Ronan Track: Durglo makes the leap
MISSOULA - There's no stopping Adessa Durglo. She became the
2011 Class A Long Jump Champion by jumping a school record 17-06
after a competitor dared to better her.
MISSOULA - There's no stopping Adessa Durglo. She became the 2011 Class A Long Jump Champion by jumping a school record 17-06 after a competitor dared to better her.
"Adessa had the lead going into the third jump of the final, then Kelsi Almond of Hamilton jumped before Adessa and took the lead with a jump of 16-10 going ahead of Adessa by five inches," Ronan track and field head coach Crystal Pitts said. "Adessa made up her mind, she did not want to lose it and her final jump popped 17-6 to better her own school record she set one week earlier at the divisional track meet."
Durglo placed third in the high jump (5-02) while teammate Jenny Larsson took sixth (5-0). She also placed fourth in the triple jump (34-11.75).
Stephanie Lewandowki ran her best time in the 100 hurdles (17.70) and just missed out on the finals heat. Meanwhile, the 400-meter relay team for the Maidens ran their best time of the season (54.89) in trials.
The 1,600-meter relay team also had its best time of the season (3:33:53).
BOYS
They did it again.
The Ronan-Mission 400-meter relay team of Eric Malmquist, Marcus Hungerford, Riley Dennis and Jordan Franklin broke the school record a third time in their trial heat at the Class A state meet on Friday.
"Out of the 12 opportunities to run the 400-meter relay with these four boys this season, they only got to run together a total of four times because of injury and school activities," Ronan track and field head coach Crystal Pitts said. "Of the four times this relay team got to run together they set school records three times."
Named the Fab Five (referring to sub Jalen Bell for the total of five team members), the team's new school record was 43.98 and in the finals on Saturday, they didn't set another record, but placed sixth (44.56).
In the 1,600-meter relay, Malmquist, Dennis, Austin Durglo and Hungerford came within three hundredths of a second to set the school record and placed fourth (3:31:03).
After making three clean attempts in the high jump, Franklin found it was just Whitefish's Drew Galbraith and him left in the competition. After a 20-jump marathon that saw the bar go up and down as neither competitor could better the other in height, both got to as high as 6-4 and after misses at 6-5 and then back down at 6-4, the bar was lowered to 6-3.
"Drew made it and Jordan slipped just before take off and broke the plane," Pitts said.
Franklin placed second after nearly two and a half hours of jumping, giving him barely enough time to run in the 100-meter dash trials.
Eric Malmquist placed sixth in the 200-meter dash (23.59).
Sophomore Jalen Bell had a great outing in his first state meet. He placed fourth in the long jump (20-04.25) and then second in the triple jump.