Tuning up for the sub-district meet this week, the Liberty Bell High School track and field team turned in several impressive performances, including a school record, at the Bridgeport Invitational on Friday (May 8).
The boys’ 4×100-meter relay team of Jose Dominguez, Andrew Reggiatore, Wil Chandler and Micah Klemmeck blazed to a school record time of 44.77 seconds in taking first place, barely edging Okanogan, who also set a school record in the race. Dominguez was part of the foursome that set the previous school record of 44.92 seconds last year.
The same four Mountain Lions came back to run the school’s fifth-fastest 4x400m relay with a time of 3 minutes, 38.54 seconds to also take first place in that event.
Chandler ran Liberty Bell’s fourth-fastest ever 200m, finishing second in 23.66 seconds. Micah Klemmeck claimed 10th place on the Liberty Bell all-time list in the 110m hurdles with his winning time of 17.24 seconds. Brother Josiah Klemmeck took third in the 800m run with a time of 2:06.96, good for fifth on the Mountain Lions’ all-time list.
Other notable performances, according to coach Rocky Kulsrud, were turned in by Eli Nielsen, who broke 5 minutes (4:58.45) to take fourth place in the 1,600m; personal bests by Evan Wagstaff in the 100m (12.46 seconds) and 200m (25.91 seconds); and personal bests by Zane Herrera in the 100m (13.35) and shot put (32 feet, 6 inches).
Dominguez took third place in the 100m with a time of 12.01; Chandler took fifth in the 100m in 12.03; Carter Dornfeld took 10th in the 800m in 2:21.01; Ben Klemmeck was third in the 1,600m in 4:57.49; Herrera threw the discus 85 feet for 13th place; and Reggiatore tossed the javelin 137 feet for third place
Jessica Johnson continued to pile up personal bests, this time in the 100m hurdles (18.99, ninth place) and 100m (14.12, eighth place).
Mollie Hauser also had a personal best of 16.18 in the 100m (25th place); and the 4x200m relay team of Haley Post, Lauren Fitzmaurice, Johnson and Natalie Treise broke 2 minutes for the first time this year at 1:59:07.
In the 100m, Post took 18th in 14.l82 and Liliana Hart-Beck was 27th in 16.86. Fitzmaurice took seventh in the 100m hurdles in 18.46; Sarina Williams added another strong performance in the javelin, reaching 123 feet, 6 inches; and Fitzmaurice was fourth in the long jump at 14 feet, 8.25 inches.
Williams has several of the best javelin tosses in school history this year, including the record of 132 feet, 8 inches.
In team scoring, the Lady Lions took ninth place among 13 teams with 17.5 points; the boys scored 70 points for third place among 15 teams
The sub-district meet is in Tonasket today (May 13). The top five finishers in each event move on to districts the following week.
