Boys track and field: Osterhues comes up big in sprints, jumps in Barrington’s win at Patriot Relays
The 54th annual Stevenson Patriot Relays featured a powerful 11-team field of boys track and field squads when the starting gun sounded Thursday night.
Barrington was strong from start to finish to win the meet with 88.5 points while Lakes (70 points) made a late surge to take second place. Grayslake Central held off the host Patriots 66 to 60.5 for third place.
The Broncos' 4x100 team of Hayden Dahlin, Adam Lyon, Michael Trachtenberg, and Lamar Osterhues took first place in 42.06 seconds. Osterhues also won the long jump with a leap of 7.02 meters while teammate Griffin Dahlin (12.51 meters) took second in the triple jump.
"We had a couple of really key injuries, and we had to pull a kid out of long jump and high jump," said Barrington coach Todd Kuklinski. "But Lamar Osterhues had a huge jump over seven meters and we followed that up with a great time of 42.06 in the 4x100 led by Lamar."
The Broncos and Osterhues are poised to return to state in the 4x100. "It was incredible (the 4x100). We worked all week, and it really paid off tonight," said Osterhues. "It was our best time of the season, and I feel we can run in the low 41s by the end of the season."
The Patriots' 4x200 relay of Jaydan Lopez, Mkhai Agee, Ishaan Thirumalaivasa, and Mlakhai Agee won in 1:28.97.
"Our sprint relays were great. We broke the school record in the 4x100 (42.46 seconds)," said Stevenson coach Scott Sommers. "We just had some solid efforts all over, and our 4x200 ran a fantastic time for mid-April."
Grayslake Central's 4x800 team of Justin Mottola, Adan Cordova, Reid Donisch, and Ryan Schroer easily won in 8:19.70. The Rams also got a first-place finish from senior Daniel Sachuk (39.77 seconds) in the 300-meter hurdles. State qualifier Ray Ray Wright (300-meter hurdles) was among the athletes to miss the meet for the Rams due to injury.
"Barrington's a great squad, they always turn out a great product," said Grayslake Central coach Brent Pitt. "We didn't run our 4x200 team today due to some soft tissue injuries."
Grant's distance medley relay team of Nathan Kempf, Tyler Wahls, Eric Ramirez, and Kobe Garcia coasted to victory in 11:14.49. The Bulldogs' 4x110 shuttle hurdles team of Connor Evans, Anthony Golden, Bartek Chrupek, and Ben Martin won in 1:06.42.
Lakes senior Jordan Phelan took home first place in the shot put with a throw of 18.32 meters. Carmel Catholic sophomore Wyatt VanBoening (48.22 meters) was the discus champion. VanBoening, Nathan German, Nathan Glover, and Ivan Patino won the 4x100 throwers relay in 52.02 seconds.
Lakes junior Cooper Summy won the 1,600-meter run in 4:21.47 to edge Barrington's Kyle Kroupa by .21 seconds. The Eagles also got a first place from William Mercure (4.41 meters) in the pole vault while teammate Dylan Gates took second.
Kroupa, Lyon, Hayden Dahlin, and William Schneider won the 4x400 in 3:28.43. Maine East senior Micah Rotter (1.98 meters) soared to first place in the high jump.