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Track and Field Wins 5 Events and Sets 3 School Records at Altoona Mt. Lion Invitational

Game Date: May 3, 2019

The Indiana Track and Field teams weathered a 90 minute rain delay while winning 5 events and setting 3 school records Friday night at the Altoona Mt. Lion Invitational. The boys started and ended the meet on a high note winning both the 4x800 meter relay and the 4x400 meter relay. In the 4x800 the team of Kendall Branan, Joey Bujdos, Matt Berzonsky, and Iago Jopia won the event with a school record time of 7:54.67. That betters the previous record of 7:55.31 set in 2014 by Darrious Carter, Cole Rosenberger, Adam Lenze, and Ryan Louther. In the 4x400 meter relay the team of Branan, Bujdos, Berzonsky, and Luke Ciocca ran a season's best time of 3:27.91 in winning the event.

In between the winning relays, the Indians secured 3 individual wins. Kendall Branan bettered his own school record 800 meter time by running a 1:54.86. Teammate Joey Bujdos was not far behind taking second in the 800 with a fine time of 1:56.77. Isaac Roadman set the third school record of the day while winning the pole vault with a jump of 14-10. The previous record of 14-9 was held by Joey McCombie set in 2007. The third individual win for the team occured on the girls side of the ledger where Parker Fanella won the girls discus with a throw of 107-6.

The following additional athletes and relays also placed in the top 8 of their respective events helping the boys to a 3rd place finish overall with 72 points and the girls to a 9th place finish with 37 points.

Iago Jopia - 3200 meters - 3rd place - 9:38.51

Anthony Bevevino - discus - 3rd place - 138-07

Jameson Kutz - triple jump - 5th place - 42-11

Jameson Kutz - long jump - 7th place - 20-5

Evan Ray - high jump - 6th place - 6-0

Luke Ciocca - 200 meters - 6th place - 23.98

Faith Hartle - pole vault - 2nd place - 10-0

Faith Hartle - 100 hurdles - 4th place - 16.43

Lexi Smathers - discus - 3rd place - 94-6

Isabelle McCabe - 3200 meters - 6th place - 11:55.03

Sara Welch - long jump - 7th place - 15-10.5

Sarah Welch - triple jump - 7th place - 34-3.5

4x400 relay team - Maddie Redhead-Kriston, Melina Hilliard, Gabby Clark, Maddie Caroff - 7th place - 4:29.08

(submitted by Coach Cochran)

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