Pictured above: Hurdler Sophia Filali won one event and led qualifying in another for Dallas, which has the lead in the Class 3A girls standings. (Tim Drewes Photo)
By Tom Robinson, NEPASportsNation.com
SCRANTON – The full first-day girls results, with all team scores and top eight finishers in each event, can be found at: https://nepasportsnation.com/district-2-girls-track-results/.
UPDATED: 11:51 p.m.
SCRANTON – Wyoming Seminary does not have a full team competing in the Wyoming Valley Conference in the regular season, but it does have a few athletes who compete in invitationals.
One of them, Chief Montalvo, led qualifying in the 200-meter dash.
Leading qualifiers from Monday, who will take top seeds into Tuesday’s action in the 100/110 hurdles and 200-meter dash (100-meter dash leaders were posted earlier):
Class 3A boys 110-meter high hurdles: Colin Manley, West Scranton, 15.40.
Class 2A boys 110 hurdles: Nathan Oliphant, Riverside, 15.19.
Class 3A girls 100-meter hurdles: Sophia Filali, Dallas, 16.25.
Class 2A girls 100 hurdles: Chloe Diaz, Montrose, 15.62.
Class 3A 200-meter dash: Colin Kravitz, North Pocono, 22.66.
Class 2A boys 200: Chief Montalvo, Wyoming Seminary, 23.14.
Class 3A girls 200: Rachael Collins, Honesdale, 26.32
Class 2A girls 200: Tatum Norris, Susquehanna, 26.00.
UPDATED: 11:14 p.m.
SCRANTON – Day One action wrapped up at Memorial Stadium with the first eight individual finals being completed on the track.
The Danilovitz siblings, Daniel and Lacey, from Riverside won the Class 2A titles in the 3200-meter run
Winners were:
Class 3A boys 3200-meter run: Brian McCormack, Scranton, 9:32.74.
Class 2A boys 3200: Daniel Danilovitz, Riverside, 9:36.24.
Class 3A girls 3200: Madelyn Keating, Wyoming Area, 11:00.44.
Class 2A girls 3200: Lacey Danilovitz, Riverside, 11:23.39.
Class 3A boys 300-meter hurdles: Jamory Lane Lee, Wilkes-Barre Area, 39.35.
Class 2A boys 300 hurdles: Cody Michaels, Mid Valley, 41.30.
Class 3A girls 300 hurdles: Sophia Filali, Dallas, 47.04.
Class 2A girls 300 hurdles: Chloe Diaz, Montrose, 47.48.
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UPDATED: 9:50 p.m.
SCRANTON – A Photo Gallery, with shots from Tim Drewes, has been posted at: https://nepasportsnation.com/day-1-district-2-track-championship-2023-photo-gallery/.
The first day of the meet is over, but we still have more coverage to come.
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UPDATED: 7:57 p.m.
SCRANTON – The Lake-Lehman girls put up the day’s highest point total to take the lead over pre-meet favorite Lakeland.
Team scoring races after 7 of 18 events in Class 2A and 6 of 18 events in Class 3A:
Class 3A boys: Abington Heights 30, Hazleton Area 28½, Valley View 25, Scranton 22.
Class 3A girls: Dallas 33, Wyoming Area 28, North Pocono 25, Wallenpaupack 23, Abington Heights 23.
Class 2A girls: Lake-Lehman 64½, Lakeland 50, Montrose 28, Western Wayne 25½.
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UPDATED: 7:35 p.m.
SCRANTON – The second set of field events has been completed while the track is into the last event of the night, the 3200-meter run.
Nikolai Williams from Abington Heights won the shot put and Issac Mertz from Crestwood won the pole vault in Class 3A boys.
Mid Valley’s Dylan Holt, in the high jump, and Lakeland’s Lyndon Bello, in the discus, were the Class 2A boys winners.
Hazleton Area’s Sophia Shults won the Class 3A girls triple jump.
In Class 2A girls, Susquehanna’s Tatum Norris won the long jump and Western Wayne went 1-2 in the javelin with the combination of Paige Lee and Skylar Long.
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UPDATED: 5:38 p.m.
SCRANTON — The first set of field events is complete.
In Class 3A boys, returning state silver medalist and meet record-holder Matthew
Cusatis from Hazleton Area won the triple jump with 46 11 1/4.
In Class 2A boys, Will Taylor from Riverside won the javelin while Seth Barry from
Lake-Lehman won the long jump.
Barry won on a tiebreaker over Chief Montalvo from Wyoming Seminary for the
second-best jump.
Sarah Shipton from Crestwood also won on a tiebreaker, beating Delaware Valley’s Liliana
Coe because of fewer misses before each of them cleared 10 feet in the Class 3A
girls pole vault.
Ashley Bueso from Hazleton Area was the Class 3A winner in the girls shot put.
Lakeland and Lake-Lehman got their team title race started in Class 2A girls.
Lakeland went 1-2 in the discus and added an eighth place for 19 points. Anna Liuzzo was
first and Olivia Warholic second.
Lake-Lehman topped that with a first place, second place and four-way tie for fourth in the
high jump for 19½ points.
Kathryn Morgan won and Lydia Vivian was third.
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UPDATED: 5:12 p.m.
SCRANTON – The first medals on the track were decided in the 3200-meter relay.
Madelyn Keating ran a 2:13.46 split in the anchor leg to rally Wyoming Area to the Class 3A girls over an Abington Heights team that was fast enough to beat the lofty Class 3A qualifying standard to make the state meet in Shippensburg Memorial Day Weekend.
Wyoming Area won with 9:33.34 while Abington Heights came in with a time of 9:34.50.
Hannah Stoss, Nina Angeli and Ella McKernan handled the first three legs for Wyoming Area.
Maia Arcangelo, Marygrace Sabatini, Reese Morgan and Emma Horsley made up the Abington Heights team.
The Holy Cross team of Jaime Prislupski, Teddy Novak, Luke Mozeleski and Ronnie Prislupski won in Class 2A boys.
Abington Heights, with the team of Jack Sorensen, Sean Rooney, Nicholas Booth and Colin Donahoe, won Class 3A boys title.
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UPDATED: 3:37 p.m.
SCRANTON – The District 2 Track and Field Championships are underway at Scranton Memorial Stadium.
The first final is on the track with Holy Redeemer in the early lead in Class 2A girls in the 3200-meter relay.
The first qualifying has been completed.
The eight finalists for each of Tuesday’s 100-meter dash finals has been determined.
Leading qualifiers:
2A girls, Tatum Norris, Susquehanna, 12.41
3A girls, Aria Messner, Pittston Area, 12.66
2A boys, Chief Montalvo, Wyoming Seminary, 11.19
3A boys, Jaden Shedlock, Crestwood, 11.22
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UPDATED: 11:47 p.m.
The change in enrollment classifications of the teams from the championship Wyoming Area program has helped alter the outlook of this year’s team title chases.
Wyoming Area, which won its fourth straight Wyoming Valley Conference Division 2 boys and second straight WVC Division 2 girls title this season, is up from Class 2A to 3A as part of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association’s routine review of enrollment figures every two years.
Last year, the Warriors won the Class 2A boys title and the Lady Warriors were second in Class 2A girls behind Montrose.
Mid Valley was second behind Wyoming Area in Class 2A boys last season, but enters this year’s meet as the clearest favorite in any of the four team races.
Based on an analysis of the projected points, using seeds going into the meet, here is what to expect from the team title races:
Mid Valley has the potential to run away with the Class 2A boys title where Holy Redeemer is the only team that appears capable of mounting a threat.
Riverside, Dunmore and Lakeland should separate themselves from the rest of the pack and finish in the top five.
There could be four new champions this season.
The girls favorites are Abington Heights, in Class 3A, and Lakeland, in Class 2A.
An extremely tight race could develop in Class 3A boys.
Valley View won the Robert Spagna Lackawanna Track Conference Championship Meet Class 3A boys title last week, but a different combination of teams and competitors has defending district champion North Pocono even closer to the Cougars this week.
If the meet goes according to seeds, the Cougars, Trojans and WVC Division 1 and overall champion Hazleton Area could all end up packed within five points of each other.
The battle doesn’t end there. Dallas, Delaware Valley and Abington Heights all project to within 20 points of the lead. Dallas shared first place with Hazleton Area in WVC Division 1 while Delaware Valley won LTC Division 2.
By comparison, the other three team races combined feature just two other teams within that range of the favorite.
Dallas barely meets that description in its effort to beat out the favorite, Abington Heights, in Class 3A girls. Both went unbeaten while winning the Division 1 titles in their conferences.
LTC Division 2 winner and defending meet champion Wallenpaupack or WVC Championship Meet winner Crestwood should be the best of the rest.
Lakeland is favored over Lake-Lehman in Class 2A girls where Holy Redeemer and Montrose are likely to fight for third.
After leading Susquehanna to a state team championship last season, Tatum Norris should have the Lady Sabers battling Mid Valley for fifth.
The analysis of the seeds last year correctly pointed to the top three teams in all four sets of standings. It also identified three of the team champions and named Montrose and Wyoming Area co-favorites in Class 2A girls with the Lady Meteors ultimately winning.
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POSTED: 10:55 a.m.
The District 2 Track and Field Championships get underway at Memorial Stadium Monday afternoon.
This is the second straight year that the district is using a two-day format, similar to that in place at the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Championships in Shippensburg, rather than separating the classifications for one-day meets.
Half of the field events will be contested Monday with the other half contested Tuesday.
Finals will be held in 3 of the 11 track events Monday – the 3200-meter relay, 300 hurdles and 3200 run.
There are also qualifying heats Monday in the 100 and 200 dashes and 110 (boys) and 100 (girls) hurdles.
After qualifying heats in the 100 dash, starting at 3, the first track medals will be decided, beginning at 3:30, with the 3200 relay.
The first field medals will be decided in a series of events beginning at 3 p.m.
3 p.m. field events
2A boys long jump
3A boys triple jump
2A girls discus
2A boys javelin
2A girls high jump
3A girls pole vault
3A girls shot put
5 p.m. field events
2A girls javelin
2A boys discus
2A boys high jump
3A boys pole vault
2A girls long jump
3A girls triple jump
3A boys shot put
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