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Milan shows promise at 'Frosh-Soph' meet
Younger Big Reds shine at meet before full-team debut this Thursday
By Jerry Hinnen, Staff Writer
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2007
After the weather-induced cancellation of the Clinton Relays April 7, the Milan track teams are still waiting for their first full official meet of the season.
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But the girls' team's freshmen and sophomores — and a handful of underclass boys' team members — got a head start last Saturday at the Jefferson Freshman-Sophomore Invitational hosted by Milan's Huron League rival Monroe-Jefferson.
Big Red athletes earned 51 medals at the meet for sixth-place or better finishes. Team scores were not kept, but girls' head coach Steve Porter was plenty pleased with his freshmen and sophomores' performances.
"This was a great meet to give our young kids a chance to run for medals," Porter said. "Our kids did a great job. They competed and acted like a team."
In this particular meet, all events, not just the traditional relays, were scored as relays with each school competing as a team in each event.
Milan brought home first-place finishes in four of those events. Two of them came in field events as Taylor McGovern (4'8") and Loren Weber (4'6") combined to win the high jump and Megan Bailey (23'3"), Kai Beverley (28'10"), and Nicole Smith (20'1") won the girls' shot put.
The Big Reds also won the coed shuttle hurdle, with Ashley Agar, Joel Michalak, Samantha Armbruster and Ryan Hasten combining to run 36.3, and the distance medley, won in 14:39.5 by Samantha Beeler, Mareisha Lala, Kara Porter and Jordan Tomecek.
Milan teams took both second and third in the sprint medley. Beeler, Agar, Lala, and Kara Porter were runners-up in 5:03.8, while Jade Clark, Armbruster, Jessica Schumann and Weber took third in 5:27.1. The Big Reds also took second in the 800-meter relay through Agar, Lala, Schumann and Swain (2:08.8) and the long jump through Armbruster (11'10"), Katie Isley (10'11"), and Courtney Trudeau (10'4").
In fourth place were the coed 3200-meter relay of Tomecek, Anthony Mann, Kara Porter and Josh Martin in 11:08.4; the distance medley "B" relay of Clark, Swain, Jessica Leacher and Meg Sinclair (16:36), and the coed 1600-meter relay of Agar, Tommy Box, Weber and Mann (4:30.8).
Rounding out Milan's medal-winners were Box and Ryan Hasten (61'10"), combining for fifth in the boys' shot put, and two sixth-place "B" relays: Gena Miracle, Kristy Johnson, Haylee Weber and Kelsey Marzec (1:06.3) in the 400-meter relay and Clark, Miracle, Marzec and Trudeau (2:20.8) in the 800-meter relay.
"This is a very good sign of things to come," Steve Porter said of the team's performance. "If our young athletes can keep their work ethic and stick with the sport, we will be a very competitive team in the near future."
Milan will have its first full official meet at home against Flat Rock 4 p.m. Thursday.
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