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sports
Bulldog sports roundup
Four advance to state
meet
The boys distance runners carried the day again for Yellow Springs High
School in the Division III Regional tournament last week at the University
of Dayton’s Welcome Stadium. With strong enough performances to
advance to state, sophomore Alexis Onfroy and junior Jake GunderKline
will compete in next weekend’s 1600-meter and 3200-meter races,
respectively, and they will join senior Andy Peters and junior Brock GunderKline
in the 4x800 relay event.
To get to state, the top athletes from each district first had to compete
in the regional preliminary meet on Tuesday, May 27. The top eight finishers
from that day qualified for regional finals, held on Saturday, May 31.
The top four finishers in each regional finals event advanced to state,
which will take place this weekend, Friday and Saturday, June 6 and 7,
at Ohio State University’s Jesse Owens Stadium in Columbus. Events
begin at 9:30 a.m. both days.
At the regional preliminaries last Tuesday, the boys 4x8 squad was led
off by Jake GunderKline, followed by a flat two-minute leg by Onfroy,
a leg by Brock GunderKline, and a 1:55 anchor by Peters that won the team
a second place finish in 8:11.6 and an automatic chance to compete at
the state level. It was also the fourth fastest time ever run by a boys
YSHS team in the 4x8, according to Coach Vince Peters. The squad will
race in Columbus on Friday at 9:30 a.m.
Onfroy also advanced past Tuesday’s preliminary in the 1600 run
to take third place in Saturday’s final event, just behind Dayton
Christian’s formidable John and Walter Luttrell. Onfroy’s
time of 4:26 improved his personal best by four seconds and won him a
ticket to state. Onfroy will run the 1600 in Columbus on Saturday, between
9:30 a.m. and noon.
As a surprise District qualifier in the 3200-meter run, Jake GunderKline
surpassed his personal best by 10 seconds to take fourth place at the
regional final race in 10:01, within three seconds of winner Walter Luttrell.
GunderKline will also run the 3200 at state on Saturday morning.
For the YSHS girls team at regionals, the 4x200-meter relay squad advanced
past preliminaries and placed sixth in 1:51.44 at Saturday’s finals.
The team, led by freshman Elizabeth Gonder, followed by juniors Kristin
Foster, Leslie Holland and anchored by Brenda Jones, with Melodie Wright
as an alternate, made the top 32 teams in the state, but did not advance
to the state competition.
Jones also competed in Tuesday’s preliminary to finish seventh in
her heat in the 100-meter dash but did not advance to the regional finals.
Anthony Pettiford competed at regionals in the men’s 400-meter dash
and did not advance.
Perry League play
to begin Friday
The Perry League, Yellow Springs’
t-ball program for girls and boys ages 2–9, will open its 2008 season
Friday night, June 6, 6:30 p.m. at Gaunt Park. Two- and three-year-olds
are welcome if accompanied on the diamond by an adult. There are no fees,
no sign-ups, no registrations, nor any requirement to play every week.
The league welcomes all the community’s children regardless of race,
color, creed, national origin, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, ability
or disability. And, we work at being tender, patient, kind and loving
to them all.
Special note for fans planning to come watch the children: bring a chair
or something to sit on, because, as of Monday, June 2, there are no bleachers.
For more information, call Jimmy Chesire, 767-7300, or Chris Murphy, 767-7408.
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