County stars shine in Brethren

By DYLAN SAVELA, Manistee News Advocate Sports Writer

BRETHREN — The Manistee County Meet, held in Brethren Tuesday, showcased athletes from Brethren, Manistee, and Onekama in a friendly non-team scoring competition.

“It was an end-of-the-year, best kids from each team duking it out sort of thing,” Manistee coach Eric Thuemmel said. “I think the big thing was those kids going to state get a chance one more time before finals to compete. Some were a little rusty because we’ve had 10 days since our last meet, so it’s a nice tune up for those kids and it’s a nice final chance for some of the seniors to run for the last time.”

Although score was not kept for the teams, each school had first place finishes.

Brethren’s state-bound Rebecca Priest had the Bobcats’ lone top spot in the 300-meter hurdles (52.212), the same event she qualified in for the state competition.

The Portager girls had the most gold medals, with five individuals and all four relay teams finishing first.

Onekama freshman Jaylee Brown took two individual golds in the 100-meter dash (17.428) and also set a school record in the pole vault at a vault of 9-10. Brown will be competing in both events at the state competition.

The Chippewa girls took seven individual top spots, led by senior and state-bound McKenzie Majchrzak with three top spots in the long jump (15-11 1/2) the high jump (5-2) and the 200-meter dash (28.371).

Pictured (from left to right) Brethren’s Dustin McConnon, Onekama’s Troy Rau and Manistee’s Dalton Zawacki run the 100-meter dash in the Manistee County meet Tuesday in Brethren. (Dylan Savela/News Advocate)

Manistee’s Heather North finished first in both the shot put (27-2 1/2) and the discus (77-0 1/2) while Kelly Schubert took two top spots in the 1600-meter run (5:39.81) and the 3200-meter run (13:10.26).

The Manistee boys took 12 top finishes, 10 individual golds and two relays.

Chippewas’ Dalton Zawacki, Carl Jaskiw and Anthony Krusniak all took two top spots, Zawacki in the long jump (18-6 1/2) and 100-meter dash (11.534), Jaskiw in the 110-meter hurdles (17.298) and 300-meter hurdles (43.181), and Krusniak in the 1600-meter run (5:03.06) and 3200-meter run (11:21.88).

Onekama boys finished first in the remaining five events.
100-meter dash — 1, Dalton Zawacki, MHS, 11.534; 2, Ryan Helminiak, MHS, 12.235; 3, Troy Rau, OHS, 12.402; 4, Keegan Janowiak, MHS, 12.836; 5, Scott Wethy, MHS, 12.867; 6, Dustin McConnon, BHS, 12.903.

110-meter hurdles — 1, Carl Jaskiw, MHS, 17.298; 2, Danny Brown, OHS, 17.932; 3, Kyle Bassett, MHS, 18.032; 4, Lewis Bartlett, OHS, 19.333; 5, McConnon, BHS, 19.7; 6, Bobby Myers, OHS, 23.404.

200-meter dash — 1, Ethan Coppola, MHS, 25.463; 2, Wethy, MHS, 26.297; 3, Janowiak, MHS, 27.065; 4, Chris Engstrom, MHS, 27.332; 5, Aaron Hillsamer, BHS, 27.398.

300-meter hurdles — 1, Jaskiw, MHS, 43.181; 2, Brown, OHS, 47.085; 3, Bartlett, OHS, 49.087; 4, McConnon, BHS, 50.455; 5, Bassett, MHS, 52.056.

400-meter dash — 1, Jaron Llewellyn, OHS, 54.211; 2, Ryan Pienta, OHS, 57.181; 3, Zachary Miller, MHS, 58.849; 4, Ian Smith, OHS, 59.483; 5, Michael Lindgren, MHS, 1:01.552.

Boys Results

  • 400-meter relay — 1, MHS, 47.391; 2, OHS, 49.126.
  • 800-meter run — 1, Llewellyn, OHS, 2:05.59; 2, Myles Amor, MHS, 2:06.19; 3, Pienta, OHS, 2:15.27; 4, Nathan Hobart, BHS, 2:17.21; 5, Alex Ringel, OHS, 2:17.53; 6, Wesley Owens, MHS, 2:28.37; 7, Franklin Loomis, MHS, 2:29.42.
  • 800-meter relay — 1, MHS, 1:35.191; 2, OHS, 1:40.629.
  • 1600-meter run — 1, Anthony Krusniak, MHS, 5:03.06; 2, Hobart, BHS, 5:09.20; 3, Laust Merrild, OHS, 5:18.64; 4, Myers, OHS, 5:33.61; 5, Brian Fisk, MHS, 6:18.15; 6, Tyler Guzikowski, MHS, 6:58.4.
  • 1600-meter relay — 1, OHS, 3:52.9; 2, MHS, 4:10.96.
  • 3200-meter run — 1, Krusniak, MHS, 11:21.88; 2, Merrild, OHS, 11:48.04; 3, Seth Schneider, MHS, 11:48.18; 4, Myers, OHS, 12:10.14.
  • 3200-meter relay — 1, OHS, 8.48.71; 2, MHS, 10:06.15.
  • Pole vault — 1, Parker Johnson, OHS, 13-0; 2, Tyler Fogarty, OHS, 11-6; 3, Brown, OHS, 9-0; 4, Bassett, MHS, 8-6; 5, Miller, MHS, 8-0; 6, Corey Ernst, MHS, 7-0.
  • Long jump — 1, Zawacki, MHS, 18-6 1/2; 2, Coppola, MHS, 17-6 1/2; 3, Miller, MHS, 17-5; 4, Lindgren, MHS 16-11; 5, Engstrom, MHS, 15-9.
  • High jump — 1, Helminiak, MHS, 6-0.
  • Shot put — 1, Zachary Payne, MHS, 36-7; 2, Chase Calloway, OHS, 32-7; 3, Tyler Bajtka, OHS, 31-7 1/2; 4, Wethy, MHS, 28-2; 5, Jared Miller, OHS, 26-4.
  • Discus — 1, Calloway, OHS, 111-2; 2, Bajtka, OHS, 96-3; 3, Miller, OHS, 82-3; 4, Payne, MHS, 81-5.

Congratulations Jaylee Brown on setting a new school record in the Pole Vault yesterday afternoon at the All-Star county wide meet of 9' 10" breaking her old mark set earlier this year of 9' 9".  Also, Congratulations to the girls track track team on bringing home the most gold medals, 5 individual first place medals and all four relays!  Good luck Jaylee and all the other state qualifiers on Saturday as they head to the state finals at Forest Hill Eastern in Grand Rapids!  ~Coach Brown

  • 100-meter hurdles — 1, Jaylee Brown, OHS, 17.428; 2, Rebecca Priest, BHS, 17.628; 3, Yumi Babinec, OHS, 17.928; 4, Kailyn Ware, BHS, 18.095; 5, Ashleigh Maier, BHS, 19.363.
  • 100-meter dash — 1, Babinec, OHS, 13.885; 2, No’el Solis, MHS, 13.985; 3, Nicki Slater, OHS, 14.386; 4, Karen Lewis, BHS, 14.419; 5, Jennifer Alway, MHS, 14.519; 6, Heather North, MHS, 16.988; 7, Jenna Johnson, MHS, 17.387.
  • 200-meter dash — 1, McKenzie Majchrzak, MHS, 28.371; 2, Danielle Ward, OHS, 29.306; 3, Alway, MHS, 29.673; 4, Lewis, BHS, 29.839; 5, Jordan Johnson, MHS, 32.042; 6, Jenna Johnson, MHS, 36.079.
  • 300-meter hurdles — 1, Priest, BHS, 52.212; 2, Olivia Bolthouse, OHS, 55.515; 3, Maier, BHS, 1:01.421.
  • 400-meter dash — 1, Shelby Sidor, OHS, 1:09.814; 2, Kailani Buckner, OHS, 1:10.098; 3, Alexandria Mallison, MHS, 1:16.437; 4, Ashley Mikolajczak, MHS, 1:25.947.

Girls Results

  • 400-meter relay — 1, OHS, 55.809; 2, BHS, 57.611; 3, MHS, 1:04.451.
  • 800-meter run — 1, Tobi Schoedel, OHS, 2:34.58; 2, Anna Veverica, OHS, 2:49.92; 3, Amanda Peck, BHS, 2:56.65; 4, Ashley Wiard, MHS, 3:05.21.
  • 800-meter relay — 1, OHS, 1:57.454; 2, MHS, 1:58.122; 3, BHS, 2:03.26.
  • 1600-meter run — 1, Kelly Schubert, MHS, 5:39.81; 2, Tobi Schoedel, OHS, 5:59.77; 3, Elizabeth Schoedel, OHS, 6:09.03; 4, Veverica, OHS, 6:54.18; 5, Erin Crothers, MHS, 6:59.21; 6, Peck, BHS, 7:10.57.
  • 1600-meter relay — 1, OHS, 4:44.61; 2, MHS, 5:17.43.
  • 3200-meter run — 1, Schubert, MHS, 13:10.26; 2, Crothers, MHS, 14:54.34; 3, Peck, BHS, 16:47.33.
  • 3200-meter relay — 1, OHS, 11:06.86; 2, MHS, 12:43.88.
  • Pole vault — 1, Brown, OHS, 9-10; 2, Bolthouse, OHS, 6-6.
  • Long jump — 1, Majchrzak, MHS, 15-11 1/2; 2, Solis, MHS, 15-6 3/4; 3, Slater, OHS, 14-2; 4, Maier, BHS, 13-7; 5, Mallison, MHS, 13-7; 6, Buckner, OHS, 12-1.
  • High jump — 1, Majchrzak, MHS, 5-2; 2, Alway, MHS, 4-6; 3, Mallison, MHS, 4-2; 4, Autumn Beebe, BHS, 4-0; 5, Buckner, OHS, 4-0.
  • Shot put — 1, Heather North, MHS, 27-2 1/2; 2, Mikolajczak, MHS, 22-8 1/2; 3, Megan Paskell, BHS, 21-8 1/2; 4, Carlee Broughton, BHS, 21-2 1/2; 5, Kayla Linke, MHS, 19-8 1/2; 6, Erin Brown, OHS, 19-0.
  • Discus — 1, North, MHS, 77-0 1/2; 2, Paskell, BHS, 74-3 1/2; 3, Mikolajczak, MHS, 59-8; 4, Linke, MHS, 59-0; 5, Broughton, BHS, 56-9.

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