Portagers Sweep WMD Jamboree
By DYLAN SAVELA, News Advocate Sports Writer
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
 
BRETHREN — The season may be fresh for the West Michigan D League, but the top of the leader board remained strikingly familiar after Wednesday’s WMD Jamboree in Brethren.

The league champions from a year ago picked up where they last left the competition, as Onekama, both boys and girls, finished the seven-team event atop the score sheet.

The Portager boys took first with 232 total points, topping Big Rapids Crossroads Charter Academy (136), Mason County Eastern (60), Brethren (30), Pentwater (28), Baldwin (22) and Walkerville (12).

The Portagers were anchored by a clean sweep in the field events as Chase Callaway won the discus, Matt Monroe the long jump, Patrick Spalding the high jump, Raul Torres the shot put, and Tyler Fogarty the pole vault. "We really wanted to start off well today, and I was really pleased with the way we swept all five field events," coach Mickey Story said. "That's a great way to start off a meet. I'm thrilled with today --really happy with the kids" effort."

While the West Michigan D League championship is determined by an even mix between points scored in the season’s three jamborees and the winners of the end-of-season championship meet, Story was glad to get an early jump on the competition.

“We have some really hard working and talented kids,” he said of the squad that finished with 10 first-place finishes on the day. “We had a lot of kids doing different events today. Now we have a much better idea of what we need to do if we need to make changes for the next one.”

The same measuring stick can be used by the Portager girls, who topped the league with 184 total points with the help of winning seven events. “You never know until that first meet,” coach Bonnie Brown said of measuring the league’s field. “Our team goal is to be conference champs.”

 		 Onekama’s Tobi Schoedel couldn’t lose Wednesday as she finished first in each of the four events she competed in. “She started out with the mile (1600-meter run) and ran her best time ever,” Brown said of Schoedel’s time of 5:56.06. “She ran probably one of her fastest quarters (400-meter run), then she went to the 800(-meter run) and then she came back and anchored the mile relay.”

Right on the Portagers’ heels however, was a surging young Brethren team.

The Bobcats finished second overall with a score of 101, in front of MCE (85), Crossroads (38), Pentwater (22), Baldwin (18) and Walkerville (13).

Brethren’s Becca Priest finished first in both hurdle events while the girls 800-meter relay team of Maribell Acosta, Karen Lewis, Ashleigh Maier and Priest also took the top spot.

“First reaction I had was I was pleased with the score. It’s about as good as I thought we should be able to do, so that part I’m happy about,” girls coach Rob Isble said. “I wasn’t really sure how Onekama was going to fare. But like I said, in terms of our score, we hit about where I was hoping to.

“We’ve ran against these teams long enough where it can be any one of us on top. But that’s certainly going to be one of our goals — to be shooting at that number one spot.”

While the Bobcat boys, as a team, fell to fourth place, coach Travis Walker was pleased with the individual production he saw.

“We took our lumps, but the kids stayed positive and still ran hard,” he said. “We had some (personal records) again today, so it was a good meet.

“We were feeling things out a bit today,” he added. “We were able to see where we stand in different events. And we’re going to continue to do that until the conference championship and kind of see what works, and what we can do to have the most success.”

 

Girls Results
  • 100-meter hurdles — 1, Becca Priest, BHS, 17.413; 2, Yumi Babinec, OHS, 17.780; 3, Ashleigh Maier, BHS, 19.882.
  • 100-meter dash — 2, Breanna Fink, OHS, 14.440; 3, Karen Lewis, BHS, 14.574; 5, Nicole Slater, OHS, 14.657.
  • 200-meter dash — 2, Slater, OHS, 30.899; 3, Lewis, BHS, 31.482; 4, Maribell Acosta, BHS, 31.600; 5, Miranda Hengy, OHS, 32.316.
  • 300-meter hurdles — 1, Priest, BHS, 51.897; 3, Michaela Staff, BHS, 1:09.815.
  • 400-meter dash — 1, Tobi Schoedel, OHS, 1:06.420; 4, Taylor Hagen, OHS, 1:13.127; 5, Taylor Anderson, OHS, 1:13.794; 6, Maier, BHS, 1:20.401.
  • 400-meter relay — 1, OHS, Danielle Ward, Hengy, Babinec, Fink, 56.649; 2, BHS, Acosta, Staff, Mia Orlandi, Lewis, 1:02.755.
  • 800-meter run — 1, Schoedel, OHS, 2:51.16; 2, Anderson, OHS, 3:07.69; 4, Kailani Buckner, OHS, 3:19.75; 5, DJ Johnson, BHS, 3:29.80.
  • 800-meter relay — 1, BHS, Acosta, Lewis, Maier, Priest, 2:02.921; 2, Hagen, Hengy, Buckner, Fink, 2:04.355.
  • 1600-meter run — 1, Tobi Schoedel, OHS, 5:56.06; 3, Elizabeth Schoedel, OHS, 6:57.96; 4, Brittannie Wiggins, BHS, 7:45.18; 5, Johnson, BHS, 7:49.87; 6, Hannah Mackey, BHS, 7:58.15.
  • 1600-meter relay — 1, OHS, Babinec, Hagen, Anderson, Tobi Schoedel, 5:07.88; 2, BHS, Mackey, Orlandi, Johnson, Wiggins, 6:22.07.
  • 3200-meter run — 2, Elizabeth Schoedel, OHS, 15:11.85; 3, Katie Alkire, OHS, 15:12.26.
  • 3200-meter relay — 1, OHS, Schoedel, Anderson, Alkire, Ashley Rupert, 12:33.01; 2, BHS, Johnson, Mackey, Wiggins, Orlandi, 14:33.78.
  • Pole vault — 1, Hagen, OHS, 8-0; 3, Fink, OHS, 6-6.
  • Long jump — 1, Slater, OHS, 14-4.
  • High jump — 2, Rupert, OHS, 4-10; 4, Priest, BHS, 4-8; 5, Buckner, OHS, 4-0.
  • Shot put — 3, Rupert, OHS, 27-2 1/2.
  • Discus — 3, Carlee Broughton, BHS, 70-10; 4, Rupert, OHS, 68-1; 5, Sibley, OHS, 65-11.
 Boys Results
  • 100-meter dash — 3, Tyler Fogarty, OHS, 12.560; 4, Dustin McConnon, BHS, 12.593; 6, Matt Monroe, OHS, 12.672.
  • 110-meter hurdles — 1, Patrick Spalding, OHS, 17.454; 2, Danny Brown, OHS, 18.188; 3, Lewis Bartlett, OHS, 19.356; 4, McConnon, BHS, 19.556.
  • 200-meter dash — 1, Fogarty, OHS, 25.139.
  • 300-meter hurdles — 1, Spalding, OHS, 45.198; 2, Brown, OHS, 47.367; 5, Bartlett, OHS, 49.336; 6, Sanqua Cummings, BHS, 49.903.
  • 400-meter dash — 4, Ryan Pienta, OHS, 57.765; 6, Rease Heiler, OHS, 1:01.065.
  • 400-meter relay — 1, OHS, Brown, Matt Monroe, Callaway, Fogarty, 47.781.
  • 800-meter run — 2, Tyler Groenwald, OHS, 2:13.38; 4, Chuck Schoedel, OHS, 2:14.77; 5, Nathan Hobart, BHS, 2:17.58; 6, Bobby Myers, OHS, 2:32.6.
  • 800-meter relay — 1, OHS, Brown, Pienta, Groenwald, Spalding, 1:42.586; 5, BHS, Josh Marlow, Cummings, Aaron Hillsamer, Michael Allen, 1:52.746.
  • 1600-meter run — 3, Schoedel, OHS, 4:58.14; 4, Groenwald, OHS, 5:10.56; 5, Hobart, BHS, 5:16.86; 6, Myers, OHS, 5:22.29; 9, Zach Fairbanks, BHS, 7:03.75.
  • 1600-meter relay — 2, OHS, Heiler, Pienta, Groenwald, Bartlett, 4:02.05; 5, BHS, Hillsamer, John Cullar, Anthony Bence, McConnon, 4:25.64.
  • 3200-meter run — 2, Schoedel, OHS, 11:11.12; 4, Myers, OHS, 12:03.79; 5, Fairbanks, BHS, 15:22.94.
  • 3200-meter relay — 3, OHS, Jesse McIntyre, Parker Sternberger, Myers, Heiler, 10:12.25; 4, BHS, Fairbanks, Bence, Steven Jajo, Kody Karash, 12:49.47.
  • Pole vault — 1, Fogarty, OHS, 11-0; 2, McIntyre, OHS, 8-0; 3, Cullar, BHS, 8-0; 4, Tyler Bajtka, OHS, 7-0.
  • Long jump — 1, Monroe, OHS, 18-2 1/2; 2, Callaway, OHS, 17-3; 6, Hobart, BHS, 16-2.
  • High jump — 1, Spalding, OHS, 5-10; 6, Monroe, OHS, 5-2.
  • Shot put — 1, Raul Torres, OHS, 39-3 3/4; 3, Callaway, OHS, 35-7 1/2.
  • Discus — 1, Callaway, OHS, 127-5; 2, Bajtka, OHS, 100-4.

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