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Overall team victories went to
Chester-East Lincoln with a first-place finish at the eighth-grade
level, with 86 points, and a second-place finish, with 71 points,
for the seventh-grade team. Delevan took the seventh-grade title
with a total of 79.5 points. Both C-EL teams posted victories and
garnered points throughout numerous track and field events.
By my count, at least 54 girls (not
including a count of relay alternates) will advance to this
weekend's state championships at the Eastside Centre in East Peoria.
Individuals advance if they place in the top two of any given
competition or if they have a state qualifying time or distance in
their event.
Notably strong individual performances
for C-EL came from Ashley Bonaparte, Bridgette Hyde, Betsy Ramlow,
Kelli Brooks and Kelsey Bunner, among others. C-EL's relay teams did
well in most every event, with the eighth-grade 4 x 200 team taking
a strong first and the eighth-grade 4 x 100 bringing home a second.
Other multiple-winning individual
performances were put in by Carroll Catholic's Kate Schonauer and WL-B's
Stacy Elliott and Hilary Hobler.
Relay teams from WL-B came in first in
the eighth-grade 4 x 100 and the seventh-grade 4 x 200. Relay teams
from Carroll also ran strong, especially the eighth-grade 4 x 200
and seventh-grade 4 x 100.
Individual first-place finishes in
field and track events were:
Eighth
grade
Long jump: Ashley Bonaparte, C-EL
100-meter: Kate Schonauer, Carroll
Catholic
200-meter: Ashley Bonaparte, C-EL
400-meter: Bridgette Hyde, C-EL
800-meter: Betsy Ramlow, C-EL
4 x 100 relay: WL-B
4 x 200 relay: C-EL
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 Seventh
grade
Long jump: Hilary Hobler, WL-B
200-meter: Hilary Hobler, WL-B
800-meter: Kelli Brooks, C-EL
4 x 200 relay, WL-B
Other individuals who qualified for
state by being second or by having a qualifying time or distance
were:
Eighth
grade
High jump: Elliott, WL-B; McFadden,
C-EL
100-meter: Bonaparte, C-EL
400-meter: Elliott, WL-B
200-meter: Kate Schonauer, CC
4 x 100 relay: C-EL
4 x 200 relay: CC
Long jump: Kate Schonauer, CC;
Browning, WL-B
Shot put: Chrissy Schonauer, CC;
Meyrick, C-EL
Seventh grade
100-meter: Bunner C-EL; Hobler WL-B
400-meter: Berglin C-EL
800-meter: Birk, C-EL
4 x 100 relay: CC
4 x 400: C-EL
High jump: Bunner C-EL
Long jump: Aughenbaugh, WL-B; Berglin,
C-EL
Shot put: Duncan, C-EL; Lercher, C-EL
Good luck to
all of these young athletes and their teams in the state finals this
upcoming weekend.
[Rick
Hobler]
Respond to the writer at
rhobler@lccs.edu.
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