Four event champs at final league meet

    St. Thomas Legion's Alton, Belanger, Bell, Knelsen, win at Great Lakes meet

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

By Rob J. Ross

ST. THOMAS, Ont. - St. Thomas Legion had four event winners, at meet four of the Great Lakes League track and field season, at Parkside Collegiate Institute.

Arabella Alton, 19, won open women's high jump, clearing 1.65 metres, 14-year old Hallee Knelsen was the fastest in the open women's 800 metres (2:24.77), Hayden Bell won the youth boys' 110-metre hurdles (15.09 sec.) and Dylen Belanger, was the best in the bantam boys' 80-metre hurdles (13.59 sec.).

Belanger, a grade seven student at Mitchell Hepburn elementary school, was second in the boys' 150-metre dash. His twin brother, Harrison, was fourth, in the open men's 800 metres (2:21.41).

Camryn Roth finished second, in the 80-metre hurdles (16.63 sec.) and third in the girls' 150 metre race (21.73 sec).

Madelen King was third (2:44.18) and Madeleine Krahn, fifth (2:52.08) the women's 800 metres.

Fourteen year old Kyra Vellinga finished fourth in the open women's 200-metre dash (28.28 sec.), followed by club mates Cassidy Kent, sixth (28.55 sec.), Tayah Desousa, seventh (29.4) and Katherine Heard, eighth (29.81).

DeSousa placed second (13.42 sec.) in the girls' 80-metre hurdles, with Heard finishing fifth (14.13 sec.).

Arthur Stanat placed fourth in boys 4-kg shot put (12.15m).

Michael Roth was sixth, in the open men's 200 metres (24.69 sec.).

Evan De Geer placed ninth in both the open men's 200 metres (25.26 sec.) and men's high jump (1.50m).

Brooke Hoxar, of Dorchester, wearing the London-Western club colours, won the women's one kilogram discus throw, with a distance of 34.9 metres.

London-Western club-mate Hunter Smith, of St. Thomas, placed third in open women's 4-kilogram shot put (8.69m) and discus (27.74m), while Sierra Scott, from Dorchester, placed fourth, in the open women's 800 metres (2:52.07).