Manchester Wins Wabash County Meet, Lady Squires 3rd
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Staff Report-
NORTH MANCHESTER – The Manchester boys track team won the Wabash County meet Tuesday, and the Lady Squires were third overall. The Squires’ Heath Dierks and Gavin Ream captured the top two spots in the discus, and the 4x800 relay team of Lance Bennett, Thomas Rohr, Brandon Wagoner and Jon Rich won in 8:43.42. Rohr was an individual double winner, taking the 1600 and 3200, and Colin McNeeley won the 100 for Manchester. Rae Bedke set a county record in the 1600, winning it in a time of 5:13.38, and she also won the 800. Bailey Sewell won the discus, and the Lady Squires won two relays, the 4x100 (Katie Barker, Ali Casper, Emma Casper, and Tahnee Fuentes) and the 4x800 (Emily Lynn, Natasha Niccum, Anna Osborn and Clara Burdette). Next up for the Manchester track teams is the Three Rivers Conference meet, to be held on the Indiana Wesleyan University campus in Marion on May 10. WABASH COUNTY MEET at Manchester High School Girls scores – 1. Southwood 74, 2. Northfield 69.5, 3. Manchester 66.5, 4. Wabash 28 Manchester results: 100 – 4. Tahnee Fuentes 14.41; 200 – 3. Alyssa Peyton 29.37; 400 – 5. Carsyn Howard 1:08.35; 800 – 1. Rae Bedke 2:27.71, 3. Emily Lynn 2:41.17; 1600 – 1. Bedke 5:13.38, 3. Jaelyn Webb 5:54.42; 3200 – 1. Webb 12:47.27, 2. Clara Burdette 13:14.81; 100 hurdles – 4. Katie Barker 18.11; 300 hurdles – 4. Barker 57.34; 4x100 relay – 1. Manchester (Barker, Ali Casper, Emma Casper, Fuentes) 54.57; 4x400 relay – 2. Manchester (Bedke, A. Casper, E. Casper, Fuentes) 4:26.78; 4x800 relay – 1. Manchester (Lynn, Natasha Niccum, Anna Osborn, Burdette) 10:35.15; High jump – 3 (tie) Alexis Wagoner 4-4, 5. Osborn 4-2; Shot put – 3. Mikayla Genovese 30-5; Discus – 1. Bailey Sewell 115-7.
Boys scores – 1. Manchester 73, 2. Northfield 65, Southwood 61, 4. Wabash 39 Manchester results: 100 – 1. Colin McNeeley 11.39, 4. Joshua Shepherd 12.13; 200 – 5. Keelan Norwood 25.23; 400 – 4. Devon Rooney 54.62; 800 – 2. Lance Bennett 2:07.14, 3. Benjamin Reichenbach 2:10.89; 1600 – 1. Thomas Rohr 4:46.70; 3200 – 1. Rohr 10:19.11; 110 hurdles – 3. Caleb Haecker 18.85, 5. Trey Addair 19.36; 300 hurdles – 3. Haecker 47.31; 4x100 relay – 2. Manchester (Bennett, Haecker, Blake Martz, Shepherd) 46.91; 4x400 relay – 3. Manchester (Bennett, Elisel Guerrero, McNeeley, Remington Trick) 3:43.40; 4x800 relay – 1. Manchester (Bennett, Rohr, Wagoner, Jon Rich) 8:43.82; High jump – 2. Isaiah Davis 5-10, 4. Norwood 5-6; Long jump – 4. Trick 18-5; Shot put – 2. Matthew Pegg 40-11.5, 4. Heath Dierks 38-6; Discus – 1. Manchester 132-11, 2. Gavin Ream 113-1