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Smyrna wins Henlopen track championships

Cape’s Ryan Baker sets school record in 3,200 meters
Matt Gatune of Polytech leads the seeded section of 1,600 meters. Gatune won in 4:23.49. DAVE FREDERICK PHOTOS
Dave Frederick
May 17, 2021

Polytech had triple winners in Matt Gatune and Casey Talamini-Keleman as Smyrna won both the boys’ and girls’ teams competitions at the Henlopen Conference track championships May 13-14 at Lake Forest High School. 

The Smyrna boys were champions with 147 points followed by Sussex Central with 95.5 and Polytech with 83.

The Smyrna girls finished with 165.5 points to out-distance runner-up Cape Henlopen with 120.83 and Polytech with 79.5. 

Gatune won the 3,200 meters (9:29.4), 1,600 meters (4:23.49) and 800 meters (1:59.1). Talamini-Keleman won the long jump (18-feet-4-inches), triple jump (38-7) and pole vault (11-3). 

The race everyone was talking about was the boys’ 3,200 final. Following Gatune were Ryan Baker in 9:35 and Kenny Guy in 9:36. Baker, a Cape sophomore, is the new school record holder for the outdoors 3,200 meters. 

The Cape girls established season-best times while winning the 4-by-800 relay in 10:05.90 with a team of Hannah Maney, Tia Jarvis, Lexi Dougherty and Emma Duffield, and in the 4-by-400 relay with a team of Maney, Taylor Johnson, Jarvis and Reagan Ciabattoni in 4:12.50.

The DIAA State Championship are set for Friday and Saturday, May 21-22, at Dover High School  

 

Cape’s Mehkia Applewhite leads off the 4-by-200 relay.
Smyrna goes 1-2 in the 100-meter hurdles with Kailah Crews and Elise Carter.
Alyssa Kellam of Sussex Tech and Noelle Sabbagh of Cape clear hurdles.
Jalen Morris of Lake Forest wins the 110-meter hurdles in 15.29. P.J. Henry of Sussex Central places second.
Sussex Central’s Tatiana Kelsic (12.59) edges Kailah Crews of Smyrna (12.62) in the 100-meter dash.
Tatiana Kelsic over Kailah Crews at the tape for a photo finish.
Reagan Ciabattoni in triple jump. She recorded a distance of 34-feet-4-inches for fourth place.
Lawrence Tyrell of Smyrna registers a distance of 31-feet-9-inches in the triple jump.
Casey Talamini-Kelemen wins the triple jump. Casey also won the long jump and pole vault.
The boys’ 100 meters won by Demitri Carter of Smyrna in 11.1 seconds.
Ben Clifton of Cape runs the third leg of the 4-by-200 relay. Cape placed fifth with a time of 1:33.
Brynn Crandall of Indian River wins the 1,600 in 5:23.7 over Josey Ledford of Lake (5:24.7).
Matt Gatune of Polytech leads stacked field in the 1,600 meters. The top six runners all broke 4:30.
Casey Talemini-Kellemen of Smyrna in the step phase of the triple jump.
Smyrna wins the 4-by-100 relay in 50.02. Sussex Central places second in 50:35.
Kendell Smith of Lake is gone in the 4-by-100 (43.7). P.J. Stratton of Sussex Central can’t run him down (44.2).
Cierra Young of Lake Forest wins the 400 meters in 59.6 followed by Reagan Ciabattoni of Cape in 1:00.86 and Tia Jarvis of Cape in 1:01.66.
Trey Leggins of Cape runs 54.29 in the 400 meters.
Nickolas Trewartha of Cape puts his heart and soul into 300-meter hurdles, finishing with a time of 47.4.
Yougendy Mauricette of Sussex Tech wins the 300-meter hurdles in 38.8.
Brynn Crandall of Indian River runs the 800 meters from the unseeded section in 2:33, which is good enough to place seventh. Crandall won the 1,600 and 3,200 earlier in the meet.
Tia Jarvis, Emma Duffield and Hannah Maney of Cape go to the front in the 800 meters. Final results were Jarvis (2:29.45), Maney (2:31.18), Arina Varrato of Sussex Tech ( 2:31.8) and Duffield (2:31.88).
Tia Jarvis wins open the 800 meters.
Brian Sponaugle of Cape runs 2:05.21 in 800 meters to win his section.
Ryan Baker just cruising through the 800 (2:10) after running the 3,200 (9:35.40) and 1,600 (4:28.22) earlier in the meet.
Matt Gatune of Polytech and David Wooten of Sussex Central compete on the first lap of the 800-meter run.

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