4/1/09

Girls Finish 3rd - Boys 6th at MSU

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Meet Highlights - The boys finished 6th out of 15 schools. Garrett Swain was the big scorer for the boys team finishing first in the long jump, 2nd in the hurdles, by .01 seconds and tied for first in the high jump. Other top 10 fnishers for the boys were: Zach Zingsheim and Kevin Bergeron in the 800, Austin Winter in the 1600, Jon Lopez in the long jump and Sam Maki in the shot put.

The girls team finished in third out of 16 schools behind division 2 schools Williamston and Yale and ahead of such schools as DeWitt,Corunna, Potterville and Maple Valley which was the winning team in our regional last year. The girls finished only 8.5 points out of 2nd place. Megan Heeder helped lead the way with a 2nd place finish in the 3200 in an excellent time of 12:09 and she came back later to finish 4th in the 1600 in 5:40. The Cougars picked up one first place finish and that was on the night's last race, the 1600 relay. The Cougars watched as the first heat was won by DeWitt in 4:20.86 and then the team of Monica Lopez, Allie Brown, Adrienne Powell and Mary Alice won the 2nd heat in 4:20.55 to claim the overall victory. It should be noted that the time would have easily won the big school meet the night before as well. Other top 10 finishers were: Lexi Solomon in the 60, Adrienne Powell in the 400, Elizabeth Warriner and Catherine Swiderski in the 800, Swiderski in the 3200, Jessica Doody, 2nd in the long jump, Taylor Maylee and Sara Wegener in the shot put.