Eleven more Lions athletes advanced to the OFSAA East Regional Championship last Thursday and Friday. Competing at the EOSSAA Track and Field Championships at Thousand Islands Secondary School in Brockville, athletes recorded 18 new personal bests and brought home six gold medals.
Quinn Coughlin was the most well decorated Lion at EOSSAA, capturing three medals including two golds. The grade 11 student at Cobden’s Opeongo High School, swept the senior girls 400 and 400 metre hurdle events, the latter in a personal best time of 1:02.70. Coughlin also added a silver over 200 metres, finishing in a time of 25.96 seconds.
Abby MacLeod of Tagwi Secondary School excelled in the short sprint events. The grade 10 student secured second place in the junior girls 100 metres with a time of 13.17 seconds and finished fourth in the 200 metres, clocking in at 27.12 seconds. Her teammate, Averi Whitton, also from Tagwi, ran her way to a bronze medal over 3000 metres, finishing with a time of 12:43.98.
North Dundas’ Connor England picked up a pair of silver medals in the junior boys 100 and 200 metres with times of 11.35 and 22.87 seconds, respectively. England also placed fifth in the 300 metres hurdles. Rowan McCooeye from St. Joseph’s (Cornwall) put his speed to good use, placing second in the 100 metres hurdles with a time of 15.66 seconds. McCooeye also put forward a pair of top-five finishes in the 100 and 200 metre events.
On the road back from injury, last year’s EOSSAA sprint king John McGowan was dethroned on Friday. The St. Michael’s student had to settle for silver in Friday’s senior boys 100 metre final as he crossed the line in a time of 11.23 seconds
Lions athletes took the top two spots in each of the senior boys hurdle events led by La Citadelle’s Jonah Gratton. The grade 11 student posted a pair of personal bests on his way to gold in times of 14.80 and 59.78 seconds respectively.
In the sprint hurdles, it was Notre Dame’s (Carleton Place) Simon Salisbury hot on Gratton’s heels as he also posted a personal best effort to nab silver in 14.96 seconds.
Ethan Lavictoire of St. Joseph’s (Arnprior) took silver over the 400 metre hurdles in 1:02.30.
Moving up to the senior ranks didn’t slow Malachi Kenny’s medal haul in the 800 metres. Last year’s junior boys OFSAA Champion found himself on top of the podium in Brockville with a 1:58.34 effort, good for a 1.4 second victory.
In the field, Opeongo’s Liam Davis from Opeongo easily captured top spot in the senior boys shot put. Davis’ best throw on the day measured 15.37 metres, about 2.5 metres further than his nearest competitor.
Full results from the meet are available on our website.
Updated club rankings can be found here.
