Bay City area boys track results: Standish

If Standish-Sterling's goal was to make some noise at the track and field state finals, the Panthers got what they came for.

Not only did the Panthers soar to seventh place in the team standings, they vociferously let everyone know they were in the house – courtesy of shot putter Elijah Cottrell.

"The night before, Eli said he had three goals. He wanted to get to 50 feet, he wanted to get in the Top 8 and he wanted to be the loudest screamer there – and he might have gotten all three," Standish coach Paul Walderzak said. "Like the rest of us, he was excited. Any time you end on a PR, it's a great day."

Cottrell placed eighth with a personal-best effort of 50-3 in the Division 3 finals at Kent City, helping Standish-Sterling score 21 team points on the day. And the good times kept rolling from there.

Senior Brayden Sullivan was state runner-up with a long jump of 21-8.75, missing the school record by a quarter inch, while Andrew Stewart took third in the 100 dash in 10.99, missing that record by 7-hundredths of a second.

Sullivan and Stewart combined with Aiden Coggins and Brody Sullivan to take down their own school standard while finishing third in the 4x100 relay in 43.66.

"Aiden has been great on the starts for us all year, then he gives it to another sophomore in Brody, who is just a warrior. It doesn't matter the event or the score, he gives it all," Walderzak said. "Brayden is the same way, with good speed and good strength and he runs the curve very well. Then Andrew is a little rocket."

Bay City Western junior Noah Selvaraj enjoyed an eventful day in Division 1, racing to a seventh-place showing in the 800 at 1:54.67. He was also part of the 4x400 relay that finished 23rd and the 4x800 relay that placed 30th.

The Standish-Sterling 4x100 relay team of Alex Stewart, Brayden Sullivan, Brody Sullivan and Aiden Coggins set a school record.

Thoth Moya and Co. came up big for Essexville Garber at the Division 2 final. Moya went a PR 49.57 to finish fourth in the 400 then joined the 4x200 relay that once again shattered the school record. Moya, Garrett Hayes, Brayden Tacey and Carson Madziar finished 11th in 1:30.76, bettering their record by .05 seconds. Garber also got a 15th-place finish in the 4x400 relay and a 10th-place showing from Brady McGee in discus. Another Bay County performer, Pinconning's Carson Parks, placed 21st in D3 in the long jump.

It was another banner day on the track for Clare, which flaunted its might in the relays in Division 3. The Pioneers were fronted by a runner-up finish in the 4x400 relay as Jeffrey Schafer, Owhin Thompson, Nic Porter and Karson Tocco soared from their No. 11 seed all the way to second place with a time of 3:30.00.

Clare also placed fifth in the 4x800 relay and sixth in the 4x200 relay while Brad White cut a whopping 21.18 seconds off his regional time to finish seventh in the 3200 in 9:47.11.

Four other area athletes blew away their qualifying marks to finish Top 8 as Harrison's Cameron Tigner was second in the 300 hurdles and Dalton Noble took seventh in the pole vault, Tawas’ Luke Martin placed fourth in the 400 and Reese's Beck Shores landed seventh in the high jump. Gladwin's Logan Klein did the same in Division 2 for third place in the shot put.

With place of finish, state final performance and notes of improvement

Noah Selvaraj earned all-state honors for the Bay City Western boys cross country team.

800 METERS

7. Noah Selvaraj, Western 1:54.67 – seeded 10th, cut .57 off regional time

4x400 RELAY

23. Bay City Western 3:31.64

(Logan Kipfmiller, Tate Dutcher, Noah Selvaraj, Daniel Ebel)

4x800 RELAY

30. Bay City Western 8:14.34

(Daniel Ebel, Miles Killips, Ty Schumann, Noah Selvaraj)

Essexville Garber's Garrett Hayes, Brayden Tacey, Thoth Moya and Carson Madziar won the regional crown and shattered the school record in the 4x200 relay.

400 METERS

4. Thoth Moya, Garber 49.57 – beat qualifying time by .35 seconds

17. Chad Buhlman, Ogemaw 52.58 – improved on No. 19 seed

800 METERS

22. Caleb Palmreuter, Gladwin 2:02.42

1600 METERS

9. Caleb Palmreuter, Gladwin 4:23.93 – seeded 33rd, cut 10.21 seconds off qualifying time

110 HURDLES

16. Nick Wheeler, Gladwin 15.82

300 HURDLES

11. Nick Wheeler, Gladwin 40.72 – seeded 12th, beat qualifying time by .72

4x200 RELAY

11. Essexville Garber 1:30.76 – beat school record by .05

(Garrett Hayes, Brayden Tacey, Thoth Moya, Carson Madziar)

4x400 RELAY

15. Essexville Garber 3:31.31

(Thoth Moya, Brayden Tacey, Elijah Theisen, Blake Wittbrodt)

SHOT PUT

3. Logan Klein, Gladwin 52-3.5 – seeded 11th and improved regional effort by 1-11

18. Logan Kokotovich, Gladwin 46-0

DISCUS

10. Brady McGee, Garber 151-3 – seeded 13th , surpassed qualifying effor by 5-6.5

HIGH JUMP

Erik Roggow, Gladwin NH

LONG JUMP

19. Earl Esiline, Gladwin 19-6.5

Luke Martin of the Tawas wrestling team for 2022-23.

100 METERS

3. Andrew Stewart, Standish 10.99 – seeded 13th, beat qualifying time by .33 seconds

19. Kanye Marineau, Harrison 11.34 – seeded 29th, beat qualifying time by .11 seconds

200 METERS

17. Kanye Marineau, Harrison 23.04

Karson Tocco, Clare SCR

400 METERS

4. Luke Martin, Tawas 51.09 – seeded 6th, beat qualifying time by .36 seconds

17. Carter DeLong, Reese 53.52 – seeded 18th

800 METERS

Nic Porter, Clare SCR

1600 METERS

Brad White, Clare SCR

3200 METERS

7. Brad White, Clare 9:47.11 – seeded 18th, improved regional time by 21.18 seconds

110 HURDLES

15. Cameron Tigner, Harrison 15.84 – beat qualifing time by .02 seconds

17. Wyatt Albee, Clare 15.93

300 HURDLES

2. Cameron Tigner, Harrison 40.60 – seeded 5th, beat qualifying time by .97 seconds

17. Wyatt Albee, Clare 42.08

4x100 RELAY

3. Standish-Sterling 43.66 – seeded 5th, beat qualifying by .76 seconds

(Aiden Coggins, Brody Sullivan, Brayden Sullivan, Andrew Stewart)

16. Clare 44.93

(Jacob Halicek, Ryan Louch, Keagan Paisley, Ryan Rodenbo)

4x200 RELAY

6. Clare 1:32.43 – beat regional time by .15 seconds

(Jeffrey Schafer, Jacob Halicek, Keagan Paisley, Karson Tocco)

24. Harrison 1:35.44 – seeded 27th

(Wayne Baehr, Oryan Norton, Cameron Tigner, Kanye Marineau)

4x400 RELAY

2. Clare 3:30.00 – seeded 11th, beat regional effort by 3.6 seconds

(Jeffrey Schafer, Owhin Thompson, Nic Porter, Karson Tocco)

21. Standish-Sterling 3:44.44

(Brody Sullivan, Truman King, Sam Keen, Brayden Sullivan)

4x800 RELAY

5. Clare 8:15.90 – beat qualifying time by 2.27 seconds

(Nic Porter, Andrew Klaus, Brayden Schmidt, Brad White)

SHOT PUT

8. Elijah Cottrell, Standish 50-3 – seeded 11th, beat regional effort by 2-4.75

11. Jake Punches, Clare 49-11 – beat qualifying effort by 1-11

21. Maddox Gonzalez, Standish 42-9.25

DISCUS

9. Maddox Gonzalez, Standish 140-8 – seeded 13th beat regional effort by 2-9

17. Corbin Bouvy, Reese 124-6 – seeded 19th

HIGH JUMP

7. Beck Shores, Reese 6-3 – seeded 17th, beat qualifying effort by 5 inches

16. Vincent Frank, Tawas 5-11 – seeded 25th, beat regional effort by 2 inches

20. Brody Sullivan, Standish 5-9

POLE VAULT

7. Dalton Noble, Harrison 13-3 – beat regional effort by 3 inches

18. Corbin Bouvy, Reese 11-9 – seeded 21st, beat qualifying effort by 9 inches

William Warner, Beaverton NH

LONG JUMP

2. Brayden Sullivan, Standish 21-8.75 – seeded 12th, beat qualifying effort by 1-2.25

13. Kanye Marineau, Harrison 19-11

21. Carson Parks, Pinconning 19-1

22. Karson Tocco, Clare 18-11.75

Unionville-Sebewaing Area's 4x200 relay of Aiden Querback, Carson Holland, Landon Russell and Brady Green qualified for the state finals.

110 HURDLES

17. Carter Long, Mio 16.93

4x100 RELAY

18. Unionville-Sebewaing 46.60 – seeded 20th, beat regional time by .27 seconds

(Aidan Querback, Landon Russell, Carson Dickson, Brooks Little)

4x200 RELAY

12. Unionville-Sebewaing 1:35.51 – seeded 14th, beat regional by .59 seconds

(Aidan Querback, Brady Green, Landon Russell, Carson Holland)

4x400 RELAY

14. Unionville-Sebewaing 3:41.30 – seeded 22nd, beat qualifying by 6.67 seconds

(Isaac Bignall, Michael Jacobs, Carson Holland, Brady Green)

POLE VAULT

10. Whyatt Erdody, Akron 11-6 – beat qualifying effort by 3 inches

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