Medina Valley Girls Shine at NEISD 9 Meet

The Medina Valley girls and the Clemens boys each took home team titles at the Northeast ISD 9 Meet on Thursday at Heroes Stadium. Medina Valley was particularly impressive scoring 184.33 points to lap the field. Boerne Champion was second with 93 points and O'Connor managed third place with 74 points. Clemens won with 123.5 points in the men's division and held off Champion who finished with 109.5 points. Madison took a close third place with 101 points.

The Medina Valley girls won 10 of 17 events and they were led by four athletes who won multiple events. Ella Rodriguez got things started in the 3200m with a dominant performance. She ran away from the field and won in 11:30.44 with Abigail Clark (Boerne Champion) and Elizabeth Wade (O'Connor) taking the next two spots in 12:08.41 and 12:13.97 respectively. Later, Rodriguez took gold in the 1600m with a quality time of 5:12.32. Emma Radtke (Boerne Champion) had a strong kick to close the gap but could not catch Rodriguez while Evie Fitch (Alamo Heights) settled for third place.

The next multi-winner for MV was Kiyana Perez who easily won both hurdle events. She crossed the line in 15.06 in the 100mh and 45.01 in the 300mh. O'Connor's Mariam Dadzie picked up silver medals in both events while Addison Davis (Boerne Champion) was third in the 100mh and Ava Williams (MacArthur) was third in the 300mh. Perez was also the champion in the high jump with a clearance of 5-2. Maelee Mares (Boerne Champion) was runner-up as the only other athlete to clear at least 5-0.

Continuing in the jumping events, Brown Arillia had a huge performance for Medina Valley taking gold in the long and triple jumps. Arillia jumped 18-9 in the long jump to win by nearly a foot as Cassidy Breuer (Boerne Champion) went 17-9.25 and Marieme Fall (Marshall) jumped 17-9. In the triple jump, Arillia bounded 36-4 to knock off her teammate, Analeese Moore, who jumped 35-3.

Trinity Pinto, the top 400m runner in the area, was the final multi-event winner for Medina Valley. She cruised to victory in the 400m covering the lap in 56.84 with Ataya Rhoden (Clemens) and Camia Patterson (Medina Valley) fighting it out for second place. Rhoden finished in 59.12 while Patterson crossed the line in 59.14. Pinto followed that up by winning the 200m in 25.87 as she held off her sister, Madison Pinto, who was second in 26.22. Mikayla Green grabbed third place for Boerne Champion in 26.40.

The final event win for Medina Valley came in the 4x400m relay where the quartet of Madison Pinto, Patterson, Perez and Trinity Pinto set a new school record of 3:55.07. Boerne Champion took second in 4:08.06 while Davenport was third in 4:15.64.

The 4x100m relay featured an excellent finish as MacArthur's Ayana Young held off Alzara Mysliewicz of Alamo Heights for the victory. MacArthur finished in 49.14 while Heights crossed the tape in 49.19. Medina Valley settled for third place in 49.78.

Emma Radtke powered through a strong 800m with a winning time of 2:19.44 as she held off Camia Patterson who finished less than a second behind her. Reese Marshall (Medina Valley) finished in third place in 2:23.07.

In the 100m, Alzara Mysliewicz got a measure of revenge over Ayana Young as she pulled away to win in 12.43 with Young second in 12.62. Ava Williams of MacArthur crossed the line in 12.86 for third place.

In the 4x200m, the O'Connor team of Ava Merrill, Madison Libson, Brooke Black and Macy Bitner took gold in 1:44.53 while Medina Valley and Boerne Champion grabbed the next two spots.

The throwing events featured two of the top girls in the area, Arrian Spratt (Marshall) and Cyani Ingram (Madison). Spratt won the discus with a throw of 126-8 and Ingram was second with a mark of 119-6. Kirkland Theilengerdes (Lee) grabbed the bronze medal with a throw of 111-1. Ingram took gold in the shot put with her heave of 41-1 with Jaiden Thomas (Clemens) and Kambree Heintz (Marshall) also medaling.

In the pole vault, Patrisia Ruiz (O'Connor) cleared 11-2 to take first place. Kennedy Veale (Alamo Heights) went 10-6 for second and Addison Lacy (Clemens) was third with a clearance of 10-0.

The Clemens boys did not have their best performance of the season, but it was still strong enough to win the meet. Fresh off running at the Nike Indoor Nationals meet, Sean Gonzalez went out in 55s in the 800m and was never seriously challenged en route to winning in 1:54.35. Four other runners broke 2-minutes including Silas Gonzalez (1:56.58) and Chris Esparza (1:56.82) of O'Connor who took second and third place, respectively. Gabriel Fuller and Christian Dupree each cleared 6-6 in the high jump to take the top two spots for Clemens as Anthony Romero-Kibler (Alamo Heights) was third at 6-4. The only other event win for Clemens came from Malcolm Kasonga-Wells who leaped 46-2.75 in the triple jump. Demone Hatcher (Medina Valley) was second with a mark of 45-4.5 and Antonio Jones (Clemens) took third at 43-8.

There were three individuals who won multiple events. Madison's Nicholas Maldonado won both the 3200m and 1600m by sporting a great final kick in each event. He opened the meet by sitting and waiting in the 3200m before eventually making his move and winning in 9:40.16 while Trevor Lawson (Clemens) and Alvaro Zuniga (Lee) had to settle for the next two spots. In the 1600m, Chris Esparza led for most of the second half of the race, but did not have enough at the end to hold off Maldonado. Maldonado won in 4:24.37 with Esparza crossing in 4:25.55 and Silas Gonzalez held on for third in 4:26.01.

Jack Hollimon (Alamo Heights) continued to be consistently excellent in the hurdle events by winning both. He won the 110mh in 14.99 while Madison's Alejandro Quijano (15.53) and Jayden Williams (16.01) took the next two spots. Hollimon and Quijano went 1-2 again in the 300mh with Hollimon winning in 38.57 and Quijano crossed in 40.42. Michael Alaniz (Alamo Heights) was the bronze medalist in 41.19.

In the throwing events, Blake Stehling (Boerne Champion) took home both titles. He nearly set a personal record in the discus with a throw of 163-9 and then he did set a new PR in the shot put with a throw of 55-4. Cyelan Whitley (Clemens) was runner-up in the shot put with a throw of 50-0 while Darryl Copeland (MacArthur) took third at 47-5. Davenport's Connor Crysler was second in the discus with a mark of 144-6 and Case Dierschke (Clemens) was third with a mark of 143-5.

The first sprint event of the meet, the 4x100m relay, was won by Boerne Champion in 42.07 with Madison following closely at 42.16. Alamo Heights grabbed third place in 42.42. Brogan Dempsey ran the anchor leg for Champion and followed that up by winning the 100m in 11.18 over Madison's Miguel Macias (11.24) and Davenport's Josh Johnson (11.25). Dempsey picked up his third win of the day by anchoring the winning 4x200m relay team along with Juan Nava, Hayden Fridley and Ryan McDonald. They finished in 1:28.59 to hold off Madison who finished in 1:29.89. Medina Valley grabbed third place with a time of 1:29.55.

The 400m dash proved to be one of the best races of the meet with the top three finishers all crossing the line within 0.15 seconds of each other. Marcos Perez (Medina Valley) took the gold medal with a winning time of 50.85 while Ryder Luetkenhaus (Lee) and Bloomfield Yarbrough (Clemens) had to settle for the next to positions.

MacArthur's Theo Abraham showed off his speed in the 200m winning with an excellent performance. He posted a time of 22.16. Caden Scott (Davenport) nabbed second place in 22.81 and Carson Neuman (Medina Valley) was close behind in third.

Davenport closed out the track events in style running an excellent time of 3:23.26 to win the 4x400m. Their quartet of Tre Daughtery, Terrence Coffman, Josh Johnson and Scott held off Clemens (3:26.24) and Boerne Champion (3:27.12) at the end.

Coltrane Kennan has been showing steady improvement all season long for Alamo Heights in the long jump. He went over 22-feet for the second straight meet and won with his mark of 22-4. Ryder Flugence (Boerne Champion) was runner-up with a mark of 21-9 and Kevin Straughter (Medina Valley) leapt 21-6 for third place.