First Posted: 4/2/2015
LIMA — The 34th annual Lima Senior High Spartan Track Invitational will be held Saturday at Spartan Stadium.
The Columbus Eastmoor Academy, Dayton Thurgood Marshall, Dayton Belmont, Dayton Stivers School for the Arts, Lima Central Catholic, Troy, Toledo Central Catholic, Toledo Rogers, Toledo Scott, Toledo Woodward, Wapakoneta and host Lima Senior boys and girls teams and the squad from all-girls Toledo Notre Dame Academy are scheduled to participate.
Field events are slated to start at 10 a.m. with race preliminaries at 11 a.m. and finals set to start at 12:30 p.m. The boys and girls 3,200 relays are scheduled to take place during the preliminary competition.
Admission is $6 for adults and $4 for high school students and younger.
Boys tennis
Shawnee 5, Celina 0
LIMA — Timmy Rutter, Ruthvik Avvari and Jake Liddle all won at singles. The doubles teams of Danny Kesner and Michael Rutter and Giovanni De Camelis and Isaac Hanover also were victors.
Boys track & field
Liberty-Benton Relays
FINDLAY — Eastwood won the eight-team event with 118 points with Bluffton (14) finishing seventh and Leipsic (13) eighth. The Bluffton 400 meter relay team of Adam Wannemacher, Robbie Stratton, Dylan Alt and Sam Crisp finished second with a time of 46.4 seconds. Eastwood won the event in 43.7. The Pirates’ Trevor Bassitt tied for the third highest leap in the high jump of 5-feet-8 inches, 2 inches less than the winning height. The 400 throwers relay team of Reid Steffan, Austin Chamberlin, Gavin Cupp and Miguel Balcarcel led Leipsic with a fifth-place finish time of 55.1 seconds along with Nate Brecht who tied for having the fifth highest leap in the high jump of (5-feet, 2 inches). Bowling Green had the winning time in 400 throwers relay of 49.4.
Girls track & field
Liberty-Benton Relays
FINDLAY — Eastwood won the team event with 92 points. Leipsic (29.5) was sixth and Bluffton (18.5) was eighth. Leipsic’s Holly Averesch had the longest throws in the shot put (39-04.5) and discus (155). Teammate Grace Rigel was second in the shot put (36-08.5). The Bluffton 1,600 relay team of Haley Baker, Allison Wise, Karis Wilson and Lucie Fett finished third with a time of 4:33.6 behind first-place Bowling Green (4:25.5).
All-tourney picks
Lima Central Catholic’s Dantez Walton, Jake Willliams and Josh Dixon have been named to the JJHuddle 2015 Division III All-State Tournament Team. Katwan Singleton of state champion Defiance was named the Division II State Tournament Most Outstanding Player with the Bulldogs’ Shay Smiddy and Kameron Singleton also making the all-tourney team.
