UNADILLA VALLEY – The Unadilla Valley boys and girls varsity Track and Field team held a meet this Wednesday April 20, which featured the visiting teams of Greene, Bainbridge-Guilford, Deposit-Hancock, and Harpursville-Afton.

On the boys side it was Deposit-Hancock (DH) who walked away with the win as they scored a team score of 119, followed in second by Unadilla Valley, third was claimed by Bainbridge-Guilford (BG) at 45, when they edged Harpursville-Afton (AH) who scored 44, while Greene claimed the last spot in the team score.

The home team Unadilla Valley who scored 117 claimed the girls top team spot. It was the Harpursville-Afton with 56 points who claimed the second place team finish, followed by Deposit-Hancock at 49, Greene at 45, and BG at 26.

Deposit-Hancock

The boys saw nine of the possible 15 events go their way with first place finishes; while the girls won two of their events.

The boys swept the relays on the day when they won the 4x100 with a time of 46.39, the 4x400 with a sub four-minute time of 3:56.36, and the 4x800 with a winning time of 9:09.50.

Ryan Hornbeck ran a flat 5-minute 1600 meter run to claim the top spot, Hornbeck also ran 2:14.7 in the 800 meter run for another win on the evening.

While the majority of the sprinting events would also go to DH when David Schaeffer ran a :51 second 400 meter dash, Dylan Christ ran a 1:03.38 400 meter high hurdles, while Joe Scuderi flew down the track to a time of 23.64 seconds in the 200 meter dash.

The Shot Put event was the sole field event that fell to DH when Tyler Shirkey threw a 38’9”.5.

The girls claimed wins in 3200 meter run and the Discus events. Kelsey Young ran a nice time of 12:34.7 in the 3200 meter run while Tyler Bethann launched her Discus to a length of 68’4” for the win.

Unadilla Valley

The boys on the UV side of the saw three first place finishes go their way in the 100-meter dash, 3200 meter run and the High Jump.

It was UV’s Chris Stirone who ran a 11.28 in the 100 meter dash who claimed the first place in the event; Tyler Simmons won the 3200 meter run with a time of 11:31.6; while Marcus Granger took home the win at the High Jump when he cleared the height of 5’10”.

The UV girls claimed 10 wins in the meet en route to their impressive team win.

The UV girls swept the relays with wins in the 4x100, 4x400 and 4x800 relays with times of 54.39, 4:40.15, and 11:15.57 respectively.

Julia Oglesby earned two wins in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:03.7, as well as 5’ winning jump in the High Jump.