Liberty Girls Lead After First Day of State Track Championships

The Liberty girls made a good showing on the first day of state Class 2A track meet to lead after five events.

The Lions have a seven point lead over North Hagerstown, 24 to 17. The Liberty girls are hoping to add a trophy to the county and regional titles they won this spring.

The Lions won the first event of the track Thursday at Morgan State. The foursome of Brittany Arndt, Taylor Tarnalicki, Casey Sullivan, and Samantha McElroy captured the 4X800 relay with a time of 9:44.88.

Ashlyn Anderson captured the other first place for Liberty with a toss of 97-03 in the discus.

The other points were a fifth place finish by Taylor Stillings, Brittany Arndt, Bre Manger and Ashley Ross in the 4X200 relay.

Ross also advanced the final in the 200 meter dash which will be run Saturday with the other finals.

Century is fifth in the standings with 14 points. They are running without Maura Linde, who is out with an injury.

The Knights on the legs of Allie Dearie, Lydia Dearie, Rachel Larkin and Morgan Fagnant took second in the 4X800 relay.

Kelsey Capparelli was fifth in the discus and Alexis Bush was seventh in the triple jump.

The boys completed seven events and Century is 14th with nine points, South Carroll is tied for 18th with six points and Liberty is tied for 24th with three points.

The Knights received their points from Matt Candland with a fourth in the pole vault,

Nick Pezza was seventh in the 3200 meter run and the 4X800 relay team was seventh.

Liberty earned their points with a sixth place finish in the 4X800 meter relay.

South Carroll had Ryan Patrick take fifth in the shot put and teammate Ethan McBryde was seventh in the long jump.

Century had good results in the 100, 200 and 110 meter high hurdles preliminaries. Josh Titus advanced to the finals in the 100 and 200 while Julian Woods will start in the finals of the hurdles.

The meet resumes Saturday at 11 a.m. at Morgan State.

Girls

4X800 Meter Relay

1 Liberty 9:44.88 1) Brittany Arndt 2) Taylor Tarnalicki 3) Casey Sullivan 4) Samantha McElroy; 2 Century 9:53.63 1) Allie Dearie 2) Lydia Dearie 3) Rachel Larkin 4) Morgan Fagnant; 3 Kent Island 9:58.01; 4 Winters Mill 9:58.79 1) Nicole Rutherford 2) Jill Benko 3) Erica Diffendal 4) Hannah Oneda; 5 Oakland Mills 10:06.14; 6 Walkersville 10:10.41; 7 Bel Air 10:15.42 8 Fallston 10:21.48

3200 Meter Run

1 Hannah Oneda, Winters Mill 11:13.65; 2 Maddy Masucci , Kent Island 11:46.97; 3 Nicole Dawson, Hammond 11:55.87; 4 Tiffany Lang, Oakland Mills 11:58.65; 5 Caroline Parris, Calvert 11:59.27; 6 Emily Ward, North Hagerstown 12:12.18; 7 Annie Frasier, Walkersville 12:18.24; 8 Caragh MacDermott, Glenelg 12:19.18

4X200 Meter Relay

1 Overlea 1:43.09 2 North Hagerstown 1:43.89 3 Digital Harbor 1:43.98 4 Calvert 1:47.00 5 Liberty 1:47.70 1) Taylor Stillings 2) Brittany Arndt 3) Bre Manger 4) Ashley Ross 6 Elkton 1:48.19 7 North East1:48.21 8 Glenelg 1:48.77

Discus

1 Ashlyn Anderson, Liberty 97-03; 2 Mballou Dabo, Long Reach 92-09; 3 Donyae Miles, 11 Queen Anne's 92-02 4 Kendall Daley, Bel Air 89-10 5 Kelsey Capparelli, Century 88-00; 6 Olivia Wojtowicz, Queen Anne's 87-11; 7 Rebecca Moore, Middletown 87-08; 8 Brittany Bowser, Eastern Tech 81-08

Triple Jump

1 Willie Austin, Edgewood 37-07.75; 2 Kristen Fawole, Long Reach 37-04.25; 3 Raven Jackson, North Hagerstown 37-03.50; 4 Chanel Allen, McDonough 37-01.50; 5 Modesty Lorick, Douglass-PG 36-11; 6 Jermika Miller, Hammond 36-06; 7 Alexis Bush, Century 34-04; 8 Kaitlyn Shimek ,Winters Mill 33-11.50

Scores after five events

1) Liberty 24; 2) North Hagerstown 17; 3) Long Reach 16; 3) Winters Mill 16; 5) Kent Island 14; 5) Century 14; 7) Edgewood 10; 7) Overlea 10; 9) Queen Anne's 9; 9) Hammond 9; 9) Oakland Mills 9; 9) Calvert 9; 13) Bel Air 7; 14) Digital Harbor 6; 15) McDonough 5; 15) Walkersville 5; 17) Frederick Douglass-PG 4; 18) Elkton 3; 19) North East-Cec 2; 19) Glenelg 2; 19) Middletown 2; 22) Fallston 1; 22) Eastern Tech 1

Boys

4X800 Meter Relay

1 Winters Mill 8:03.28 1) Alex Warfield 2) Will Weisgerber 3) Reilly Cox 4) Ryan Spangler; 2 Edmondson/Westside 8:10.24; 3 North Caroline 8:12.47; 4 Bel Air 8:12.97; 5 Francis Scott Key 8:19.93; 6 Liberty 8:22.57 1) Josh Carroll 2) James Fencil 3) Kyle Hawkins 4) Greg Rinehart; 7 Century 8:23.29 1) Patrick Anske 2) Theo Onigbinde 3) Kevin Slujtner 4) Nick Pezza 8 Digital Harbor 8:23.58

3200 Meter Run

1 Robbie Creese, Glenelg 9:34.49; 2 Austin McGinley, Rising Sun 9:42.60; 3 Eric Holmstead, Poolesville 9:49.19; 4 Zach Hopkins, Winters Mill 9:51.91; 5 Sam Andrews, Oakland Mills 9:53.93; 6 Weston Carvalho, Winters Mill 9:58.98; 7 Nick Pezza, Century 9:59.39; 8 Tip Worob, North Caroline 10:01.70

4X200 Meter Relay

1 Central 1:28.78; 2 North Hagerstown 1:30.14; 3 Francis Scott Key 1:30.37; 4 Digital Harbor 1:30.73; 5 Frederick Douglass-PG 1:30.85; 6 Long Reach 1:31.80; 7 Patuxent 1:31.90; 8 North Caroline 1:32.43

Long Jump

1 Jake Walker, Central 21-03; 2 Samuel Draper, Queen Anne's 21-00; 3 Kevin Marshall, Elkton 20-11.50; 4 Jamal Branch, Walkersville 20-09; 5 Philip Deke, Wheaton 20-07.50; 6 Eric Ezenwanne, Oakland Mills 20-06; 7 Ethan McBryde, South Carroll 20-03.50; 1 8 Scottie Setzer, Glenelg 20-02.50;

Shot Put

1 Rehvon Bryan, Southern-AA 49-07; 2 Ralph Vanveen, Queen Anne's 48-08; 3 Anthony Winter, North Hagerstown 48-00.50; 4 Mitch Simpson, Parkside 46-07; 5 Ryan Patrick, South Carroll 43-05.50; 6 Michael Washington, Overlea 43-00; 7 Dennis Murray, Queen Anne's 42-06.00 8 Justin James, Randallstown 42-04.50

High Jump

1 Calvin Murray, Easton 6-05; 2 Scott Mitchell, Elkton 6-02; 3 Olympic Johnson, North Hagerstown 6-02; 4 Ray Ferguson, Walkersville 6-02; 5 David Marsh, Glenelg 6-00; 6 Patrick Simons, Walkersville 6-00; 7 Tristan Baboolal, Hammond 6-00; 7 Matt Hess, Rising Sun 6-00

Pole Vault

1 Nick Bowen, Walkersville 13-09; 2 Jonathan Hatcher, North Caroline 12-06; 3 Seth Fritz, Middletown 11-06; 4 Matt Candland, Century 11-06; 5 Andrew Pressly, Middletown 11-00; 5 Brandon Stearns, Francis Scott Key 11-00; 7 Garon Clark, Parkside 10-06

Scores after seven events

1) Walkersville 23; 2) Central 20; 2) North Hagerstown 20; 4) Winters Mill 18; 4) Queen Anne's 18; 6) North Caroline 16; 7) Glenelg 15; 8) Elkton 14; 9) Francis Scott Key 13.50; 10) Southern-AA 10; 10) Easton 10; 12) Rising Sun 9.50; 12) Middletown 9.50; 14) Century 9; 15) Edmondson/Westside 8; 16) Parkside 7; 16) Oakland Mills 7; 18) Poolesville 6; 18) South Carroll 6; 18) Digital Harbor 6; 21) Bel Air 5; 22) Frederick 4; Douglass-PG 4; 22) Wheaton 4; 24) Long Reach 3; 24) Overlea 3; 24) Liberty 3; 27) Patuxent 2; 28) Hammond 1.50; 29) Randallstown 1