The Lady Trojans track team, coming off sectional and regional titles in 2006, started off the season on the right note by posting an impressive victory over South Bend Adams and Gary Roosevelt. The Trojans came out on top after putting up 93 points to Adams' 39 and Roosevelt's 31. Senior Emily Leckenby was one of several Chesterton seniors who shined, winning both the shot put and discus events.

Leckenby, who is coming off an ACL injury suffered while playing soccer in the fall, captured the shot put with a distance of 36 feet 8 1/2 inches and the discus with a mark of 105 feet 4 1/2 inches.

Leckenby said, "It's good to come out and have a day like this where you build up some confidence. It was a bit surprising to do this well, because I wasn't expecting to be as good as I was last year."

Trojans' coach Steve Kearney said, "I may be overly optimistic, but we have four or five girls that have a real shot to compete at state and Emily's one of them."

Chesterton, typically a powerhouse in the long distances, will feature a more balanced squad this year. While many of the long distance runners are underclassmen, the Trojans' strong suit will be their more experienced sprinters, jumpers and throwers.

Kearney said, "People usually expect us to dominate in the distances, but this year it's the short distances and the hurdles where we're strongest. We're going to be a totally different look from last year, but I'm pleased with the younger distance girls who will still score us some points."

The Trojans' captured ten of the sixteen events, including all of the field events. Jordan Harris won the high jump, while freshman Megan Erminger beat out teammate Mallory Przybylinski in the long jump and Ashley Fozkos one upped her sister Brittany by an inch to win the pole vault.

South Bend Adams coach Bruce Urban said, "They (Chesterton) aren't as deep as they were last year, but they're still solid. They're the kind of team that can give us the good stiff competition that we need going into conference."

Milana Socha turned in an impressive performance in the long distances winning the 3200 meter with a time of 12:31 and anchoring the winning 3200 relay team.

Leckenby said," It's kind of early to tell if we can come together like we did last year, but I think that if we can pick up some third and fourth place finishes we could do pretty well."

Girls Track Results: Chesterton 93, South Bend Adams 39, Gary Roosevelt 31.

3200 Relay: 1. Chesterton (Milana Socha, Emily Allmon, Tina Guidarelli, Melissa Lewis) 11:15.02; 2. South Bend Adams 12:04.40.

100 High Hurdles: 1. Valerie Stone (R) 15.94, 2. Melissa Adams (A) 18.63, 3. Hollim Bolden (A) 20.45, 4. Marissa Gill (C) 21.36, 5. Angelina Greco (C) 21.37, 6. Jordan Harris (C) 22.48, 7. Liz Jordan (C) 24.68.

100 Meter Dash: 1. Chaz Sullivan (A) 12.84, 2. Lena Raffin (C) 13.09, 3. Megan Erminger (C) 13.68, 4. Becky Lewis (C) 14.07.

1600 Meter Run: 1. Maria Catanzarite (A) 5:49.32, 2. Milana Socha (C) 5:56.90, 3. Tina Guidarelli (C) 6:04.99, 4. Emily Allmon (C) 6:13.76.

400 Neter Relay: 1. Chesterton (Becky Lewis, Lana Raffin, Mallory Przybylinski, Megan Erminger) 52.28, 2. Roosevelt 53.31, 3. Adams 55.66.

400 Meter Dash: 1. Paige Kadish (C) 1:03.27, 2. Marissa Crafton (C) 1:04.59, 3. Adrienne Anderson (A) 1:06.84, 5. Alysha Paz (C) 1:13.58.

300 Meter Hurdles: 1. Valerie Stone (R) 48.25, 2. Mia Scales (A) 53.23, 3. Alexis Riviera (R) 55.90, 6. Angelina Greco (C) 57.42, 7. Marissa Gill (C) 59.25, 9. Liz Jordan (C) 1:09.85.

800 Meter Dash: 1. Brittany Fozkos (C) 2:41.90, 2. Melissa Lewis (C) 2:50.72, 3. India Carter (R) 2:52.40, 4. Sarah Alberti (C) 2:52.68, 5. Kaitlin Zonder (C) 2:54.68, 7. Brooke Zonder (C) 3:06.31.

200 Meter Dash: 1. Chaz Sullivan (A) 26.50, 2. Kemi Doss (R) 26.93, 3. Lena Raffin (C) 27.27, 4. Mallory Przyblinski (C) 28.58, 5. Paige Kadish (C) 28.81.

3200 Meter Run: 1. Milana Socha (C) 12:31.02, 2. Tina Guidarelli (C) 12:51.99, 3. Maria Catanzarite (A) 12:52.86, 4. Emily Allmon (C) 13:15.63, 5. Mary Marshall (C) 14:19.11.

1600 Meter Relay: 1. Roosevelt 4:20.45, 2. Chesterton (Becky Lewis, Mallory Przybylinski, Lena Raffin, Paige Kadish) 4:27.87, 3. Adams 4:43.09.

High Jump: 1. Jordan Harris (C) 4'6, 2. Sykia Richards (A) 4'4.

Long Jump: 1. Megan Erminger (C) 16'11, 2. Mallory Przybylinski (C) 16'10.5, 3. Marissa Crafton (C) 16'5.5.

Pole Vault: 1. Ashley Fozkos (C) 10'2, 2. Brittany Fozkos (C) 10'1, 3. Chloe Lawson (C) 8'6.

Discus: 1. Emily Leckenby (C) 105'4.5, 2. Taylor Hood (R) 103'3, 3. Lindy Tekete (C) 91'9.

Shot Put: 1. Emily Leckenby (C) 36'8.5, 2. Janet Thomas (A) 35'8, 3. Taylor Hood (R) 34'7.

Posted 3/30/2007