Dodds, Bauman, boys newcomers shine at BAL meet

The Dock track and field team went back on the road just two days after a full-day meet and responded well with another batch of bests to open the month of May.

In a Bicentennial Athletic League meet hosted by Interboro on Monday, the girls were highlighted by wins in both hurdles and the triple jump from Bobby Jo Dodds and a season best from the 4x800 relay among a number of personal bests and successful debuts. A quartet of newcomers produced bests in the 400 meters to highlight the boys’ day along with second-place finishes for the 4x100 relay, Micah Mast, Daniel Ringenberg and Matthew Mast and personal records led by Drew Bauman’s javelin and 110-meter hurdles marks.

Dodds won the girls 300 hurdles in 48.84 seconds, took the 100 hurdles narrowly in 17.82 seconds and triple jumped 31-feet-11. She anchored the second-place 4x400 relay.

Sophia Veltre placed second in the long jump at 13-feet-5 in her first time in the event. She finished fourth in the triple jump in 27-9½, and placed fourth in the shot put with a two-feet personal record of 26-10.

Gretchen German was fifth in the javelin with 64-3, Veltre was seventh at 58-11 and Sadie Bernd debuted with a 10th place throw of 50-10.

The 4x800 relay of Ceara Barnes, German, Liv Moyer and Bernd lowered their season best by 10 seconds to win the event in 10:51.92.

Maddie Afanador was seventh in a personal-best 59.41 seconds and Olivia Mozzone was eighth in 59.74 in the 300 hurdles. They flipped positions in the 100 hurdles with Mozzone running 21.65 and Afanador clocking 21.87 seconds.

Moyer ran 6:05.52 for second in the 1,600 meters and posted a 12:59.84 for second in the 3,200 meters.
Barnes was ninth in the 400 meters in 1:09.45 and 11th in the 200 meters in 31.18 seconds. German took 11th in the 400 in 1:11.62 and ran 32.17 seconds in the 200. Toni Phillips debuted in the 800 meters and ran 3:26.19 for seventh.

German, Barnes, Bernd and Moyer ran the 4x400 in 4:40.28.

The boys got a quick day out of their quarter-milers. Jayden Waters cut four seconds off his best time to place seventh in 56.34. Roman Kurian had his best time of 1:01.26. Myles Johnson set a PR of 1:02.55. And Seungkyu Cho ran the event for the first time and clocked 1:04.49.

Cho’s meet began with him anchoring the 4x800 relay of Ringenberg, Mikey Pustay, and Josh Frederick that took third place in 10:12.47.

Micah Mast was second in the boys 300 hurdles in 43.48 seconds. Bauman was fifth in 45.41. Mast was second in the 110-meter hurdles in 17.64 seconds, just off his PR. Bauman dropped under 18 seconds for the first time in the event and placed third in 17.90 seconds.

Luke Smeland, Waters, Bauman and Micah Mast ran a season-best 47.34 for second in the 4x100 relay.
Frederick debuted in the 1,600 meters with a 5:55.07. Ringenberg ran a personal best of 10:56.77 in the 3,200. Pustay debuted at the distance with a 12:24.30 time.

Smeland ran 12.58 in the 100 meters. Kurian ran 13.01. He came back to run 26.91 in the 200. Matthew Mast ran a personal best 19.86 in the 110 hurdles. He ran 53.82 for the 300 hurdles.

The 4x400 relay of Kurian (1:00), Johnson (1:05), Frederick (1:06) and Ringenberg (:59) ran 3:53.60.

In the field events, Matthew Mast was second when he cleared a best of 7-feet in the pole vault. Bauman was third in the javelin with a new best of 109-feet-10. Smeland was sixth at 94-6, and Micah Mast threw a personal-record 91-2 for eighth. Frederick threw 73-feet. Smeland was 10th in shot put at 23-11.

Waters jumped 17-1 for fourth in boys long jump. He was sixth in the triple jump with a 32-feet mark. Matthew Mast was ninth in triple jump when he hit 29-8½, and Johnson was just behind with 27-5¾.

The Pioneers will compete in the Helman/Hosier Invitational at Pennridge High on Thursday and select athletes will compete again Friday in the prestigious Henderson Invitational in West Chester.