St. Peter Chanel already closed compete for the last Saturday in school: insider status monitoring
COLUMBUS, Ohio - It's been a strange year for St. Peter Chanel, which closed its doors Friday at the end of final exams.
Much was how it was done the last game of basketball in the school's history or the last dance in the school's history, but now it's down to the end, all that remains are five Firebirds represent their school in the state of Athletics meet at Ohio State University.
After the semifinals of the Division III is all comes down to a race, the 4x100-meter relay. The quartet of junior Masai McDaniel and Rodell Golphin, and the elderly Brionne Duke and Devin Wingfield won his semi-final with a time of 43.76 seconds, the second fastest qualifier. Lima Central Catholic won the other heat with the fast time of the day 43.23.
"When we closed before the school, we realized that we did not take anything less than gold," Wingfield said. "We really want to take this home for the school. This the last story that we can do. So we have to do it for the whole school. Our plan is gold, not less."
The same quartet also qualified for the meet in the 4x200 relay, but a bad trade kept the athlete to reach the final.
"We look forward to the final," said coach Darrell CUI. "We have nothing to lose. We need to manage our best, because it's not made for next year. The elderly have gone anyway, but never for juniors St. Peter Chanel rerun., We want to make a good performance."
The same four sprinters qualified for the state meet in the 4x100 last year, but they were able to qualify for the final.
"It was a learning experience," Wingfield said. "We were one of the youngest teams and this was the first year for us all, a race track. We were happy to be there, but it was not a vacation. During the past year we have learned from, and it makes us better for the times we miss today. Thats why we are gold. "
Junior Ishmael Hargrove qualified for the state meet in the 400 rounds, but he was able to qualify for the final. His time of 50.68 seconds left him 11 only 0.05 seconds, the final qualifying round spot.
Teacher: After finishing fourth in the women's shot put, said Rootstown main Dawn Freeland, she was strongly influenced by his teammate David Paliscak that helped win both the shot and the tough guys.
Paliscak who finished second in the shot last year, not only trains with Freeland, but also helped to prepare the state meet.
"It is a great pitcher over," Freeland said. "A great person. It helped me all season, in the off-season now."
Freeland, who lay in Findlay next year was not one of those athletes who dream of justice in the state competition. In fact, he was barely on the radar.
"I do not really think about the state meet," she said. "I've never seen, meet the state I just wanted to throw I wanted to throw 42 meters and I'm close enough now (41-4 1/4) And I have the fourth - Not bad ..."
Happy? Cuyahoga vaulter Ricky Rospierski had a strange answer to the question what he have to fulfill by his power in the State. The tip is set at a rate of 13 feet, 9 inches thirds.
"Disappointed," he said. "I did not know as much as I wanted. I wanted to go 15th This did not happen today, but I'm still happy. Third place in the U.S. state of Ohio in a bad day n 'is not bad."
Chic cousins: A smile around for the elderly Kendra Zbinovec Latin Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Catholic Joanna Hallisy lake.
Zbinovec second place in the Division II Launch Disk Hallisy 128-09 and was sixth at 123-0. The two rivals North Coast League Blue Division are cousins of marriage.
"I did my best and I say today, runner-up," said 10 Zbinovec last year at 116-2. "Oh, my God. 116 I was last year and now I'm on the podium. It was a climb."
Hallisy on the podium in the first eight for the price as "surreal."
"I've never been to this kind of scene," Hallisy said. "I'm going to enjoy every moment I have here."
Before Zbinovec went to the University at Buffalo Hallisy Walsh and they will go back to him Saturday in the shot put.
Surprise, surprise: St. Vincent-St. Mary coach Dan Lancianese called the second place in the junior finals Travonte Junius in the Division II long jump, the surprise of the day. Orange Head Man Will Carter claimed first place at 23-4, but Junius won eight points for Ireland with his 21-1 1/4 effort.
It was particularly sweet because MSVS no long jump pit and Junius has begun jumping this year.
"I'm always calm, just like the rest of our team," said Junius, another on the 4x100 relay. "It does not matter if it's football or basketball. We remain calm throughout the day."
Not so fast: It was the sickening feeling when you know that something was coming. Orange Captain Malcolm Harris can tell you all about it.
Make sure you go in the 110m hurdles meet Division II, Harris was disqualified from his heat when he jumped the gun means of the DQ this pitiful fraction of a moment.
"I was in my block and the blocks felt a little loose," Harris said. "On stage, it was difficult for me to remember and I think I jumped a little. Did I hear the official said that it was very close. This is hard."
The 110m hurdles were not nice to Northeast Ohio. Junior Evan Carroscia of CVCA senior Darrell Sullins Beachwood and Warrensville Heights Senior Darrius DeMoss all came up short in qualifying.
Harris, with plans to either attend Youngstown State or Ashland said the same thing happened to him in the regionals last year in the 300 hurdles. He got his game back together when he sowed the 4x100 for the Lions led and qualified in the 300 hurdles in fourth.
"We have two races to go," Harris said. "I want to go in pairs."
The region had better results in 300 jumps as a senior Vinnie Minosky Padua and Carroscia made in the final on Saturday.
Waiting game: After running his heat of the 400 Division II Wickliffe professional Demetrius Moore was to know in the infield of Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium, it seemed an eternity, if he had to be kept in the final.
"I know it's coming, but it feels like an eternity," said Moore, hit in his first state visit as a qualification for the Blue Devils.
Moore watched four races of the 300 hurdles before they break a smile in the situation. He qualified seventh.
"I will definitely make sure that I am better prepared," Moore, who has a 50.51 said. "I know that I had a slow start. Fact that the competition here is good and I like it. I got a little nervous, but I can not say I was nervous."
Senior Sherman Kortze of CVCA qualified third in 49.73.
Big fish: Holy Name Age Andre Husain not out of the 100 Division II qualification. However, he got a second chance about two hours later in the 200th
A year ago he was in the 200 qualifying 10th, missing the final by 0.02 seconds. This time, the only rider Green Wave made the most of it by claiming sixth place with a 22:15.
"Last year I felt like a small fish in a big pond," Husain, Lake Erie College is said to visit. "This time I have had a lot more confidence. We'll see if I did." He did.
But it was the biggest disappointment for Chagrin Falls Bradley Munday, whose 22.59 in the same heat Husain did not allow him to move forward. It was a comfort Munday anchored Tigers 4x100 that qualified eighth in 43.69.
Joe Magill is a freelance writer in Auburn Township.