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Versailles wins D-III girls state team title; Miami Valley takes final girls race
COLUMBUS — Tammy Berger won the 3,200 meters and Versailles wrapped up its first girls Division III state track and field team title on Saturday, June 5 at Ohio State University’s Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.
The Tigers led defending champ Gates Mills Gilmour Academy by 3.5 points going into the 3,200, but had no runners in that event. With the sophomore’s 10 points, Versailles clinched the title with a 13.5-point lead with only the 1,600 relay remaining.
Gilmour and Versailles were 2-3 in that final race, but Miami Valley won (3:59.45), the first time the Rams have ever won an event at this meet.
Versailles piled up a winning 47.5 points to Gilmour’s 36. Berger’s effort in the 3,200 was the Tigers’ only win. but they also bunched a pair of seconds and two thirds for the bulk of its points.
Last season Gilmour beat Versailles for the team title, 73-62. The Tigers’ point total in 2009 was enough to win every small-school state meet from 1985-2007.
Versailles’ girls started their run for a state D-III team title by placing second in the 800 relay. The Tigers were run down by Steubenville Catholic Central anchor Teddi Jo Maslowski, who earlier set a state meet record in the 100 hurdles (14.44).
Members of MV’s winning foursome were Caitlin Pohl, Shelby Carpenter, Lauren Shaver and Elaina Cromer. That allowed the Rams to vault to seventh place (20 points).
bull&; Juli Accurso of Miami East posted the Miami Valley’s first win.
The senior won the D-III 1,600 meters (4:57.50). Placing third was Versailles’ Berger (5:02.75), the second straight year she’s been third in the event.
Accurso also added a fourth in the 800.
bull&; Gretchen Walter of Lehman Catholic joined Accurso as the area’s second winner when she took the 400 (57.26). The junior also added a couple of seconds in the 100 (12.28) and 200 (25.37).
That accounted for all of the Cavs’ 26 points, good for fourth as a team.
bull&; In all, D-III area athletes claimed six titles. also winning were Minster’s Sam Philpot in the 200 (22.04) and Isiah Bragg of Springfield Emmanuel Christian Academy in the 3,200 (9:22.13).
bull&; Anna’s Kameron Knight opened the D-III boys meet by placing seventh in the 100 meters, then was part of the Rockets’ runner-up 800 relay. He also was part of Anna’s second-place 400 relay and was eighth in the 200 to complete a busy and productive day.
bull&; Sprinter Mario Cosey was fifth in the 100 for Yellow Springs’ boys. He then was part of the Bulldogs’ eighth-place 800 relay.
bull&; Katie Bunker of Cedarville held the lead for most of the 800 but was overtaken by Rebekka Simko of Gates Mills Gilmour Academy in the final turn to place second (2:13.75).
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