How News-Herald coverage area student-athletes fared on Day 1 of the state track and field meet in Dayton. Competitors are listed in alphabetical order by division.
DAYTON — The statement from Perry’s Brayden Richards has been emphatic down the stretch when it comes to his trademark pole vault.Anything short of an elusive first state championship, as a senior and as one of the most decorated vaulters in News-Herald coverage area lore, simply would not do.Retrospect tends to make that sentiment wane […]
DAYTON — Perry senior Brayden Richards was disqualified following his 300-meter hurdles final at the Division II state track and field meet in Dayton on June 1.After initial indications Richards had won the D-II 300 hurdles state championship, officials conferred and ruled Richards committed hurdle interference. The hurdle interference was deemed to have impacted three […]
DAYTON — If nothing else, Rob Bonchak is a fantastic listener.One of the lost arts in track and field tends to be how to lean at the finish line, decisively but at the right angle and with the proper sense of when and where to do it.The Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin sophomore went to the textbook […]