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DyeStat Ohio
May 5-6, 2000 at Welcome Stadium, Dayton OH
Don Mitchell Roosevelt Memorial
Highlights
Day 1
Rockford MI, Birchmont Park, and Ritz
The 4x800 relays saw especially great times: Rockford girls 9:07.07 and the Canadian Birchmont Park boys 7:42.51. The Rockford girls added two more victories: 4x1600 relay in 21:32.96 and distance medley in 12:10.22. Birchmont Park doubled in the distance medley in 10:08.14.
Individually, Rockford's male star, Dathan Ritzenhein, moved front and
center. After warming up with a sub-2:00 anchor for Rockford's second
place 4x800 relay (7:52.60), Ritz destroyed the 3200 meter field with a time of
8:41.10. That converts to a 2-mile time of 8:44.5, best in the nation this
year (See TidBits on Page 1 for Donald Sage's US#2 time, also Friday
night.) Ritz was 15 seconds ahead of runner-up Steve Padgett, of
Cincinnati OH Lasalle. Ritz' splits:
400m: 65 seconds
800m: 2:10
1600m: 4:19
Ritzenhein had two more anchors before his night's work was done. He
anchored the 4x1600 relay that Rockford won in 17:58.28, and the distance
medley.
Birchmont Park doubled in the distance medley in 10:08.14 over Rockford 10:14.79.
The meet continues Saturday, when Birchmont Park's Sala Hussein (PR 1:49) may break 1:50 in the 800 meters.
Day 2
St. Xavier boys, Cleveland Heights girls win team competition;
Marc Sylvester 1:51.52 beats Sala Hussein
Boys competition winner: Cincinnati (OH) St Xavier
Girls competition winner: Cleveland Heights (OH)
Marc Sylvester of Cleveland St. Ignatius, the Ohio Div I defending champion, tops Sala Hussein of Birchmont Park in the 800m. Winning time 1:51.52 (0.06
seconds short of the Ohio state record). 2nd place time was 1:51.89.
Cleveland Heights girls shuttle hurdle team won in a state record time of 61.06 seconds.
Brandy Werklow of Detroit Mumford broke the meet record in the 300H during the prelims with a time of 42.29 seconds.
Lauryn Williams of Rochester (PA) won the 100m/200m double for a second year.
