Track and Field: May 2008 Archives

"Elle's relay race" shows Naperville North senior Elle Metz running her leg of the 3,200-meter relay in the IHSA Class AA girls track and field prelims on Friday in Charleston.

Metz, Erica Schertz, Michelle Stratton and Jamie Schertz finished fourth in their heat and qualified for the finals at 9:27 flat.

UPDATE: The Huskies finished ninth on Saturday in 9:27.15 just ahead of 10th-place Neuqua Valley. Dana Wehan, Megan Taylor, Megan Hynes and Sara Hartley crossed in 9:31.44.

Waubonsie Valley junior Shakeia Pinnick ran the fastest times in both the 100-meter high hurdles and the 300 low hurdles on Friday in the prelims of the IHSA Class AA girls track and field state championships at EIU's O'Brien Stadium in Charleston.

Pinnick's time in the 300 hurdles -- 42.77 seconds -- has her way out in front of the pack. Morgan Monroe of Lane Tech was the second fastest at 43.05.

In the 100 hurdles, Pinnick has some tough company with her 14.35. East St. Louis Senior High's Ronecia East, as in 2007 100-meter dash state champion Ronecia East, qualified at 14.39. East also ran the fastest time in the 200 and qualified for the 100 finals, too, so she's pretty slow.

Waubonsie Valley's Shakeia Pinnick qualified for the state meet in four events on Friday at the Waubonsie Sectional, including a sectional title in the 300 hurdles.

...Pinnick qualified for the state meet in four events: the 100 and 300-meter hurdles, 800 run and 200 dash.

''But in the 300 hurdles I might have been a little angry, and that ended up OK since that's my favorite race.''

And oh by the way.

Benet won the sectional team title with 88 points, followed by Batavia in second with 65 and Neuqua Valley in third with 60.

Fresh off his conference championship in the long jump at the CCIW outdoor meet, Neuqua Valley graduate and Cathage College sophomore Buzzy Brown will be in Naperville on Friday for the Dr. Keeler Invitational.

Brown won his conference title with a leap of 23-feet, four inches at North Park University in Chicago. The Red Men placed third.

The Keeler Invitational begins at 3 p.m. at North Central College's Bendetti-Wherli Stadium.