CHS boys’ track team improves record with Sharon victory

By Mike Berger

The CHS boys’ track team improved its season record to 2-3-1 with a dominant, 70-15 win over Sharon and a 52-34 loss to Mansfield in tri-meet action last week.

The leading point scorer for the team as of January 4 was Jon Vaughn (58), followed by Christan Bates (39), Matt Sidney (30) and Dan Alexander (23).

Vaughn was the high point scorer in the December 29 tri-meet at the Franklin Field House as he collected 23 points with two wins — 50-yard hurdles (6.7 seconds) and 50-yard dash (5.4 seconds) — and a third place in the high jump (five feet four inches).

Bates also had a productive day, scoring 14 points overall: six points in the 50-yard hurdles with two second place finishes (7.1 seconds), and eight points in the mile with a first and second place finish (4.56.4).
Ten-point scorers were Dan Alexander with two first-place finishes in the shot put (38 feet, six and three quarter inches), and Matt Sidney with a double win in the high jump (six feet, four inches).

Jordan Guyton scored nine points on the day with a second place in the 50-yard dash (6.1 seconds) and a first and third in the 300-meter sprint at 40.3 seconds.

Chris Ha and Bates each scored eight points with a first and second place finish respectively in the 600 meter run with a time of 1:36.8 in the 600-meter run.

Other Canton points

• mile: Jimmy Paschal, second, 5:10.4

• 600: Gautam Madineedi, second, 1:43

• 1000: Joey Ward, first and third, 2:50.2; Nikita Amelchenko, second, 2:54.3

• 300: Marty Fauche, third, 41.8 seconds

• two mile: Mike Bronstein, first, 11:21.5; Chris Haidul, third, 13:07

Field events results included: shot-put, Frankie Karnes, second, 33 feet six inches, and James Grella, third, 30 feet, five inches; high jump, Marty Fauche, third, five feet, four inches.

CHS coach Chris Elgar was also pleased with Canton’s performance in last weekend’s state freshmen-sophomore meet, which resulted in two top-ten performances for the Bulldogs: Derek Seto in the high jump (five feet, four inches), and the 4 x 200 relay team of Seto, Evan Feldman, Yanni Folkes and Alex Lenkei who ran a combined time of 1:51.7

Other results

• 55-meter dash: Thi Nguyen, 8.74; Kevin Martin, 10.28;

• mile: Joe Sabatino, 5.29; Ethan Eastwood, 5.58;

• 600: Yanni Folkes, 2.03; Ben Sheehan, 2.13;

• 1000: Mike Rota, 3.21; Zack Levenson, 3:36;

• 300: Alex Lenkei, 43.78; Cameron Boyce, 49.61;

• two mile; Sean Akey, 12:06.

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