CHICAGO MARIST TRACK AND FIELD

  On Tuesday, March 18, 2008, the Northside College Prep Sophomore-Freshman Boys traveled to Bensenville, Illinois to take on Buffalo Grove, Fenton, Lake Park, Niles North, St.Joseph, West Chicago, and Brooks College Prep in the 30th Annual Emil Ostberg Sophomore-Freshman Indoor Championships.

 The Email Ostberg Sophomore-Freshman Indoor Championships is named after two former Fenton athletes, who earned All-American honors during their collegiate careers. Jim Nichols (All-American in the 800m run) and Emil Ostberg (All-American in the 200m Dash). To earn All-American honors, a collegiate athlete has to place in the Top 8 in the Country at the NCAA National Track & Field Championships. Plaques were awarded to the Top 5 individual finishers and the Top 4 Relays in every event. Individual Events and Relays were scored 10-8-6-4-2-1.

 In the Long Jump, Freshman Miles Austrevich jumped a personal best 15'1.

 In the Shot Put, Sophomore Andrew Czyszczon threw 29'9.5.

 In the 50 Yard High Hurdles prelims, Sophomore Andrew Czyszczon ran a time of 8.90.

 In the 50 Yard Dash prelims, Freshman Noel Lopez ran a personal best time of 6.70.

 In the 50 Yard Int. Hurdles prelims, Sophomore Andrew Czyszczon ran a time of 9.30.

 In the 4x800m Relay, Freshman Wesley Laytham ran a 2:16.53 800m split on the first leg of the relay to put the Mustangs in the lead, and made a nice exchange to Cooper Eben. Sophomore Cooper Eben maintained the lead with a 2:19.53 800m split on the second leg of the relay, and made a nice exchange to Sophomore Andrew Czyszczon. Andrew Czyszczon ran an outstanding 2:32.37 800m split to keep pace with Lake Park, Fenton, and Buffalo Grove. Freshman Miles Austrevich ran an oustanding 2:25.87 800m split to pass Buffalo Grove, and anchor the Mustangs to Third place overall, with an outstanding time of 9:34.30. Wesley Laytham, Cooper Eben, Andrew Czyszczon, and Miles Austrevich were awarded plaques for finishing third overall.

 In the 4x135 Yards Relay, unknown to the officials, sand had drifted from the long jump pit to the outside lanes. On the first leg of the Relay, Sophomore Forrest Cortes fell hard when he ran over a patch of sand near the long jump pit, but he immediately got back up, and ran an outstanding 21.58 split on the first leg of the relay. Sophomore Sam Olver ran a 21.50 split on the second leg of the relay, and made a nice exchange to Sophomore Peter Wilk. Peter Wilk ran a 17.19 split on the third leg of the relay, and made a nice exchange to anchor Noel Lopez. Freshman Noel Lopez anchored the Mustangs to fourth in their heat with a 17.30 split, for a total time of 1:16.67.

  In the Two Mile Run, Northside Freshman Charlie Mesimore WON it with an outstanding time of 11:02. Mesimore ran the first Mile in 5:31, and ran an even split of 5:31 on the second mile, for a total time of 11:02 to WIN the 2008 Ostberg Sophomore-Freshman Two Mile Run! Charlie Mesimore was awarded a plaque for finishing first place overall. West Chicago's DJ Muzzy finished in second place with a time of 11:11. Buffalo Grove's Tyler Berman finished in third place with a time of 11:22. Buffalo Grove's Eric Schiller finished in fourth place with a time of 11:25. Lake Park's Trevor Murphy finished in fifth place with a time of 11:26. Lake Park's Pat Dimpsey finished in sixth place with a time of 11:29 to complete the scoring.

  In the 800m run, Freshman Wesley Laytham ran an outstanding time of 2:21.30. Sophomore Forrest Cortes ran an outstanding time of 2:39.81.

  In the 4x270 Yards Relay, the Mustangs finished in sixth place with an outstanding time of 2:30.15. Sophomore Sam Olver ran a 38.56 270 Yard split on the first leg of the relay, and made a nice exchange to Peter Wilk. Sophomore Peter Wilk ran a 36.15 270 Yard split on the second leg of the relay, and made a nice exchange to Sophomore Cooper Eben. Cooper Eben ran a 38.41 270 Yard split on the third leg of the relay, and made a nice exchange to Freshman Noel Lopez. Noel Lopez ran a 37.03 270 Yard split, to anchor the Mustangs to sixth place overall, with a total time of 2:30.15.

  In the 400m run, Freshman Wesley Laytham finished in sixth overall with an outstanding time of 60.10. Sophomore Neal Capapas finished in seventh overall with an outstanding time of 62.80.

  In the Mile, Buffalo Grove's Mike Galla won it with an outstanding time of 4:50. Lake Park Luke Nally finished in second with a time of 4:51.5. Lake Park's Abraham Pedraza finished in third place with a time of 5:01.2. Fenton's Eric Hermansen finished in fourth place with a time of 5:01.6. Northside Freshman Charlie Mesimore finished in fifth place with an outstanding time of 5:01.7. Buffalo Grove's Ryan Poter completed the scoring by finishing in sixth place with an outstanding time of 5:03.3. Northside Freshman Charlie Mesimore was awarded a plaque for finishing fifth overall. Charlie Mesimore earned plaques in both the 2 Mile and Mile run.

  In the 200m Dash, Sophomore Peter Wilk ran an outstanding time of 28.70. Sophomore Sam Oliver ran an outstanding time of 29.70.

  In the 4x405 Yards Relay, the Mustangs were seeded in the slow heat (1st heat), and it is rare that a relay in the slow heat, will over take the times of the Teams in the fast heat. The Mustangs new that had to win their heat to have any chance of going home with plaques in the 4x405 Yards Relay. On the first leg of the relay in the first heat, the Mustangs quickly found themselves in second place, behind West Chicago, despite Neal Capapas running a 57.22 405 Yards split on the first leg of the relay. West Chicago had a 40 yard lead, and it looked like they were uncatchable. On the next 3 legs of the Relay, the heart and determination of the Mustangs prevailed. Sophomore Cooper Eben ran an outstanding 59.06 405 Yards split on the second leg of the relay, to stay within 40 yards of West Chicago. Freshman Miles Austrevich ran a 58.06 405 Yards split on the third leg of the relay, to close within 35 yards of West Chicago. Freshman Wesley Laythan anchored the Mustangs with a 55.66 405 Yards split for dramatic upset victory (3:50.00) over West Chicago (3:50.90) to WIN the first heat of 4x405 Yards Relay!!

 Plaques are awarded to the Top 4 Relays in the Fenton Ostberg Sophomore-Freshman Championships. The Mustangs now had to wait to see if their time would place them in the top 4 of the fast heat. In the second heat of the 405 Yards Relay, Niles North won it with an outstanding time of 3:36.3. Buffalo Grove finished in second with an outstanding time of 3:41.3. Fenton finished in third place with a time of 3:49.9. Lake Park finished in fourth place to tie the Mustangs with a time of 3:50.00. As a result of the tie, the points were split between Lake Park, and Northside College Prep, and each Team was awarded 3 points for fourth place. However, there was only 4 plaques for fourth place, so the Head Coach from Lake Park and Northside were called to the scorers table for a coin toss to determine who goes home with the plaques. The Mustangs informed Northside Head Coach Jon Gordon that they wanted to go with "Tails" in the coin toss. Northside Head Coach Jon Gordon called "Tails" in the air, and the Mustangs won the coin toss!, and were awarded the plaques for fourth place overall!

 The Northside Mustangs will be going to Eckersall Stadium on Saturday, March 22, 2008, to take on 25 Teams in the Bronco Invitational!