2008 Varsity Girl's Track and Field Results

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Thursday, June 5   Open State Qualifier

First place finishers in Division II qualify for the State Championship Meet, as well as those hitting other difficult criteria.  Lowville did not have any state qualifiers, but we had many good performances.

Rachel Ashley placed seventh in the long jump, Deborah Kaban placed fifth in the 800 meter run, Ashley Panowicz placed fourth in the long jump, and Michelle Haapala placed third in the high jump.

The 4x100 relay team of Michelle Haapala, Morgan Lampson, Morgan Rook, and Ashley Panowicz placed tenth, the 4x400 relay team of Michelle Haapala, Sarah Hanno, Ashley Panowicz, and Marissa Maring placed eighth, and the 4x800 relay team of Elise Kelly, Rachel Ashley, Kaitlyn Shockey, and Deborah Kaban placed sixth.

no school record were set today, so Marksy gets to keep his hair that lovely shade of silver/taupe/blonde/brown/red that he has always had.

Complete results below

Thursday, May 29   Section III Class B2 Meet

Lowville finished a distant fourth behind Sauquoit Valley, CBA, and Canastota, but once again, we stole the show with some amazing wins including two relays.

Top places by Lowville Athletes:

Sixth place went to Ashley Panowicz in the 100 meter dash.

Fourth place went to Ashley Panowicz in the triple jump, Michelle Haapala in the 200 meter dash, and Dana Roes in her inauguration as a pentathlete.

Second place went to Rachel Ashley in the long jump, and the 4x100 relay team of Michelle Haapala, Morgan Lampson, Morgan Rook, and Ashley Panowicz.  The relay team roared from a fourth place ranking using excellent baton passes to barely miss a championship, finishing one-tenth of a second behind Herkimer.

Section III championship patches were won by Deborah Kaban in the 800 meter dash, Ashley Panowicz in the long jump, the 4x800 relay team of Keely Sammon, Rachel Ashley, Kaitlyn Shockey, and Deborah Kaban, and the 4x400 relay team of Deborah Kaban, Marissa Maring, Rachel Ashley, and Elise Kelly.  The 4x400 team improved on their impressive League championship performance by nearly seven seconds in the effort, while the 4x800 team managed an exciting come-from-behind victory when Deborah Kaban sprinted past Canastota in the final hundred meters.  Canastota has lead by as much as 80 meters in the race.

Top three finishers in the meet advance to the Open state qualifier next Thursday, as well as Michelle Haapala in the high jump, who had qualified earlier in the season.

Full results below

Thursday, May 22   Frontier League Championship Meet

Lowville finished third with 67 points, nearly 100 points behind South Jefferson and Indian River, but we came away with some excellent consolation prizes.

Top places by Lowville athletes:

sixth place went to Marissa Maring in the 400 meter dash

fifth place went to Rachel Ashley in the long jump

fourth place went to Katie Czerwinski in the long jump and Ashley Panowicz in the 100 meter dash.  Both achieved personal records in the abysmal weather.

third place went to Elise Kelly in the 400 meter dash and the 4x100 meter relay team of Michelle Haapala, Morgan Lampson, Morgan Rook, and Ashley Panowicz.

Second place went to Michelle Haapala in the 200 meter dash, and Ashley Panowicz in the long jump.

Gold Medal performances were turned in by Deborah Kaban in the 800, the 4x800 relay team, and the 4x400 relay team.  Deborah ran a perfect race and pulled past Patience Kapfer at the tape in the 800 meter dash, improving her PR by four seconds.  Keely Sammon, Rachel Ashley, Kaitlyn Shockey, and Deb Kaban pulled off an impressive victory in the 4x800 relay with a time of 10:19.4, the best time we've had in that event in eight years.  Deb Kaban, Marissa Maring, Elise Kelly, and Rachel Ashley pulled out another amazing race in the 4x400.  Elise gave a narrow lead to Rachel for the final leg which Rachel made stand up.  Rachel held off Beaver River and a hard charging Indian River to secure the gold medal.

Complete results below  

Saturday, May 17    85th Van Dusen Invitational

     Fifteen girl's teams attended the 85th Van Dusen Invitational in Ogdensburg.  Lowville finished fourth in the women's division with 53 points.  Beekmantown won the event with 77 points.

     Raider tracksters brought home a fistful of medals and awards, and many personal records were set because of excellent meet conditions early in the meet.  Rain started pelting the event at about 2:30, but soon subsided.

     Michelle Haapala tied for sixth place in the high jump at 4' 6.  Michelle later sprained her ankle after easily qualifying for the finals of the 200 meter dash and had to withdraw from the meet.

     Fifth place finishers were Marissa Maring at 1:05.4 in the 400 meter dash, and Rachel Ashley at 14' 3 in the long jump.

     Fourth place went to Deb Kaban in the 800 meter dash 2:31.4, and the 4x100 meter relay team of Morgan, Morgan, Morgan, and not Morgan with an effort of 56.4 seconds.

     Bronze Medals were won by Rachel Ashley in the 1500 meter run with a PR of 5:18.7, Elise Kelly in the 400 meter dash at 1:04.5, and the freshmen relay team of Taylor Sterner, Jordan Myers, Kayla Bogdanowicz, and Veronica Berrus with a time of 2:12.6.

     Silver Medals were awarded to the 4x800 relay team of Kaitlyn Shockey, Rachael Kaban, Keely Sammon, and Deb Kaban with a seasons best time of 10:42.3, and the 4x400 relay team of 4:33.3.

     Winning the gold medal was Katie Czerwinski in the triple jump with a jump of 30' 2"

All Lowville results on link below.

Tuesday, May 13    South Jefferson & Indian River

     South Jefferson and Indian River fought a titanic battle for the league title (Indian River won by one point despite South Jefferson winning ten events and two relays).  A few Lowville performances shone through despite the tough competition.

     Michelle Haapala placed first in the high jump at 5' 0, defeating the top ranked high jumper in the league (Cali Hitchinson) who had cleared 5'3 in April.  Michelle also ran a PR of 28.0 in the 200 meter dash for third place.

     Ashley Panowicz won the long jump.  Her effort of 15' 0 1/4 defeated Brittany Moody by 1/4 inch.

     Dana Roes competed in the 400 low hurdles for the first time and looked great, placing fifth with a time of 1:19.6.

     Katie Czerwinski competed for the first time this season and registered an excellent jump of 30'10" in the triple jump.

     Finally, it was great to see Kaitlyn Shockey on the track again running like Kaitlyn Shockey. 

Tuesday, May 6   South Lewis & Sandy Creek

     We take our first league loss of the season 63 - 78 to South Lewis in the division showdown.  We split the meet by defeating Sandy Creek 100 - 35.

     Elise Kelly placed first in the 400 meter dash, Ashley Panowicz placed first in the long jump, and Michelle Haapala placed first in the high jump.

     The 4x100 relay team of Michelle Haapala, Morgan Lampson, Morgan Rook, and Ashley Panowicz won with an excellent effort of 54.7 seconds, and the 4x400 relay team of Sarah Hanno, Marissa Maring, Deborah Kaban, and Elise Kelly won an exciting race to finish the meet.

     Marissa Maring used the slide step in the shot put for the first time and improved her effort to 28'4".

Saturday, May 3   SAT Day

RFA Invitational

Liverpool 93   RFA 72   Bethlehem 62   Baldwinsville 49, South Jefferson 47  Indian River 38.5 New Hartford 33   Corcoran 29.5   Holland Patent 29   CNS 24   Remsen 20   Lowville 17   Tupper Lake 16   ESM 14   South Lewis 12   Clinton 12   NY Mills 10  Ilion 5 Adirondack 4   Watertown 2

     Lowville is one of nineteen teams attending the RFA invitational.  As usual, the Raiders do well in the long jump, placing two in the finals.  Rachel Ashley placed sixth and Ashley Panowicz placed fourth. 

     The 4x100 relay team of Michelle Haapala, Morgan Lampson, Morgan Rook, and Ashley Panowicz missed the finals by two tenths of a second, but recorded our best time of the season at 54.3 seconds.

     The 4x800 team of Kayla Bogdanowicz, Keely Sammon, Rachael Kaban and Deb Kaban placed fourth in the event.  The 4x400 relay team of Sarah Hanno, Marissa Maring, Rachel Ashley, and Elise Kelly placed third.

     Two new events were inserted at the last minute, the novice 1500 meter run and the novice 200 dash.  Rebekah O'Brian used a strong last half of the race to move through the pack and finish second in the novice 1500 meters.

     Rachael Kaban finished strongly in the 3000 meter run for a fifth place finish

Complete results below

Tuesday, April 29th

Watertown and APW

     Our second Frontier League Tri-meet at Watertown.  It was cold and windy, but al least it wasn't raining.  We won eleven events on our way to raising our league record to 4 wins and 0 losses. 

     Taylor Haenlin broke her school record in the pole vault with an amazing effort, clearing nine feet on her final attempt, just seconds before she had to dash down to the 4x400 relay. 

Full results below

Saturday, April 26th 

the Warrior-Hawk Invitational

     We travelled to Central Square for the Warrior-Hawk Invitational.  With nearly half the team missing due to conflicts, the coaches came up with some interesting ways to fill events.

     Domanique Domagala finished eighth in her first attempt at the pentathlon.  Michelle Haapala finished seventh in the high jump.  The sprint medley relay team of Kayla Bogdanowicz, Sarah Hanno, Dana Roes, and Rebekah O'Brian finished seventh as well.

     Elise Kelly, Deb Kaban, Rachael Kaban, and Keely Sammon placed fifth in the 4x800 relay.  Elise says never again after her initiation into the event.  Ashley Panowicz, Michelle Haapala, Marissa Maring, and Elise Kelly place fourth in the 4x400 relay.  Ashley has similar feelings about the 400.

     Our best award of the day was in the long jump, where Ashley Panowicz hit a PR of 16' 1" on her fifth jump.  Ashley had been leading the event after her trials jump of 15' 6 3/4, but had to be satisfied with second when another jumper snapped off a seventeen footer.

     Domanique Domagala, as part of her pentathlon performance, set a remarkable PR in the 100 meter high hurdles at 17.6 seconds, eight tenths of a second better than her previous best time.

Link to Tullyrunners for complete results below

Opening Day

Lowville 84   Beaver River 57

Lowville 113   Carthage 23

     Lowville travelled to Carthage for a double-dual meet against divisional rival Beaver River and crossover team Carthage.  Despite several early setbacks, the Raider Tracksters won many close events for the double win.

     Individual event winners for Lowville were Domanique Domagala in the 400 meter low hurdles and 100 meter high hurdles, Rachel Ashley in the 800 meter run, Ashley Panowicz in the 100 meter dash and the triple jump, Michelle Haapala in the 200 meter dash and the high jump, Keely Sammon in the 1500 meter run, Marissa Maring in the shot put, and Taylor Haenlin in the long jump and the pole vault.

     Relay winners were Michelle Haapala, Morgan Lampson, Nicole Dittl, and Ashley Panowicz in the 4x100 relay, and Rachel Ashley, Marissa Maring, Taylor Haenlin, and Elise Kelly in the 4x400 relay.

     Taylor Haenlin equalled her own school record in the pole vault with a height of 7' 6".

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