SCRANTON \u2013 As fate would have it, after setting school records regularly at West Scranton, Seamus Wallace woke up a day before the biggest track and field meet of his career with a sore back.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t slow him down.<\/p>\n
Putting his soreness in the back of his mind, Wallace seized the early lead and powered his way to a gold medal on his home track and Scranton Veterans Memorial Stadium. The sophomore added a District 2 gold medal in the 3,200-meter race to his Class 3A cross country title from the fall.<\/p>\n
His effort made him the lone Lackawanna Track Conference boy to win an individual event at the District 2 Class 3A Track and Field Championship on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was great,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cI was just glad to compete. I pulled my back (Sunday). I couldn\u2019t even warm up. I was just going to feel out the first 100 meters, and I don\u2019t know if it was adrenaline or getting caught up in the moment, and I went after it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a great race with great competition. I am really happy for everyone who medaled, and everyone who didn\u2019t also ran great.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wallenpaupack\u2019s team of Orson Whitehouse, Jordan Bermudez, Dawid Mrowka, and Aiden Janowicz earned the first gold of the meet, winning the 3,200-meter relay in 8:06.04.<\/p>\n
\u201cI definitely worked all winter, all spring for this,\u201d Jordan Bermudez said. \u201cOur coaches talked about this 4-by-800 for a while. I knew that we had some really strong attributes. I am just kind of out of my head. It was a great experience, and running against all of this great competition has been wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the girls\u2019 meet, Abington Heights had a pair of champions.<\/p>\n
Kiana Seid passed on the first two heights of 8 feet, 6 inches, and 9-0, before clearing 9-6, 10-0, 10-6, and 11-0 on her first attempts. When she went out at 11-6, she won the competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really nervous going into the meet because it was districts and we were trying to state-qualify,\u201d Seid said. \u201cI knew it was really going to be close. There were good pole vaulters out here. I just concentrated on making my heights on my first attempts. It wasn\u2019t a PR (personal record), but it felt really good to win and qualify for states.\u201d<\/p>\n
Distance runner extraordinaire, Anna Pucilowski, grabbed the first gold medal in the event of her career. She held off Delaware Valley\u2019s Grace Holderith to win in 10:45.65. Holderith, who joins Pucilowski at the state meet, as a qualifier on time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am so happy,\u201d Pucilowski said. \u201cI went out there wanting to meet the state qualifying time, even if I didn\u2019t win. I knew it was going to be a good race, and I was excited for that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2013 As fate would have it, after setting school records regularly at West Scranton, Seamus Wallace woke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-190050","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\/190050","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=190050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}