Boys track win first NCL title
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May 12, 2010
Jules Libertin
The boys track team motto “One team, one dream” came to fruition Thursday night as they won their first overall title in the North Coast League.
“We have been building up to this for three years. We had won the Blue Division title the previous three years, but Trinity had won the overall title three straight years,” head coach Dave Arbogast told reporters. “We finally got them this year. I feel good for those guys. They worked really hard.”
The Knights took over the meet by winning four events and racking up 129.5 points, which was 37 more points than the runner-up, Lake Catholic. The team was led by the league’s MVP senior Dan Solomon who won both the 100 and 200 meters while also running in the winning 400- and 800- meter relays.
”I have been working on this since I was a freshman,” Solomon said. “To get this my senior year is major for us.”
Also leading the Knights to victory was senior Lawrence Wynn and junior Evan Luse who were both part of the winning 800- meter relay which set a meet record of 1:30:.58. Joining them in the relay was senior Ryan Ross who also placed first in long-jump with a 21 ½ foot jump. Wynn also won the high jump with a 6’ 1” jump.
”I’d be lying if I didn’t say we were expecting to do this. Winning the NCL was our goal the past three years. This year, we knew we could beat Trinity,” Ross said. ”We were confident and we know what we could do.”
With the overall North Coast League title, the boys will prepare for the OHSSA district meet in Orville on May 21-23.
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