Bowers Leads Milton Track & Field

Bowers Leads Milton Track & Field

By Andy Carr

Junior Sam Bowers (the current state cross country champion) ran the nation’s fastest 5000 meters (3.1 miles) of this out door season & set a new meet & stadium & school record at this past weekend’s 10th Annual Milton T&F Showcase meet (1st-15:05.45) to lead the Eagles to a 2nd place combined boys & girls team finish (187 pts) besting 20 schools. Mill Creek was the overall team champions (261.5 pts).

Boys team victories not only came from Bowers but also from a double race winner in junior Michael Malkowski in the 1500 meters (1st-4:10.39) (also a new meet/school/stadium record) & in the Mile (1st-4:29.26).

The lone team victory on the girls side came from the 4x800m relay team (1st-10:29.84) of senior Brooke Aumer, senior Hayden Smith, senior Fernanda Bonilla & freshman Abby Rindt) coming from behind to win the event in dramatic fashion! Many runner-up finishes propelled the girl’s team & they came from junior Sophie Moore in the 300m, Aumer in the 1500m & junior Emily Bowers in the 5000m.

The Eagle T&F team enters the busiest part of their season with 4 meets this week alone with JV squads competing at Lassiter & Walton on 3/8 & Lambert on 3/11 with the varsity team heading to Mill Creek on 3/11 to compete in the prestigious Jerry Arnold Challenge.