Track State Championships—

Taback Earns First In Discus Throw

Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ outdoor track and field teams participated in the Class L Championships in Manchester on Monday. The girls placed eighth with 24 points (Norwich Free Academy won the meet with 128) and the boys were 19th with 10 (Danbury won with 108).

Newtown’s Rachel Taback took top honors in the discus throw event with a throw of 121 feet. Lauren Sudbey placed third in the pole vault competition with a vault of 11 feet. In the boys’ meet, John Wlasuk came in third in the discus throw (140-05).

Other individual Newtown results are as follows (event, placement, name and time/distance).

Girls:

800 meters: 24. Natalie Villa, 2:33.46.

1600: 11. Erin Begg. 5:46.83; 12. Mara Scallon, 5:46.88.

3200: 10. Anne Martino, 11:57.13; 11. Katie Burns, 12:03.20; 15. Begg, 12:10.39; 19. Jenny VanVeen, 12:23.37.

100 hurdles: 8. Lauren Pettinelli, 16.75.

300 hurdles: 8. Pettinelli, 49.46; 18. Lilly Rodriquez, 52.16.

4x100 relay: 14. Lauren O’Connell, Lauren Meyer, Kelley Sullivan and Monica Warek, 53.66.

4x400 relay: 15. Sullivan, Rodriquez, Villa and Pettinelli, 4:20.26.

4x800 relay: 8. Martino, Scallon, Begg and Villa, 10:09.61.

High jump: 9. Annika Garrett, 4-10; 10. Emily Korth, 4-10.08.

Pole vault: 8. Korth, 9-06.

Long jump: 7. Sudbey, 15-10.50; 22. Korth, 14-05.00; 30. O’Connell, 12-10.25.

Triple jump: 13. Sudbey, 31-00.

Shot put: 7. Taback, 31-00.

Boys:

200: 16. Matthew Narel, 24.50; 17. Tony Fragoso, 24.50.

400: 18. Dave Hutchison, 54.09.

3200: 20. Dave Meyer, 10:13.54.

300 hurdles: 11. Brian Cawley, 44.15.

4x100 relay: 10. Kevin Bonacci, Narel, Hutchison and Fragoso, 44.96.

4x400 relay: 16. Hutchison, Cawley, Shaney Casey and Palmer Lintz, 3:44.25.

4x800 relay: 14. Casey, Lintz, Dieter Gutbrod and Andrew Woods, 8:57.89.

Long jump: 15. Bonacci, 19-06.75.

Triple jump: 18. Bonacci, 39-05.

Shot put: 7. John Wlasuk, 45

Javelin: 7. John Wlasuk, 154-02; Peter Wlasuk, 128-05.