by Brad Jaeger
This indoor track season in Baltimore County was one of uncertainty.
With graduation taking the best runners and field event people out of
just about every event, the individual and team titles in the county
were up for grabs.
But over the first month of the season, a typical pattern for indoor track has developed over the first few meets.
The girl’s team title is being fought over once again by Dulaney and
Hereford both with strong distance squads and this year adding scoring
athletes in both the field and sprints. Parkville will be resting
their hopes on two sprinters who have the ability to win four or five
events and Loch Raven and Western Tech.
The boy’s team race could belong to Eastern Tech with strong sprinters
and jumpers or Hereford with strong field event athletes and enough
quality distance runners and sprinters to sneak out a win. Parkville
lost most of their sprinters from last year, but has a deep team and
two high jumpers that could sweep that event. Loch Raven is also in the
mix hoping to duplicate their county win in cross country.
SPRINTS
Eve Waithe of Parkville, a transfer from Perry Hall and
Jermia Dix of Western lead the pack for the girls in the 55 Dash.
Waithe is on a mission this year and stayed in shape during the fall
playing field hockey and is excited about training with teammate Uju
Ochoke this season. Dix has only run one race this season, but tied
Waithe for the fastest hand time 55 dash. The boys 55 Dash will have a
whole new final race this year with everyone graduating this year.
After the first three meets there are over 15 boys with hand times
between 6.7 and 6.9 seconds.
1. Waithe, Parkville 7.3; Dix, Western STES 7.3; 3. Hutton, Overlea ; Gethers, Western STES 7.5; 5. Claude, Woodlawn 7.6.
1. Dailey, New Town; Wilkes, Western STES; Roberts, Franklin 6.7; 4.
Scruggs, LR; Dukes, Towson; Wallace, Obua, Overlea; Shannon, Western
STES; Arnold, Parkville, 6.8.
Fallon Rovel-Jones of New Town leads the girls in the 55 Hurdles and
has the most experience of the top performers in the county, but Naomy
Ramos of Catonsville has the fastest FAT timed race this year. Jen
Bates of Eastern Tech has also been improving each race in the early
season and benefits from training with a strong group of hurdlers and
experienced coaches. Mark Cover of Eastern Tech and Jermol Dix of
Western STES have separated themselves from the field early and will
battle over the year. The race in the county is for third place.
1. Rovel Jones, New Town 9.2; 2. Bates, ET 9.4; 3. Ramos, Catonsville
9.48; 4. Bowie, Randallstown 9.7; 5. Reed, Catonsville 9.77.
1. Cover, ET 7.70; 2. Dix, Western STES 7.79; 3. Kiser, Western STES; 8.30; 4.Boyer, Parkville, Goodling, Hereford, 8.6.
The 300 for the girls could be the race of the championships with
Kellie Christian of Catonsville, Ofoche and Waithe of Parkville and
Michelle Newman of Eastern Tech. Christian will have to learn how to
run on the armory floor if she expects to win. The boy’s race is
another case of an entire new field and as of now coaches are
determining where to use their athletes to maximize the points.
1. Ofoche, Parkville 41.5; 2. Waithe, Parkville, 43.6; 3. Christian,
Catonsville 44.00; 4. Newman, ET 44.5; 5. Hawkins, New Town 44.4.
1. Thsiams, Ches-BC 38.6; 2. Wilson, Randallstown 38.7; 3. Flescher,
Loch Raven 38.8; 4. Hawkes, Western STES 38.9; 5. Dix, Western STES
39.1.
Christian of Catonsville leads the 500 by four seconds and off of her
55 second 400 outdoors last year will have to fall to lose this race.
Second through fifth place is wide open at this point. The boys race
could be just as exciting with a new champion to be crowned this year.
After the first month, there are five boys within 0.8 seconds of each
other.
1. Christian, Catonsville 1:21.8; 2. Davis, LR 1:25.6; 3. Dauses, LR ;
Novotny, Parkville 1:29.00; 5. Kutcherman, Milford Mill 1:29.80.
1. Kent, New Town 1:13.00; 2. Taylor, Western STES 1:13.20; 3. Banks,
Milford Mill 1:13.40; 4. Wilson, Randallstown 1:13.60; Scruggs, LR
1:13.80.
DISTANCE
The distance events will be wide open as well with
Dwight Parker of Woodlawn and Vince Walsh of Dulaney graduating and
seniors Kristen Malloy of Hereford and Sumanth Kuppalli of Perry Hall
running unattached this winter.
The Dulaney and Hereford girls will still dominate the distance events
on the girls side with Jenna Cimino and Cori Dimes leading the girls
for Hereford and Emma Larkin, Kelly Rush, Chelsea Bush, Angelica
DiNucci, Brooke Martin and Jennifer Bae leading the Dulaney team.
The boys races will be between Chris Mills of Western STES, Mike
Glassman of Loch Raven, Mason Campbell of Towson , Ryan Chelton of
Hereford and Corey Hancock of Dulaney leading the county. Danny
Genrette of Chesapeake, Bill King and Charles Larsen of Dulaney, John
Steinbacher and Andy Passmore of Hereford and Jay Theirer of Towson
adding themselves to the mix.
800 Leaders
1. Larkin, Dulaney 2:30.0; 2. Franke, LR 2:34.0; 3. Schwaab,
Catonsville 2:36.4; 4. Davis, LR 2:36.5; 5. Atelfeck, Milford
Mill 2:40.9
.
1. Fawcett, Catonsville 2:08.42; 2. Glassman, LR 2:13.6; 3. Thierer,
Towson 2:13.9; 4. Hancock, Dulaney 2:14.0; 5. Taylor, Western
STES 2:17.32
.
1600 Leaders
1. Cimino, Hereford 5:41.7; 2. Franke, LR 5:43.5; 3. Bush,
Dulaney 5:50.8; 4. Rush, Dulaney 5:51.6; 5. Williams, LR 5:55.5.
1. Glassman, LR 4:51.0; 2. Steinbacher, Hereford 4:59.0; 3.
Genrette, Chesapeake 4:59.3; 4. Mills, Western, STES 4:59.5; 5.
Sufczynski, ET 5:02.00
3200 Leaders
1. Rush, Dulaney 12:41.0; 2. Kavanagh, Towson 12:45.2; Dimes,
Hereford 12:56.0; Pillion, Towson 13:04.1; 5. Shultz, Dulaney
13:30.2.
1. Mills, Western STES 10:00.4; 2. Prendergast, Catonsville
10:42.4; 3. Glassman, LR 10:49.0; 4. Conley, Catonsville 10:50.7;
5. Larson, Dulaney 10:56.5.
FIELD EVENTS
Uju Ofoche of Parkville is also the class of the girls high jump
field. Her 5-04 jump is well the best jump in the county. There are
few girls between 4-08 and 4-10, but they are jumping for second place
at this point. Parkville also has the leader in the boys high jump in
Matt Stankiewicz who has his PR of 6-00 of the slippery armory floor.
A gaggle of 5-08 jumpers follow behind.
1. Ofoche, Parkville 5-02; 2. White, Franklin 4-10; 3. Montgomery,
Milford Mill; Gethers, Western STES; Guthall, Hereford, 4-08.
1. Stankiewicz, Parkville 6-00; 2. Toure, Randallstown; Rever,
Dulaney; Kizer, Western STES; Colliflower, Dulaney; Wilson, Kenwood;
Arnold, Parkville 5-08.
Sarah Koehn of Hereford leads the field with the only 31 foot throw
this season, but Franklin has two with experience gaining ground, Cathy
Agoris and Emily Chase. Cameron McDearmon of Franklin was supposed to
be the odds on favorite this year, but Matt Meadows of Eastern Tech
and Nelson Knight of Perry Hall have been impressive in the early
season.
1. Koehn, Hereford 31-10; 2. Chase, Franklin 30-03; 3. Agoris,
Franklin 29-04; 4. Reass, Hereford 28-09; 5. Sullivan, LR 28-07.5
.
1. McDearmon, Franklin 45-11.5; 2. Meadows, ET 45-05; 3. Knight,
PH 43-00.25; 4. Hardy, ET 42-03.5; 5. Deady, LR 41-10.
With Jess Stadler of Perry Hall graduated, the field is wide open and
waiting for someone to come through with a big jump. Katie Riesett of
PH has the most experience of the returning vaulters. Shawn Meyers of
Perry Hall and Colin Goodling of Hereford will trade jumps all year
with both vaulters looking to go over 14 feet.
1. Riessett, Perry Hall; Hiller, Hereford 7-06; 3. Feinour, Hereford 7-00; 4. Greeley, Meehan, Hereford 6-07
.
1. Goodling, Hereford 12-06; 2. Meyers, PH 11-06; 3. Durkin,
Hereford 10-06; 4. Manacell, Hereford 10-00; 5. Jeremenko,
Catonsville 9-06.
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