Girls track and field: Huntley dominates sectional; Hampshire finishes second, DeKalb fourth

Huntley, with 159 points, easily rolled to the Class 3A Huntley sectional championship Wednesday night.

Hampshire was a distant second with 78 points.

Dominique Johnson paced the Red Raiders with first place efforts in the triple jump and long jump.

Haley Rahman claimed top honors in the 1,600.

Huntley claimed top honors in all four relays. The Red Raiders' 3,200 winning relay team consisted of Morgan Sauber, Cori Kilvinger, Aspen Maldonado and Rahman.

The champion 400 relay team was made up of Johnson, Reagan Ellis, Emily Byers and Addison Busam.

On the winning 800 relay team were Johnson, Byers, Ellis and Busam. Huntley finished the night by winning the 1,600 relay. The quartet was made of Ava Acevedo, Myla Wade, Neveah Fonjo and Byers.

Wade qualified for the state meet with a second-place finish in the 400.

"It was amazing,“ said Wade. "I was shocked."

Other state qualifiers for the sectional champs were Elena Fetzer (second place, shot put), Sienna Robertson (second, discus), Brianna Felde (third, shot put) and Busam

(third, 200).

Hampshire got a victory from Alyssa Garcia in the 400.

"I was really focused," said Garcia. “I conserved my energy on the curves and had enough gas at the end."

Kassidy Papa took top honors in the pole vault.

Hampshire qualified in all four relays with second place efforts behind Huntley. In the 3,200 relay, the team consisted of Miya Moraga, Hannah Jones, Reese Long and Kaley Byhre.

The 400 relay was made of Papa, Garcia, Maya Ligon and Chinae Ukachukwu. The runner-up 800 relay quartet consisted of Papa, Ligo and Ukachukwa and Jmrya McCoy.

In the 1,600 relay, Hampshire’s team was Ligon, Byhrem, Garcia and Ava Sanchez. Haley Homola qualified with a fifth-place finish in the shot put.

DeKalb was fourth with 56 points.

Northern Michigan recruit Alyssa Tumminaro was second in the pole vault.

"It feels great to qualify for state again," said the DeKalb senior. “I want to make it to the finals and make it to the podium."

The Barbs’ Angela Gary qualified for state in the discus with a fourth-place effort.

Cary-Grove, behind wins from Olivia Parker (100 hurdles, 300 hurdles), took seventh with 47.5 points.

Jacobs was eighth with 44 points.

Hudson Szymonik won the 3,200 meters for the Golden Eagles.

"It means a lot to qualify for the state finals for a second straight year," said the Jacobs senior. “I will have less nerves this year."

Carly Uehlein qualified with a fourth-place finish in the shot put.