Full results: PIAA website
Bradford Owls Friday roundup: Eakin claims 6th-place medal at states
Friday recap: Sherry, Bojalad lead area athletes with second-place finishes
From the Associated Press: State records fall in PIAA Track & Field championships
SHIPPENSBURG — There will be plenty of hardware coming back to the City of St. Marys.
Elk Catholic’s Ben Koss and Cassidy Cunningham each brought home medals, while St. Marys’ Tom Bojalad took second in the shot put a day after taking second in the discus.
Koss cleared 14-00 in the pole vault for sixth, while Cunningham was one of three District 9 medalists in the girls shot put.
In a crowded field, Cunningham took seventh with a throw of 40-01, just an inch behind D-9 mate Tori Obenrader of North Clarion and slightly ahead of Kane’s Trinity Clark, who threw 40-00.75 for eighth.
Kane’s Joe Newton, the top seed in the 110 hurdles and an eighth-place finisher last year, ran 14.68, finishing second to Camp Hill’s Zach Kuntz (14.47). Newton’s medal is Kane’s highest on the track since future Olympian Amy Rudolph won the 1,600 and 3,200 runs in 1991 and the highest placing boy since Terry Wile in 1973.
Coudersport’s Michael Kane and Adrian Page missed out on medals, while Elk Catholic’s girls 3,200 relay team narrowly missed out on eighth place.
Kane leaped 42-08.75 in the triple jump for 10th place, while Page threw 36-05.50 in the shot put for 14th, a day after taking ninth in the discus.
Elk Catholic’s relay team narrowly missed out on the eighth and final podium spot, finishing ninth (9:45.95) behind Minersville (9:44.08).
Otto-Eldred’s Tiffany Bair finished seventh in her 100 dash preliminary heat and wasn’t among the top eight runners to move to the finals.
Competing for Bradford High were Logan Caruso (10:16.29) in the 3,200 meters and Mitch Vleminckx (20-03.25) and Regan Johnson (15-03) in the long jump.
Other area athletes competing were the ECC boys 3,200 relay team (12th, 8:40.33), ECC’s Lauryn Wortman in the 800 meters (12th, 2:32.52), Port Allegany’s Mauley Fox in the pole vault (16th, 9-06) and Coudersport’s Kiara Perkins (25th, 32-09.50) and Oswayo Valley’s Sara McKean (26th, 32-05.50) in the triple jump.
