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Brickert, Day, Owens ensure regional spots at THN Girls' Sectional
TERRE HAUTE – Three Putnam County athletes locked in their spot for the regional round next week at Tuesday’s IHSAA Terre Haute North Girls’ Track Sectional while four more individuals and two relays are in line to also participate in Bloomington.
South Putnam junior Bailey Brickert was the top finisher, taking second in the 100-meter hurdles (16.35), while Greencastle junior Kylee Owens placed third at high jump (5-03) and North Putnam freshman Jenna Day finished third in the 800-meter run (2:33.17).
The Cougars finished sixth overall on 25 points, a spot above the Clovers on 24 points with the Tiger Cubs and South Putnam tied with Clay City for ninth on 17 points.
Northview blew away the Vigo County trio to win the sectional on 160 points with South finishing second on 116 points, hosts North in third on 105 points and West Vigo fourth on 66 points.
South Vermillion rounded out the top five on 30 points with North Central eighth on 18 points, Sullivan 12th on 16 points and Parke Heritage 13th on 13 points.
In addition to the above placers, five other athletes and two relays advanced to the Bloomington North Regional next Tuesday.
The top-three athletes in each event advance to the regional round with the next four best times, heights or distances from the four sectionals that feed into the regional qualifying so that each event has 16 participants barring any ties that would increase the field.
Owens will be joined by Skyler Byrd, who finished fourth at pole vault (8-06) and Lilly Barnhart, who finished fourth in discus (101-04.50) while Cloverdale will send two runners in Asyria Ford, who finished fifth in the 400-meter dash (1:04.56) and Olivia Hemmerling, who finished fifth in the 300-meter hurdles (49.85). North Putnam’s Saylor Carrell will also attend, having placed seventh in the high jump (4-10) but is in a tie with eight other individuals who cleared the height.
The Clovers will also send the 400-meter relay team of Yasmin Sorter, Lulu Savoiani, Emily Mann and Rebecca Ponzano, which finished fourth (53.23) and the Cougars will second their 3,200-meter relay team of Day, Melanie Davies, Maddie Trent and Brooke Hensley, which finished fourth (11:16.57).
Other place finishers on the night included fifth-place finishes for the South Putnam 3,200-meter relay team of Lilly Emmerich, Kelsey Custis, Elizabeth Dobson and Elise Kendall (11:21.78) and North Putnam’s Callee Riggle in the shot put (33-07.75), sixth-place finishes for Kendall in the 3,200-meter run (12:38.28), Cloverdale’s Abigail Nees in the 1,60-meter run (6:05.16) and the North Putnam 1,600-relay team of Day, Hensley, Carrell and Kassidy Hackleman (4:42.61), seventh-place finishes the Cloverdale 3,200-meter relay team of Nees, Molly Havenor, Daphanie Geiger and Ella Szczerbik (11:23.54), North Putnam’s Olivia Stewart in discus (93-01) and South Putnam’s Jasmine Guzman in the 100-meter dash (13.40) and eight-place finishes for Hackleman in the 400-meter dash (1:04.99) and long jump (14-09.50), Szczerbik in the 3,200-meter run (13:09.93), North Putnam’s Mackinley Lawson in the shot put (32-01) and Greencastle’s 1,600-meter relay team of Emma Smiley, Ashlynn Pearson, Carissa Trigg and Penny Cummings (4:50.05).
