Region 4C - Track Meet

ALDIE — The Handley boys’ and girls’ track & field teams each took second at the Region 4C meet on Wednesday at Lightridge High School.

Loudoun Valley won the girls’ title with 77.5 points. Handley was second (72), Sherando was fifth (47), Millbrook was sixth (46) and James Wood was eighth (42) out of 16 teams.

Loudoun County won the boys’ title with 105.5 points. Handley was second (88), James Wood was fifth (53), Millbrook was eighth (36) and Sherando was 11th (27).

The top four placers in each event, as well as those with qualifying times and standards, advance to the Class 4 state meet on June 3 and 4 at Liberty University in Lynchburg.

Regional champions for Handley were Stephen Daley (won the 100 meters by 0.21 in 10.96 seconds, and the shot put by 2-7 in 53-8); Ryan Stickley (won the 400 by 0.37 in 50.39); the 4x100 team of Daley, Christian Metzger, Manno Lusca and Jacob Duffy (won by 0.24 in 42.99); and Peter Kim (won the pole vault by six inches with a mark of 11-0);

Also in the boys’ meet, James Wood senior Nathaniel Woshner broke a 44-year-old school record to win the 3,200 in 3.45 seconds in 9:17.95. Woshner broke Jay Kelchner’s record of 9:18.6. Other local regional champions are the Colonels’ Andrew Link in the 300 hurdles (won by 0.11 in 40.32); and Millbrook’s Nick Hayden (won the 800 by 1.29 in 1:54.82).

Local regional champions in the girls’ meet were Millbrook’s Jada Arrington (won the 100 by 0.07 in 12.67, the 200 by 0.31 in 25.89 and 400 by 0.94 in 58.87); Sherando’s Ella Carlson (won by 23-11.5 by breaking her own school record by more than six feet with a 144-8.5 in the discus, won by 1-1 with a 35-5 in the shot put); Handley’s Elizabeth Imoh (won the 100 hurdles by 0.77 in 15.56 and the 300 hurdles by 1.61 in 46.10); and James Wood’s 4x800 team of Quetzali Angel-Perez, Lillian Lovelace, Ruby Ostrander and Lauren Beatty (won by 15.42 in 9:56.87).

Other top finishers:

Handley boys: Daley, 2nd in discus, 153-5.5; Christian Metzger, 2nd in long jump, 21-5; William Pardue, 4th in 3,200, 9:34.08; Nico Schianchi, 4th in 1,600, 4:24.57; 4x800 (Elliott Redcay, Pierce Francis, William Pardue, Max Ware), 4th in 8:21.78.

James Wood boys: Brendan Cassidy, 2nd in 110 hurdles, 15.43, and 300 hurdles, 40.43; Andrew Link, 3rd in 110 hurdles, 15.58; Ethan Pratt-Perez, 3rd in 3,200, 9:29.99.

Millbrook boys: Landon Baker, 2nd in the 200, 22.79; 4x400 (Scott Montgomery, Brian Washington, Matthew Topham, Baker), 3rd in 3:31.56.

Sherando boys: Ethan Gonzalez, 2nd in shot put, 47-9; 4x800 (Justin Dante, Ben Freilich, Dylan McGraw, Camden Palmer), 3rd in 8:18.97; Micah Carlson, 3rd in discus, 142-2.

Handley girls: Imoh, 2nd in high jump, 5-2; Emeryce Worrell, 2nd in 100, 12.74 and 200, 26.20); 4x100 (Alivia Ricci, Worrell, Madison Hobson, Imoh, 2nd in 50.65; Ricci, 3rd in pole vault, 7-6; Znyah Johnson, 3rd in high jump, 4-10; 4th in pole vault, 7-6.

James Wood girls: 4x100 (Jocelyn Hempel, Olivia Boyce, Macey Payne, Alana Bradford), 3rd in 51.42; Aubrey Grove, 4th in shot put, 33-3.

Millbrook girls: Madison Murphy, 2nd in 3,200, 11:37.53.

Sherando girls: 4x800 (Anna Duke, Gracie Defibaugh, Cassidy Crittenden, Eva Winston), 2nd in 10:12.27; Victoria Corbit, 2nd in long jump, 17-7.5, 3rd in triple jump, 34-7.75; Emma Ahrens, 4th in 3,200, 11:43.76.