- By William S. Levett
- Sports
The 4x200mR team also turned in a season best performance with a time of 1:51.4 that took 5th place. Other top finishes of the day were by the Sprint Medley Relay team consisting of Tiffany Lind, Natalie Usack, Veronica Palladino, and Ryann Cretney with a 6th place finish in a time of 4:31.4; the shuttle hurdle relay team of Preeti Panda, Veronica Palladino, Colleen Trowbridge, and Katy Bland with a 5th place finish in a time of 1:15.4; and the triple jump relay team of Colleen Trowbridge and Rachel Bland for a combined distance of 62’ and ¾”, that earned them 6th place.
The Lansing girls had another strong showing at home on Senior Night against Southern Cayuga and Moravia. Overall team scores were Lansing 93, Moravia 38; Lansing 99.5, Southern Cayuga 26.5. Senior Colleen Trowbridge won the triple jump with 31'6". Senior Rachel Bland turned in three big marks in triple jump, long jump, and high jump with distances of 30’ 3”, 14’ 2”, and 4’2” respectively. These are all personal bests for Rachel this season!
Junior Ryann Cretney ran a 2:26.2 in the open 800m taking a very convincing 1st place. Seniors Preeti Panda and Veronica Palladino turned in great times in the 100mH with 17.3 and 17.9 respectively. In the field senior Katie Stout had a 2nd place throw of 26’ 8.75” in shot put; senior Kendal Dean had a winning jump of 4’ 8” in high jump; and senior Veronica Palladino took 2nd in discus with a throw of 73’ 1.75”.
The girls will be competing again this Friday at Maine-Endwell’s Rotary Invitational or Saturday at the Groton Invitational.
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