Sports

Sadie Jones, Avery Kerr and Anna Tillotson won gold medals, leading Montrose to the Class 2A girls’ titles May 5 in the Robert Spagna Lackawanna Track Conference Championships at Scranton Memorial Stadium.

Montrose finished in a third-place tie in the Class 2A boys’ standings with the help of a meet record-setting performance by Nico Christian while winning the 400-meter dash.

Jones won the javelin with a throw of 118-0 and added silver medals in the long jump (17-0½) and triple Jump (37-10¾). Her triple jump finished behind only Mid Valley’s Olivia Thomas, a four-event gold medalist who set a meet record in the event by leaping 39-7¾.

Kerr won the 1600-meter run in 5:14.09. She also joined Jones, Carly Frey and Molly Weller for a third-place finish in the 1600 relay.

Anna Tillotson won the shot put with 32-3½ and also finished fifth in the discus with 99-0 while Erin Tillotson was taking second with a throw of 110-7.

Montrose scored 34 of its points in the three throwing events to help it beat out Mid Valley, 87½-67, for the team title.

Abington Heights, coached by Susquehanna graduate Frank Passetti, won the Class 3A girls’ title, 101½-78, over North Pocono.

Weller was fourth in the 300 hurdles and fifth in the 100 hurdles.

Ava Rebello was fourth in the 3200 where Addison Stephens took seventh.

Kristen Eschbach tied for sixth in the high jump. Frey was seventh in the 400. June McGee placed eighth in the shot put and discus.

The Susquehanna girls finished fifth in Class 2A with 14 points, Blue Ridge was ninth with 4½, Elk Lake was 10th with four and Mountain View 12th with one.

Kiera Burke provided Susquehanna’s scoring, taking second in the 800 in 2:23.61 and third in the 1600.

Sarah Gorham of Blue Ridge was fifth in the 300 hurdles. Payton Dvorchok tied for eighth in the high jump.

Elk Lake’s Sadie Warnero took fifth in the shot put.

Mountain View got an eighth-place finish from Corinne Flynn in the 800.

Christian’s 49.71 finish in the 400 broke the Class 2A boys’ record held by Honesdale’s Lionel Wilson since 2011. He also took fourth in the 200.

Former Susquehanna athlete Weston Yannone won the 100 hurdles by nearly a second in 14.50.

Max Kuwaye was a big part of Montrose’s success.

Kuwaye finished second in the long jump with 21-2, third in the 100 in 11.24, sixth in the 200 and followed Christian, anchoring the second-place 400 relay team.

Kendrick Ross finished in a three-way tie for fourth in the high jump. Jamison Myers was fifth in the 1600.

Carl Nolt and Gabriele Blasi were also part of the silver medal in the relay.

Susquehanna was eighth with 17 points. Mountain View was ninth with 15, Elk Lake 10th with 11 and Blue Ridge 11th with nine.

Maxx Kelly came within a second of a win for Susquehanna in the 1600, taking second in 4:27.02.

Preston Wolf was fifth in the 300 hurdles, the 1600 relay team took sixth and Kelly was seventh in the 800.

Jacob Ficarro led the way for Mountain View by finishing third in both the long jump and triple jump.

The Eagles took seventh in the 3200 relay and Sean Larkin was eighth in the 800.

Elk Lake got a second-place finish from Brody Crisman in the high jump where cleared 6-4 and lost a tiebreaker to one opponent but won one over another.

Brent Drost was sixth in the 400.

Chance Davis scored Blue Ridge’s points by finishing fourth in the triple jump, sixth in the long jump and eighth in the high jump.

WEEK IN REVIEW

Montrose climbed back into a tie for first place in Lackawanna League Division 3 baseball and moved closer to a championship in Lackawanna League Division 3 softball.

The Meteors defeated Mountain View, another contender in the tight, four-way baseball race, 4-3, May 4 then moved into the tie with a 5-0 shutout over Lackawanna Trail Thursday.

Entering Monday’s scheduled Mountain View at Lackawanna Trail game, Montrose was tied with Lackawanna Trail at 9-3. Mountain View was 7-3 and Elk Lake 8-4.

Adam Sorensen struck out seven and walked two in a two-hit shutout to lead Montrose past Lackawanna Trail.

Shawn Aukema went 2-for-3 and drove in three runs.

Sorensen struck out eight in four scoreless innings of relief against Mountain View. He also had a double and scored a run.

In softball, Montrose improved to 11-0 with a 21-6 romp over Mountain View May 4 and a 9-2 victory over Lackawanna Trail Thursday.

MycKenna Kublo homered and drove in four runs against Lackawanna Trail while Kyleise Kublo had three hits and scored twice.

Kyleise Kublo was 4-for-4 with two doubles, four RBI and two runs against Mountain View. MycKenna Kublo again drove in four runs and also had two doubles.

In boys’ volleyball, the Lackawanna League regular season came to an end with Blue Ridge in a tie for third place out of 11 teams.

Final standings: Abington Heights 9-1, Valley View 9-1, Blue Ridge 8-2, North Pocono 8-2, Western Wayne 6-5, Lackawanna Trail 5-5, West Scranton 4-6, Scranton 3-7, Elk Lake 2-8, Mountain View 1-9, Forest City 0-10.

THE WEEK AHEAD

Second-place Elk Lake is at Montrose Friday in a Lackawanna Division 3 softball game.

The Lady Meteors will be trying to wrap up their division title prior to facing the defending champions, who gave them their closest league challenge to date in a 6-4 game earlier this season.

TOM ROBINSON writes a weekly local sports column for the Susquehanna County Transcript. He can be reached online at RobbyTR@aol.com or followed on Twitter at @tomjrobinson.

Avery Kerr ran her way into the record books while helping to make sure Montrose remained well above the pack in girls’ track and field.

Kerr’s contribution to Montrose titles in Lackawanna Track Conference Division 4 and the Jordan Relays during April make her the latest choice for Susquehanna County Transcript Athlete of the Month.

Montrose, which has since added a Class 2A title in the Robert Spagna Conference Championship Meet, won its five division meets by an average margin of 112-27.

Kerr anchored two wins at the Jordan Relays where the Lady Meteors outscored Mid Valley, 49-39, for the title. She ran the longest race of the day, the 1600 leg to complete the Distance Medley, and also ran on the 4x800 relay team.

Track and field is just one of the sports in which Kerr excels.

Running for the team coached by her mother, Aileen Spellman, Kerr finished second in District 2 Class A girls’ cross country and missed a Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association state medal by one spot when she finished 26th in Class A at Hershey.

During the winter, Kerr swims for Elk Lake as part of a cooperative sponsorship of the sport. She was part of two silver-medal winning relay teams in District 2 Class 2A girls, earning a spot in the state championships, and also scored district points in the maximum four events by finishing in the top 12 – eighth in the 100-yard breaststroke and 12th in the 200 IM.

The success carried over into track season.

Kerr set a school record in the 800-meter run in the Lasagna Invitational at Wyalusing Valley with a time of 2:20.22. She followed that up by running the 1600 in 5:05.24 during the division title-clinching, 113-23 romp over Mountain View April 27.

Avery, from Montrose, is the daughter of Jason Kerr and Aileen Spellman.