10th in the One Mile (5:50.62), Hadassa Colindres was 12th in the 60 hurdles (11.38), and Anna McDougal was 13th (11.80) in the 60 hurdles.<\/p>\n
PTFCA Carnival<\/p>\n
This season\u2019s 35th annual PTFCA Indoor Track Carnival at Lehigh University is Saturday.<\/p>\n
Several teams from District 2 are expected to participate.<\/p>\n
The top 18 entrants in many of the track events and all of the field events will be accepted. There will be a limit of 15 entrants in some distance races.<\/p>\n
Medals are awarded to the top five finishers in each event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several athletes from Lackawanna Track Conference schools had successful weekends as the indoor season continues. Mid Valley freshman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-105773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}