When Tyrone Head Coach Brad Kanuch took the Lady Eagles to the annual Lock Haven Invitational for the first time in 2020, no Tyrone girls placed, and the team finished dead last in scoring with zero points.
Just four years later, the Tyrone girls took first place overall, and the boys placed third.
“Winning the meet is a measure of how far the girls’ program has advanced since then,” Tyrone assistant coach Steve Everhart said.
Kanuch agrees. “I think the girls winning is awesome. It shows the strength of our team and how well-rounded we are. We may be a small team, but we get the job done,” Kanuch said.
The meet included 13 area schools: Central Mountain, Clearfield, DuBois, Hughesville, Mifflinburg, North Penn-Mansfield, Penns Valley, Sayre, South Williamsport, Troy, Tyrone, Warrior Run, and Williamsport.
First-place finishers for the Golden Eagles were Nicole Ramsey in the triple jump and Lola Woomer in the high jump for the girls, and the 4×400 boys relay of Aiden Detwiler, Dante Novak, Alex Brumbaugh, and Tom Sutt for the boys.
According to Kanuch and Everhart, other highlights of the meet were Kylie Nelson’s 121′ javelin throw, which is only 10′ shy of the school record, and the boys relay performances.
Everhart also singled out freshman Cam Coffey for hitting 5:00 with a double-digit drop in the 1600m. He also highlighted the 4x800m relay that took first against Hughesville, the top-ranked team in the state.
“Caleb Whitby’s 49-second leg of the 400m as a sophomore [was remarkable]. Only one other Tyrone athlete has pulled [that] off—state champion Nick Patton,” Everhart said.
Overall, both Kanuch and Everhart were pleased with the results from the Tyrone athletes.
“[This meet] brings out the best in our kids. Every year. Nearly every event. Maybe it’s the weather, the Friday night lights, the college-campus setting, the -for-everything food, the energized announcers, the creative bets Coach Kanuch makes if the kids hit a certain goal. It’s fun–and a measure of what we can accomplish,” Everhart said.
“Our kids always come to perform at the Bald Eagle Invite. I don’t know what it is, but the kids have a crazy energy about it and it is a meet they look forward to every year,” Kanuch said.
GIRLS
The girls scored 109 points, finishing ahead of second-place DuBois, who finished with 89.5 points.
The Lady Eagles had 18 individual top finishers, and both the 4×100 and 4×400 relays placed high.
Tyrone’s top finisher was junior Nicole Ramsey, who won the triple jump with a season best of 36-0.25, received second in the long jump with a PR of 16-7, and received fifth in the 200-meter dash with a season best of 26.85.
Ramsey was also a member of the 4×100 relay that placed second in the 4×100 relay with teammates senior Alayna Greene, junior Claire Lehman, and sophomore Sarah Chichester running a time of 50.86.
Freshman Lola Woomer won the high jump, with a jump of 5-01.
Sophomore Josie Dickens received third in shot put with a PR of 30-2, breaking a 40-year-old school record, and also earned third in discus with a PR of 91-8.
Chichester was also a top finisher, placing third in the 100-meter dash with a PR of 13.04. She earned third in the 200-meter dash with a PR of 26.56, and fourth in the 4×400 relay alongside teammates junior Alyssa Houck, sophomore Taylor Wrye, and Lehman running a PR of 4:19.37. Chichester was also a part of the 4×100 relay that placed second.
In the 400-meter dash, Wrye placed fifth running a time of 1:04.73, and Houck earned eighth running a PR of 1:06.
Sophomore Sophia Witkamp finished eighth in the 1600-meter run with a PR of 6:13.57, and also placed eighth in the 3200-meter run with a PR of 13:44.79.
In the 300-meter hurdles, Lehman received fourth with a time of 50.04.
In javelin, senior Kylee Nelson won with a PR of 121-1, and junior Raeleigh Oliver set a new personal record of 82-10.
In the high jump, senior Taylan McGlynn received second to Woomer, with a PR of 4-09, and Nelson received fourth with a season best of 4-09.
Woomer also finished fourth in the triple jump with a PR of 34-0.25.
BOYS
The boys scored 83 points, good enough for a tie for third with Hughesville. DuBois finished second with 89 points, and Williamport won the meet with 130 team points.
The Golden Eagles had 18 individual top-eight finishers, and all three relays placed, with the boys 4×800 meter relay taking top honors.
Tyrone’s top individual finisher was senior Aiden Detwiler, who placed third in the 800 with a time of 2:06.46.
Detwiler was also a part of the 4×800 relay that took first place, joined by Dante Novak, Alex Brumbaugh, and Tom Sutt.
Detwiler was also a part of the 4×400 relay, joined by Drew Irons, Caleb Whitby, and Novak which took second with a time of 3:32.55.
Sophomore Caleb Whitby is approaching the 100m school record set by Nick Getz in 2015 with a time of 11.18. Whitby ran an 11.30, which gave him sixth.
Whitby was also a part of the fourth-place 4×100 relay, along with Austin Lucas, Mason Emigh, and Seth Hoover, the team ran a 44.36.
Tyrone’s hurdle crew continues to impress fans as they had three athletes place in the 110m hurdles. The three were sophomore Kyler Suhoney, taking fourth with a time of 16.5, sophomore Tyler Connelly took sixth with a time of 16.82, and junior Ashton Emigh took eighth with a time of 16.93.
In the 300m hurdles, Connelly took fifth, running a 42.70.
Irons placed 8th in the 200, running a 23.32, and he placed fifth in the 400 with a time of 53.22. Taking seventh in the 400 was Novak, running a time of 53.52
In the distance events, Sutt placed sixth in the 1600 with a time of 4:52.19, and Brumbaugh placed fourth in the 3200 with a time of 10:43.60
In the field events, Tyrone took all four long jumpers to the finals, with three of them placing.
Whitby was the top finisher, taking fourth, jumping 21-4.75, Novak placed seventh, jumping 20-10.5, and Mason Emigh placed eightjumping 20-8.5.
In the triple jump, Emigh took fourth, jumping 40-8.75, and Eli Woomer took sixth with a 40-3.5.
In the high jump, senior Logan Rumberger jumped over 5-7, earning eighth.
In the throws, senior Cian Hockenberry placed sixth in discus throwing 124-5, and Ashton Emigh placed sixth in the javelin throwing 148-6.
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