Salem senior Kyla Jamison lets it fly in the Austintown Division II regional shot put Thursday with teammate Lizzy Shontz and coach Bill Neapolitan looking on. Both Salem throwers qualified for the state meet. (Morning Journal/Ron Firth)
AUSTINTOWN — The Salem Quakers waited until the last minute at the Austintown Division II regional track meet Thursday.
Junior Jax Booth leaped from seventh to third in his final long jump, senior Lizzy Shontz had her best shot put on her last toss in the preliminaries, senior Kyla Jamison had her top throw on her final attempt in the shot put and the girls 3200-meter relay team gained an at-large berth to give the Quakers four state qualifiers on the opening day.
Shontz and Jamison were second and third, respectively, in the girls shot put.
Shontz had a pair of 33-footers until her second-place throw of 37-1 1/2 on her third toss.
“It was not the plan,” Shontz said. “The plan was to go out strong. It didn’t happen.”
She knows it is easier on yourself when you put up a good mark early.
“It depends on the day,” Shontz said. “There are days when you get one out there at the start. Sometimes it just pops out at the end.”
Jamison was third with a toss of 36-6 3/4 on her final attempt.
“I just came in ready to compete,” Jamison said. “We want to be those throwers who when we get to the track, we’re ready to throw.”
The top four in each event advance to the Division II state meet June 4-5 at Pickerington North High School.
“I’m pretty excited,” Shontz said. “Me and Kyla get to throw again in the shot and we’re hoping to go 1-2 in the discus on Saturday.”
“This is one of the big goals,” Jamison said. “Our goal was to accomplish it week to week — do our best at even the littlest meet.”
The Salem girls took the early lead in the team standings with 17 points through three events.
“The goal for next week is a new PR and a 1-2 finish with Kyla,” Shontz said.
“The goal is always to PR and get better,” Jamison said. “We want to do that at state.”
Booth’s last long jump of 21-9 1/4 pushed him all the way to state — from seventh to third.
The Quakers’ 3200 relay team of seniors Halle Cochran and Carly Hall, sophomore Ella Double and freshman Megan Stafford was sixth in a area-best 9:43.30.
They learned later they gained one of the two at-large state berths.
Salem’s time is best in the area since Cochran and Hall ran on the 2019 squad that placed eighth at state. The Quakers also were at-large qualifiers that year.
Regional finalists
West Branch has five regional finalists and Salem three.
The top two in each heat and the next four fastest times advance to Saturday’s regional finals.
In the girls 400-meter dash, West Branch freshman Sophia Gregory was third fastest (58.52 seconds) and Salem freshman Rylee Hutton was sixth fastest (59.71).
West Branch’s girls 800 relay team of Lauren Gossett, Sophia Gregory, Kennedy Berger and Anna Lippiatt was fourth (1:46.55) and West Branch’s 400 relay team of Alexa Gossett, Kennedy Berger, Zoe Sanders and Alexis Gregory, was seventh (51.45).
Salem’s girls 1600 relay team of Halle Cochran, Ella Double, Carly Hall and Rylee Hutton was sixth (4:09.25).
Salem’s boys 800 relay team of Sam Walter, Landon Cooper, Austin Sinkovich and Jax Booth was seventh (1:33.18).
West Branch senior Andrew Coffee was eighth in the boys 300 hurdles (41.66).
West Branch freshman Kennedy Berger was eighth in the girls 100 dash (13.30), beating Beachwood freshman Dakota Houston by 1/1,000th of a second for the final regional final berth.
Meet notes
• Jamison did not compete in track as a sophomore to focus on basketball and returned to the track team last year only to have the season canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
She will be joining the track team at the University of Pennsylvania.
“There was an opportunity to go to the college I wanted,” Jamison said. “That’s the education I wanted. I got a couple of offers for basketball, but they weren’t in the Ivy League.”
• Prayers are with area track official Drew Green who lost his wife of 47 years on Tuesday.
He was working Thursday’s regional meet because his wife, Denise, wanted him to.
Drew and his family will be firing off three cannons, including his wife’s favorite, at the Memorial Day service at Grandview Cemetery in Salem.
• West Branch senior David McKeivier was nursing a hamstring injury and still finished eighth in the long jump (21-0 1/4).
• Salem junior Carson Stockman was eighth in the discus (142-4).
• In the girls field events South Range freshman Annie Lumsden was 15th in the shot put (31-2 1/4) and West Branch sophomore Claire Brunner was 15th in the high jump (4-6).
• In the boys 110 hurdles, West Branch senior Andrew Coffee was 10th (16.10), West Branch junior Ryan Irwin was 11th (16.27) and Salem junior Cameron Chambers fell and finished 16th (27.85).
• In the boys 100 dash, South Range junior Connor Jones was 11th (11.71) and Salem junior Blaize Exline scratched
• Boys relay teams not advancing were South Range’s Connor Jones, Luke Blasko, Luke Crumbacher and Dylan Dominguez, ninth in the 800 relay (1:34.28), and Salem’s Sam Walter, Landon Cooper, Jax Booth and Blaize Exline, 12th in the 400 relay (45.10).
• Salem junior Michael Hixon was 13th in the 300 hurdles (44.05) and Salem junior Sam Walter was 13th in the 200 dash (23.76).
• The regional finals will be held Saturday at Austintown Fitch High School with the field events of 11 a.m. and the running events at noon.
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