sabres race to another ofsaa girls' overall team title as local secure 30 medals
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the sandwich sabres' (top row from left) ella steel-dougas, jaela bailey,janelle davis, adedolapo adekanye, gwen flanagan and charlotte townson, (centre row from left) annie seagris and leah shannon and (bottom row from left) julia carswell, brook ward, lauren luvisotto and alexandra pardalis pose with the championship banner after the school captured the ofsaa girls' overall team title for the fourth year in a row on saturday at the ofsaa track and field championships at the toronto track and field centre at york university.
rob moore
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once again, the sandwich sabres raced to a title.
for the fourth year in a row, the sabres captured the ofsaa track and field girls’ overall title on saturday.
sandwich piled up 80 points, including 70 in also winning the senior girls’ division, to take the overall title by 23 points over sudbury lo-ellen.
“it was amazing,” sandwich’s ella steel-douglas said. “i feel it just highlights sandwich and we knew we were able to do it. my senior girls did a great job.”
count steel-douglas as a big part of that success. she won gold in the senior girls’ 100-metre hurdles as well as the long jump and then helped the sabres’ strike gold in the senior girls’ 4×100-metre rely and open girls’ 4×400-metre relay.
“it was everything i wanted and a little bit more,” said the 18-year-old steel-douglas, who is headed to coastal carolina university in the fall. “i don’t know how to put it into words.”
steel-douglas won the hurdles in 13.48 seconds with st. joseph’s madison gravelle taking silver in 13.84. while qualifying earlier in the day, she was also competing in the long jump, which she won on her final attempt with a leap of 5.64 metres. l’essor’s kaiya hlady took the silver medal with a best effort of 5.60 metres.
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“i did one end of jumps book ended and did hurdles, came back and did back-to-back jumps,” steel-douglas said. “i had the hurdle rounds, long jump and a little break, then the 4×1(00) and and 45 minutes later the 4×4(00) qualifying.”
steel-douglas teamed with lauren luvisotto, jaela bailey and janelle davis to win the 4×100-metre relay in 47.46 and then with julia carswell, bailey and davis to take the 4×400-metre relay in 3:50.45.
“it was stunning,” steel-douglas said. “i was just happy we all got to pull it off.”
the sandwich sabres’ (from left) ella steel-dougas, jaela bailey, gwen flanagan, julia carswell and janelle davis stand atop the podium after receiving their gold medals for winning the open girls’ 4×400-metre relay on saturday at the ofsaa track and field championships at the toronto track and field centre at york university.
rob moore
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sandwich sabres
davis and bailey also had strong showings for the sabres. aside from the two gold medals in relay, davis took bronze medals in the senior girls’ 400-metre hurdles, in 1:01.12, and the 400 metres in 55.98. bailey added a silver medal in the senior girls’ 200 metres in 24.01 and a bronze medal in the 100 metres in 12.00.
sandwich’s team was its fifth title in the last six ofsaa meets and capped a solid showing by local athletes, who combined to win 30 medals, including 13 gold medals, at the three-day meet, which was held at the toronto track and field centre at york university.
massey’s anieu chan won a pair of gold medals. she took the junior girls’ 800 metres in 2:06.96 as well as the 400 metres in 55.76.
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holy names’ israel oluwatuyi won a silver medal in the junior boys’ triple jump with a leap of 13.65 metres and then teamed with tyson holder-fuchs, sebastian torres and samuel aribilola to win gold in the junior boy’s 4×100-metre relay in 44.05.
villanova’s jayden grein also won a pair of medals. he took gold in the open boys’ ambulatory 100 metres in 13.68, and won a bronze medal in the open boys ambulatory shot put with a throw of 7.65 metres.
other gold medals went to villanova’s gianfranco rauti, in the novice boy’s 3,000 metres in 8:55.93, north stars’ wakan rainville, in the junior boys 100-metre hurdles in 13.90, assumption’s alyssa rizzo, in the junior girls’ pole vault by clearing 3.10 metres, st. joseph’s anthony cigan, in the open boy’s intellectual 800 metres in 2:19.95, and westview’s averi iata, in the open girls’ intellectual 800 metres in 3:09.88.
belle river’s brayden labonte won a pair of silver medals. he was just 3/100ths of a second back of the winner in the senior boys’ 400-metre hurdles in 51.79 and also finished second in the 110-metre hurdles in 14.03.
other silver medals went to villanova’s addy rudling, in the noice girls’ 3,000 metres in 10:12.22, vista academy’s kaitlyn pepper, in the senior girls’ javelin with a throw of 42.63 metres, sandwich’s ryan perrone, in the junior boys’ shot put with a throw of 15.70 metres and leamington’s dakari milks, in the senior boys’ 100 metres in 10.69.
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other bronze medals went to villanova’s alyssa tannini, in the novice girls’ 100 metres in 12.91, st. joseph’s brayden kane, in the senior boys’ 400 metres in 47.49, and north star’s tyler lamarche, in the junior girls’ shot put with a throw of 13.42 metres.
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