Inside track
 and field

Boys Athlete
of the Week

Tommy Rohn

Cary-Grove, sr.

Rohn had a hand Saturday in three first-place finishes and a second place at C-G’s Al Bohrer Invitational, which the Trojans won with 138 points. Belvidere North was second with 118.

Rohn won the 100 meters and was second in the 400. He also ran legs in the 4x100 and 4x400 relay. He won the 100 in 11.4 seconds and was second in the 400 in 49.4.

Girls Athlete
of the Week

Kathie Wollney

Cary-Grove, sr.

Wollney won the 100-meter high hurdles and the 300 low hurdles at Saturday’s Buffalo Grove Invitational, which the Trojans won with 154½ points. Fremd was second with 135.

Wollney’s time in the 300 hurdles (44.30) was her career best. She won the 100 highs in 15.2.

She also ran on the Trojans’ winning 4x200 and 4x400 relays.

Noteworthy

Fab freshmen: Cary-Grove has a pair of freshman throwers making their marks this season in track and field, Ricky Hurley and Olivia Roehri.

Hurley took seconds Saturday in the discus and shot put to senior teammate Josh Freeman at the Al Bohrer Invitational. Roehri took third in the shot put and fourth in the discus at the Buffalo Grove Invitational.

Hurley and Roehri both were state champions last year in middle school and worked with Freeman and the other throwers last summer.

In memory: Huntley named its invitational, which ran Saturday, for former team member and Huntley graduate Jennifer Kearns, who died in a car accident in February at age 19.

Red Raiders coach Shawn Nordeen thought naming the meet for Kearns would be a fitting tribute. Even better, the Raiders won the meet.

Keep it clean: Johnsburg assistant coach Wayne Bennett, who was running the shot put competition at Saturday’s Al Bohrer Invitational at Cary-Grove, had this to say to the competitors.

“If you’re not going to say it to your mother or grandmother, don’t say it here,” Bennett said. “Go over by that tree because I don’t want to disqualify you.”

Going higher: Marengo junior pole vaulter Mike Zaranski cleared 12 feet, 9 inches to win the Al Bohrer Invitational on Saturday, another career-best jump. He almost made 13 feet.

Week’s Top Meets

Marengo’s Ed Reeves Invitational

9 a.m. Saturday

Woodstock, Marengo, Richmond-Burton, Hampshire, Johnsburg, Harvard and the host Indians will compete in the meet. Some of the area’s best girls distance runners will be participating – Woodstock’s Maura Beattie, Hampshire’s Cassie Kruse and Marengo’s Katie Adams.

Geneva Invitational

9 a.m. Saturday

Dundee-Crown and McHenry are the local teams competing.

– Joe Stevenson joestevenson@shawmedia.com