Senior Chris Levy won a pair of Catholic state titles and freshman Nicole Bond snared a championship in the women’s 100 meter dash as the Bishop Ireton Cardinals claimed their first Virginia Catholic State Track & Field championship for men, and a third place for women, since 2006. The host Benedictine was second, 23 points behind Ireton and O’Connell was third with 92 points. The Knights won the women’s competition, PVI was second in the one day event at the Abbey in Richmond.
For the men’s team, strong scoring in the field events got the Cardinals off to a strong start with Andrew Denny capturing a third place in the shot put at 40′ 3″ while junior teammate Theo Daubresse was fourth at 39′ 1″. Daubresse added points with a 5th place finish in the discus (97’5″). Mark Holmes (19’9 1/2″) was third in the long jump while classmate, senior Doug Vines claimed a 5th place with a leap of 18’7 1/2″. Levy won the state championship in the triple jump, with a 44′ 1/2″ effort, and teammate BJ Townley was second in the event with a jump of 39’5″ to pile up important team points for Ireton.
The redbirds won the 4X100 relay in a time of :44.60, with the team of Holmes, Sam Ferrara, Moses Webb, and Vines, and the Cards claimed a third place finish in the 4×800 and a second in the 4×400. It took a record time by O’Connell in the 4×400 to edge Ireton, at 3:29.5, just .9 seconds better than Ireton.
BJTownley was second (:17.12) in the 110 high hurdles, Levy grabbed a 4th (:17.59) and Denny a 6th place (:19.51) to pile on more team points while Murphy Costigan claimed a Catholic state title in the 1600 meter run in a time of 4:50.71. Ferrara finished third (:52.85 sec) in the 400 meter dash, while Levy (:42.88) switched places with Townley (:42.90) finishing third and fourth respectively in the 300 meter hurdles.
Mike Anderson, with a cross country Catholic title under his belt, added another in the 800 meters, winning in a time of 1:59.29 while youngster Dan Burns toured the oval in 2:09.47, good for a 5th place finish. Distance teammate Liam O’Connor was third (10:42.0) in the 3200 meters while Billy Burns tacked on points with a sixth place finish in 11:01.6.
Holmes and Vines teamed up for a fourth and sixth place finish in the 200 meter dash, in times of :23.57 and 23.72 respectively.
On the women’s side, Nicole Bond was the Alexandrians’ sole state champ in the 100 meter dash in a time of :12.81. Shannon Gordon was the workhorse for Bishop Ireton, scoring in all five individual events she was entered. Her long jump of 15′ 7″ earned a third place, her high jump of 4′ 4″ garnered a fourth place. She finished third in the triple jump with a leap of 31; 6 1/2″, while her hurdling, 100 meters in :16.47 earned a second as did effort in the 300 in a time of :49.36 was also good for second place.
Bond was edged in the 200 by O’Connell’s Allyson Cowden, who was .13 seconds better than Nicole’s :28.03 time. She added more to the Ireton totals with a third place in the 400 in a time of 1:06.59.
Senior Eleyni Rodriguez contributed a 5th place with a discus toss of 63′ 2″, while sophomore Hannah Thomas leaped 4′ 10″ to earn a seond in the high jump. Jessie McFadden went 24′ in the triple jump to snag a 6th place in that event.
Ireton’s relay teams finished third behind winner Bishop O’Connell and runner up PVI in the 4×800 (11:08.9) and 4×400 (4:39.67), and 6th in the 4×100(1:00.0). Both those rival squads would finish 1-2 in the women’s meet as well, with the Cardinals in third, the three diocesan schools easily outdistancing the rest of the pack, 4th place Bishop Sullivan 64 points behind the Arlington schools.
Junior Madeline Thomas ran the 1600 meters in a time of 5:43.22, good for 4th place in that event, while fellow junior Marin Nolan toured the 800 edging Bond for second in a time fo 1:05.40. Another Cardinal workhorse was Sarah Hersey, who ran strongly in a number of events, finally breaking into the scoring column with a :55.88 time in the 300 meter hurdles.
The varsity soccer team’s Joanna Faletti, the team’s goalkeeper, ran the 800 in a time of 2:39.56, good for a 5th place while fellow soccer mate, sophomore Gabby Goddette, sped around the track in the grueling 3200 meter race in 12:33.78, good for a 4th place finish.
Team Standings
Men Women
Bishop Ireton 126 Bishop O’Connell 159
Benedictine 103 PVI 136
Bishop O’Connell 92 Bishop Ireton 99
PVI 69 Bishop Sullivan 35
Bishop Sullivan 57 Peninsula Catholic 30
John Paul the Great 33 St Gertrude 16
Walsingham Academy 10 John Paul the Great 4
Peninsula Catholic 5 Walsingham Academy 4
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