Track & Field: Lancaster Lebanon League Championship Meet – LebCo Results – Day 1

On Friday evening, the first events of the 2024 Lancaster Lebanon League Track & Field Championship took place at Hempfield High School in less than ideal conditions. Despite the weather, athletes put up some great performances, with athletes from LebCo accounting for a total of nine medals. The medal haul included two gold medals. Additionally, two school records were broken, and four athletes earned their spots in the finals after finishing in the top eight in their preliminary races. 

In the Girls’ Triple Jump, a pair of LebCo athletes combined for a 1-2 finish. Lebanon’s Zariyah Whigham (Sr.) repeated as the League Champion with the winning jump of 38’2.25″. ELCO’s Makenna Haas (Jr.) finished the event with a 37’6.5″, earning her a silver medal with a mark that broke her own school record.

The other gold medal-winning performance came courtesy of Cedar Crest’s Dylan Groff. The junior entered this meet as the #2 seed in the Javelin. For much of the event, it looked like the seedings would play out. However, on Groff’s final throw, he launched the spear 180’6″ to win the event by over 9′. Groff was not the only medal winner in the Jav, as Northern Lebanon’s Tanner Feagley (Sr.) had a top throw of 164’6″, good enough for 4th place.

In both 3200m races, a LebCo athlete medaled. In the girls’ race, Annville’s Mackenzie Stellmach (So.) took 5th with a time of 11:24.65. On the boys’ side, Northern Lebanon’s Tyler Shunk (Sr.) placed 8th with a time of 9:40.01. Shunk’s time broke his previous school record that had been set at the LebCo Meet by nearly eight full seconds.

The High Jump also witnessed two LebCo medals being won, this time by members of the same family. Cameron Tirado (So.) cleared 6’0″ to take 5th place, while Leo Tirado (Sr.) won a 6th place medal when he cleared 5’8″. It is worth noting that the wet conditions drove down the overall performances in this event.

In one other event that was contested for a medal on Friday, Cedar Crest’s Nachali Manon Aquino (So.) medaled in the Discus with a throw of 98’5″.

In preliminary action, there were four athletes who earned their lanes in Saturday’s Finals. In the Girls’ 200m, Cedar Crest’s Kaddel Howard laid down a 25.02 to claim the top seed, while Annville-Cleona’s Kendall Cooper goes into the Finals as the #4 seed. Lebanon’s Jalik Hill will enter the Finals of the Boys’ 200m as the #4 seed. In the Boys’ 110m High Hurdles, Cedar Crest’s Reed Fretz earned his spot in the medal round after finishing the prelims in 6th place. Jeremiah Santiago of Cedar Crest very narrowly missed out on qualifying for the 100m and 200m Finals, which could light a fire for him in the 4x100m.

Below are the results for every LebCo athlete. Medal winners are highlighted in this color. Athletes advancing to the Finals are highlighted in this color. The full results from the meet are linked at the bottom.

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Girls

100m (Prelims)

10th       Miracle Hershey (Annville) – 13.13

16th       Ava Schreier (Cedar Crest)    – 13.64

17th       Reece Woelfling (ELCO) – 13.76

23rd       Zianna Whigham (Lebanon)  – 14.37

(Top 8 advance)

200m (Prelims)

1st          Kaddel Howard (Cedar Crest) – 25.02

4th         Kendall Cooper (Annville) – 26.42

18th       Lizzie Dimov (ELCO)   – 28.44

(Top 8 advance)

3200m

5th         Mackenzie Stellmach (Annville) – 11:24.65

17th       Maggie Chernich (Cedar Crest) – 12.24.01

18th       Emily Maag (Annville) – 12:26.08

22nd     Shawna Donough (ELCO) – 14:15.63

24th       Alexis Schreckengost (Annville) – 14:34.44

100m High Hurdles (Prelims)

16th       Sara Miller (ELCO) – 17.41

17th       Kya Missimer  (Annville) – 17.51

19th       Johbrianna Long (Northern Leb) – 17.76

21st       Makenzie Wamsher (Cedar Crest)  – 17.91

26th       Neshely Arias (Lebanon) – 21.66

(Top 8 advance)

Triple Jump

1st          Zariyah Whigham (Lebanon) – 38’2.25″

2nd        Makenna Haas (ELCO) – 37’6.5″

10th       Madison Long (Annville) – 32’11.75″

11th       Emma Spittle (Cedar Crest)  – 32’4.25″

16th       Mac Miller (Northern Leb) – 30’7.5″

Discus

8th         Nachali Manon Aquino (Cedar Crest) – 98’5″

13th       Chloe Behney (ELCO) – 79’2″

14th       Mariah Kipp (Northern Leb)   – 77’0″

15th       Karmia Scotland (Lebanon)  – 76’7″

Boys

100m (Prelims)

9th         Jeremiah Santiago (Cedar Crest) – 11.575

10th       Leo Tirado (Cedar Crest) – 11.59

19th        Folashade Rahman (Cedar Crestt)- 11.84

22nd      Malachi Briddell  (Lebanon) – 11.90

27th       Diego Bustillo  (Northern Leb) – 12.64

(Top 8 advance)

200m (Prelims)

4th         Jalik Hill (Lebanon) – 22.84

9th         Jeremiah Santiago (Cedar Crest) – 23.43

15th       Collin Readinger (ELCO) – 23.78

16th       Jon Moran (Annville)  – 23.80

27th       Myles Watson (Northern Leb) – 26.10

(Top 8 advance)

3200m

8th         Tyler Shunk (Northern Leb) – 9:40.01

10th       Oliver Funck  (Annville) – 9:44.82

11th       Landon Hostetter  (Annville)  – 9:45.93

14th       Travis Furmanski (Cedar Crest) – 9:49.18

24th       Anthony Figueroa (Cedar Crest) – 10:04.11

25th       Gavin Sheetz   (Lebanon) – 10:04.12

39th       Wesley Doll (ELCO) – 13:21.14

110m High Hurdles (Prelims)

6th         Reed Fretz (Cedar Crest) – 15.90

12th       Jack Waranavage (Cedar Crest) – 16.75

15th       Luke Macchione (ELCO) – 17.42

18th       Tim Montijo (Annville) – 18.00

20th       Derek Infante (Lebanon) – 19.53

(Top 8 advance)

Long Jump

9th         Harrison Kramer (ELCO) – 20’6.5″

14th       Reed Fretz (Cedar Crest) – 19’6″

16th       Luke Macchione (ELCO) – 19’2″

19th       Ben Planken (Northern Leb) – 18’4.5″

21st       Wesley Heller (Annville) – 18’0.5″

High Jump

5th         Cameron Tirado (Cedar Crest) – 6’0″

6th         Leo Tirado  (Cedar Crest) – 5’8″

13th       Bessem Hassan (Cedar Crest) – 5’6″

19th       Brinley Donmoyer (ELCO) – 5’4″

Ben Planken (Northern Leb)  – No Height

Eddie Ferrer (Lebanon) – No Height

Javelin

1st          Dylan Groff (Cedar Crest) – 180’6″

4th          Tanner Feagley (Northern Leb) – 164’6″

10th       Bryson Fogelsanger (Annville) – 148’2″

13th       Elliott Kreider  (ELCO) – 137’9″

Full Results