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| Oswego East boys' track team strives for top four finish at SPC Meet
| by Kristin Sharp
| 5/10/2012
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The Oswego East boys' track and field team does not plan to repeat last year's performance at the Southwest Prairie Conference meet.
Behind champion Plainfield South, the Wolves scored only 10 points to finish last in the eight-team field without an All-Conference performer in 2011. Today, Thursday, Oswego East will travel to Plainfield North where the Wolves hope to for a drastic move up.
"Our 4x8 right now could have the top seed time," Oswego East head coach JR Wilson said. "Our 4x4 could be right there in the mix for the top four. The 4x1 and 4x2 are finally coming around and we're getting our handoffs straightened out so we're hoping they score points in the top four. We should have guys in the finals in pretty much everything on the track. ... I fully expect us to be fourth or higher. That's been our goal all year long. We were in the basement last year; let's at least finish in the top half this year."
Oswego East was back on the track last Saturday at the Carlin Nalley Invite, hosted by Lisle at Benedictine University, after the previous week's invitational at Waubonsie Valley was cancelled by rain on April 28. Wilson used last weekend's races to experiment with the varsity lineup, including the relays, in advance of this week's conference meet.
Oswego East was encouraged by its effort last Saturday, scoring 53 points to place third in the 18-team field behind Bolingbrook (103) and Morton (58). Jacobs and Lincoln-Way East tied with 42 points to round out the top five teams.
"We're real excited going into Thursday and we're hoping with the times we're running, we're going to have guys in the finals of a lot of stuff," Wilson said. "We're looking really strong right now. We're looking to be up there with everybody else."
At the Carlin Nalley Invite, Oswego East's 4x400-meter relay team of senior Dakoda Skenandore, senior Kalmon Stokes, junior Andrew Holm and junior Chase Skenandore helped highlight the day with a first-place finish in 3:28.63, edging Bolingbrook by four-tenths of a second.
Chase Skenandore was third overall in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:58.21, just two seconds off the Class 3A state-qualifying time of 1.56.84. Junior Andrew Holm also placed seventh in the event in 2:01.79.
Stokes finished third in the 300-meter hurdles in 40.03 seconds and placed fourth in the 110-meter hurdles in 15.99 seconds. The 4x100-meter relay team of junior Andrew Ernest, senior Elnimair Barakat, sophomore Robert Kallien and junior Scooter Smith placed second behind Bolingbrook (44.14) with a time of 44.46 seconds.
The 4x200-meter relay placed third behind Bolingbrook and Lincoln-Way East behind the efforts of Ernest, Barakat, Kallien and senior Chris Horbacz while the 3,200-meter relay of Dakoda Skenandore, senior Johnny DeVries, junior Rene Salinas and Chase Skenandore finished second behind Palatine, clocking in at 8:13.55.
Ernest reached the 200-meter dash finals and placed eighth with a time of 24.18 seconds while Barakat was seventh in the 100-meter dash finals with a time of 11.76 seconds.
Senior Luis Corona reached 43-1 in the shot put to place seventh. Junior Nick Craft cleared 5-10 to take fourth in the high jump and junior Aaron Jordan cleared 12-0 in the pole vault to place seventh and rewrite his own school record in the event.
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