CHS Track Team Sweeps Beloit Relays
April 28, 2008
BELOIT — With their first team title of the season on the
line, the Concordia High School boys reeled it in with a victory in
the meet final event of the Beloit Relays.
Concordia led host Beloit by just four points heading into the
4x400 relay in the meet here, Friday.
Dustin Schmitz, Jake Morrissette, David Mortimer and Blaine Newton
went out and ran a season best 3:30.29 to win the race secure the
first-place finish for the Panthers.
Concordia finished with 110.25 points to 96.5 for Beloit. Riley
County was third with 7.25.
“I have been telling the guys all year long that we have good,
quality athletes, and it was just a matter of time,” Concordia
coach Corey Isbell said of the Panther boys’ first team title this
season. “It was good to see the hard work pay off.”
It was a clean sweep for Concordia as the Panther girls won by
138.5 points.
Concordia racked up 189 points. Riley County was second with 60.5,
and Marion was third with 53.
The Panther girls have now won six straight Beloit Relays
championships.
Schmitz and Morrissette picked up four gold medals each for the
Concordia boys.
Running a season-best 50.59, Schmitz placed first in the 400 dash.
He also won the 200 in 22.77 and ran on the winning 4x100 relay
team.
Morrissette joined Schmitz on the 4x100 relay squad along with
Mortimer and Blaine Newton. The ran 44.56.
Along with running on the two winning relay teams, Morrissette won
the 110 hurdles with a time of 16.22 and the 300 hurdles in
41.52.
Concordia also got a first-place finish by Levi Kindel in the
javelin.
Kindel threw 153-0 and beat teammate Nick Bulthaup, who had a best
of 152-11, by one inch.
“We got some big points out of the javelin with Levi and Nick,”
Isbell said.
Whitley recorded a third-place finish in the 300 hurdles with a
time of 43.74. Rico McCall was fourth (44.27).
Trask Breault made 11-1 to place third in the pole vault for the
Panthers.
Alex Johnson made 5-6 to finish in a four-way tie for third place
in the high jump.
Mortimer finished fourth in the 100 (11.82) and fifth in the 200
(23.92).
Newton was fifth in the 100 (11.96).
Kindel finished sixth in the discus (135-0).
The Concordia girls dominated as they have all season.
Senior Witney Sorell had a record setting day in winning two
individual events and finishing second in another.
Heather Bergmann, a junior, had three first-place finishes for the
Panthers.
Sorell broke two school records and one meet record.
Turning in a winning time of 14.56, Sorell broke her own meet and
school records in the 100 hurdles. The old school mark was 14.69
set last year.
Sorell set a new school record of 45.57 in winning the 300 hurdles.
The old record of 45.66 was set by Jocelyn Forshee in 2006.
Concordia swept the 100 hurdles with Alex Muff finishing second
(14.94) and Alison Widen placing third (15.60).
Muff was second in the 300 hurdles (45.82), and Widen was fourth
(50.52).
Concordia’s 4x400 relay team of Sorell, Muff, Widen and Karly Buer
won easily in 4:05.67.
Sorell also finished second in the triple jump with a leap of 35-2
1/2.
Bergmann swept the javelin, discus and shot put for the
Panthers.
A throw of 138-1 gave Bergmann the javelin title by more than 31
feet. Paige Champlin was fourth (95-5).
Bergmann threw a personal best by nearly nine feet in winning the
discus with a toss of 129-4.
Tressa Studt threw a personal best of 113-4 to place third in the
discus. Champlin was fourth (109-11 3/4).
Bergmann won the shot put with a toss of 39-9 1/4. Champlin placed
second (37-9 1/4) and Shelby Barrett’s throw was fourth (37-2).
Haley Bowers cleared 10-6 to take first in the pole vault for
Concordia. Mallory Backstrom made 8-0 to place sixth.
For the second day in a row, Panther freshman Melissa Hartsel made
5-2 and won the high jump. She did the same at Marysville the day
before.
Concordia’s 4x100 relay team of Buer, Muff, Kaitlin Woellhof and
Briana Anderson ran 50.94 to place first.
Buer ran a season best 58.75 to finish second in the 400. She was
third in the 100 in 13.10.
Leah Haden ran a personal best 12:00.98 to place second in the
3,200 for the Panthers. She was fourth in the 1,600 (5:43.64).
Woellhof finished third in the 200 with a time of 27.65. She was
fifth in the 100 (13.40) and the long jump (14-2).
Concordia’s 4x800 relay team of Backstrom, Haden, Taryn Johnson and
Jordan Mastin finished fifth (10:52.46).
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