Additional athletes make it if they meet the state standards. In Class 2A boys only, district runners-up join the district champions in automatically winning state berths. Wyoming Area got points and state qualifiers from many different directions.ĭrew Mruk, who set a record while winning the javelin Tuesday, finished second in the shot put. “I’m just happy overall and happy for my teammates,” Scalzo said. The clinching points came in one of two events – high jump is the other – where Ken Stackhouse came back to serve as a volunteer coach this year. Wyoming Area coach Joe Pizano spread credit and praise around for the team effort behind the first District 2 title for the Warriors in 21 years. I expected the PR, but didn’t know I was going to PR by a foot.” I’ve been working a lot with my coach from (Vertical Assault in Bath). “I came into this I knew I was going to PR,” said Scalzo, who went a foot higher than ever before, clearing 12 feet to finish second behind the record-setting 14-6 by Western Wayne’s Richie Reed. Wyoming Area’s clinching came when Nicholas Scalzo and Kendall Heck finished second and third in the pole vault to create an insurmountable 20-point lead going into the final event. “I wasn’t really too experienced with block work, but I got a lot of practice in.” “I was practicing a lot on my running form, knee drive and coming out of the blocks,” Shoats said of his improvement in sprinting from a year ago. Shoats is in just his second year as a track and field athlete, but he plans on more in the future after committing last week to NCAA Division II Lock Haven for both basketball and track. “I put a lot of work into my sprinting since last season and running with a great group of guys was a great push, a great competition,” said Shoats, who led an unprecedented group of seven District 2 Class 2A sprinters to make it to the state meet because all came in under the state qualifying standard. Shoats won four gold medals, two each day.Īfter jumping to two titles Tuesday, he sprinted to two Wednesday, winning the 100-meter dash and rallying the Holy Redeemer 400 relay team to victory with his anchor leg. CALEB MAZAIKA SERIESThe Warriors got there with just one Wednesday gold, from triple jumper Rocco Pizano, and a series of place points across a variety of events. Wyoming Area stood alone as the highest scoring team in any of the four championship races, posting 141½ points to outscore Mid Valley by 22 points. Shoats joined North Pocono’s Colin Kravitz and Wallenpaupack’s Anastasia Ioppolo, from the two Class 3A team champions, as the meet’s four-event gold medalists. While Shoats was the Wyoming Valley Conference’s top individual performer in the entire meet, the Warriors proved to be the conference’s top team. Wyoming Area showed that silver and bronze can work well, too, using a combination of those two in the pole vault late in the meet to clinch the Class 2A boys team championship. SCRANTON - Justice Shoats collected nothing but gold medals in two days of District 2 Track and Field Championships. Wyoming Area’s Usama Alansari, center, took silver in the 100 hurdles at Wednesday’s District 2 meet.
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