Meet Most Valuable Athlete Patrick Wright (top) edges twin brother Corey at the wire in the 100-meter dash at the AuGres-Sims Invitational on Tuesday.
Tawas Area's Tyler Bischoff swept the 1600 and 3200 at Tuesday's invitational.
Brent Baker
Hale's defending state qualifying duo of Zach Putnam (left) and Luke Kaiser continued to push each other on Tuesday, with Kaiser holding on to edge Putnam by .01 in the 110 hurdles.

AuGRES-SIMS - May 8, 2007 - Tawas Area ran to a big victory at the AuGres-Sims Invitational on Tuesday, defeating second-place Mio AuSable by nearly 40 points in the nine-team event.

Tawas ran up 140.5 points to Mio's 102.5, followed by AuGres-Sims (93), Hale (58), Oscoda (45), Fairview (44), Alcona (25), Posen (16) and Atlanta (2).

The Braves got event wins from Ryan McArdle in the discus (120-8); Tom Domerese in the pole vault (12-0); Jeff Janis, Tyler Klenow, Alex Revord and William Schmidt in the 4x200 (1:36.73); Tyler Bischoff in the 1600 (4:42.70) and 3200 (10:34.87); and Janis, Klenow, Schmidt and Revord in the 4x100 (meet-record 46.70).

Mio's Patrick Wright earned Most Valuable Athlete honors with wins in the 100 (11.41), 200 (23.13), 300 hurdles (42.14) and a second-place finish in the long jump (20-2). Corey Wright had the Bolts' other event wins in the high jump (6-0) and 400 (46.70) and took second to Patrick in the 100 by .01 (11.42).

Winning events for AuGres-Sims were David Garske in the long jump (21.2.5); A.J. Baker, Alex Lutz, Nathan Trapp and Clark Larson in the 4x800 (8:58.20); and Larson in the 800 (2:07.18).

Hale's winner was Luke Kaiser in the 110 hurdles (16.54) by .01 over teammate Zach Putnam (16.55).

Other winners were Posen's Steve Lijewski in the shot put (41-11) and Alcona's 4x400 relay (3:52.95).

Other top finishers for the Braves were Ky Barnes in the discus (2nd, 118-4) and shot put (4th, 39-1.5); Brad Emington in the discus (4th, 113-9) and shot put (6th, 36-11); Wayne Enzenberger in the high jump (2nd, 6-0), pole vault (2nd, 11-0) and 800 (2nd, 2:12.03); Klenow in the high jump (5th, 5-3); Jeff Janis in the long jump (6th, 17-8.5); Seth Philpot, Jacob Winn, Guy Cotter and Bischoff in the 4x800 (9:12.49); Revord in the 100 (5th, 11.96) and 200 (3rd, 23.80); Philpot in the 1600 (6th, 5:20.12) and 3200 (5th, 11:28.26); Jordan Smith in the 800 (4th, 2:15.84); and Kenny Delage, Domerese, Winn and Stephen Morris in the 4x400 (3rd, 3:56.15).

For Mio, top finishers were Aaron Kososky in the high jump (5th, 5-3); Aaron Allwardt (3rd, 11-0) and Michael Kososky (4th, 10-6) in the pole vault; Jacob Ray, Aaron Smith, Nick Nankerviis and Zach Pillars in the 4x800 relay (3rd, 9:39.88); Sawyer Dawe in the 110 hurdles (4th, 18.01) and 300 hurdles (5th, 45.93); Tucker Booth, Michael Kososky, Ray and Corie Allie in the 4x100 (3rd, 48.89); and Pillars in the 800 (5th, 2:19.02).

For AuGres-Sims, other leaders were Nate Jennings in the discus (6th, 96-6); Isaiah Kauffman in the long jump (4th, 18-1) and 800 (3rd, 2:13.32); Jerry Ritchey in the 110 hurdles (3rd, 16.86) and 300 hurdles (3rd, 44.08); Nathan Trapp in the 110 hurdles (5th, 18.03) and 300 hurdles (6th, 46.01); A.J. Baker in the 1600 (2nd, 4:52.36) and 3200 (3rd, 10:56.53); Garske in the 400 (3rd, 48.89) and 200 (2nd, 43.35) and Kyle Shanks, Kauffman, Trapp and Larson in the 4x400 (2nd, 3:53.46).

Oscoda's leaders were Justin Andrick in the discus (5th, 97-11), 400 (6th, 50.33) and 200 (6th, 25.38); Trent Fouchey in the 100 (3rd, 11.65) and 400 (2nd, 47.89); Jake Trier in the 100 (4th, 11.86); Sean Krausch, Trier, Nathan Samotis and Chance Beetham in the 4x200 (2nd, 1:39.66); and 4x100 (2nd, 47.89); Krausch in the 200 (4th, 45.07); and Beetham in the 200 (5th, 25.13).

Fairview's other leaders were Kyle Sanderson in the long jump (3rd, 19-2) and 400 (49.88); Joe Koslakiewicz in the shot put (5th, 36-11.25); the 4x800 relay (4th, 9:49.92); Kyle Handrich, Tyler Kalahar, Will Smith and Sanderson in the 4x200 (3rd, 1:40.96); Ryan Kauffman (3rd, 5:03.32) and Titus Brown (4th, 5:03.97) in the 1600; Kauffman in the 800 (6th, 2:20.98); and Brown (2nd, 10:49.34) and Kauffman (6th, 11:28.98) in the 3200.