Pictured above: Wyoming Area’s Drew Mruk, the 2022 District 2 and state javelin champion, won the district Class 3A title Tuesday. (Tim Drewes Photo)
By Tom Robinson, NEPASportsNation.com
UPDATED: 11:34 p.m.
SCRANTON – A review of the Tuesday late-session events on the track, beginning with those at 5:30 p.m., following the break.
Action resumed on the track with the 400-meter dash.
North Pocono’s Colin Kravitz and Honesdale’s Rachael Collins repeated as Class 3A champions while Holy Redeemer’s Jacob Hunter and Avery Kozerski won the Class 2A titles.
Wyoming Area’s Madelyn Keating capped a rare, four-gold medal performance in the distance events, adding the Class 3A girls 800-meter run to her victories in the 3200, 1600 and 3200 relay.
Mid Valley’s Gabe Pacyna repeated in Class 2A boys.
Colin Donahoe from Abington Heights won in Class 3A boys while Kalee Raczkowski lowered her Lake-Lehman school record while winning in Class 2A girls.
Defending state champion Tatum Norris completed her meet with the maximum four gold medals, all in individual events while breaking her own meet record in the 200 by finishing in 25.13. Holy Redeemer’s Isabella Granteed was second, but made the state meet by beating the state qualifying standard in 25.77.
North Pocono’s Kravitz repeated again in Class 3A boys.
Wyoming Seminary’s Chief Montalvo picked up his second gold medal in Class 2A boys and Honesdale’s Collins picked up another win in Class 3A girls.
The meet concluded with the 1600 relay where the Valley View boys won to take the Class 3A boys team title.
The other relay winners were the Dunmore boys in Class 2A, the Abington Heights girls in Class 3A and the Holy Redeemer girls in Class 2A.
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UPDATED: 11:14 p.m.
SCRANTON – Recapping the field events from the Tuesday evening session, the last on the field:
Hazleton Area’s Matthew Cusatis won his second Class 3A gold medal of the meet, to go along with a silver and a fourth medal, when he won the high jump by clearing 6-3 and beating Delaware Valley’s Peter Slanislavsky on a tiebreaker with fewer misses.
Wallenpaupack’s Ben Ostrowski won the Class 3A boys discus.
In Class 2A boys, Jordan Chmielewski from team champion Mid Valley won the pole vault while Cole Schirg from Lackawanna Trail won the shot put.
Madison Zalewski produced the only individual gold medal for Class 3A girls team champion Abington Heights when she threw the javelin 120-7.
Karolyn Brito from Hazleton Area won the long jump with a meet record of 19-2.
Pittston Area’s Aria Messner, who already had three gold medals, finished second behind the 13th-seeded Brito.
Eva Carachilo from Holy Cross won the Class 2A triple jump.
UPDATED: 10:37 p.m.
SCRANTON – Valley View trailed into the final event, but needed only to finish ahead of Hazleton Area in the closing 1600-meter relay to pull out the Class 3A boys team title.
The Cougars took it a step further, finishing ahead of everyone in the 19-team field, taking the 1600 relay title and the team championship when James Liparulo, Connor Hilling, Jamie Heid and Connor Swartz ran to the title in 3:25.54.
Valley View beat out Hazleton Area, 86-77½, for the team title after the Cougars finished eighth in the 1600 relay.
Delaware Valley (64) edged North Pocono (61), Scranton (60) and Abington Heights (56) for third.
Mid Valley posted the most decisive victory, taking Class 2A boys over Holy Redeemer, 137½-88.
Abington Heights won just one individual event and Lake-Lehman won just two events total, but they used their balance across many events to take the Class 3A and 2A girls championships.
Abington Heights scored 103 points to beat Dallas (80) and Wyoming Area (72) in Class 3A girls.
Lake-Lehman beat Lakeland, 122½-96½. Holy Redeemer won both of Tuesday’s relay to finish third with 72.
The competition is over, but the meet’s hectic pace means there is still a lot of action to catch up on. The reports will continue. For Tim Drewes’ Photo Gallery on Tuesday’s action, go to: Day 2 District 2 Track Championship 2023 Photo Gallery – NEPA Sports Nation.
More coverage still to come.
UPDATED: 7:26 p.m.
SCRANTON – Winners of afternoon session of field events:
Wyoming Area’s Drew Mruk, last year’s Class 2A state champion, won in Class 3A with a throw of 208-10.
Jacob Nielsen from Valley View in the long jump in 3A boys.
In Class 2A boys, Wyatt Johnson from Elk Lake won the triple jump.
Nanticoke’s Sophia Lukowski won the discus and Pittston Area’s Aria Messner won the high jump for her third gold medal in Class 3A girls.
Susquehanna’s Tatum Norris also won her third gold medal in the pole vault while Lackawanna Trail’s Ella Axtell won the shot put in Class 2A girls.
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UPDATED: 7:15 p.m.
SCRANTON – Abington Heights in Class 3A girls, Lake-Lehman in Class 2A girls and Mid Valley in Class 2A boys have clinched team titles.
Hazleton Area takes a half-point lead into the last event of the Class 3A boys, but Valley View has a strong 1600-meter relay team to try to pull out the title.
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UPDATED: 5:30 p.m.
SCRANTON – Prior to the resumption of activity on the track, a moment of silence was held in honor of Carbondale head coach Tim Rossetti, who died last week at age 51, the morning after the team’s final dual meet of the season.
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POSTED: 4:53 p.m.
SCRANTON – The afternoon session on the track is complete.
Sophia Filali from Dallas, in Class 3A, and Chloe Diaz from Montrose, in Class 2A, completed a sweep of the hurdles by winning the 100 meters today after winning the 300 Monday.
Colin Manley from West Scranton, in Class 3A, and Nathan Oliphant from Riverside, in Class 2A, won the 110 high hurdles.
Crestwood freshman Jaden Shedlock knocked off defending champion Colin Kravitz from North Pocono in the Class 3A 100-meter dash.
Chief Montalvo from Wyoming Seminary, which does not have a team in the regular season, won in Class 2A.
Pittston Area’s Aria Messner and defending state Class 2A champion Tatum Norris from Susquehanna were the girls 100 dash winners.
Running into a strong wind, none of second-place hurdlers or sprinters were able to meet the state qualifying standards.
Madelyn Keating from Wyoming Area became the first athlete to earn a third gold medal at this year’s meet when she won the 1600 in Class 3A by more than 17 seconds in 5:02.64.
Like Keating, Riverside’s Lacey Danielovitz in Class 2A girls and Scranton’s Brian McCormack in Class 3A boys added 1600 titles to the 3200s they won Monday.
Tommy Clark from Dunmore won the Class 2A boys 1600.
Holy Redeemer won both Class 2A 400-meter relays. The Delaware Valley boys and Pittston Area girls won in Class 3A.
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POSTED: 3:25 p.m.
SCRANTON – The second day of the District 2 Track and Field Championships is underway. We’ll again lead you through the action.
Results coming soon from the 100/110 hurdles and 100-meter dash, which just finished.
The 1600-meter run is up now. All events on the track are finals.
There are also seven field events going on now and seven more scheduled to start around 5 p.m.
Among the current field event competitors are two of the state’s best – Wyoming Area’s Drew Mruk in the Class 3A boy javelin and Susquehanna’s Tatum Norris in the Class 2A girls 100-meter dash.
Also follow along on Twitter at @NEPANation where we’ll have updates with the help of NEPA Sports Nation Student Journalists Spencer Decker and Nate Johns.
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