Tunkhannock’s Trejon Turner won two events and Dallas finished third in both team standings April 28 as Back Mountain athletes fared well in the 15th annual Lasagna Invitational track and field meet at Wyalusing Valley High School.
Teams tuned up for the approaching postseason by taking part in the meet that featured two athletes that went on to capture state championships and 23 that earned state medals last season.
Against that competition level, Dallas finished third of 23 girls teams and third of 20 boys teams. The Mountaineers had two individual boys champions.
Tunkhannock claimed four individual boys titles while placing sixth in the team standings.
Lake-Lehman had a champion while finishing sixth in the girls standings. Its boys team came in ninth.
Holy Redeemer, with significant contributions from Back Mountain athletes, was fourth among girls and fifth among boys teams.
Towanda won the boys team title with 94 points. Host Wyalusing edged Dallas, 64 ½-61, for second place.
Western Wayne beat out Athens, 90-81, for the girls championship. Dallas had 71 points.
Nate Maransky led Dallas, winning the 110-meter high hurdles in 16.07 seconds while taking second in the 300 hurdles, fourth in the triple jump and sixth the pole vault.
Mitchell Rome won the 3200 run in 9:53.65.
Matt Maransky took fourth in the pole vault and was part of the third-place 400 relay team.
Adam Borton was fourth in the 800.
Jacob Fenske, Robert Wren and Alex Solano were also on the relay team.
Josh Wyandt, in the 1600, and Corey Osborn, in the 300 hurdles, were both fifth.
Samantha Mazula and Abby Zolner each placed in four events to lead the Dallas girls.
Mazula was second in the 100 dash, third in the long jump and 400 relay and fourth in the 1600 relay.
Zolner was third in the 300 hurdles and fourth in the 100 hurdles, triple jump and 1600 relay.
Megan Borton was third in the 1600. Ally Francis, Bella Hill and Celia Reabuck were also part of the third-place 400 relay.
Alicia Langan was fourth in the discus and sixth in the shot put.
Alondra Church and Emily Fleming joined Mazula and Zolner on the fourth-place 1600 relay.
Missy Leonard (800), Hollie Holthaus (pole vault) and Sarah Krokos (discus) were fifth. Shannon O’Donnell was sixth in the discus.
Lake-Lehman’s Sarah Salus won the javelin.
Natasha Mihalko, in the long jump, and Jade Fry, in the 1600, each finished second in an individual event and were part of the third-place 1600 relay.
Olivia Vasey and Abby Paczewski were third and fourth in the 800 and completed the 1600 relay lineup.
Lizzy Blaski was fifth in the 300 hurdles.
Riley Newman was sixth in the 800 and ran on the fourth-place 3200 relay and fifth-place 1600 relay teams for the Lake-Lehman boys.
Daymond Kovaly was second in the 110 high hurdles and sixth in the 300 hurdles.
Floyd McRoy and Joe Ciaccia were third and fourth in the 300 hurdles.
Michael Nastasiak, Nathan Salus and Chandler Longstreth completed the 3200 relay lineup. Salus was also on the 1600 relay with Connor O’Brien, McRoy and Newman.
The Tunkhannock boys excelled in the jumps.
Turner won the high jump at 6-8 and the long jump with 21-2.
Erik Bennett won the triple jump with 42-3 ½ and was third in the long jump.
Billy Prebola won the javelin with 152-4.
Dalton Yeast was third in the pole vault.
Rebecca Avery was third in the discus and fifth in the shot put for the Tunkhannock girls.
Gabrielle Roote was fifth in the javelin.
Dallas resident Lukas Volpetti was part of the 3200 relay team that won for Holy Redeemer 8:26.19. He was also fourth in the 1600.
Carly Cavanaugh, a sophomore from the Back Mountain who is also a soccer all-star at Holy Redeemer, was part of the second-place girls 1600 relay.
The Lasagna Invitational also includes separate freshmen-only races in the 100 and 1600.
Reabuck and Church gave Dallas a 1-2 finish in the girls 100 where they were followed by Lake-Lehman’s Gabby Shonis and Keera Naugle in third and fourth.
Wren won the 100 boys for Dallas in 12.30.
Lake-Lehman’s Longstreth finished second in the 1600.
