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The Boardman boys track team improved its regular season record to 6-0 with a 121-31-17 victory over the Ursuline Fighting Irish and Cardinal Mooney Cardinals on April 11 at Spartan Stadium.
The Spartans opened the meet with a victory by freshman Mitchel Dunham, seniors Nick Digiacomo and Nathaniel Ams and junior Mark Moradian in the 4x800 meter relay. The next event, the 110-meter hurdles, the Spartans took three of the four places with freshman Brian Yauger first, sophomore Ceaonnie Jones third and sophomore Miles Spearman in fourth. In the 100-meter dash, junior JaJuan Forte was first, junior Ethan Himes took third, and sophomore Josh Rodriguez was fourth.
“It is always a big event when we compete against Ursuline and Mooney in anything here at Boardman and track is no different,” said Boardman Head Coach John Phillips. “Our guys took care of business.”
The 4x200 relay team of junior Justice Jama, senior Caeden Rogers, senior Koby Adu-Poku and Forte placed first. In the 1600-meter run, senior Chris Butler placed first and classmate Dom Eorio was fourth. Butler placed second in the 400-meter run, he was followed by Rodriguez in third. In the 300-meter hurdles, the Spartans took three scoring spots with Yauger in first, Spearman third and senior Matt Maroni fourth.
In the 800-meter run, sophomore Trevor Boggess was second, Ams took third and sophomore Payton Torres was fourth. The 200-meter dash was won by Forte with sophomore Billy Cammack in fourth. The next event was the 3200-meter run, which was won by Digiacomo with Ams third and Eorio fourth. The 4x400 relay team of Yauger, Adu-Poku, Rodriguez and Cammack took first.
In the field events, the Spartans swept the long jump with the leaps of Jama, senior Don Lewis, Cammack and freshman Zach Johnson. In the high jump senior Richard Fisher placed first, Jama was second and Cammack placed third. In the discus, senior George Wallace took first with junior Zach David third, while in the shot put Wallace took first, junior Steven Amstutz was second, David was third and senior Donovan Turney was fourth. Finally, in the pole vault, Fisher was first, Lewis second, senior Vi Trihn Luu was third and junior Joe Frattaroli was fourth.
The track meet MVP went to sophomore Billy Cammack for scoring in all four events he competed in.