Eaton, Janicki, and Smith Qualify for the State Meet!!

3 Trojans Qualify for the State Meet!

IHSA Sectional – Meet Wrap-up

The boys track team had a very solid meet on Friday night at their home facility.  The boys placed 5^th out of 17 teams at the sectional with 54 points.  The top teams finished as follows:  1^st – Sandburg with 97, 2^nd – Lockport with 71, 3^rd – DGS with 59, 4^th – Hinsdale Central with 55, 5^th – DGN with 55, 6^th – Shepard with 49, and 7^th – Bolingbrook with 48.

The first qualifier came in the field events, as Nick Janicki hit the state qualifying mark on his first throw in the discus!  Marckus Simmons finished 4^th in the discus with a throw of 133-05, not his best, but conditions were tough during the field events because of a steady drizzle.  The rain affected the pole vault and the high jump the most (it only took 6-1 to qualify in the high jump because of the slick conditions).  Field event scoring performances were Steve Kanis – 6^th High Jump with 5-11 and Jack Czyzewicz – 6^th in Pole Vault with 12-3.

The rain dissipated shortly before the finals in the running events got underway and it turned out to be a nice night.  The 4x100m Relay team of Kyle Leto, Steve Kanis, Charles Creamer, and Anthony Giordano ran a season best of 44.02 which was good enough for 3^rd!  Then Ben Eaton stepped on the track to lead from start to finish in the 3200m run and qualify for the state meet with a time of 9:23.17! 

It was great to see that both Charles Creamer and Kyle Leto made finals in the 100m dash, Charles finished 5^th and Kyle was 8^th.  The next race on the track was the 800m Run, which featured John Diamond in the 2^nd heat of 3 and Tony Zea in the 3^rd heat of 3.  Jack started it off with a seasonal open 800m PR of 2:03.28 and winning his heat, not bad for a sophomore!  Then Tony Zea ran admirably in a very talented fast heat where he finished 4^th in 1:57.89, just 0.6 seconds from qualifying for the state meet.

The 4x200m Relay of Kyle Leto, Charles Creamer, Steve Kanis, and Richard Olekanma did a great job and ended up with a seasonal PR by almost 2 seconds to finish in 3^rd with a 1:32.58!  This was a huge improvement from earlier in the year!

Our last state qualifier came in the 1600m Run.  Both Zack Smith and Ryan Clevenger ran solidly to finish 2^nd and 5^th respectively.  Smith and Clevenger both closest very well the last 800m after a rather pedestrian 2:13 first 800m.  Smith qualified for the state meet by finishing 2^nd and running 4:18.89, under the 4:22.74 qualifying mark!  Ryan Clevenger finished with a NEW sophomore school record of 4:24.12!

Very solid night for our Trojans and now on to the State Meet next week!