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Highlights of Gus Lacy Track Meet
Article courtesy of Brandon Miles at MileStat.com
Three state leading performances and four meet records were set in the 2006 edition of the Gus Lacy Track Classic as the select size of the meet was able to push the meet along quickly and with a little luck, avoid any impediments from inclement weather. Fork Union's Axel Mostrag, Prince Edward County's Deangelo Wilson, and E.C. Glass' Mike Zajac also set new meet marks with Mostrag and Zajac also posting state bests.
Fork Union junior Axel Mostrag competed in the 1600 meter run and broke a mark set by another Fork Union distance great in Kippy Keino, who now stars at Villanove University. Mostrag had some help in the race in the form of E.C. Glass senior Patterson Wilhelm as Wilhelm lead the Fork Union All-American through roughly 1100 meters. At the start of the homestretch heading into the bell, Mostrag seized the lead and then closed quickly on his final lap with a 59 second last 400 meters to finish in a personal best time of 4:14.71. His time bettered Keino's old meet record of 4:15.66 set in 2003. Wilhelm meanwhile held onto second after doing the hard early pace work for a time of 4:22.92. Group AA state champion Griff Graves was stuck in no man's land for much of the race to finish in third place at a time of 4:26.54.
The Fork Union boys were once again meet champions at another home invite. While they are friendly as meet hosts, they are not so accommodating in allowing any team to come in and take a team title from them at either the Gus Lacy Track Classic or the Fork Union Indoor Invitational. The boys from Fork Union were runaway winners on Saturday as they compiled a team score of 132 points to finish well ahead of Appomattox County with 74 points.
The 38 point difference between Appomattox County and Fork Union was created virtually alone by Brandon Caleb as he earned 40 individually with four first places finishes. Caleb cleaned up in the jumps and hurdles as he garnered wins in the long jump (22'1") and triple jump (44'5.50") despite a slick runway. He also finished ahead of the rest in the 110 (14.90) and 300 (41.32) meter hurdles as Appomattox County's TK Kelson was a second place finisher in both events to Caleb.
Iron man award of the day goes to Fork Union's Jamie Reichlen as he took second (51.64) to Albemarle's Christopher Best (51.38) in the 400 meter dash and then in a short time frame came back for another second place finish in the 800 meter run (2:01.48) as Forest Park's Zack Williams had an outstanding run to win the race in a time of 1:59.65. Reichlen was also a member of the winning 4x400 meter relay (3:32.28) to put the icing on the cake for Fork Union. Appomattox was led by the Kelso boys with Rashad scoring 18 points in the 100 and 200 meter dashes and TK picking up 16 points with his two runner-up performances in hurdles, but also had a first place finish in the 4x100 meter relay with a solid 43.29 clocking.
Albemarle's Anthony Bryant showed up late for the meet and it gave him little time to prepare for the high jump as it showed with him going out at a height of 6'2" as Fork Union's Jonathan Foote won the competition in an event named after his older brother and past Fork Union track athlete Bryon Foote with a successful clearance at 6'4".
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Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:15 AM
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