Portagers sweep first jamboree


Onekama's Nisha Collins won the long jump. (Dylan Savela/News Advocate)

BRETHREN — The sun was deceiving Wednesday, but more importantly, it was out.

“You wouldn’t think it is,” Onekama junior Nisha Collins said with a laugh. “It’s so cold. But, we were starting to wonder if the sun would ever come out this year.

“For a while there, we weren’t sure if we’d ever
 have a meet.”

The Portagers finally did, and left with a clean sweep of the season’s first West Michigan D League jamboree. The boys won with 237 total points while the girls topped the eight-team field with 195.

“We were happy with how we did,” Collins said of the program’s delayed start to the outdoor season. “Other than the cold and the muscle cramps, I think we’re right where we want to be right now.”

The late-April meet marked the outdoor opener for host Brethren and newly-reformed Manistee Catholic Central track teams as well. The Bobcats placed second in the girls competition with 90 points while the boys were third with 57. The Sabers were third (63) and fifth (32), respectively.

To go with a clear strength in numbers, the Portager boys took 11 first-place finishes in the 17 total events to run away with the win. Crossroads Charter Academy was the next closest with 75 points.

“Great start, from top to bottom,” said Onekama boys coach Tony Shrum. “I couldn’t be more pleased.”

Onekama, which co-ops with Bear Lake, was led by Nick Streeter and Michael Belinsky, who each took a pair of individual firsts — Streeter in both sprints and Belinsky in both hurdle events.

The Portagers also won three of the four relays, and took second in the 4X100.

“Really good exchanges for the relays for kind of throwing it together here without too much opportunity to go out and work on it,” Shrum said. “It’s tough to practice, practice, practice and not really know when we’ll have a meet.

“It was good to finally get out and do it, and they did really well.”

Brethren’s third-place finish was highlighted in the field events as Josh Riggs won the high jump and Brad Maier took first in the long jump.

“First meet of the year, that’s a great,” Walker said of the jumpers, also citing James Connolly’s trio of top-three finishes. “We’re not at all deep in any way this year, but the kids that competed today had some great finishes.

“Obviously, with our numbers, without those great finishes we wouldn’t have been third today,” he added. “That was huge for those guys to contribute the way they did.”

MCC’s Jason Kaminski led his team with a first-place finish in the shot put.

“The first event, I know I had some jitters and I’m sure some others did too,” he said of MCC’s first meet as its own team in years. “After the first one, it seemed to go pretty well for all of us.”

In girls action, Onekama won 10 events, including all four relays. Keena Gilbert and Faith Moerdyk led the way individually, as Gilbert won the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs and Moerdyk took first in the 800 and high jump.

Manistee Catholic's Anna Buswinka (left) and Brethren's Chloee Janssen (right) fun the 1,600  (Dylan Savela/News Advocate)
 

“I know the girls were really antsy to get one in,” Portagers girls coach Nathan Bradford said of the opener. “It was cold, but the weather finally cooperated a little bit.

“I know we got some first places, but we just wanted the girls to come out and give everything they had,” he added. “I know some of them were expecting a little bit better times, but it’s cold and the first meet of the year. Now they’ve got something to shoot for.”

Brethren specialized in the sprint and hurdle events as Mia Sacksteder won the 100- and 200-meter dashes and Emily Krause took first in the 100- and 300-meter hurdles.

“Everyone’s been champing at the bit to get going, and they did well overall,” Brethren girls coach Jason Kemler said. “Improvement will come quickly too because we’ll finally be able to get outside and start working on things.

“You take a look at the girls that did get first, and even they know they can do better, which is a good thing too.”

The Sabers didn’t win a girls event, but picked up plenty of points along the way to third place.

Alysha Heck and Haley Doyle were runners-up in the shot put and 400-meter dash, respectively, while MCC’s 400-meter relay team placed second.

“I think it went excellent,” MCC coach Rich Capling said of the opener. “It went about as good as we could expect, and of course it’s good to finally get the first meet under out belt. The small group of kids that we had, they did excellent today.”

Onekama, Brethren, Manistee Catholic boys results:

3,200 relay — 1, Onekama, 9:18.59; 3, Onekama, 10:05.18.

110 hurdles — 1, Belinsky (OHS), 19.91; 3, Jacob Morgan (OHS), 21.45.

100 — 1, Streeter (OHS), 12.06; 3, Connolly (BHS), 12.48; 4, Jordan Coe (OHS), 12.63; 5, Kaminski (MCC), 12.83.

800 relay — 1, Onekama, 1:38.53; 4, Onekama, 1:45.33; 5, Brethren, 1:47.12.

1,600 — 2, John Girven (OHS), 4:57.84; 3, Jordan Anderson (OHS), 5:11.05; 4, John Schoedel (OHS), 5:18.71; 5, Josh Davis (OHS), 5:31.74.

Onekama’s Michael Belinsky won the 300 hurdles on Wednesday. (Dylan Savela/News Advocate)

400 relay — 2, Onekama, 48.55; 3, Manistee Catholic, 49.11; 4, Onekama, 53.12; 5, Brethren, 53.37.

400 — 1, Reilly Merrill (OHS), 55.04; 3, Alex Carter (MCC), 57.28; 5, Paul Hayes (OHS), 57.54.

300 hurdles — 1, Belinsky (OHS), 46.73; 5, Seth Harrington (OHS), 50.67; 6, David Gillespie (OHS), 54.36.

800 — 1, Shane Peterson (OHS), 2:15.94; 3, Joe Riggs (BHS), 2:26.05; 4, Davis (OHS), 2:26.36; 5, Victor Acosta (BHS), 2:26.61.

200 — 1, Streeter (OHS), 24.20; 3, Connolly (BHS), 25.00; 4, Merrill (OHS), 25.43; 5, Coe (OHS), 25.54; 6, Jonas LaMont (OHS), 26.34.

3,200 — 1, Girven (OHS), 10:55.50; 2, Anderson (OHS), 11:15.53; 3, Schoedel (OHS), 11:49.68.

1,600 relay — 1, Onekama, 3:53.30; 4, Manistee Catholic, 4:17.32; 5, Onekama, 4:20.72.

Discus — 3, John Grochowski (BHS), 96-4; 5, John Curtin (OHS), 94-3; 6, Josh Metiva (OHS), 86-4.

Shot put — 1, Kaminski (MCC), 40-6; 3, Connolly (BHS), 36-10; 4, Curtin (OHS), 36-7 1/2; 5, Metiva (OHS), 33-11.

High jump — 1, Josh Riggs (BHS), 5-4; 3, Jared Sarinopoulos (OHS), 5-0; 4, Belinsky (OHS), 5-0; 5, Morgan (OHS), 5-0.

Pole vault — 1, Randy Pienta (OHS), 10-0; 3, Davis (OHS), 8-6.

Long jump — 1, Maier (BHS), 18-1; 2, LaMont (OHS), 17-9 1/2; 3, Harrington (OHS), 17-2 3/4; 6, Josh Riggs (BHS), 16-8.

Onekama, Brethren, Manistee Catholic girls results

3,200 relay — 1, Onekama, 11:31.11; 2, Brethren, 14:28.80.

100 hurdles — 1, Krause (BHS), 19.06; 2, Meredith Hengy (OHS), 20.64.

100 — 1, Sacksteder (BHS), 14.04; 2, Alyson Fink (OHS), 14.06; 3, Mia Hogan (MCC), 14.36; 4, Collins (OHS), 14.39; 6, Jodi Janowiak (MCC), 15.05.

800 relay — 1, Onekama, 1:55.54; 2, Brethren, 2:02.19; 3, Manistee Catholic, 2:13.47.

1,600 — 1, Gilbert (OHS), 5:59.78; 2, Kelly Babcock (OHS), 6:15.19; 3, Janssen (BHS), 7:12.30; 5, Wilks (BHS), 7:15.29.

400 relay — 1, Onekama, 53.91; 2, Manistee Catholic, 57.10;

400 — 1, Alycia Peterson (OHS), 1:08.73; 2, Doyle (MCC), 1:12.50; 5, Curtice (OHS), 1:16.91; 6, Megan Gilman (OHS), 1:19.91.

300 hurdles — 1, Krause (BHS), 53.32; 2, Hengy (OHS), 56.07;

800 — 1, Moerdyk (OHS), 2:47.36; 2, Babcock (OHS), 2:55.37; 3, Buswinka (MCC), 3:11.89; 4, Jenny Pieczynski (MCC), 3:22.29; 5, Wilks (BHS), 3:28.48; 6, Tighe (BHS), 3:30.61.

200 — 1, Sacksteder (BHS), 28.52; 2, Peterson (OHS), 29:32; 3, Fink (OHS), 29.78; 4, Janowiak (MCC), 30.86.

3,200 — 1, Gilbert (OHS), 13:13.93.

1,600 relay — 1, Onekama, 5:07.27; 2, Brethren, 5:58.69.

Discus — 2, Hannah Harrington (OHS), 62-0; 3, Taylor Mallison (OHS), 61-10.

Shot put — 2, Heck (MCC), 29-4; 3, Harrington (OHS), 24-9; 5, Mallison (OHS), 24-8.

High jump — 1, Moerdyk (OHS), 4-6; 2, Krause (BHS), 4-3; 3, Wilks (BHS), 4-0.

Pole vault — 2, Kendra Curtice (OHS), 6-0.

Long jump — 1, Collins (OHS), 14-3; 3, Hogan (MCC), 12-11 1/2; 4, Miah Johnson (OHS), 12-11; 5, Anna Buswinka (MCC), 12-10; 6, Chloee Janssen (BHS), 12-7 1/2.

This article was posted by Dylan Savela for the
Manistee News Advocate on-line

April 24, 2013

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