Dragons Track and Field Boys Take Home Regional Crown. Girls take Sixth

Written Saturday May 18th, at 3:07 PM

In a meet where you have two defending state champions in a regional along with the runner up in last season’s meet this year’s regional was not going to be easy especially with teams like Lake Orion, Grand Blanc, Romeo, Port Huron Northern, Port Huron, Utica Eisenhower, Rochester, Rochester Adams, Stoney Creek, Clarkston, Ortonville Brandon, Holly, Fenton and Swartz Creek are in the field.

The defending Division One State Champions got a measure of revenge in the regional at Ortonville Brandon on Friday. The Dragons boys won the regional with 104.5 points, outscoring Grand Blanc 104.5-93. This is the Dragons fourth regional championship under Coach Stan Ford.

Lake Orion took the 4 by 8 and 4 by 1 team won their relays and got second places in the mile and two mile from Missouri bound senior TJ Carey.

The Dragons 4 by 8 of Kurt Hansen, David Arenz, David Diaz, and Carey broke the school record with a time of 7:49.19 while Jordan Waymer won both hurdle events (110: 14.4) (300: 38.25) and the 4 by 1 team of Waymer, Matt Krause, Alan Karrip, and Chris Leigh won the event with a time of 42.8.

The Dragons girls finished sixth place in the regional. The girls under first year coach Dave Hudson did very well. Lake Orion had good performances from Claire Berschbach along with Kiana Brown along with others like Madelyn Martindale in the Pole Vault did well for them in returning the program back to where it was.

The Lake Orion track teams will go to the Oakland County Meet next week at Milford, hoping to repeat as Oakland County Champions in the boys and a top 10 finish in the girls.