Events on the ground again encourage the central WL boys to win the meeting of the County of Oakland – The Oakland Press

Oxford – For the second consecutive year, the excellence of Walled Lake Central in the field events won first place at the Oakland County Meet.

The Vikings took first place with 63 points during the 65th edition of the County Championships on Friday, including 52 in a combination of pole jump, disc and weight throwing.

When asked what makes his dominant team so dominant, the Vikings head coach Nebojsa Stojkovic joked: “I cannot reveal all these secrets.”

“No, it is a training all year round, a lot of time and dedication they invest. They join the technique. We have always thought it was a track program. We do not have the speed that allows you to reach 100 meters. Even look at the 4 × 100 (relay team) which broke our school record today. None of these children participates in the 100 meters today. But it is technique, transfers, attention to detail.

Photo Gallery from the 65th Annual Oakland County Track and Field Meet in Oxford

Led by Brycen Anderson (188-6), the other seniors Tyler Marrogy and Nathan Cody allowed the Vikings to obtain a 1-2-3 file on the disc. The central senior Ray Weatherington led the peloton to the pole jump (14-6).

Anderson, who has the best serial score from Division 1 to the weight throwing for the state, finished third Friday, with three other teammates collecting points behind him, and another, Marrogy, ranked second ( 55-6).

Stojkovic talked about the load of the LVC in shooting and disc this season, a testimony of the region, and it is a feeling to which Marrogy echoes.

“It’s really the one who won one,” said Stojkovic. “It’s a bit everyone here (can do it). You have (Liam Vaughn of Walled Lake Western), (Lakeland) Andre (Neumann) – a big boy – we all have the potential to drop the 60s .

Neumann, the only first year student to have participated in the disc launch during the national D1 competition last year, finished sixth in this test on Friday, but it was his work at the weight launch that really shone . He won the event with a 57 -foot and eight inch throw, broke a 42 -year -old school record.

“I feel good, but I really think there is much more in me, and I can’t wait to beat my new school record even more during the state competition,” said Neumann, who committed a Failing a throw that seemed to go. About 60 feet. “I feel that I can reach the 60s. This is the goal.”

Central was only beaten by his neighbors in the relays where he also collected points. Walled Lake Western (42.51) won a 4×100 relay in which Central finished third, and Western (1: 27.47) won the 4×200, the Vikings finishing fourth.

Troy Athens (49 points) beat his rival Troy (46.75) for second place with the last event of the evening, the 4×400 relay, which the Red Hawks won (3: 22.15). Athens beat the colts at the 4×800 relay (7: 51.11) by only two hundredths of a second.

The two schools of Troy have scored a lot of points in the 3,200 -meter race won by the junior of Bloomfield Hills, Taye Levenson, while the senior of Athens Jacob Esser and the senior of Troy Vishvaa Ravishankar took respectively the second and Third place. The senior of Athens Evan Watson, who moved away as an anchor of the 4×400, finished only six hundredths of Oak Park Rondre Ausion (21.87) in 200 meters.

Zacchaeus Brocks, from the central Catholic Detroit, was another star of male events. The second -year student won the 110 hedges in 13.9 seconds, the fastest in the event since Rudy Redmond de Southfield was timed at 13.8 seconds in 1987.

The Junior of Adams, Michael Wilkerson, who finished second behind Brocks at 110 m, won the first in 300 hedges (38.64).