Alyia Lucarelli won three individual events and Abington Heights swept the relays May 2 to claim the Class 3A girls title in the Phil Tochelli Lackawanna Track Conference Junior High Championships at Lakeland.
The Lady Comets outscored Wallenpaupack, 138-80½, to finish first out of nine teams in the meet. Wallenpaupack beat out Abington Heights, 110-85, for the Class 3A boys title.
Lucarelli won the 100-meter dash in 13.06 seconds, the 200 in 27.36 and the long jump with 14-1¼. She also anchored the winning 400-meter relay team.
Addie Stark, who was part of the 1600 relay win, and Tayla Seid each won two individual events.
Stark won the 800 in 2:32.23 and the 1600 in 5:31.14.
Seid finished first in the triple jump with 31-10 and the pole vault with 8-6 while also placing third in the long jump.
Brooklyn Yankow and Caroline Peoples were each on both the 1600 and one other relay win.
Yankow added a second-place finish in the 400. Peoples was fifth in the 800.
Rachel Regan won the 100 meter hurdles in 17.28 and was part of the 3200 relay win along with Lucarelli, Yankow and Reese Azar. She came in third in the 200 and fourth in the 100.
Addisyn Mummert anchored the 1600 relay win and took fourth in the 400.
Fiona Grady, Julia Healey and Giada Lovecchio joined Peoples on the 3200 relay. Healey took fifth in the 1600.
The winning relay times were 53.54 in the 400, 4:23.44 in the 1600 and 10:27.54 in the 3200.
Kylie Edwards, in the high jump, and Emma Cantner, in the discus, added second-place finishes. Canter was also fourth in the shot put.
Sara Horsley was third in the triple jump; Elena Mastroianni was fourth in the 300 hurdles; Morgan Summa was fifth in the shot put and sixth in the discus; and McKenna Williams was sixth in the pole vault.
Anthony Piccotti, Jack Stopper, Adrian Azar and the 400 relay team posted wins for the Abington Heights boys.
Piccotti cleared 12-6 in the pole vault, took second in the 100 and was part of the 400 relay win with Scott Weilland, Joseph Wagner and Matt Ketrick.
Stopper won the 1600 in 5:10.63. Azar threw the discus 148-3.
Lucas Samala, Justin Lezinski and Matt Kettrick all had second-place finishes.
Samala was second in the 400, fourth in the long jump and fifth in the triple jump.
Lezinski placed second in the shot put and fourth in the discus.
Kettrick was second in the 200 and third in the 100.
The Comets were also third in the 1600 and 3200 relays.
Owen Morgan fourth in 800; Adam Piszczek fifth in pole vault and sixth in the 300 hurdles; Sawyer Wilson was fifth in the shot put; and Paul Rowlands was sixth in 400.
Lackawanna Trail finished fourth in Class 2A girls and 10th in Class 2A boys.
Lila Ryon finished first in Class 2A girls with a javelin throw of 87-11.
Alan Edwards took second in the long jump, third in the 300 hurdles and fifth in the 100 hurdles.
The Lady Lions had two place finishes in each hurdles race. Lauren Dewey was second in the 300 and third in the 100. Dewey was also third in the long jump.
Peyton Swartzfager placed second in the 1600 and fourth in the 800.
Lackawanna Trail finished third in the 3200 relay and fifth in the 1600 relay.
Katarina Borick was fourth in the javelin, Elle Vanko was fifth in the triple jump and Kacey Higgins sixth in the 400.
Noah Perry led the Lackawanna Trail boys with a sixth-place finish in the 1600.
Abington Heights Invitational
A field of 21 teams participated in the Abington Heights Invitational April 26.
The host Lady Comets finished first in a runaway, 155½-59 over second-place Mid Valley. The Comets finished fourth with 63 with Riverside scoring 105 to take the title.
Abington Heights claimed both pole vault championships with Piccotti and Seid producing wins.
Lucarelli won both the 100 and 200 while Stark won the 800 and 1600.
The Lady Comets also won the 400 and 3200 relays.
Adrian Azar added a win in the boys discus.
Lackawanna Trail, led by a 300 hurdles win from Dewey, placed sixth in the girls standings with 36 points.
