Hardware for many, more work to do for some after districts

5/18/2024

Franklin
Senior Caleb Prettyman earned three individual first-place medals and anchored a winning relay team to lead the Franklin Knights to take the team title at the District 10 AA Track and Field Championships Saturday in Slippery Rock.

Franklin boys earned 13 medals on the day and scored 88 points, easily beating out second-place Slippery Rock High School which had 73.

Prettyman had a hand in 40 of those points. He handily won the 800, 1600 and 3200 races, all of which he was ranked the top runner entering the competition.
He also ran the final leg of the winning 4X800 relay. Joining him in the race were Jay Prettyman, Gauge Gierlach and Easton Adamczyk.

The Prettymans gave the one-two punch in the 1600 as Jay earned the silver and the right to join Caleb at states. Adamczyk completed the team’s trio of medalists in the 1600, taking fifth. He also earned a fifth place in the 800.

Bryson Watson overcame a rough start falling early in the preliminaries, but still managing a third place finish in the 110 hurdles. He then cruised to a second place finish in the finals to qualify for states. Watson also ran a qualifying time in the 300, where he finished third.

Freshman Logan Knight was also on the podium twice for Franklin.
He was third in the discus and fifth in the shot put.

Rounding out the day’s scoring was Landon Lynch, who earned a sixth-place finish in the javelin.

For the girls team, Nadalie Latchaw and Isabelle Griffin both qualified for states. Latchaw took second in the 3200 and Griffin finished fourth with a state qualifying time in the 1600.

Olivia Rondinelli was Franklin’s only other medalist, earning third place in the high jump.

Oil City
Ethen Knox was the big winner for Oil City, taking the District 10 title in the discus and clocking top three finishes in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. Knox also anchored the state qualifying 4X100 relay team, which finished fifth on the day.

There was tough competition in the sprints, the 100 in particular. All eight medalists in the 100 qualified for the state competition by turning in a time faster than 11.25.

Knox and teammate Devaughn Griffin were two of those qualifiers. Griffin earned a seventh-place finish in the 100, as well as in the 200 later in the day.

Knox and Griffin were joined by Drayton Dill and Steven Heise in the 4x100 relay.

Also medaling for Oil City was Elijah Brosius, third in the 3200; Sayyid Donald, third in the triple jump; Sawyer Cavalline, fourth in the high jump; Braylon Barber, fifth in the javelin; Jacob Wenner, sixth in pole vault; and Keegan Kirkwood, eighth in the 1600 and the 3200.

Freshmen Addison Wyant and Corbel Shiley were double medalists for the girls team. Shiley was fourth in the 3200, and Wyant finished fifth in the 800. They were joined by Olivia Vorse and Isabella Vorse for an eighth-place finish in the 4x800 relay.

Kallie Smith tied for seventh place in the high jump to round out Oil City’s medalists on the day.

Titusville
Landen Wolfkiel found redemption in the 300 hurdles and Aaron Burrows took home an unlikely gold medal as Titusville qualified two athletes for the state track and field championships.

Wolfkiel started the day with a strong showing in the boys 110-meter hurdles. His fourth-place finish earned him a spot on the podium, but his time was just shy of the state mark. He bounced back in the 300 hurdles.

While the senior Rocket finished fourth again, he clocked a 39.94, good enough to beat the 40.80 mark needed to move on to the next level of competition.

He will be joined in Shippensburg by Burrows who took the top spot in the 400, in only his second time running the race - he ran it for the first time last week qualifying for districts.. Burrows also earned a medal in the 200, finishing fifth.

Wolfkiel and Burrows were also members of the 4x400 relay, which finished sixth. David Leonard and Joe Herman rounded out the relay team.
Lane Ongley was also a double medalist for Titusville, finishing fifth in the discus and seventh in the shot put.

Sophia Sampson, Isabella Ongley, Anna Mehlenbacher and Mackenzie Covell combined for the Titusville girls top finish on the day, taking fifth in the 4X800 relay.

Covell also scored an individual medal, taking seventh in the 400. Sampson also had a return visit to the podium with an eighth-place performance in the 800.

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Medal winner results for Franklin, Oil City and Titusville. (SQ indicates state qualifier.)

Boys 110 Meter Hurdles
Bryson Watson, 2, Franklin, 14.97, SQ.
Landen Wolfkiel, 4, Titusville, 15.39.

Boys 100 Meter Dash:
Ethen Knox, 3, Oil City, 11.00, SQ.
Devaughn Griffin, 7 (tie), Oil City, 11.23, SQ.

Girls 4X800 Relay
Titusville, 5, Sophia Sampson, Isabella Ongley, Anna Mehlenbacher, Mackenzie Covell, 10:11.27.
Oil City, 8, Addison Wyant, Olivia Vorse, Isabella Vorse, Corabel Shiley,10:30.99.

Boys 4x800 Relay
Franklin, 1, Jay Prettyman, Gauge Gierlach, Easton Adamczyk, Caleb Prettyman, 8:18.54 SQ..

Boys 200 Meter Dash
Ethen Knox, 2, Oil City, 22.28, SQ.
Aaron Burrows, 5, Titusville, 22.99.
Devaughn Griffin, 7, Oil City, 23.07.

Girls 1600 Meter Run
Isabel Griffin, 4, Franklin, 5:16.95, SQ.

Boys 1600 Meter Run
Caleb Prettyman, 1, Franklin, 4:22.47, SQ.
Jay Prettyman, Franklin, 2, 4:30.37, SQ.
Easton Adamczyk, Franklin, 5, 4:37.42.
Keegan Kirkwood, Oil City, 8, 4:43.49.

Boys 4x100 Relay
Oil City, 5, Drayton Dill, Devaughn Griffin, Steven Heise, Ethen Knox, 44.03, SQ.

Girls 400 Meter Dash
Mackenzie Covell, 7, Titusville, 1:03.21.

Boys 400 Meter Dash
Aaron Burrows, 1, Titusville, 50.58, SQ.

Boys 300 Meter hurdles
Bryson Watson, 3, Franklin, 39.90, SQ.
Landen Wolfkiel, 4, Titusville, 39.94, SQ.

Girls 800 Meter Run
Addison Wyant, 5, Oil City, 2:30.50.
Sophia Sampson, 8, Titusville 2:33.35.

Boys 800 Meter Run
Caleb Prettyman, 1, Franklin, 1:58.92, SQ.
Easton Adamczyk, 5, Franklin, 2:03.51.

Girls 3200 Meter Run
Nadalie Latchaw, 2, Franklin, 11:44.75, SQ.
Corabel Shiley, 4, Oil City, 12:15.57.

Boys 3200 Meter Run
Caleb Prettyman, 1, Franklin, 9:53.25, SQ.
Elijah Brosius, 3, Oil City, 10:11.10.
Jay Prettyman, 4, Franklin, 10:22.80.
Keegan Kirkwood, 8, Oil City, 10:32.07

Boys 4X400 Relay
Titusville, 6, David Leonard, Landen Wolfkiel, Joe Herman, Aaron Burrows, 3:35.52.

Boys Pole Vault
Jacob Wenner, Oil City, 6, 11-00.00.

Girls High Jump
Olivia Rondinelli, 3, Franklin, 5-0.
Kallie Smith, 7 (tied), Oil City, 4-10.

Boys High Jump
Sawyer Cavalline, 4, Oil City, 5-11.

Boys Triple Jump
Sayyid Donald, 3, Oil City, 43-7.25.

Boys Javelin
Braylon Barber, 5, Oil City, 148-7.
Landon Lynch, 6, Franklin, 147-3.

Boys Shot Put
Logan Knight, 5, Franklin, 47-11.75.
Lane Ongley, 7, Titusville, 46-0.50.

Boys Discus Throw
Ethen Knox, 1, Oil City, 147-5. SQ
Logan Knight, 3, Franklin, 144-10.
Lane Ongley, 5, Titusville, 136-1.

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