Write-up and results by dyestat.com
Gettysburg College High School Meet 1/25/97
Maryland Schools Dominate Pennysylvania Contingent
Maryland high schools dominated a bi-state indoor track and field meet at Gettysburg (PA) College on
Saturday January 25, 1997, with 19 Pennsylvania and Maryland high schools competing.
Although team scores weren't announced, DyeStat scoring shows Paint Branch (MD) running off
with the boys title with 68 points, followed by Damascus (MD) with 48, Westminster (MD) 33, Thomas Johnson (MD) 31, and Frederick (MD) 28.
In the girls competition, Damascus (MD) edged Thomas Johnson (MD) 59 to 54, followed by
Frederick (MD) 43, La Plata (MD) 30, and Paint Branch (MD) 26. Damascus got 17 points in the field events
to 0 for TJ to overcome TJ's strong runners.
All events were contested in yards rather than meters.
Frederick County (MD) schools won seven events:
Boys
55 Yard Dash -- A. J. Waldon, FRE, 6.76
1000 Yard Run -- Jason Stick, TJ, 2:29.32
Mile Run -- Jimmy Daly, FRE, 4:45.14. Daly, last for the first two of 11 laps,
charged to the lead on the first turn of the last lap to edge Larry O'Hara of TJ, who got blocked behind a slower runner.
Girls
300 Yard Dash -- Michelle Higginbottom, FRE, 37.62, with Lisa Lushbaugh, TJ, third in 39.39.
600 Yard Dash -- Lisa Lushbaugh, TJ, 1:32.98.
Mile Relay -- TJ, 4:41.71, with Lushbaugh and Jennifer Ford (junior) sitting it out to let
Coach Flynn test younger runners. The winning TJ team included British Martin, Jennifer Ford (freshman), Tiffany Myers,
and Ceci Pearson.
High Jump -- Kathy Messner, CAT, 5-4.
Frederick County schools were not at full strength because of injuries and SAT tests, and Linganore
split its squad between Gettysburg and the Virginia Tech meet. Frederick boys were missing two
probable blue ribbon winners -- Justin Ward, who has the flu, and Alton McCallum.
Merker of Westminster, competing as a club because Carroll County high schools do not have
indoor track, was a dual winner in the boys 300 (34.83) and hurdles (8.05).
Stacey Stoner of NHL (PA), a Pennsylvania cross country state champion, doubled in
the mile (5:29.38) and 1160 yard run (3:22.62). The unusual distance resulted when the
officials allowed the faster heat of the 1000 to run an extra lap.
Codes for schools competing are:
Maryland
Pennsylvania
CAT Catoctin
DAM Damascus
FRE Frederick
LAP La Plata
LIN Linganore
PB Paint Branch
TJ Thomas Johnson
WMI Westminster NLH
SPG Spring Grove
BER
HER Hershey
NOX New Oxford
CDA Central Dauphin
FAI
TUL
CNV
GND
BIG Biglerville
Boys Track
Pos Min Sec Athlete School
55 Yards - Boys
1 6.76 Waldon FRE
2 6.92 Campbell PB
3 6.96 Howard LAP
4 6.97 Lucas PB
4 6.97 Gyanfi PB
6 6.99 Roberts NOX
300 Yards - Boys
1 34.83 Merker WMI
2 34.87 Lucas PB
3 34.95 Gyamfi PB
3 35.28 Irvine CAT
3 35.32 Campbell PB
6 35.39 Fitzpatrick TJ
600 Yards - Boys
1 1 20.93 Lucas PB
2 1 22.79 Gyamfi PB
3 1 23.07 Seabright NOX
4 1 23.62 Jackson DAM
5 1 24.26 Sumner PB
6 1 24.82 Tresseire TJ
1000 Yards - Boys
1 2 29.32 Stick TJ
2 2 31.7 Stack DAM
3 2 35.1 Dawston LAP
4 2 35.91 Carter WMI
5 2 36.43 Naldo PB
6 2 37.07 Thomas TJ
Mile - Boys
1 4 45.14 Daly FRE
2 4 46.1 O'Hara TJ
3 4 47.83 Stack DAM
4 4 56.85 Naldo PB
5 4 57.5 Enener Gnd
6 4 57.48 Autry DAM
55 Yard Hurdles - Boys
1 8.05 Merker WMI
2 8.53 Noel SPG
3 8.65 Frank Ber
4 8.87 Keller NLH
5 8.9 Bobet DAM
6 9 Joyce WMI
Mile Relay - Boys
1 3 50.81 PB
2 3 52.85 LAP
3 3 54.52 TJ
4 3 55.17 DAM
5 3 56.39 PB
6 3 58.3 CAT
Girls Track
Pos Min Sec Athlete School
55 Yards - Girls
1 7.44 Johnson PB
2 7.67 Messner CAT
3 7.81 Lushbaugh TJ
4 7.85 Bayly WMI
5 7.96 McKnight FRE
6 8.13 Carter FRE
300 Yards - Girls
1 37.62 Higginbottom FRE
2 38.04 Johnson PB
3 39.39 Lushbaugh TJ
4 40.01 Foltz SPG
5 40.42 Coombs LAP
6 40.78 Rose LAP
600 Yards - Girls
1 1 32.98 Lushbaugh TJ
2 1 35.12 Johnson PB
3 1 36.66 Ford TJ
4 1 39.48 Waldon FRE
5 1 39.99 Benjamin DAM
6 1 44.18 Hillard CAT
1160 Yards - Girls
( fast heat ran one extra lap }
1 3 22.62 Stoner NLH
2 3 27 Ford TJ
3 3 31.01 Benjamin DAM
3 3 31.01 Higginbottom FRE
5 3 34.21 Hawthorne FRE
6 3 35.83 I. Olson CAT
Mile - Girls
1 5 29.38 Stoner NLH
2 5 31.76 Ford TJ
3 5 38.11 Heyn DAM
4 5 38.42 Benjamin DAM
5 5 50.43 McGolrick DAM
6 5 52.23 Smith HER
55 Yard Hurdles - Girls
1 8.7 King DAM
2 8.7 Przywarty FRE
3 9.09 Foltz SPG
4 9.21 Childs DAM
5 9.49 Allred LAP
6 9.92 Racey NOX
Mile Relay - Girls
1 4 41.71 TJ
2 4 43.26 DAM
3 4 44.01 FRE
4 4 46.14 SPG
5 4 50.64 FRE
6 4 50.91 LAP
Field Events
Pos Ft In Athlete School
High Jump - Boys
1 5 10 Bobet DAM
2 5 8 Hale LAP
3 5 6 Joyer WMI
4 5 6 J Carter LAP
4 5 6 D Carter WMI
6 5 4 Quinn DAM
Pole Vault - Boys
1 12 6 Kamerer HER
2 11 0 Shoemaker SPG
3 10 0 Weaver NLH
4 9 6 Bendoit TJ
4 9 0 Behrens LAP
6 8 6 Schoffstall NLH
Shot Put - Boys
1 53 0.5 Sage CDA
2 49 8 Gowda FRE
3 47 8.5 Wergle BER
4 46 4.5 Vocci DAM
5 43 4 Biever NLH
6 42 5 Smith NOX
High Jump - Girls
1 5 4 Messner CAT
2 5 2 Childs DAM
3 4 10 Richey LAP
4 4 10 Klunk NOX
5 4 8 King DAM
6 4 8 Feeney HER
Pole Vault - Girls
1 8 0 Shepard LAP
2 7 6 Allred LAP
3 6 6 Childs DAM
Shot Put - Girls
1 33 8.5 Cline BIG
2 33 8 Wilman HER
3 33 5.5 Crone NOX
4 32 7.75 Bellino FRE
5 32 11.5 Pierce CDA
6 31 1.5 Childs DAM
