DGN at indoor Silver Meet (roundup)

Senior Tony Zea achieved his third indoor school record this season Friday, March 21, at the indoor West Suburban Conference Silver Division Meet at York.

Zea won the 600-meter run in 1:25.12 fully automatic time to break the previous mark of 1:25.5 manual time by Michael Gilmartin as a junior in 2005. The indoor Silver Meet record is 1:21.9 manual time by York’s Tim Hobbs in 2001.  Here is a link to watch a video of the race.

Junior Nick Janicki (personal-best 50 feet-7 inches) and senior Nick Steichmann (49-6 1/2) finished 1-2 in shot put.

Junior Ryan Clevenger won the 1,600 (4:24.04) with senior Zack Smith third (4:25.01) after Clevenger earlier was second in the 800 (1:56.64), edged for the title by just .03 by York’s Matt Plowman.  Here is a link for the  the 800m race.

The Trojans (81 points) finished third, just one point behind second-place Oak Park-River Forest (82). York dominated with 169.5 points, winning 10 of the 17 events. The Trojans were three points ahead of fourth-place Hinsdale Central (78), followed by Glenbard West (54.5), Lyons Township (52) and Proviso West (10).

Despite his record, Zea had to pull out the 600 title by .01 over LT’s Alex Lima (1:25.13). Zea previously set the indoor 800 school record with his 1:56.28 FAT at the Proviso West Invite Feb. 22 and set the 3,200 relay record of 7:55.87 FAT with Smith, Clevenger and junior Jack Diamond at the Mustang Invite March 10 at North Central College.

Also taking third were seniors Charles Creamer in the 55 low hurdles (7.68) and Jeremy Craven in the 3,200 (9:42.02) and the 3,200 relay (Smith, Diamond, junior Zac Christensen, Zea in 8:01.56).

Zea’s personal-best 1:55.9 anchor split almost pulled out the 3,200 relay, but the Trojans finished just 1.06 behind first-place LT (8:00.50) as well as York (8:00.70). This was Craven’s first race of the season after being sidelined by severe shin splints. Here is a link to checkout that race.

Senior Eric Wasz shared third in pole vault by equaling his personal best of 12-6. Senior Jazz Charrier took fourth in the 200 (23.71) after dominating the slowest of the event’s three heats. Junior Joe Carter took sixth in the 800 (2:04.86) after being seeded eighth and the 800 relay was sixth (senior Josh Stirn, junior Damian Margarites, seniors Justin Fortes and Dan Szopa in 1:43.05).

The Downers North sophomore team was sixth with 35 points. Oak Park-River Forest won with 121 points, followed by York (105), Hinsdale Central and Glenbard West (94 points each) and Lyons Township (74). Proviso West (4) was seventh.

Sophomore Anthony Giordano won the 200 (24.27) out of Lane 6 and was third in the 55 (6.90).

Sophomore Justin Weisner was second in pole vault by clearing 11-0 after never going higher than 9-6.

Freshman Joe Keys was third in the 55 low hurdles (8.52) and sixth in the 400 (57.20).

Taking sixth were freshman Jack Barkei (600 in 1:36.03), the 3,200 relay (freshman Alec Danner, sophomore Nick Torres, Barkei, sophomore Brad Wilcoxen in 9:18.87), the 800 relay (Giordano, Romeo Jones, freshman Andrew Marszewski, sophomore Michael Avdich in 1:40.67) and the 1,600 relay (Marszewski, Keys, Jones, Barkei in 3:58.50).

A full story on both levels will be posted soon.

-- by Bill Stone