Announcement
Simon Kafka, Josh Williams, Joel Deleon, & Erik Zuehlke WIN 4x800m! Charlie Mesimore WINS Mile! Josh Williams WINS Triple Jump! Laytham WINS 800!
On Saturday, March 12, 2011, the Northside Varsity Mustangs traveled to De La Salle High School at 3455 South Michigan Ave., in Chicago, Illinois for the De La Salle Bank of America Meteors Invitational.
The entrance way to the Indoor Track & Field Stadium, featured a statue of a famous De La Salle Alumni, Mayor Richard Daley.
Bank of America was an excellent sponsor, and supplied timers and awards for the marathon Track & Field meet, which lasted over four hours, and featured 17 high schools, including host De La Salle. The meet also featured several of the top athletes in Chicago.
Ed Ward served as the official starter, and was outstanding. Northside plans to have Ed Ward as one of the starters for the Eric Nelson Classic on March 23, 2011.
A special thanks to De La Salle Head Coach Robell McMiller, and his fine coaching staff, for hosting an outstanding meet. Coach McMiller showed great sportsmanship by rewarding the Northside Mustangs with their early arrival to the meet, by allowing the Northside Mustangs to be first Team to set up camp in the stadium.
The point scale for individual events and relays was 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1. Athletes that placed in the Top 3 were rewarded with T-shirts, and Medals. The meet had a unique order of events, commencing with Field Events and the 1600m run.
In the Varsity Shot Put, Curie's Vaugh King won it with a throw of 45'09! Fenwick's Niall Mulcahy finished in second place with a throw of 42'11.50. De La Salle's Demetrius Catchings finished in third place with a throw of 40'08.00. Calumet Perspectives Eric Johnson finished in fourth place with a throw of 40'06.50. Foreman's Johnny Guerreo finished in fifth place with a throw of 37'09.00. Calumet Perspectives Michael Fort finished in sixth place with a throw of 36'06.00. Chicago Military Academy's Vernel Lundy finished in seventh place and scored all of his Team's points with an outstanding throw of 36'02.50. Schurz Raymond McDonald completed the scoring with a throw of 36'01.00 to place eighth overall. After breaking the 30'0 barrier at Fenton, Northside throwers had a tough day at De La Salle. Northside Senior Ottmar Flores threw 29'09.00. Northside Junior Allen Tu threw 29'04.00.
In the Varsity High Jump, De La Salle Julian Snowden won it with a jump of 6'0. Calumet Perspectives Christopher Randolph finished in second place with a jump of 5'10. Fenwick's Will Fogarty finished in third place with a jump of 5'4. Kelvyn Park's Carleton Coleman finished in fourth place with a jump of 5'4. Dunbar's Antoine Clark finished in fifth place with a jump of 5'2. Northside Freshman Lucien Fitzpatrick clipped the bar with his toe on the way down, on his final attempt at 5'4, and finished in sixth place with an outstanding jump of 5'2. De La Salle's Jordan Fisher finished in seventh place with a jump of 5'2. De La Salle's Dustin Brandon completed the scoring by place eigth overall with a jump of 5'2.
In the Varsity Long Jump, Calumet Perspectives Lonnie Washington jumped 20'7.50 to win it! Orr Academy's Carl Young jumped 20'03.00 to finish in second place. Kelvyn Park's Victor Medina jumped 18'02.00 to finish in third place. Orr Academy's Anthony Jefferson finished in fourth place with a jump of 17'11. De La Salle's Jordan Page finished in fifth place with a jump of 17'09. Calumet Perspectives Elijah Stokely finished in sixth place with a jump of 17'02. Foreman's Brandon Johnson finished in seventh place with a jump of 16'08.50. Orr Academy's Jovan Brown finished in eighth place to complete the scoring with a jump of 16'05. Northside Freshman Lucien Fitzpatrick jumped 15'0.
After taking the SAT, and the completion of the Long Jump, Northside Junior Josh Williams arrived to the meet to help the Mustangs in the Triple Jump!
In the Varsity Triple Jump, Northside Junior Josh Williams WON it with an outstanding jump of 39'08.00. De La Salle's Tristen Green finished in second place with a jump of 38'08.00. Orr Academy's Anthony Jefferson finished in third place with a jump of 37'06.00. De La Salle's Jordan Page finished in fourth place with a jump of 36'03.00. Calumet Perspective's Elijah Stokely finished in fifth place with a jump of 34'10.00. Orr Academy's Jovan Brown finished in sixth place with a jump of 33'11.50. Dunbar's John Harris finished in seventh place with a jump of 33'10.50. De La Salle's Martin Jackson finished eighth place with a jump of 32'06.00 to complete the scoring.
In the Varsity 1600m Run, Northside Senior Charlie Mesimore ran the first 800m in 2:29, and then past the entire field and took control of the race. Charlie Mesimore ran the final 800m in a NEGATIVE SPLIT of 2:26 to WIN the 1600m run with an official time of 4:55.89. Northside Freshman Simon Kafka ran the first 800m in 2:30, and then ran the final 800m in 2:31 to finish in second place with an official time of 5:01.82. Curie's Erik Diaz finished in third place with an outstanding time of 5:01.90. Northside Senior Erik Zuehlke ran the first 800m in 2:30, and then ran the final 800m in 2:34 to finish in fourth place with an official time of 5:04.68. Hubbard's Axel Munox finished in fith place with an outstanding time of 5:05.00. Robeson's Scandalence Fritz finished in sixth place with an outstanding time of 5:09.15. Fenwick's Emmett McCoy finished in seventh place with an official time of 5:12.25. Kelly's Enrique Alvarez finished in eighth place to complete the scoring with an official time of 5:19.41.
The second event of the meet was the 4x400m Relay. It was a unique concept.
In the Varsity 4x400m Relay, Robeson's Alex Jones, Jarvis Wright, Duwane Pipkins, and Juwane Pipkins combined for a 3:46.10 to win it. De La Salle finished in second place with a time of 3:46.22. Orr Academy finished in third place with a time of 3:55.03. Fenger finished in fourth place with a time of 3:59.72. Calumet Perspectives finished in fifth place with a time of 4:01.87. Northside finished in sixth place with an official time of 4:01.98. Northside Junior Dan Graham ran a 58.22 400m split on the first leg of the relay, and made a nice exchange to Freshman Lucien Fitzpatrick. Lucien Fitzpatrick ran a 63.60 400m split on the second leg of the relay, and made a nice exchange to Junior Pat Duffy. Pat Duffy ran a 60.63 400m split on the third leg of the relay, and made a nice exchange to Junior Ezra Edgerton. Ezra Edgerton anchored the Mustangs to third in their heat, and sixth overall, with a 59.53 400m split, for an official time of 4:01.98. Fenwick finished in seventh place with an official time of 4:05.76. Dunbar finished in eighth place to complete the scoring with an official time of 4:06.19.
In the Varsity 55m High Hurdles, De La Salle's Tristen Green won it with an oustanding time of 8.12. Schurz's Moses Baba finished in second place with a time of 8.40. Northside Senior Hersh Perlmutter finished in third place with an outstanding time of 8.80. Orr Academy's Jarvis Buchanan finished in fourth place with a time of 8.83. Urban Prep's Israel Durley finished in fifth place with a time of 9.00. De La Salle's Jordan Page finished in sixth place with a time of 9.35. Calumet Perspectives Elijah Stokely finished in seventh place with a time of 9.41. Orr Academy's Jovan Brown finished in eighth place to complete the scoring with a time of 9.94.
The Sophomore-Freshman 55m High Hurdles, was one of three Sophomore-Freshman showcase events, which were counted in the Varsity for Team scoring. De La Salle's Malik Fowler won it with an outstanding time of 9.07. Fenwick's Jack Higgins finished in second place with an outstanding time of 9.16. Fenwick's Patrick Regan finished in third place with a time of 9.45. Fenwick's Liam Douglass finished in fourth place with a time of 10.62. De La Salle's Landis Houston finished in fifth place with a time of 11.34. Northside Freshman Truman Brady finished in sixth place with an official time of 12.63.
The bleachers were at FULL Capacity with spectators on the finish line for the 55m Dash.
In the Varsity 55m Dash, Kelvyn Park's Jamal McNeeley won it with an outstanding time of 6.42. Curie's Maurice Fleming finished in second place with a time of 6.46. Calumet Perspective's Lonnie Washington finished in third place with a time of 6.55. Hubbard's Steele Collins finished in fourth place with a time of 6.58. Northside Junior Mac Melto WON his heat, and finished in fifth place overall with a PERSONAL BEST time of 6.71. Melto came within 0.21 of a second from qualifying for Illinois Prep Top Times in the 55m Dash! Melto was taken to the emergency room after the 55m Dash for treatment of a deep cut to his arm. He is expected to recover in time for practice on Monday. De La Salle's Michael Conley tied Mac Melto for fifth place with an outstanding time of 6.71. There was a three way tie for seventh place to complete the scoring, between Hubbard's Delano Braxton, Orr Academy's Dominique Conner, and Fenger's Shavell Lucas, with outstanding times of 6.72.
The Sophomore-Freshman 55m Dash was the second showcase event of the meet. Robeson's Devon Sanders won it with an outstanding time of 6.41. Northside Sophomore Nathaniel Agharese finished in SECOND place with a PERSONAL BEST time of 6.75. Nathaniel Agharese came within 0.25 of a second from qualifying for Illinois Prep Top times in the 55m dash! De La Salle's Joseph Benson finished in third place with a time of 6.87. Robeson's Willie Maddox finished in fourth place with a time of 6.88. Fenger's Dequan Thompson finished in fifth place with a time of 6.89. Kelvyn Park's Quincy Towns finished in sixth place with a time of 6.93. Robeson's Dejaire Gunn finished in seventh place with an official time of 7.00. Curie's Dovante Swoope finished in eighth place to complete the scoring with an official time of 7.01.
In the Varsity 800m run, Northside Senior Wesley Laytham took the lead from the gun, and cruised to victory with an outstanding time of 2:12.74. Northside Junior Dan Graham finished in second place with an official time of 2:16.31. Curie's Jorge Rodriguez finished in third place with a time of 2:16.44. Foreman's Vernon Beasely finished in fourth place with a time of 2:18.13. Fenwick's Emmett McCoy finished in fifth place with a time of 2:18.25. De La Salle's Jeremy Triplett finished in sixth place with a time of 2:18.44. Orr's Academy's Ronnie Buchanan finished in seventh place with a time of 2:18.59. Kelly's Matthew Figueroa finished in eighth place to complete the scoring with a time of 2:20.09. Northside Junior Alex Seibt finished with an outstanding time of 2:27.41.
In the Varsity 4x160m Relay, De La Salle won it with an official time of 1:17.02. Robeson finished in second place with a time of 1:18.06. Calumet Perspectives finished in third place with a time of 1:19.94. Orr Academy finished in fourth place with a time of 1:20.27. Fenger finished in fifth place with a time of 1:21.22. Hubbard finished in sixth place with a time of 1:21.66. Kelvyn Park finished in seventh place with a time of 1:22.08. Dunbar finished in eighth place to complete the scoring with a time of 1:22.47. Northside Freshman Joel Deleon ran a 21.61 160m split on the first leg of the relay, and made a nice exchange to Northside Sophomore Patrick Brennan. Patrick Brennan ran a 23.48 160m split on the second leg of the relay, and made a nice exchange to Freshman Cesear Rufino. Cesear Rufino ran a 25.07 160m split on the third leg of the relay, and made a perfect exchange to Senior Hersh Perlmutter. Hersh Perlmutter ran a 21.82 160m split on the anchor leg, for an official time of 1:34.01.
The Sophomore-Freshman 4x160m Relay was the final showcase event of the meet. Robeson won it with an outstanding time of 1:19.54. De La Salle finished in second place with an outstanding time of 1:20.12. Dunbar finished in third place with an outstanding time of 1:24.98. Fenwick finished in fourth place with an outstanding time of 1:30.25. Taft finished in fifth place with an outstanding time of 1:30.77. Curie finished in sixth place with an outstanding time of 1:30.88. Hubbard finished in seventh place with an outstanding time of 1:32.41. Northside finished in eighth place to complete the scoring with an official time of 1:34.56. Northside Freshman Lucien Fitzpatrick ran a 20.58 160m split on the first leg of the relay, and made a nice exchange to Northside Freshman Truman Brady. Truman Brady ran a 28.45 160m split on the second leg of the relay, and had a delayed hand-off due to Freshman Jay Yu pulling away too soon. Jay Yu ran a 23.71 160m split on the third leg of the relay, and made a perfect exchange to Freshman Karl Heinz. Karl Heinz ran a 21.82 160m split to anchor the Mustangs to eighth place to complete the scoring, with an official time of 1:34.56.
In the Varsity 400m run, Urban Prep's Israel Durley won it with an official time of 52.74. Calumet Perspectives Spencer Williams finished in second place with a time of 54.66. Robeson's Cameron Franklin finished in third place with a time of 54.86. Orr Academy's Antonio Mc Morries finished in fourth place with a time of 55.75. De La Salle's David Dixon finished in fifth place with a time of 56.05. Northside Junior Ezra Ezdgerton finished in sixth place with an outstanding time of 56.90. De La Salle's Kendall Morris finished in seventh place with an time of 57.19. Robeson's Andrew Jones finished in eighth place to complete the scoring with a time of 57.27. Northside Sophomore Nathaniel Agharese finished in ninth place with an outstanding time of 57.57.
In the Varsity 200m Dash, Kelvyn Park's Jamal McNeeley won it with a time of 23.45. Calumet Perspectives Lonnie Washington finished in second place with a time of 23.55. Robeson's Devon Sanders finished in third place with a time of 23.79. Calumet Perspectives Spencer Williams and Urban Prep's Israel Durley tied for fourth place with a time of 23.96. De La Salle's Demetri Poole finished in sixth place with a time of 24.44. Fenger's Shavell Lucas finished in seventh place with a time of 24.45. Dunbar's Don Williams finished in eighth place to complete the scoring with a time of 24.70. Northside Senior Ottmar Flores ran a time of 27.47. Northside Freshman Karl Heinz ran a time of 28.64. Northside Senior Hersh Perlmutter ran a time of 28.76.
In the Varsity 4x800m Relay, Northside Freshman Simon Kafka ran a personal best 2:20.45 800m split on the first leg of the relay, and made a perfect exchange to Northside Junior Josh Williams. Josh Williams ran a 2:22.70 800m split on the second leg of the relay, and made a perfect exchange to Freshman Joel Deleon. Joel Deleon ran a 2:29.86 800m split, and made a perfect exchange to Senior Erik Zuehlke. Erik Zuehlke immediately dropped front runner, Fenwick. Erik Zuehlke ran a dramatic 1:57.00 split to WIN the relay, with an official time of 9:10.01. Curie finished in second place with an official time of 9:17.30. Fenwick finished in third place with an official time of 9:27.80. Orr Academy finished in fourth place with an official time of 10:04.20. Schurz finished in fifth place with an official time of 10:04.20. Kelly finished in sixth place with an official time of 10:07.61. Hubbard finished in seventh place with an official time of 10:14.77. Foreman finished in eighth place to complete the scoring with an official time of 10:20.20. The Northside Coaching staff thought the officials stopped the entire field a lap early, and as a result, had Erik Zuehlke run an extra lap to secure the victory, after a five seconds delay from the officials stoping him at the finish line. The Bank of America officials then ruled the race was infact over when Northside came across the line in 9:10.01 with the 1:57.00 anchor leg split! Northside Freshman Simon Kafka, Junior Josh Williams, Freshman Joel Deleon, and Northside Senior anchor, Erik Zuehlke were awarded T-shirts and medals for finishing in first place!
De La Salle won the meet with 107.50 points. Northside College Prep finished in SECOND place with 91.50 points and posted victories over 3. Calumet Perspectives (71.50 points), 4. Robeson (61 points), 5. Orr Academy (53 points), 6. Fenwick (52 points), 7. Curie (42 points), 8. Kelvyn Park (36 points), 9. Urban Prep (18.50 points), 10. Hubbard (17 points), 11. Fenger (16 points), 12. Dunbar (15 points), 13 Schurz (13 points), 14. Foreman (12 points), 15. Kelly (5 points), 16. Taft (4 points), and 17. Chicago Military Academy (2 points). Northside posted a record of 15-1 on the day!!!
VARSITY POINTS SCORED AT BANK OF AMERICA DE LA SALLE INVITATIONAL
1. Josh Williams 12.50
2. Simon Kafka 10.50
3. Wesley Laytham 10.00
3. Charlie Mesimore 10.00
4. Dan Graham 8.75
5. Nathaniel Agharese 8.00
6. Erik Zuehlke 7.50
7. Hersh Perlmutter 6.00
8. Lucien Fitzpatrick 4.00
9. Ezra Edgerton 3.75
10. Mac Melto 3.50
11. Truman Brady 3.25
12. Joel Deleon 2.50
13. Pat Duffy 0.75
14. Karl Heinz 0.25
14. Jay Yu 0.25
SEASON VARSITY POINTS SCORED TOTAL (5 Meets)
1. Josh Williams 72.75
2. Wesley Laytham 39.50
3. Mac Melto 26.50
4. Nathaniel Agharese 25.755. Charlie Mesimore 22.00
5. Hersh Perlmutter 22.00
6. Dan Graham 21.75
7. Erik Zuehlke 18.50
8. Simon Kafka 11.009. Lucien Fitzpatrick 7.75
10. Ezra Edgerton 6.50
11. Pat Duffy 5.25
12. Cesar Rufino 5.00
13. Alex Seibt 4.00
14. Truman Brady 3.25
15. Joel Deleon 2.50
16. Luke Sobieraj 2.00
17. Ottmar Flores 0.50
17. Andres Delgado 0.50
17. Mohammed Ahmed 0.50
17. Jameel Ahmed 0.50
18. Karl Heinz 0.25
18. Jay Yu 0.25
ALL of the above athletes have earned a Varsity Letter! Nice job!
