05/31/2006

Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Glen Lake's Bryan Sevensma, left, leads Tuesday afternoon's 110-meter high hurdles race with TC St. Francis' Egan Quinn during the Record-Eagle Honor Roll Track Meet.

Sevensma hurdles into record books

Glen Lake senior shatters mark by 0.31 second

by dennis chase

dchase@record-eagle.com

Record-Eagle/Tyler Sipe
Benzie Central senior Will Harnden clears the pole during the high jump competition at the Record-Eagle Honor Roll Track Meet at TC Central. For more photos, view our Honor Roll gallery.

BOYS RESULTS

LONG JUMP

1. Jeremy Ball, TC West 21'9"; 2. Cody Dolwick, TC Central 19'9½"; 3. Weston Buchan, Glen Lake 19'7¾"; 4. Trevor Glick, TC Central 18'10"; 5. Blake Remick, TC St. Francis 18'10"

HIGH JUMP

1. Greg Kinney, Forest Area 6'; 2. Caleb Nickerson, Kingsley 6'; 3. Adam Root, TC West 5'10"; 4. Will Harnden, Benzie Central 5'10"; 5. Josh Uprichard, Suttons Bay 5'8"

POLE VAULT

1. Steven Strohmer, Frankfort 13'7"; 2. Hunter Nostrant, TC St. Francis 14'; 3. Jordan Prahl, Kingsley 12'; 4. Jeff Serrell, TC Central 12'; 5. Ethan Hornack, TC West/Josh Ruggirello, Kingsley/Darin Casler, TC West 11'6"

SHOT PUT

1. Derek Drelles, TC Central 50'1½"; 2. Rocko Khoury, TC Central, 46'3¾"; 3. Nick Rademacher, TC Central 46'3½"; 4. Nickolas Higgins, Kalkaska 45'5½"; 5. Blake Knoblock, TC Central 44'8½"

DISCUS

1. Jake Stinson, TC West 138'4"; 2. Joe Zenner, Kingsley 134'2"; 3. Nick Rademacher, TC Central 130'2"; 4. Drew Wyse, Kingsley 125'9"; 5. Matt Roush, TC Central 122'10"

3200-METER RELAY

1. Benzie Central 8:20.04; 2. TC West 8:21.06; 3. Kalkaska 8:30.78; 4. Kingsley 8:34.82; 5. Central Lake 8:47.35

110-METER HURDLES

1. Bryan Sevensma, Glen Lake 14.39; 2. Egan Quinn, TC St. Francis 14.87; 3. Matt Gulseth, TC West 15.07; 4. Adam Deurksen, Mancelona 15.31; 5. Steven Strohmer, Frankfort 15.49

100-METER DASH

1. Kris Snyder, Frankfort 10.95; 2. Ryan Leitow, Kalkaska 11.39; 3. Tyler Lake, TC Central 11.45; 4. Drew Gretel, Elk Rapids 11.47; 5. Josiah Simmonds, Mancelona 11.51

800-METER RELAY

1. TC Central 1:32.69; 2. Frankfort 1:34.04; 3. TC West 1:34.1; 4. Benzie Central 1:35.16; 5. Kalkaska 1:36.23

1600-METER RUN

1. Paul Grieve, Kalkaska 4:33.47; 2. Ben Kubesh, TC West 4:34.55; 3. Geoff Burns, TC West 4:34.92; 4. Jacob Secor, TC Central 4:35.25; 5. Alex Roth, Benzie Central 4:37.59

400-METER RELAY

1. Frankfort 44.81; 2. TC Central 45.14; 3. Glen Lake 45.22; 4. Mancelona 45.68; 5. TC St. Francis 45.76

400-METER DASH

1. Andrew Space, TC West 51.2; 2. Wade Peacock, Benzie Central 51.71; 3. Eric DeYoung, TC Central, 51.76; 4. Dustin Shale, TC West 51.1; 5. Chris Dendrinos, TC St. Francis 52.81

300-METER HURDLES

1. Bryan Sevensma, Glen Lake 38.96; 2. Adam Deurksen, Mancelona 39.7; 3. Mike Cleggett, Kalkaska 42.35; 4. Kris Sundberg, Elk Rapids 42.49

800-METER RUN

1. Seth Ankerson, TC West 1:59.21; 2. Ben Kubesh, West 1:59.83; 3. Nate Farley, St. Francis 2:02.42; 4. David Harman, Central 2:02.69; 5. Dane Macdonell, TC Central 2:02.9

200-METER DASH

1. Kris Snyder, Frankfort 22.6; 2. Ryan Leitow, Kalkaska 22.62; 3. Jeremy Ball, TC West 23.68; 4. Drew Gretel, Elk Rapids 23.68; 5. Ken Shove, Central Lake 23.97

3200-METER RUN

1. Jesse Moggo, Kalkaska 10:11.54; 2 Sean McGlothlin, Suttons Bay 10:13.69; 3. Kevin Cataldo, Suttons Bay 10:20.14; 4. Nic Deering, TC West 10:22.04; 5. Elliott Putman, TC Central 10:23.45

1600-METER RELAY

1. Frankfort 3:29.26; 2. TC West 3:31.79; 3. Benzie Central 3:33.97; 4. TC Central 3:34.41; 5. Kalkaska 3:34.69

TRAVERSE CITY — Glen Lake's Bryan Sevensma had a hunch he would break Matt Wiesen's school record in the 110-meter high hurdles during Tuesday's Record-Eagle Honor Roll meet at Traverse City Central.

"I had a feeling I was going to get it today — just because I was only four one-hundredths of a second off it at our last meet (Northwest Conference finals at Frankfort)," Sevensma said. "I knew this was a fast track and there would be better competition. So I had a feeling. I just didn't think I'd beat it by three-tenths of a second."

Sevensma won the 110 hurdles in 14.39 seconds. Wiesen, a state champion in 2000, ran a 14.7.

"Bryan's been trying for that record for a couple years," Lakers coach Pete Edwards said. "He had been within four one-hundredths of a second several times, but could not do it. Today, he shattered it."

Sevensma also broke his own school record in winning the 300-meter high hurdles in 38.96. That was just off the meet record of 38.67 set in 1998 by Traverse City Central's Joel Gaff.

"My goal was a sub-39," Sevensma said. "I was kind of hoping I'd get the meet record."

Sevensma, who is seeded first in the 300 hurdles at Saturday's Division 4 state meet, also ran a leg on Glen Lake's 400-meter relay that set a school record.

At the Northwest Conference finals, Sevensma shared the senior athlete of the meet award with Frankfort's Kris Snyder — and Snyder enjoyed a record-setting night Tuesday as well.

The senior broke Frankfort's mark in the 100 with his winning 10.95 effort. He also claimed the 200 in 22.60.

"It was a nice day," Snyder said. "Your muscles tend to loosen up on warm days like this."

Snyder was the conference and regional champion in the 100 and 200. He'll run those two events, plus two relays, at the state meet.

"I'll just try to do the best I can," he said. "I don't really set any goals going into something like that because there's a lot of people down there I've never seen before."

Nonetheless, Snyder has to be encouraged as his times continue to drop heading into the state meet.

"Yeah, but there are a lot of other kids who are just as good as I am, if not better," he said.

Snyder was also on Frankfort's winning 1600-meter relay team.

"He's got natural speed," Panthers coach Steve Braem said. "He loves running, loves beating people.

"He's had a terrific career for us. He's been eyeballing school records (in the 100 and 200) for a couple of years. It's great he could get one tonight."

Other winners included Traverse City West's Jake Stinson in the discus (138'4"), Traverse City Central's Derek Drelles in the shot put (50'11/2"), Fife Lake's Greg Kinney in the high jump (6'), Frankfort's Steve Strohmer in the pole vault (13'7"), West's Jeremy Ball in the long jump (21'9"), Kalkaska's Paul Grieve in the 1600 (4:33.47), West's Andrew Space in the 400 (51.20), West's Seth Ankerson in the 800 (1:59.21) and Kalkaska's Jesse Moggo in the 3200 (10:11.54).

Frankfort won the 400 (44.81) and 1600 (3:29.26) relays. Benzie captured the 3200 relay (8:20.04) and Central the 800 relay (1:32.69).