D5, D6 bringing large group to title chase

By CORY ISENBERG
The Tribune-Democrat

May 26, 2006 12:26 am

— A large contingent of girls from district’s 5 and 6 will head to Shippensburg University today for the PIAA Track and Field Championships that run through Saturday.
In Class AA, Westmont Hilltop’s Karlee McQuillen is the area’s lone top seed in the girls’ competition. The junior has the top ranking in the javelin with a long throw of 147 feet, 1 inch after finishing second in the state last year.
Five other area girls also had state qualifying distances in the javelin including Berlin Brothersvalley seniors Megan Lamens and Ella Meese, Northern Cambria senior Susan Yuhas and sophomore MaryBeth Rocco, and Forest Hills senior Lorin Gdula.
Central Cambria sophomore Carly Seymour holds the second seed in the 3200 with a time of 11:16.60. Sophomore Sarah Strayer of Forest Hills and senior Shannon Yingling of Bishop McCort are also part of the 3200 field. Strayer will also run the 1600.
Crushers’ senior Teira Cramer is the third seed in the long jump (17-4) and Rockwood senior Joanna Nist is fifth (17-3). Also among the participants in the long jump are Lamens and Central Cambria senior Sarah Devlin. Lamens is also in the shot put field.
Nist is seeded fifth in the high jump (5-3) and sixth in the triple jump (36-23/4). Other participants in the triple jump include Shade senior Megan Lasut and Westmont junior Natalie Sheehan. Richland freshman Calsie Boyd and Bishop McCort freshman Sarah Pastorek are among the high jump participants.
Hilltopper juniors Whitney Hough and Arianna Cort are seeded sixth and seventh, respectively, in the pole vault, having both cleared 10-6. Central Cambria senior Cindy Kovash and Berlin junior Anna Samole are also in the pole vault field.
Westmont junior Kelly Britcher leads a group of participants in the discus along with Richland junior Tiffany Boyd, sophomore Elizabeth Thomas of Northern Cambria and senior Heather Cramer of Rockwood.
Windber freshman Sarah Snyder, Ramblers junior Joanna Geisel and Richland freshman Ashton Walton are in the 100-meter hurdles field. Snyder is also running in the 300 hurdles.
Richland senior Amanda Sgroi and Shade sophomore Brooke Piper will run in the 100 while Bishop McCort sophomore Julie Morey will be in the 200.
In the 400 are Northern Cambria sophomore Lauren Penska, Ligonier Valley junior Anita Boyd and junior Brittany Beland of Bedford.
Sophomore Melanie Smajda of Bishop McCort, Richland sophomore Alyssa Sabo and Beland will all run in the 800.
Northern Cambria (Cindy Mazurak, Deanna Mazurak, Brittany Bonneau, Laura Eagler, Penska and Alissa Laurito) and Richland (Victoria Interval, Laura Stayrook, Marie George, Sabo, Victoria Lamonaca and Kim Mihalaki) will both run in the 3200 relay along with Bedford (Beland, Richelle Lashley, Lauren Turkovich and Ashley Wilson).
Bishop McCort (Sara Litzsky, Cramer, Jill Diamond, Morey and Alicia Allen), Richland (Walton, Jen Karmanocky, Meredith Conrad, Sgroi, Lindsey Carpenter and Amanda Ream) and Shade (Lasut, Piper, Marie Buffy and Shanna Topka) will all have 400 relay squads running.
Richland (Carpenter, George, Sabo, Stayrook, Conrad and Ream), Bedford (Beland, Brandi Harris, Lashley and Sarah Schendel) and Central Cambria (Amber Latterner, Victoria Brumbaugh, Devlin, Breanna Fox, Seymour and Angela Myers) will have runners in the 1600 relay.
In Class AAA, Johnstown senior Danielle Burkhart will be running in the 400 and Somerset junior Kaylin Aust in the 100 hurdles.

Cory Isenberg can be reached at 532-5080 or cisenberg@tribdem.com.

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