Tribe boys capture Frontier Division title

            Samantha Pedrick took her turn rewriting Upper Perkiomen's track and field record book. The senior shattered her previous mark in the pole vault last week against Pottstown. The performance helped her team post a 113-35 victory last week.

            Jade Traynor set the school record in the 200 meter dash at the Lower Merion

Samantha Pedrick clears the bar in the pole vault.  The Up- per Perkiomen senior set a new school record of 11-feet, 3- inches in the event during a dual meet against Pottstown. Pedrick beat the record she set previously by three inches.

Invitational. She finished 10th with a time of 26.96 seconds in the event at Lower Merion High School on Saturday, May 3.

            The Tribe boys delivered a similarly dominant victory to secure a Pioneer Athletic Conference division title. Three individual first-place finishes by Asher Zonis helped propel his team to a 117-33 win on Wednesday, April 30, at Keeny Stadium. The victory caps a 5-0 run through the Frontier Division.

            Pedrick, a senior, cleared 11 feet, 3 inches against the visiting Trojans. She beat her own previous mark by three inches and won the event by more than 5 1/2 feet.

            Hayley McMaster and Morgan O'Hara dominated the rest of the field events. Each won two for the Tribe girls.
            McMaster, a senior, finished first in the high jump (4 feet, 6 inches) and the triple jump (32 feet, 3 1/2 inches). O'Hara, a junior, delivered the longest throws in the discus (106 feet, 3 inches) and javelin (134 feet, 7 inches).

            Maren Landis and Sallybeth McCaskey paced the Indians on the track by each winning two individual events. Landis won two middle-distance events, the 800 meter run (2:40.19) and the 1,600 meter run (5:47.31). 

            McCaskey won both hurdles events. The junior finished first in the 100 meter hurdles (16.95 seconds) and the 300 meter hurdles (48.76).

            Traynor won the 400 meter dash (1:01.90). Ashlee Shafer did the same in the 3,200 meter run (13:26.06).

            Zonis, a junior, won the 100 meter dash with a time of 10.57 seconds, just one one-hundredth of a second faster than Darius Reid. Zonis won two field events: the long jump (21 feet, 7 1/2 inches) and the triple jump (38 feet, 10 inches).

            John Kuzmission won two track events. The junior finished first in the 800 meter run (2:10.07) and the 1,600 meter run (4:38.64).

            In the field, Jonathan Strohl won two events. He finished first in the discus (129 feet, 1/2 inch) and the shot put (43 feet, 6 inches).

            Reid won the high jump (6 feet, 2 inches), while Caleb Izzi did the same in the pole vault (10 feet, 6 inches). Jeremiah Peguero won the javelin (148 feet, 3 1/2 inches).

            Over the weekend, Izzi and Cohen Trexler delivered first-place finishes for the Indians, who competed in two invitationals. Izzi won the pole vault (10 feet, 6 inches) at the Lower Merion Invitational. Trexler posted a similar finish in the javelin (139 feet, 11 inches).

            Pedrick finished third in the pole vault (10 feet, 6 inches) during the meet at Lower Merion High School. Kuzmission posted a similar finish in the 1,600 meter run.

            Sean Donahue finished fifth (4:44.25) and Parker Marino ended up three places behind (4:48.47).

            In the triple jump, Brennan Rooney (38 feet, 3 inches) finished fourth. Sekai Rattray-Powell ended in seventh place (37 feet, 9 inches).

            The Tribe placed three performers in the top 10 of the 800 meter run. Ben Sensinger finished fourth (2:07.58), while Thomas Daub (2:08.96) and William Godshall (2:10.09) ended up sixth and 10th, respectively.

            Roman Macedo earned a fifth-place finish in the 3,200 meter run with a time of 10:34.74. Jonathan Strohl added a similar finish in the shot put with a throw of 44 feet, 3 inches. Cael Martin ended up 11th (39 feet, 3 1/4 inches).

            Jeziriah Ianuari finished sixth in the shot put (27 feet, 4 3/4 inches). Shafer posted a similar finish in the 3,200 meter run with a time of 13:01.39. Reagan Miles ended up two places behind (13:41.16).

            At the 9th Annual Bryn Mawr Running Co. Henderson Invitational, Zonis notched the team's top performance by finishing second in the long jump (21 feet, 10 1/2 inches). He added a 12th-place showing in the 100 meter dash (11.07 seconds).

            O'Hara finished third in the javelin with a throw of 138 feet, 5 inches. She added a 23rd-place performance in the discus (93 feet, 2 inches) at West Chester Henderson High School.

            Darius Reid's top finish came in the high jump, where he cleared 6 feet, 4 inches. The sophomore added an 11th-place performance in the 400 meter dash (49.32 seconds).