After the Emmaus track and field teams suffered their only loss of the season in their final dual meet, head coach Kami Reinhard wanted to make sure her team bounced back with a strong league championship meet.

She latched onto a metaphor about not letting speed bumps turn into road blocks, and impressed that upon her team last week.

The plan worked.

When the Hornets arrived at the league meet the speed bump was in the rear view mirror. And their path was clear of roadblocks.

They ran, leaped and vaulted to gold medals, broken records and one team title at last week’s East Penn Conference Championships at Whitehall, held last Wednesday and Thursday.

“For our team we knew we were a top team, it was just getting over the bump we hit last week,” said Reinhard after her girls team hoisted the title trophy at the league meet. “They did not allow it become a roadblock.”

Junior Mady McCartney led the way for Emmaus, earning gold medals in the 800-, 1600- and 3200-meter runs, while setting meet records in two of her three individual events.

Senior pole vaulter Tyler Grabinski also set a meet record by clearing 16 feet for the gold medal.

Junior Claudia Walls won her third straight league title in high jump, while teammate Kayla-Rayne Quinones earned her first league gold in 100-meter hurdles.

Emmaus also captured a pair of relay titles as the boys 4x100 (Kai Jefferson-Rushing, Nicholi Marsh, Dorrian McCargo and Michael Milot) and the boys 4x400 (Jared Petre, Miles Cook, Rien George and Richard Will) both ran to first-place finishes at leagues.

McCartney repeated as champ in the 3200 and 1600 while also earning a league title in the 800.

Her 3200 time of 10:42.80 set a meet record on the first day of the meet with teammate Payton Campbell second at 10:52.51.

McCartney and Campbell have been a tough one-two punch for EHS in distance events. While McCartney usual leads the way, Campbell’s presence plays a large part in her success.

“She’s right there with me the whole race,” said McCartney. “Having one of my teammates with me helps me a lot, and pushes me too.”

McCartney added a second gold medal and league record when she won the 1600 on the second day of the meet, posting a time of 4:48.79.

After running three miles of championship races, McCartney ended her meet with a win in the 800 in 2:20.53.

Grabinski entered this season as the school record and meet record holder in pole vault at 15-6. He set a new personal best and raised the bar when he cleared 16 feet last week.

“He has been shooting for that goal for the last year and a half,” said Reinhard. “It was really, really amazing.”

Quinones also reached a goal she has been seeking for her entire hurdling career. She earned her first gold with a first-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles last week.

“It feels so good and refreshing because I’ve wanted this for so long,” said Quinones as she held back tears. “I’m just so proud of myself to get here.”

Quinones won the event in 15.04. She posted a 15.25 in her preliminary heat, just .04 off defending champ and top seed Maggie Scalzo’s 15.21 time in heats.

When Scalzo (Easton) hit a hurdle and fell in the lane next to Quinones, the Hornet senior kept her composure. She maintained her stride and stayed in front to take the win.

“I just tried to stay focused and I hope Maggie is OK,” said Quinones. “I don’t like winning by default. I never wish for anyone to fall. When it happened I knew I couldn’t let the same happen to me. I just tried to push through and keep my form tight.”

Walls holds the Emmaus school record in high jump and entered the meet as a two-time defending champ. She won her third straight title with a jump of 5-2 last week.

“It feels really good. I put a lot of hard work into this,” Walls said. “These past two years, especially this year I’m becoming a lot more consistent. That’s really helpful, especially in the more important meets.”

Those gold medals and many other place-winning performances enabled the Hornets to edge Parkland in team points and take this year’s EPC meet girls team title.

“It’s a really special feeling,” said Campbell, a senior. “When you get an individual medal its also exciting. But for the team, seeing everybody come together at once, that’s the biggest thing. It’s really special.”

In the boys 4x100, the foursome of Jefferson-Rushing, Marsh, McCargo and Milot ran a meet record time of 42.18. The race was another example of not letting a speed bump turn into a roadblock.

“Last meet Parkland beat us so we had to come back sharp,” said Jefferson-Rushing. “We put the hard work in at practice working on the 4x100 every single day and we made sure today was the day. Everybody ran full speed. Everybody was healthy. I’m proud of boys.”

While the meet record fell, the relay team has another goal next week, along with winning a district title.

“We just went out and did what we had to do,” said Marsh. “This is our season best, but we’re going for the school record. That’s 41.8. We’re not stopping. We’re going for it all.”

The Hornet boys 4x400 team hadn’t been together since early in the season when Cook suffered an injury. He returned in time for the league meet where he and teammates Petre, George and Will ran a time of 3:26.06.

“Yesterday we lost in the 4x800 to Parkland,” said Petre said last Thursday. “We thought we’d win that easily and we did not. Getting that back today felt really good.”

The team didn’t have a goal time in mind. Its only objective was to win.

“We said we were just running for a medal,” said Cook, one of three seniors on the relay team. “It feels great. We were going out to have fun. I’m just happy we got [the medal] too. That’s the fastest time we’ve ever run.”

Emmaus led the whole way as Will staked the team to an early lead before Cook and George made sure to keep it for their anchor man.

“Being able to hand off the baton to Jared knowing he’s going to keep that lead is great,” said George, a junior.

The team heads to next week’s District 11 championships with one clear goal in mind.

“Win again and go to states,” said Will.

The District 11 Championships are scheuled for Tuesday and Wednesday, May 14-15 at Whitehall.

East Penn

Conference Track and Field Championship

Results

LEGEND

Allen (A), Bethlehem Catholic (BC), Central Catholic (CC), Dieruff (D), Easton (Ea), East Stroudsburg North (ESN), East Stroudsburg South (ESS), Emmaus (Em), Freedom (F), Liberty (L), Nazareth (Na), Northampton (No), Parkland (P), Pleasant Valley (PV), Pocono Mountain East (PME), Pocono Mountain West (PMW), Stroudsburg (S), Whitehall (W).

BOYS

100: 1. Ayden Walker (ESS) 10.90, 2. Radnor Rowlands (P) 10.95, 3. Jareal Moore (P) 11.05, 4. Nicholi Marsh (Em) 11.11, Lincoln Clark (P) 11.12, 9. Dorrian McCargo (Em) 11.32, 17. Kai Jefferson-Rushing (Em) 11.34;

200: 1. Jareal Moore (PV) 21.92, 2. Keyen Johnson (S) 22.38, 3. Lincoln Clark (P) 22.39, 4. Nicholi Marsh (Em) 22.53, 11. Dorrian McCargo (Em) 22.99, 15. Jaylen Davis (Em) 23.20, 19. Rien George (Em) 23.43;

400: 1. Jeremiah Strowder (No) 49.72, 2. Anthony Cappellini (P) 49.77, 3. Reese Prebosnyak (W) 50.26, 4. Laquaye Hamilton 50.72, 5. Richard Will (Em), 7. Jeremy Sharpless (Em), 10. Rien George (Em), 11. Jaylen Davis (Em) 52.84, 23. Austen Breisch (Em) 54.09;

800: 1. Marcelo Castilla (P) 1:58.23, 2. David Myer (L) 1:58.44, 3. Jared Petre (Em) 1:59.52, 4. Mekhi Britt (BC) 2:00.17, 9. Shaw Cook (Em) 2:04.22, 11. Conor Fisher (Em) 2:04.76;

1600: 1. Duke Ebert (CC) 4:26.95, 2. Adam Korytkowski (ESS) 4:27.44, 3. Jacob Casey (Na) 4:27.44, 4. Colin McGuigan (P) 4:29.54, 9. Jared Petre (Em) 4:38.94, 18. Ryan Fach (Em) 4:45.84, 18. Ryan Fach (Em) 4:45.84, 21. Conor Fisher (Em) 4:47.02, 24. Matthew Sirgnano (Em) 4:53.37;

3200: 1. Jacob Casey (Na) 9:46.13, 2. Dylan Boyle 9:53.28, 3. Luke McEvoy (P) 9:55.54, 4. Shawn Belfon (PMW) 10:00.82, 14. David Hearn (Em) 10:22.96, 15. Ryan Fach (Em) 10:26.14, 18. Michael Carwell (Em) 10:36.05, 20. Zachary Zappile (Em) 10:37.24, 21. Calvin Schuckler (Em) 10:46.87;

110H: 1. Amare DuBoise 15.15, 2. Abiel Quartey (S) 15.26, 3. Darrien Burke (S) 15.65, 4. Sam Ciampittiello (P) 15.76, 11. Nicholas Kearn (Em) 16.30, 20. Anthony Battle (Em) 17.11, 23. Henry Samer (Em) 17.90;

300H: 1. Ethan Huertas 39.75, 2. Demetrius Outten (PV) 39.77, 3. Stephan Richards 41.38, 6. Nmelichukwu Onwuzo (P) 42.46, 9. Samuel Figueroa (P) 42.67, 14. Richard Walker (43.07), 18. Amani Ritz (Em) 43.77;

4x100: 1. Emmaus (Kai Jefferson-Rushing, Nicholi Marsh, Dorrian McCargo, Michael Milot) 42.18, 2. Parkland 42.40, 3. East Stroudsburg South 42.85, 4. Pleasant Valley 43.01;

4x400: 1. Emmaus (Rien George, Jared Petre, Miles Cook, Richard Will) 3:26.06, 2. Parkland 3:28.69, 3. Pleasant Valley 3:29.47, 4. Stroudsburg 3:30.85;

4x800: 1. Parkland (Anthony Cappellini, Marcelo Castilla, Logan McEvoy, Henry Stein) 8:05.04, 2. Emmaus (Miles Cook, Conor Fisher, Jared Petre, Richard Will) 8:09.72, 3. Easton 8:22.99, 4. Pleasant Valley 8:24.59;

High jump: 1. Jaden Bulgin (P) 6-5, 2. Jathniel Feguiere (Em) 6-2, 3. (Tie) Bryan Earle (ESS), Gabriel Kabba (Em), Rayland DeCaries (PME) 6-0;

Long jump: 1. Anthony Otero (L) 22-10.5, 2. Jaden Bulgin (P) 22-10, 3. Ozias Washington (ESN) 22-3, 4. Konstantinos Panagopoulos (Em) 22-2, 19. Nehemiah Pierre (Em) 19-9, 20. Jack Csensits (Em) 19-8;

Triple jump: 1. Shane Plante-King (ESS) 46-9.5, 2. Ozias Washington (ESN) 45-7, 3. Anthony Otero (L) 44-3.5, 4. Jeremiah Strowder (No) 43-11, 7. Damar Gilzeane (Em) 42-9, 12. Konstantinos Panagopoulos (Em) 41-0, 15. Nehemiah Pierre (Em) 40-9, 17. Maqhil Wimberly (Em) 40-0.75;

Pole vault: 1. Tyler Grabinski (Em) 16-0, 2. Casey Huie (L) 13-3, 3. Owen Tobias (P) 12-3, 4. (ite) Alex Szeplaki (No), Maxsim Lamerton (S), Austin Herman (S) 12-3;

Discus: 1. Michael Udeh (ESS) 140-3, 2. Nasir Clark (ESS) 138-0, 3. Leo Dauberman (P) 137-5, 4. Jonathan Adjun-Tettey (ESS) 136-7, 6. Matt Buss (Em) 127-9, 14. Chase Corcoran (Em) 110-6, 24. Colin Nonnemacher (Em) 87-0;

Javelin: 1. Thomas Lloyd (W)_ 197-1, 2. AJ Formica (PME) 174-6, 3. Leo Dauberman (P) 164-11, 4. Kaden Zerfoss (ESS) 164-5, 6. Nicholas DeSantis (Em) 156-1, 11. Matthew Geschel (Em) 148-6, 16. Ryan Gerhard (Em) 142-1, 18. Brian Bown (Em) 137-9;

Shot put: 1. Marquis Labossiere (Ea) 48-6, 2. Jonathan Adjin-Tettey (ESS) 46-10.5, 3. Carter Troxell (W) 46-5.25, 4. Colin Nonnemacher (Em) 45-11.25, 5. Robert Edwards (Em) 45-2, 6. Brody McHugh (Em) 44-10.25, 11. Dylan Swartwood (Em) 42-1.25.

GIRLS

100: 1. Alena Murray (S) 12.02, 2. Amanda Mercurius (Na) 12.23, 3. Gabrielle DeVita (Em) 12.30, 4. Aniya Holder 12.32, 12. Sophia Pratt (Em) 12.80;

200: 1. Julia Grant (S) 24.87, 2. Kaley Seide (P) 25.12, 3. Natalie Ray 25.20, 4. Amanda Mercurius (Na) 25.25, 7. Sophia Pratt (Em) 26.01, 19. Elizabeth Burns (Em) 27.68, 20. Heidi Roxanne Orock (Em) 27.72;

400: 1. Julia Grant (S) 55.87, 2. Aniya Holder 56.72, 3. Lucy Tobia (P) 56.91, 4. Natalie Ray 56.93, 6. Morgan Tandy (Em) 1:00.80, 14. Kyana Deabreu (Em) 1:04.15;

800: 1. Madelyn McCartney (Em) 2:20.53, 2. Madeleine Guzwich (Na) 2:21.45, 3. Payton Campbell (Em) 2:22.66, 4. Katharine Amundsen (ESS) 2:23.20, 16. Grace Nosal (Em) 2:32.85, 19. Isabella Alwine-Balliro (Em) 2:33.75;

1600: 1. Madelyn McCartney (Em) 4:58.79, 2. Katie Drabouski (L) 5:03.28, 3. Elizabeth McClarin (L) 5:06.0, 4. Payton Campbell (Em) 5:10.01, 16. Addison Johnson (Em) 5:36.99, 5:38.01, 18. Grace Nosal (Em)_ 5:38.73, 19. Isabella Alwine-Balliro (Em) 5:39.01, 20. Isabella Scarlata (Em) 5:43.01, 21. Oliva Fleck (Em) 5:43.20;

3200: 1. Madelyn McCartney (Em) 10:42.80, 2. Payton Campbell (Em) 10:52.51, 3. Vivia Clark (Ea) 11:31.49, 4. Faith Bolete (Ea) 11:35.01, 11. Addison Johnson (Em) 12:11.91, 14. Isabella Alwine-Balliro (Em) 12:22.12, 15. Isabella Scarlata (Em) 12:26.98, 17. Samantha Reidnauer (Em) 12:37.50;

100H: 1. Kayla-Rayne Quinones (Em) 15.04, 2. (tie) Emily Hoysan (P), Kimora Woods (ESS) 15.64, 4. Ana Gbur (P) 16.30, 10. Quinn Jenkins (Em) 17.28, 13. Marleigh Llewellyn (Em) 17.74;

300H: 1. Maggie Scalzo (Ea) 44.43, 2. Kayla-Rayne Quinones (Em) 45.81, 3. Ana Gbur (P) 46.87, 4. Temiloluwa Adebayo (Ea) 47.41, 11. Marleigh Llewellyn (Em) 50.48, 16. Blessing Tweh (Em) 51.64;

4x100: 1. Stroudsburg (Laila Findley, Julia Grant, Alena Murray, Madelyn Vargas) 47.66, 2. Parkland 47.82, 3. Emmaus (Gabrielle DaVita, Sophia Pratt, Kayla-Rayne Quinones, Morgan Tandy) 49.07, 4. East Stroudsburg South 49.48;

4x400: 1. Parkland (Ana Gbur, Kaley Seide, Lucy Tobia, Cierra Valley) 4:00.84, 2. Stroudsburg 4:03.45, 3. Dieruff 4:06.09, 4. Easton 4:09.33, 6. Emmaus (Elizabeth Bender, Kyana Deabreu, Sophia Pratt, Morgan Tandy) 4:14.82;

4x800: 1. Liberty (Elizabeth McClarin, Anijah Davis, Emma Haas, Katie Drabouski) 9:34.04, 2. Easton 9:35.59, 3. Nazareth 9:36.93, 4. Emmaus (Payton Campbell, Addison Johnson, Madelyn McCartney, Grace Nosal) 9:48.86;

High jump: 1. Claudia Walls (Em) 5-2, 2. Alexa Davis (Na) 5-1, 3. (tie) Alena Murray (S), Faith Bolete (Ea), Victoria Phillips (No), Aviannah Jean-Pierre (Ea) 4-11, 9. Kyla Moore (Em) 4-9;

Long jump: 1. Victoria Phillips (No) 17-2, 2. Abigail Hackett (L) 17-1, 3. Claudia Walls (Em) 16-11, 4. Jariana Rivas (Ea) 16-10, 6. Morgan Flettes (Em) 16-7;

Triple jump: 1. Anne Beender (No) 37-4.75, 2. Claudia Walls (Em) 35-9, 3. Madelyn Vargas (S) 35-1.25, 4. Victoria Phillips (No) 34-9.5, 19. Morgan Fletes (Em) 31-7.5, 20. Kyla Moore (Em) 31-3;

Pole vault: 1. Olivia Hayes (No) 9-9, 2. Sydney Moritz (S) 9-3, 3. Genevieve Inserra (P) 9-3, 4. Gabriella Borgos (P) 9-3, 9. Malena Stetz (Em) 8-3, 10. Elle Bagley (Em) 7-9;

Discus: 1. Brooke Nwigwe (ESS) 120-1, 2. Carlize Smith (Ea) 112-9, 3. Adriana Borzio (S) 103-7, 4. MvcKayla Strunk (S) 101-10;

Javelin: 1. Alexa Willand (No) 121-0, 2. Daviana Jones (BC) 118-2, 3. Skyelar Umstead (Na) 118-2, Vanessa Ball (P) 116-10, 11. Sofie Laird (Em) 91-9, 15. Olivia Teti (Em) 86-9;

Shot put: 1. Nayeli Moliere (PMW) 36-11.75, 2. Breyanna Sims (PMW) 35-7.5, 3. Kayleen Louis (Em) 35-5.78, 4. Lucy Coyler (No) 34-2.5.