Track and field: Huron League holds quad; Mason's Ansel sets record

MILAN – Steve Porter has been Milan’s varsity girls track and field coach for 45 years.

So, it might be fair to call him an old dog.

But this old dog isn’t afraid to try new tricks.

Porter and Milan tested the limits of track technology Tuesday by hosting a Huron League quad meet.

A meet featuring four teams is nothing new for Milan.

PHOTO GALLERY: Huron League Quad Track and Field

What was new was how the meet was scored. The four teams each competed in dual meets against each other. The results had to be tabulated and scored as 10 different dual meets.

It all seemed to go well with the New Boston Huron boys winning against Grosse Ile 94-34, Flat Rock 105-23 and Airport 76-52.

Airport beat Grosse Ile 84-44 and Flat Rock 111-17.

Grosse Ile beat Flat Rock 103-25.

Things were more muddled on the girls side as Huron, Airport and Grosse Ile all finished 2-1.

Huron beat Airport 63-61 and Flat Rock 78-50.

Airport topped Grosse Ile 80.5-47.5 and Flat Rock 81-47.

Grosse Ile conquered Huron 70-57 and Flat Rock 70-58.

Antonio Talley (100, 400) and Isaac Smith (200, high jump) both won two individual events and ran on the winning 400 and 800-meter relay teams.

Long-jump winner Gabe Anthony and Xander Scannell completed the 400 relay and Anthony and Caleb Henninger also ran on the 800 unit.

Huron also won the 3,200 relay with Ryan Morris, Lucas Kuhn, Drew Slane and Griffin Mentzer.

Kuhn was first in the 3,200 meters and Mentzer won the 1,600.

Matthew Foor took the shot-put and discus for Airport. The Jets’ Joben Sayles won both hurdle races and Nolan Feldpausch ruled the 800 meters. Those two were on the winning 1,600 relay with Alexander Topjan and McCoy Dickinson.

Kenny Carlman was second in the 1,600 for Flat Rock.

Huron’s Elizabeth Anderson finished first in the 100, 200 and 400 dashes and anchored the winning 800 relay with Madelyn Barbour, Maddie Singer and Chloe Evans.

Barbour won both hurdle races.

Kelsey Trombly won the shot-put and was part of Huron’s winning 400 relay with Jordan Hickey, Singer and Evans.

Distance runners stood out for Airport’s girls.

Mara Szuper won the 800 and Courtney Bovair took the 3,200. The Jets ruled the 1,600 relay with Tara Szuper, Madison Rice, Gianna LaFata and Mara Szuper and the 3,200 with both Szupers, Bovair and Avery Arsenault.

Flat Rock’s Alyssa Bonanno was the discus champion.

Ansel breaks record

ERIE – Jackson Ansel broke an Erie Mason school record that had stood since 1984 during a 112-25 win over Sand Creek Tuesday.

Ansel ran 1:57.20 in the 800 meters to better the old record of 1:57.5 set by Bernie Mominee in 1984.

"I’ve had this date marked for a while knowing it was our last home dual meet of the year and I could rest him fully for one big race in front of a home crowd,” Mason coach Alex Russeau said. “The weather was perfect with a cloud cover coming over on a hot day and a light breeze off the lake. Our kids were all over the track cheering him on. He has worked very hard over the winter and it paid off today.”

PHOTO GALLERY: Jefferson Invitational Track and Field

Mason had a slew of personal bests in running its dual-meet record to 7-0. Among them came in wins by Jackson Iocoangeli (6-0 in high jump), Chris Worden (20-0.5 in long Jump), Bryce Gardiner (139-0 in discus), Aaron Koehn (40-11.25 in shot-put), Landen Nastale (11.78 in 100), Mark Sweeney (24.09 in 200), Gavin Larrow (56.16 in 400), Ethan Cuschieri (5:01.76 in 1,600) and Louden Murbach (16.26 in high hurdles),

Jackson Ansel also won the 3,200, Murback was first in the low hurdles and Alex Langenderfer ruled the pole vault. Other standouts were Garrett Wall, Parker Campbell, Austin Sulier, Jake Postal, Cooper Kinsey, Shane Pauwles and Aiden McMullen.

Mason’s girls fell 76-61 despite individual wins by Kaylie Bash in the 100, 200, low hurdles and long jump.

Elizabeth Lambert won the 800, 1,600, and 3,200, and Beth Sweeney (high hurdles) and Jenna Wright (400) won individual events and ran with Abigail England and Mikaela Graves on the winning 800 relay.

Bailey Meiring took first in the 3,200.

Summerfield stumbles

PETERSBURG – A dropped baton in the 800-meter relay was costly for Summerfield in a 71-66 loss to Adrian Madison Tuesday.

The Bulldogs, who dropped to 7-2 overall and 4-2 in the Tri-County Conference, won nine of the 17 events.

Nathan Herrmann won both hurdle races and the 200, Brandon Thompson took the 400, 800 and long jump, Evan Suydam ruled the two longest races of the day and Roman Iott was tops in the high jump.

Iott and Drew Defoe completed a Summerfield sweep of the long jump with all three clearing 20 feet.

Keslyn Cay was second in both the shot-put and discus. Gabby Stout (high hurdles) and Cammy Taylor (low hurdles) also were runners-up for Summerfield's girls in a 120-16 loss.

Whiteford boys sweep

BRITTON – Whiteford’s boys beat Morenci 76-61, Britton Deerfield 89-47 and Jackson Prep 122-11 Tuesday.

Individual winners for Whiteford were Jacob Iott (400), Ryan Oberle (800), Elliott Rodgers (1,600) and Keegan Masters (3,200). The Bobcats also took the 800 (Ty Ruddy, Oberle, Dylan Anderson, Iott) and 1,600 (Ryan Oberle, Nick Oberle, Masters, Ruddy) relays.

The girls beat Britton Deerfield 67-59 and Jackson Prep 103-17, but fell 67-62 to Morenci.

Madelyn Thomas won the 400 and anchored the winning 1,600 relay with Annabelle Gapp, Alaina McClain and Aubrie Simmons. Kenzie Gray was the discus winner.

This article originally appeared on The Monroe News: Track and field: Huron League holds quad; Mason's Ansel sets record