2013 Results
League Champs!!!!!
H.S. track: New Milford girls have strength in numbers
THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY MAY 9, 2013, 2:46 PM
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
PALISADES PARK – While Hasbrouck Heights was putting up some otherworldly numbers in sweeping the Meadowlands Division boys and girls titles at the New Jersey Interscholastic Conference track meet Wednesday at Overpeck Park, and Lyndhurst was comfortably extending its streak in the Liberty Division boys race, New Milford’s girls were plugging along in a tight three-way Liberty battle with Lyndhurst and defending champion Secaucus.
Halfway through the 16-event meet, the Knights were in third place, five points behindLyndhurst and eight points behind Secaucus. Six events later, New Milford had all but clinched its first league title since 2000, despite not winning any of the six events.
"We have an amazing group of seniors," New Milford coach Greg Kelly said after his team finished off a 129-110-104 win over the Patriots and Golden Bears. "But they were so nervous today before the meet started that we got off to a slow start, but when they started to relax, they did what was needed, just like they have all year."
Senior Jenean Igmat led a 3-5-6 finish in the 100 hurdles, and seniors Jenn Teets and Jaimee Tiu went 2-5 in the 800. Teets was edged by a brilliant kick from Dwight-Englewood’s Hannah Jerome. Senior Nawal Abdallah led a 2-6 finish in the javelin as New Milford grabbed the lead and senior Khadijah Cox was second in the 200.
Abdallah, in just her second meet throwing the discus, took another second (with a teammate sixth), and when Igmat led a 3-4-6 finish in the long jump, the meet was all but over. Teets and Tiu made it certain with a 1-3 finish in the 3,200 meters.
"I’m ecstatic over everything that we did today," said Kelly, whose team was undefeated in dual meets. "These girls came through again as they always do."
Lyndhurst had only one double winner in 100/high jump champ James Wenger in its 160-97 1/2 win over New Milford for a third straight title, but the Golden Bears, buoyed by a 1-2-3 sweep of the pole vault, scored in every event.
Hasbrouck Heights had an all-time dominant meet. The girls won 11 of 16 events and outscored the rest of the league, 247-242, led by freshman Stacey Porzl’s triple in the 100, 200 and 400, and a leg on the 4-x-400 relay, and senior Irene Cedano’s wins in the shot and discus.
But even that paled next to the boys’ overwhelming achievement. Heights won every event but the 1,600 (Danny Cordero of North Arlington) and pole vault (Travis Fisher of NA), had 44 of its 46 entries medal (scoring three athletes in 13 events), and outscored the rest of the league, 296-192.
Seniors Roland Gamez and Anthony Seidel capped extraordinary league careers, with Gamez winning the high jump, 110 hurdles, triple jump and long jump for the second straight year. Seidel won the shot, discus and javelin.
Bergen County Meet of Champs
Jennifer Teets - 1600m (6th) 5:32.65
Jenean Igmat - Triple Jump (6th) 34' 4 1/2"
State Sectional Championships
Jennifer Teets - 1600m (2nd)
- 3200m (3rd)
Nawal Abdallah - Javelin (2nd)
4x100m - Jenean Igmat, Kelly Ordonez, Isabel Seda, Jackie Follety (4th)
Sophomore Championships
Caroline Uribe - 100HH (4th)
Alejandra Zelasco - Shot Put (6th)
County Group Championships
Jennifer Teets - 1600m (3rd) School Record 5:29.93
- 3200m (3rd) School Record 12:06.01
Jenean Igmat - Long Jump (4th) 15' 11-1/4"
- Triple Jump (2nd) 33' 9-1/4"
Jackie Follety - 100m (6th) 13.66
Nawal Abdallah - Discus (6th) 100'
Jaimee Tiu - 800m (4th) 2:28
League Championships
Khadijah Cox - 100m (2nd), 200m (2nd)
Jen Teets - (800m (2nd), 1600m (1st), 3200m (1st)
Jaimee Tiu - 800m (5th), 3200m (3rd)
Jackie Follety - 100m (4th), LJ (6th), Pole Vault (3rd)
Isabel Seda - 100m (6th)
Ashley Martinelli - 100HH (6th)
Jenean Igmat - 100HH (3rd), TJ (1st), LJ (3rd)
Caroline Uribe - HJ (4th), LJ (4th), Javelin (6th), 100HH (5th)
Nawal Abdallah - Disc (2nd), Javelin (2nd), Shot (2nd)
Alejandra Zelasco - Disc (6th)
Nicole Garcia - TJ (5th), Relay (4th)
Suzy DeLeon - Relay (4th)
Kelly Ordonez - Relay (4th)
Antara Morfe - Relay (4th)
Twin Boro Relays
Varsity
4x200m - Follety, Ordonez, Garcia, Cox (1:53.2) 4th
Sprint Med - Tiu, Igmat, Cox, Teets (4:27.0) 2nd
Long Jump - Follety, Uribe, Cox (42' 9") 4th
Triple Jump - Igmat, Garcia, Uribe (88' 5-1/4") 5th
JV
Sprint Med - DeLeon, Seda, Tello, Morfe (5:01.5) 5th
Freshmen
100HH - Garcia (13.8) 5th
Queen of Peace win 97-43, Secaucus win 77-62
Winner:
Jen Teets - 800m, 1600m, 3200m
Jackie Follety - Long Jump
Jenean Igmat - Triple Jump
Nawal Abdallah - Javelin
Paper Standard: Nawal Abdallah (Javelin)
Bergen County Relays
Triple Jump - Igmat, Garcia, Uribe - (91' 10 1/4") 3rd
Long Jump - Cox, Igmat, Uribe - (40' 10 1/2") 4th
Javelin - Abdallah, Uribe, Lopez - (242' 9") 5th
4x100m - Garcia, Seda, Ordonez, Cox - (54.9) 3rd
Sprint Med - Ordonez, Igmat, Cox, Teets - (4:37.2) 3rd
Distance Med - Tiu, Garcia, Lopez, Teets - (13:41.1) 3rd
Green Shirt - Nicole Garcia (Triple Jump)
Lyndhurst win 79-61, Leonia win 96 - 38
Winners
Khadijah Cox - 100m, 200m
Jaimee Tiu - 800m
Jen Teets - 1600m, 3200m
Jeneann Igmat - Triple Jump, 100HH
Jackie Follety - Pole Vault
Paper Standards - Igmat (100HH), Cox (100m, 200m)
Red Shirt - Jenean Igmat (100HH)
Aviator Relays
Varsity
Sprint Medley - Tiu, Ordonez, Igmat, Teets - (2nd place)
4x100m - Igmat, Ordonez, Follety, Garcia - (5th)
Long Jump - Garcia, Follety, Igmat - (5th)
Novice
Intermediate Hurdles - DeLeon, Torres - (5th)
Long Jump - DeLeon, Torres - (3rd)
Dwight Englewood Win 84-46
Winners
Jackie Follety - 100m
Jenean Igmat - 100HH, LJ, TJ
Jen Teets - 1600m, 3200m
Suzy Deleon - 400IH
Nawal Abdallah - Javelin, Shot
Alejandra Zelasco - Discus
Paper Standards - Igmat (100HH, LJ), Follety (LJ), Abdallah (Javelin)
Green Shirt - Jackie Follety (100m)
Red Shirt - Nawal Abdallah (Javelin)
Season Open Invitational
The Distance Medley of Jaimee Tiu (1200m), Kelly Ordonez (400m), Julia Lopez (800m) and Jennifer Teets (1600m) ran the fifth fastest time in school history running 13:52. The group will take aim at the school record at the County Relays in two weeks.
Ridgefield Win 104-30
Winners:
100m - Jackie Follety
200m - Nicole Garcia
400m- Nicole Garcia
800m - Jaimee Tiu
1600m - Jen Teets
3200m - Jen Teets
100HH - Jenean Igmat
400IH - Suzy Deleon
Pole Vault - Jackie Follety
Javelin - Nawal Abdallah
Discus - Alejandra Zelasco
Shot Put - Nawal Abdallah
Triple Jump - Jenean Igmat
High Jump - Caroline Uribe
Long Jump - Caroline Uribe
4x400m - Tiu, Lopez, Ordonez, Deleon
White Shirt - Nicole Garcia - 400m
Green Shirt - Nawal Abdallah - Javelin
Paper Standards - Nawal Abdallah (Javelin), Jenean Igmat (100HH)
Season Open Invitational
The Distance Medley of Jaimee Tiu (1200m), Kelly Ordonez (400m), Julia Lopez (800m) and Jennifer Teets (1600m) ran the fifth fastest time in school history running 13:52. The group will take aim at the school record at the County Relays in two weeks.