Railer frosh-soph track girls take second place in Capital City Classic         

By Rick L. Hobler

[APRIL 18, 2006]  SPRINGFIELD -- The freshmen and sophomore girls from the LCHS track team traveled to Memorial Stadium in Springfield on Monday night to take part in the Capital City Classic. They left with six first-place finishes, two second-place finishes and, overall, tied for second place in the team standings. The Lady Railers tied with Glenwood High School with a total of 88 team points. Springfield High School came away with the team title with 107 points, largely due to the depth of their squad. Sacred Heart-Griffin ran fourth in the field of eight Central State Eight conference teams.

Of the 19 contested events, Lincoln ran away with and jumped its way to six first-place finishes. Lincoln won every relay event except one, and in that one, the 800 medley, LCHS took second place.

Lincoln's relay dominance began with the 400-meter relay team of Bunner, Berglin, Martin and Hobler, who edged out Southeast High School. Lincoln's finishing time was 53.44. The consistently victorious 800-meter relay team, consisting of Schonauer, Sparks, Hyde and Bonaparte, won again in a time of 1:49.34, beating the closest competitor by over four seconds. Not to be outdone, the Lincoln 1,600-meter relay team won the meet's final event of the evening with a time of 4:24.32. The 1,600-meter relay is run by Hyde, Sparks, Martin and Berglin.

Individual first-place finishes came three times to Ashley Bonaparte. "B" ran her way to firsts in the 100-meter dash (13.03) and the 200-meter dash (26.5). She also topped the long jump sand pile with a jump of 15 feet, 1 inch.

Second-place finishes came with the long jumping of Hilary Hobler at 14 feet, 10 inches and with the 800-meter medley relay team of Schonauer, Sparks, Hyde and Martin, who lost a close finish to Taylorville, with a time of 2:00.49.

The Lady Railers closed out their point totals with a third-place finish by Martin in the 300-meter hurdles (51.15), fifth-place finishes by Hyde in the 400-meter dash (1:05.19) and Bunner in the 100-meter dash (13.63), and sixth-place finishes by Kate Schonauer in the 100-meter hurdles (19.31) and the 200-meter dash (28.60).

The full Lady Railer squad will run a triangular meet at home on Wednesday afternoon beginning at 4 p.m. and will then travel to the Glenwood Invitational on Friday.

GO, RAILERS!!

[Rick Hobler]

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