performed brilliantly on the track in their second win on Thursday. While Souderton won six of the seven field events, West won ten of the eleven track events on the blustery Spring day.
Javelin was the hot event of the day, featuring the only district-qualifying performances of the competition amidst the strong winds. Souderton's Eric Conard rocketed a 171 foot throw to complement his 15.3 second win in the 110 meter high hurdles and third place in the 300 meter intermediate hurdles. West senior Burgess Bryant countered with a 166 foot javelin throw to surpass the district-qualifying standard of 160 feet and place second. Junior Will Fernandez also impressed, pulling a 156 foot throw of his own to place third.
Fellow thrower and junior John Williams launched his flying saucer for a whopping PR of 123 feet in the discus throw to place second.
Junior strongman Cory Radkins put the shot 39' 10.5" to narrowly surpass Fernandez's fantastic heave of 39'6", placing second and third respectively.
Mikey DeMarco had another terrific day, as he cleared 12 feet in the pole vault to take second on misses to fellow senior teammate Corey Smith.
Smith had a big day, also placing second in the high jump and third in the triple jump.
On the track, the Bucks ran wild. Juniors Shawn Young and Jimmie Kilgannon went 1-2 in the 300
intermediate hurdles. Seniors Eric Zoleski and Ben Smith teamed up in the 4x800 meter relay with junior Austin Kline for the first time since placing 5th at the Indoor State Championship Meet in the 4x800 meter relay. Senior Rob Mitchell coupled with the threesome to outpace the Indians by just a few seconds with a time of 8:27.8.
Junior Greg Branch and sophomore Jamie Valdez ran a wind-aided 11.3 and 11.5 respectively to go 1-2 in the 100 meter dash, followed by another Nico Metzler-Chris Berry-Alex Predhome sweep of the mile run.
Kline doubled back to win the 400 meter dash in an impressive 51.4, followed by fellow junior Ethan Long's 2nd place 53.2.
Zoleski, Branch, and Valdez then teamed up with Eric Grzsnekowski to win the 4x100 meter relay in a season-best 45.6 seconds.
Young and Kilgannon doubled back to wind-aided second and third place performances of 16.2 and 16.5, respectively in the 110 meter high hurdles.
Metzler, Smith, and junior AJ Morgan each doubled back from previous events to sweep the 800 meter run, followed by Branch and Long placing 1-2 in the 200 meter dash. Berry and Predhome pulled away from the field to go 1-2 in the 3200 meter run, followed by a pair of 4x400s breaking 3:40, highlighted by Nico Metzler's 52.7 leadoff triple.
The Bucks return to action on Tuesday at CB West to kick off the Easter Break in style against Quakertown.