STANDISH-STERLING - May 20, 2007 - While area teams didn't rank highly in terms of overall scoring at Saturday's Division 3 Region 27 meet at Standish-Sterling, a good number of athletes either qualified for the June 2 state finals or earned regional medals.
Host SSC finished sixth to lead the team scoring with 41 points. Frankenmuth won the team regional title with 137 points, followed by Freeland with 90 and Saginaw Nouvel Catholic with 71. NEMC schools Tawas Area (24.5) took 11th, Oscoda (16) took 13th and Whittemore-Prescott (11) finished 15th.
Panther throwers Kayleigh Nelson and Ashlyn Gulvas each had fabulous days, each taking one regional title and both advancing to the state finals in both discus and shot put.
Nelson won the discus title with a throw of 117-2, with Gulvas finishing third at 115-4.75. The top two regional finishers automatically qualify for the state finals, while Gulvas beat the additional state qualifying mark of 107-3.
Gulvas won the shot put (41-5) while Nelson finished fifth (35-0) but also beat the state qualifying distance.
Tawas Area also had two state qualifiers: Quinn Knox finished second in the discus (116-6.75) and Sandy Brandt was second in the 800 (2:26.91).
Oscoda's Ashley Schonfeld took second in the 300 hurdles (48.95) to earn a trip to the finals, as did Whittemore-Prescott's Catherine Daniels, who placed third in the shot with a qualifying mark of 38-7.5.
Also earning medals for SSC was Noelle Lentz in the 1600 (4th, 5:43.89) and 800 (3rd, 2:30.95).
Tawas Area's medal-winners included Eric Lundy in the pole vault (3rd, 7-9); and Brandt in the 1600 (6th, 5:48.21).
Oscoda also brought home medals in the high jump with Megan Zarrachowicz (4th, 4-9) and Schonfeld (8th, 4-6); and Jeri Carl in the shot put (7th, 32-0).
Daniels also had a fourth-place finish in the discus (4th, 106-6).
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