The REPORTER
It came down to the last race, but the Hamilton Southeastern boys track & field team won the Hamilton County meet on Thursday.
The host Royals triumphed by one point, edging out Westfield 120.5 to 119.5. Southeastern clinched the meet by winning the 4×400 relay; the Royals’ team of Michael Mott, Kallen Hoeft, Omar Elsayed and Christian Ortiz ran away with the race, clocking in at 3 minutes, 22.81 seconds.
“It feels really good, because to this point, we just hadn’t quite put it all together, and we didn’t even have all of our pieces this evening,” said HSE coach Garrett Lawton. “But I have a feeling the guys are going to ride this high into sectional and beyond.”
The relay win was one of six victories for the Royals. Ortiz was a double winner; he set a new meet record of 47.93 seconds in the 400 dash. Sam Long swept the hurdles events, winning the 110 race in 15.09 seconds and the 300 race in 38.89 seconds. Long was awarded the high-point scoring trophy at the end of the meet.
Liam Powers took the 3200 run in 9:29.40, winning by over nine seconds. Evan Senefeld cleared 14 feet to place first in the pole vault.
The Shamrocks picked up three event victories. Caleb Terril paced the 200 run (22.40 seconds) in addition to joining Maison McCray, Cayden Gearhart and Cato June to win the 4×100 relay in a new meet record of 41.97 seconds. Will Snedeker finished first in the 800 run.
Fishers was a close third place as a team, scoring 117 points. Sam Quagliaroli was first in the 1600 run (4:21.08), Jev Hutton won the discus (180 feet, 2 inches), JonAnthony Hall triumphed in the long jump (22 feet, 7.25 inches) and Konrad Hayden won the high jump (6 feet, 10 inches). Hall joined Vincent Rozzi, Reid Spittler and Carsen Eloms to place second in the 4×100 relay; the Tigers’ time of 42.14 seconds was under the old meet record.
Carmel scored 115.5 points to take fourth. Theo Thurmond won the shot put with a top throw of 56 feet, 4.5 inches.
Noblesville placed fifth as a team and won two events. The Millers began the meet with Banner Barnes, Bode Barnes, Bradyn Livingston and Jack Strong winning the 4×800 relay, then Angel Wilson was first in the 100 dash (11.00 seconds).
Guerin Catholic was sixth; Luke Moster placed second in the 3200 run. Hamilton Heights’ Will Duncan finished second in the shot put, while Sheridan’s Damon Winston was the runner-up in the high jump.
Team scores and top eight places in each event now follow.
Team scores: Hamilton Southeastern 120.5, Westfield 119.5, Fishers 117, Carmel 115.5, Noblesville 67.5, Guerin Catholic 36, Hamilton Heights 32, Sheridan 8.
4×800 relay: 1. Noblesville (Banner Barnes, Bode Barnes, Bradyn Livingston, Jack Strong) 7:53.20, 2. Westfield (Ty Conner, Carson Ackley, Owen Mohler, Deagan Imel) 8:05.56, 3. Carmel (Carson Szotek, Kiefer Jay, Jonah Kaul, Jack Capes) 8:05.88, 4. Fishers (Reece Torres, Grant Yount, Parker Melling, Dylan Wolf) 8:07.31, 5. Southeastern (Omar Elsayed, Deagan Baker, Tate Watson, Liam McNiven) 8:15.04, 6. Guerin Catholic (Luke Moster, Cole Eckstein, Brady Linn, Hunter Kinzle-Gorman) 8:27.20.
110 hurdles: 1. Sam Long (HSE) 15.09, 2. Logan Tuck (W) 15.27, 3. Andenet Wolfgang (HH) 15.66, 4. Mac Murdza (C) 15.86, 5. Rowen McGee (F) 15.88, 6. Kortez Foster (F) 15.92, 7. Seffrin Smith (GC) 16.23, 8. Khamari Ramsey (N) 16.29.
100 dash: 1. Angel Wilson (N) 11.00, 2. Isaac Nelson (C) 11.15, 3. Cato June (W) 11.23, 4. Carsen Eloms (F) 11.25, 5. Maison McCray (W) 11.40, 6. Tyler Tholen (HSE) 11.52, 7. James Moody (GC) 11.62, 8. Vincent Rozzi (F) 17.39.
1600 run: 1. Sam Quagliaroli (F) 4:21.08, 2. Lucas Bartlett (C) 4:23.37, 3. Ronnie Neal (N) 4:24.48, 4. Nate Thomas (F) 4:28.89, 5. Luke Moulder (W) 4:32.23, 6. Jack Shinneman (N) 4:35.39, 7. Kaul (C) 4:36.53, 8. Ben Tuckis (HSE) 4:39.93.
4×100 relay: 1. Westfield (McCray, Caleb Terril, Cayden Gearhart, June) 41.97, new meet record, 2. Fishers (Rozzi, Reid Spittler, JonAnthony Hall, Eloms) 42.14, under old meet record, 3. Southeastern (Liam Boyd, Tyler Tholen, Chandler Weston, Zachary Christopherson) 42.86, 4. Carmel (Myron Pack, Beau Snarr, Josh Ott, Griffin Rothenberger) 43.14, 5. Guerin Catholic (James Moody, Hayden Cler, Trevor Macey, Aidan Horn) 44.29, 6. Heights (Austyn Crail, Dre Chandler, Cameron Fleming, Noah Shlater) 45.01, 7. Noblesville (Xavion Bond, Austin Donahoe, Dymonta Collier, Wilson) 51.31.
400 dash: 1. Christian Ortiz (HSE) 47.93, new meet record, 2. Cler (GC) 48.89, 3. Maxim Poirier (W) 49.92, 4. Jaxon Wanza (HSE) 50.58, 5. Michael Delaney (C) 51.60, 6. Rocky Duplessis (F) 51.72, 7. Carson Faulconer (W) 51.87, 8. Miles Wiley (C) 52.72.
300 hurdles: 1. Long (HSE) 38.89, 2. Foster (F) 41.61, 3. Hadi Tebanja (HSE) 41.66, 4. Murdza (C) 41.74, 5. Wolfgang (HH) 43.06, 6. Robin Murphy (C) 43.09, 7. Ethan Feliciano (N) 43.23, 8. Joel Leo Prakash (F) 43.53.
800 run: 1. Will Snedeker (W) 1:54.92, 2. Isaiah Vohs (N) 1:54.99, 3. Caleb Haney (W) 1:55.28, 4. Declan Mohr (F) 1:56.05, 5. Mason Schmitz (HSE) 1:56.09, 6. Bryson Slagle (F) 1:56.95, 7. Will Henning (HSE) 1:57.04, 8. Carter Buhr (C) 1:57.83.
200 dash: 1. Terril (W) 22.40, 2. Tholen (HSE) 22.65, 3. Gearheart (W) 22.69, 4. Moody (GC) 22.93, 5. Christopherson (HSE) 23.52, 6. Snarr (C) 23.61.
3200 run: 1. Powers (HSE) 9:29.40, 2. Moster (GC) 9:38.82, 3. Jack Rush (N) 9:46.35, 4. Capes (C) 9:49.22, 5. Jay (C) 9:54.44, 6. Aidan Lawson (HSE) 9:58.31, 7. Jude Naville (N) 10:03.74, 8. Kale Ormes (F) 10:07.87.
4×400 relay: 1. Southeastern (Michael Mott, Kallen Hoeft, Elsayed, Ortiz) 3:22.81, 2. Fishers (Gage Sturgill, Slagle, Aiden Brookins, Torres) 3:27.40, 3. Westfield (Ridge Wallerstedt, Charlie Naas, Ryd Wallerstedt, Landon Jones) 3:30.62, 5. Guerin Catholic (Cler, Aidan Horn, Macey, Moody) 3:31.99, 6. (Henry Reno, Donahoe, Strong, Livingston) 3:33.10, 7. Heights (Ewan Shaffer, Austin Day, Rowan Donald, Rudy Bowman) 3:45.91.
Discus: 1. Jev Hutton (F) 180-2, 2. Theo Thurmond (C) 159-0, 3. Will Duncan (HH) 152-3, 4. Mason Cantwell (F) 149-7, 5. Job Mavrick (W) 146-10, 6. Darian Dos Santos (HSE) 136-10, 7. Caleb Johnson (N) 133-4, 8. Ozzy Pollard (C) 131-6.
Shot put: 1. Thurmond (C) 56-4.5, 2. Duncan (HH) 56-3, 3. Cantwell (F) 51-8, 4. Pollard (C) 51-5, 5. Mavrick (W) 48-8.75, 6. Mason McDermott (N) 46-6, 7. Isaac Cole (W) 46-6, 8. Hutton (F) 46-5.5.
Long jump: 1. Hall (F) 22-7.25, 2. Gabriel Davis (C) 22-3, 3. Dylan James (HSE) 22-2.25, 4. Alim Broadnax (C) 21-11.25, 5. Donahoe (N) 21-3.75, 6. Shaffer (HH) 20-9.5, 7. Boyd (HSE) 20-9.25, 8. Cooper Greer (W) 20-4.25.
High jump: 1. Hayden (F) 6-10, 2. Damon Winston (S) 6-8, 3. Robert Campbell (W) 6-2, 4. Davis (C) 6-2, 5. Austin Geesaman (F) 6-2, T6. Chris Beck (HSE) 6-0; Kaleb Johnson (W) 6-0, 8. Julian Wilder (HSE) 6-0.
Pole vault: 1. Evan Senefeld (HSE) 14-0, 2. Alex Wilson (W) 13-6, 3. Lucas Bland (W) 13-0, 4. Benjamin Halbig (C) 13-0, T5. Max Wambach (N) 12-6; Dean Watson (C) 12-6, 7. Lux Foster (N) 12-0, 8. Paxton Badua (F) 11-0.