Pete Struck Eagle Classic Meet Summary

Sandburg – Meet Summary – 4/24/13 – Cool – light wind early, but perfect later in the evening.

Your Trojan track athletes had a very solid night at the Pete Struck Eagle Classic on Thursday night.  The team managed to finish in 4^th place with a total of 60 points out of 16 teams.  Some of the key performances were:

·         6^th – 3200m – Marc Mathy – 10:07.88

·         6^th – Disc – Marckus Simmons – 130’1”

·         4^th – High Jump – Steve Kanis – 5’10”

·         4^th – Shot Put – Nick Stiechman – 48’4”

·         4^th - 4x800m – 8:28.75 – Ryan Zemel (2:01.5), Andrew Noll (2:05.0), James Diamond (2:10.9), and Andrew Masciopinto (2:10.8).

·         4^th – 1600m – Tony Zea – 4:23.81

·         3^rd – Disc – Nick Janicki – 155’8” – state qualifying mark is 155’0” – he is well on his way of punching his ticket to Charleston for the State Meet.

·         1^st – 3200m – Ben Eaton – 9:29.62 – won this event by 10 seconds.  Currently the 20^th fastest time in the state for outdoor.

·         1^st – 1600m – Zack Smith – 4:13.23 – currently 3^rd fastest time in the state.

The markee event of the night was the 1600m run!  Jack Diamond sacrificed his own race to ensure a fast race for Tony Zea and Zack Smith.  Tony and Zack both had PRs and Zack’s time but him in the top 3 in the state and the top 20 in the nation.