Williamsville East boys track edges Amherst

Amherst Central's Deshawn Hough battles in the 110 hurdles in the Tigers' 77-64 home loss to Williamsville East on Tuesday, May 15. Photo by John Normile Purchase color photos at www.BeeNews.com

In an exciting dual meet at Amherst on Tuesday, May 15, Williamsville East edged Amherst, 77-64.

The meet came down to the last three events with Amherst needing to win both relays and the 3200-meters to win overall. East's outstanding junior distance runner Andy McDonald responded to the challenge with a win in the 3200, which left East needing to win only one of the last relays.

The Flames' 1600 relay team of Greg French, Sean Lanighan, Colin Begy, and Andy Heim responded to edge out the Tigers in a great race down to the wire.

Other winners for East were French (110 hurdles, triple jump), Heim (400), McDonald (1600), Tyler Durinka (discus), Dave Taubman (pole vault), Lanighan (400 hurdles), and the 3200 relay team of Max Fogel, Matt Pawlicki, Fernando Recio, and Lanighan. Zinan Cheng scored important points, finishing second in the long jump, triple jump and 100.

Williamsville East's Melissa Spada gets off to an early lead over Amherst's Arielle Januszkiewicz, far right, and Celia Alterio, far left, in the girls' 1500 in a meet held on Tuesday, May 15. Amherst would win the meet, 104-37. Photo by John Normile Purchase color photos at www.BeeNews.com

Willie Jones was a triple winner for Amherst (100, long jump, and high jump).

East girls

At the WNY Classic, seventh grader Kayla Allen was second in the 200 with a time of 26.4. Sophomore Kristen Ostanski came in fifth in the triple jump (32-3½) and sixth in the long jump (14-8½).

Senior Kaitlin Roseti was second overall in the pentathlon. Senior Nicole Marple took fourth in the racewalk.

Sweet Home boys The Panthers liked second place at the Carl Roesch Classic held at Clarence High School on Saturday, May 19. Andrew Hopkins took second in the shot put (50-9), Jacob Hagan was second in the 1600 (4:31.4), Dan Miranda came in second in the pentathlon (2,381 points) and the 4x800 relay of Mike Bakowski, Ryan Hughson, Ryan Poley, and Jacob Hagen took second with a time of 8:35.5.