The Warsaw boys track & field team ended a seven-year drought by winning the Goshen Sectional Thursday at Foreman Field.
WARSAW- 135
Concord- 109.5
Elkhart- 108
Columbia City- 67
Northridge- 64
NorthWood- 44
Goshen- 30.5
Wawasee- 27
Fairfield- 21
Jimtown- 15
Elkhart Christian Acad- 1
Lakeland Christian Acad- 1
The Tigers had several athletes advance to the regional automatically with top-3 finishes:
4 x 800 relay: 3rd- Tyler Mimnaugh, Clark Meridew, Andrew Potter, Tyler Swartz 8:02.16
110m High Hurdles: 1st- Blake Keene 14.92 and 3rd- Eric Pohl * (WAR) 15.59
400m: 2nd- Jackson Winey 51.02
300m hurdles: 1st- Blake Keene 41.03 and 3rd- Eric Pohl 42.12
3200m: 1st- Jackson Gackenheimer 9:26.24
4 x 400: 2nd- Jackson Winey, Michael Schenck, Cam Fox, Sam Allebach 3:30.14
Discus: Kam Kauffman 167-09
Shot Put: Kam Kauffman 57-07
High jump: 1st- Jordan Randall 6-08, 2nd- Talan Asay 6-03
Pole vault: 2nd- Ian Parrott 13-00, 3rd- Matt Marsh 12-06
"Two years ago, I had our team watch Elkhart celebrate with a well-earned Sectional title to plant a seed in the returning athletes that within a couple of seasons, we would be in that position" said Coach Sccott Erba afterward. "Tonight, we got to see that dream become reality."
FULL MEET RESULTS
What's ahead: Regional Thursday, May 23 @ 6p (Goshen HS) and the Statefinals Saturday, June 1 @ 3p (Indiana University)