Moolenaar wins 4 events, Juby takes discus as Pioneer takes 2nd in Hoosier North

Sprinter Popejoy, distance runner Wegner win 3 titles each for Winamac; high jumper Sailors, shot putter Hoover win for NM; Caston repeats as 4 x 400 relay champs

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Aspen Moolenaar

Pioneer senior Aspen Moolenaar won the 100 hurdles, 300 hurdles, long jump and pole vault at the Hoosier North track meet at Culver Tuesday, helping the Lady Panthers finish in second place.

Pioneer scored 109 points. Triton won with 123.5 points.

The other Pioneer champion was sophomore Emilee Juby, who won the discus with a throw of 104-8.

Moolenaar won the 100 hurdles in 16.75 seconds and the 300 hurdles in 49.62 seconds. Nobody was within a second of her in the 100 hurdles, and only one other runner was within two seconds of her in the 300 hurdles. She also long-jumped 15-9 ½ and won by eight inches and pole-vaulted 9-6 and won by a foot.

Meanwhile, Winamac’s Sadie Popejoy won the 100, 200 and 400 meters while teammate Avery Wegner won the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 meters. They helped Winamac place third with 99 points.

Popejoy won the 100 in 13.33 seconds and the 200 in 27.80 seconds, edging out Culver’s Ava McCune in both races. Her 400 time of 1:03.70 was a personal best and beat out Caston’s Camila Hernandez-Rios by 0.59 seconds. Popejoy also finished second in the discus behind Juby with a top throw of 101-0.

Sadie Popejoy Avery Wegner Camila Hernandez-Rios

Wegner won the 800 in 2:41.10, the 1,600 in 6:02.34 and the 3,200 in a personal best 13:29.48. Runners from Triton finished second and third in all three races.

Among other area teams, Caston was fourth with 76.5 points, North Miami was fifth with 74, Culver was sixth with 57, and Argos was eighth with 26.

The other area champion on the track was Caston’s 4 x 400 relay team, which consisted of Autumn Sanders, Hannah Rogers, Grace Colvin and Camila Hernandez-Rios. That team ran a 4:31.56 and beat runner-up Triton by nearly five seconds.

Hernandez-Rios was also sixth in the 100 and fourth in the 200 in addition to the relay and her runner-up showing in the 400. Rogers was also fourth in the 800 and 1,600 and fifth in the 3,200.

In addition to Moolenaar and Juby, other area athletes to win field event titles included North Miami high jumper Grace Sailors, who cleared 4-10 and beat Winamac’s Kandace Kroft on the fewest-misses tiebreaker; and North Miami shot putter Andrea Hoover, who had a throw of 35-2 to beat runner-up Laylah Demond of Pioneer by over three feet.

Sailors, a Franklin College recruit for volleyball and track, was also second in the 100 hurdles behind Moolenaar, fifth in the discus and eighth in the shot put.

In addition to her runner-up performances in the 100 and 200, McCune was also part of the 4 x 100 relay that finished second – teammates included Eliana Andrzejewski, Kaira Luhnow and Julia Stoch – and took fourth in the 300 hurdles.

Triton won the team title despite winning only one event – the 4 x 800 relay.

HOOSIER NORTH GIRLS RESULTS: Triton 123.5, PIONEER 109, WINAMAC 99, CASTON 76.5, NORTH MIAMI 74, CULVER 57, North Judson 50, ARGOS 26, Oregon-Davis 6

Scoring on 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for all events

Winners plus all area placers (top eight)

100 m

1. Sadie Popejoy (WIN) – 13.33 seconds, 2. Ava McCune (CUL) – 13.62, 6. Camila Hernandez-Rios (CAS) – 13.80, 7. Grace Colvin (CAS) – 14.14, 8. Avery Binfet (ARG) – 14.34

200 m

1. Sadie Popejoy (WIN) – 27.80 seconds, 2. Ava McCune (CUL) – 29.04, 3. Sydney Lane (NM) – 29.39, 4. Camila Hernandez-Rios (CAS) – 29.61, 5. Grace Colvin (CAS) – 29.62, 7. Katelyn Burgess (WIN) – 29.94, 8. Ashtyn Halterman (NM) – 30.00

400 m

1. Sadie Popejoy (WIN) – 1:03.70, 2. Camila Hernandez-Rios (CAS) – 1:04.29, 3. Kinley Deardorff (NM) – 1:07.37, 4. Autumn Sanders (CAS) – 1:07.61, 5. Jenna Franklin (PIO) – 1:07.89, 7. Bryanne Sturch (NM) – 1:08.36

800 m

1. Avery Wegner (WIN) – 2:41.10, 4. Hannah Rogers (CAS) – 2:49.60, 5. Paytyn Dillman (PIO) – 2:49.65, 6. Ellie Hines (PIO) – 2:49.82, 7. Emily Pippenger (ARG) – 3:00.06

1,600 m

1. Avery Wegner (WIN) – 6:02.34, 4. Hannah Rogers (CAS) – 6:14.64, 6. Emily Pippenger (ARG) – 6:33.28, 7. Lucy Bowditch (PIO) – 6:34.61, 8. Kayli Pantaleon Xocua (NM) – 6:44.44

3,200 m

1. Avery Wegner (WIN) – 13:29.48, 4. Lucy Bowditch (PIO) – 14:41.51, 5. Hannah Rogers (CAS) – 15:28.89, 6. Avery Haselby (PIO) – 15:36.29, 7. Maci Reinhold (CUL) – 16:08.03, 8. Roni Garbison (WIN) – 16:24.47

100 m hurdles

1. Aspen Moolenaar (PIO) – 16.75 seconds, 2. Grace Sailors (NM) – 17.99, 4. Kaira Luhnow (CUL) – 18.63, 6. Camilla Sandoval-Gallo (PIO) – 19.16, 7. Maleah Johnson (CUL) – 19.91, 8. Callie Salisbury (CAS) – 20.18

300 m hurdles

1. Aspen Moolenaar (PIO) – 49.62 seconds, 3. Leah Shafer (NM) – 52.31, 4. Ava McCune (CUL) – 53.22, 6. Camilla Sandoval-Gallo (PIO) – 56.54, 7. Kandace Kroft (WIN) – 58.06, 8. Celine Brandstad (CUL) – 59.54

4 x 100 m relay

1. North Judson – 53.50 seconds, 2. Culver (Eliana Andrzejewski, Kaira Luhnow, Ava McCune, Julia Stoch) – 53.92, 4. Pioneer (Jenna Franklin, Kaydence Cottrell, Zadie Fross, Camilla Sandoval-Gallo) – 56.90, 5. Argos (Hayna Willis, Leah Pizzuto, Paytyn Willis, Avery Binfet) – 57.04, 6. Winamac (Madelyn Goodman, Addison Redweik, Mylie Foster, Katelyn Burgess) – 58.29, 8. Caston (Breanna James, Callie Salisbury, Jaded Aguilar-Rios, Ripley Beck) – 1:00.09

4 x 400 m relay

1. Caston (Autumn Sanders, Hannah Rogers, Grace Colvin, Camila Hernandez-Rios) – 4:31.56, 3. North Miami (Bryanne Sturch, Sydney Lane, Leah Shafer, Kinley Deardorff) – 4:42.55, 4. Pioneer (Paytyn Dillman, Jenna Franklin, Ellie Hines, Camilla Sandoval-Gallo) – 4:55.79, 5. Argos (Leah Pizzuto, Eden Rakoczy, Emily Pippenger, Avery Binfet) – 4:56.61, 6. Winamac (Maci Earp, Mylie Foster, Madelyn Goodman, Kandace Kroft) – 5:02.53, 7. Culver (Eliana Andrzejewski, Maleah Johnson, Maddison Beach, Lina Sagel) – 5:06.96

4 x 800 m relay

1. Triton – 11:04.92, 2. Winamac (Kandace Kroft, Maci Earp, Madelyn Goodman, Avery Wegner) – 11:13.50, 3. North Miami (Kayli Pantaleon Xocua, Savannah Rentschler, Kinley Deardorff, Leah Shafer) – 11:22.48, 4. Pioneer (Lucy Bowditch, Paytyn Dillman, Zadie Fross, Ellie Hines) – 11:59.78, 5. Culver (Jazzlyn Bollenbacher, Amelia Stoch, Abby Rogers, Maddison Beach) – 12:47.20, 6. Caston (Breanna James, Vivian Moulder, Jaded Aguilar-Rios, Trinity Zimmerman) – 13:47.52

Long jump

1. Aspen Mollenaar (PIO) – 15-9 ½, 5. Mylie Foster (WIN) – 13-6, 6. Ashtyn Halterman (NM) – 13-4 ¾, 7. Callie Salisbury (CAS) – 13-4, 8. Emily Pippenger (ARG) – 12-9

High jump

1. Grace Sailors (NM) – 4-10, 2. Kandace Kroft (WIN) – 410, 4. Grace Colvin (CAS) – 4-8, 5. Sydney Lane (NM) – 4-6, 6. Celine Brantstad (CUL) – 4-6, t-7. Noa Bissacco (PIO) – 4-4

Discus

1. Emilee Juby (PIO) – 104-8, 2. Sadie Popejoy (WIN) – 101-0, 4. Lyla Gebhardt (CAS) – 95-4, 5. Grace Sailors (NM) – 93-3, 7. Savanna Harrington (CUL) – 91-11, 8. Jada Martz (CAS) – 86-4

Shot put

1. Andrea Hoover (NM) – 35-2, 2. Laylah Demond (PIO) – 31-8 ½, 3. Maddison Beach (CUL) – 30-7 ½, 4. Brook;ynn Dillman (PIO) – 30-0, 5. Allison Craig (CAS) – 27-6 ½, 6. Jada Martz (CAS) – 27-2, 8. Grace Sailors (NM) – 26-10 ½

Pole vault

1. Aspen Moolenaar (PIO) – 9-6, 3. Peytyn Willis (ARG) – 7-6, 4. Avery Binfet (ARG) – 7-6, t-6. Avery Haselby (PIO) – 7-0