Oxford Girls Track Has Good Showing Sheehan Relays

The following news release was submitted by Oxford girls track coach Ed Lucas.

The Oxford girls track team finished sixth at the Lady Titan Relays at Sheehan High School Friday night. There were no individual events as each event was a relay-type event.

Since Oxford has such a small team, many of the girls competed in back-to-back events and in some of the field events only one or two girls competed, whereas other schools has the full three allowed to compete in the field events.

Top performers for Oxford were:

• Amy Persson took 6th in the High Jump Relay competing all by herself with a jump of 4-feet, 10-inches (all other teams had three girls).
• Taylor Drayton, Sara Thorpe and Hannah VanBuiten finished fourth in the Shot Put Relay with combined throw totaling 72-feet, six inches, which is a school record for the relay
• Drayton and Johnna D'Ambruoso finished sixth in the javelin relay with a combined throw of 150-feet, eight-inches and fifth in the discus relay with a combined throw of 152-feet, seven-inches (all other teams had 3 girls). In both events, the girls set school records for the relay.
• Olivia Hinnau, Corrinn Niski and Jill Miller took first in the shuttle hurdle relay in a school record time of 59.13 second.
• Caylee Richardson, Marcea Stilson, Sara Ponce and Olivia Richter set a school record in the 4x1600 meter relay with a school record of 23:32.5.  This also beat the meet record by 28 seconds.
• Olivia Hinnau, Hannah VanBuiten, Sara Thorpe and Corrinn Niski finished fourth in the 4x100 meter relay with a time of 56.82.
• Caylee Richardson, Giovanna McMahon, Olivia Hinnau and Jill Miller finished 5th in the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 5:09.
• Amy Persson (400), Corrinn Niski (200), Hannah VanBuiten (200) and Marcea Stilson (800) finished first in the Sprint Medley Relay with at time of 4:41. The girls also set a school record in the event.
• Caylee Richardson, Johanna D'Ambruoso, Olivia Richter and Sara Ponce finished fourth in the 4x800 Meter Relay with a time of 11:13.
• Johanna D'Ambruoso (800), Amy Persson (400), Caylee Richardson (1200) and Marcea Stilson (1600) set a school record with a time of 14:14.4 in the Distance Medley Relay.
• Olivia Hinnau, Hannah VanBuiten, Sara Thorpe and Corrinn Niski came in fith in the 4x200 meter relay with a school record time of 2:01.39.

Oxford's next meet is Monday at Weston High School against Weston, Laurelton Hall and Notre Dame-Fairfield.