Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»College won the junior and senior boys B.C. high school track and field championship and the all-boys school came only a few points shy of claiming the all-round team title.
Competing in Langley at McLeod Athletic Park June 4 to 6, the Fighting Irish amassed 77 junior boys points and 60 senior boys points, coming within two and five points of the respective junior and senior team championships. New Westminster secondary won the combined junior meet with 79 points and perennial champion Oak Bay secondary, from Victoria, won the combined senior meet with 65 points.
Killarney finished fifth overall at the combined senior level and Eric Hamber came 13th.
In individual results, triple gold went to Anastas Eliopoulos who won the junior boys 100 metre dash for the Fighting Irish, topping the podium in 11.12 seconds, .15 seconds ahead of the silver medallist from New Westminster. His teammate Alfred Dela Cruz tied for fourth in 11.49.
Eliopoulos also won the junior boys 100m hurdles in 14.01, more than full second (1.32 seconds) ahead of the second-place racer. And he was the fastest sprinter in the junior boys 200m, winning in 22.68. St. George’s Quinn Litherland took silver in 22.82.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»College found more success in the sprints and won gold in the senior boys 4x100 relay in 44.26 — .27 seconds ahead of rival St. Thomas More. They also won the junior boys 4x400 relay
Jasper Schiedel added to the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»College medal count with gold in the senior boys 110m hurdles
Quinn Litherland of St. George's won the junior boys 400m race in 49.55. In the senior boys race of the same distance, Eric Hamber brothers Leo Ando and Rui Ando finished third and fourth, respectively, in 50.64 and 50.82.
The senior boys from Hamber outstepped Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»College to win the 4x400m relay in 3:28.20, just 0.66 seconds marking the difference between gold and silver.
Magee’s Julie Kawaii Herdman won bronze in the junior girls 200m dash, stepping away in the middle of the high jump competition to run the race. She still managed a bronze in the high jump, clearing 1.60 metres and also won silver in the junior girls long jump, reaching 5.25 metres on her second attempt. The winner from Collingwood jumped 5.30 metres on her first attempt and fouled on four of her next five attempts.
In the senior girls 1,500m race walk, Killarney’s Zoe Zhang won silver and King George’s Sophie Vogel-Nakamura won silver in 7:52.74 and 8:14.98, respectively. In the junior event, Killarney’s Kyra Donaldson won gold in 7:11.94.
Killarney topped the podium in the senior boys race walk. Alger Liang won gold in 6:09.55 and teammate Erik Thies was close behind in 6:13.51. Also from Killarney, Philip Ngo won bronze in the junior boys race walk.
In the 3,000m run, Killarney’s Enid Au won silver. Charlton was fourth.
Autumn Covington won silver in the senior discus with a throw of 37.35 metres.
Brendan Chandra won silver in the junior discus with a best throw of 42.73 metres. He also won bronze in the shot put with a throw of 47.41 metres.
Jessica Hanson from Little Flower Academy tied for second in the high jump. On her third attempt, she cleared 1.70 metres to tie with a jumper from Walnut Grove. The winner cleared the same distance with one jump and also reached 1.75 metres for the win. LFA’s Sophie Pauls finished fourth with a 1.60m jump.
In the senior boys long jump, Kenneth Ng won silver for St. George’s with a best jump of 6.51 metres, just three centimetres behind the winner from Walnut Grove. Close behind, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»College’s Jasper Schiedel won bronze with a 6.50-metre jump.
Hannah Johnston won bronze in the senior girls 400m hurdles in 1:04.64.
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