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The Essex Reporter • June 11, 2015
S ports Essex boys’ tennis state finals runner-up By COLIN FLANDERS The Essex boys’ tennis team came up just short of breaking South Burlington’s state championship winning streak last Thursday, falling to the Rebels 4-3. The Hornets started off strong as No. 1 seed Evan Greer took the first match of the day in straight sets against South Burlington’s Gabe Katz 6-2, 6-3. Taking the court after Greer, No. 5 Marsh Palin fought back after dropping the first set 0-6, finishing off Jorge Parada Chacon in a third set tiebreak. The doubles match ups split wins, with the No. 1 pair of Matthew Wu and Noah Laporte pulling through for the Hornets in another third set tiebreak, 6-2, 2-6, 10-6. The middle of the lineup proved to be the Rebels’ saving grace, however, as they took the No. 2, 3 and 4 matches, capping off their fourth straight championship with a victory from No. 4 seed Jack Graham as he defeated Dylan Garcia 6-4, 6-2.
Evan Greer, Essex’s No. 1 seed, won his match in straight sets, 6-2. 6-3. PHOTO | COLIN FLANDERS
SHORTS
10th: Moffatt 100;
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11th: Hankey 100; Asanya 100; Eric Scharf 1500; Breyer Sinor SHOT
a season’s best 63.45 in the 400m for fifth and a 27.98 in the 200m, good for fifth. Farrington and Martell returned to the track in the 3000m to place fifth and sixth running respectively 10:56.60 and 10:56.63 with Martell’s time ranking her 11th all-time in the Essex TF Record book. Late in the meet sophomore Marisa Minadeo ran her best race of the season in the 300m LH when it counted the most. She sprinted off the line and grabbed second place two hurdles into the race and fought to the line running 50.61. Lucy Sopchak ran sixth in the 100m 13.74 after tying for fourth in the HJ 4’ 6”. After a third place finish in the LJ 15’ 6”, Madison Stephenson jumped on the track and placed fifth in the HH 17.46. It was her first time in a D-I final. Back to the field events, junior captain Abbie Evans had the best TF day of her life. She began her day with a season’s best 4’8 in the HJ, good for third. After a brief rest, she threw a PR 99’7” in javelin (fourth) which ranks her eighth all-time. The multi-event, “I’ll do any event for the team” athlete ran to PV where she cleared 8’ 6” for second place capping a second, third and fourth place allstar day! Sade Hankey, sophomore. jumped 4’ 8” in the HJ for second. Lindsey Gleason, sophomore, PR’ed in PV skying 8’ for fifth. Freshman Ali Green led the way in TJ as three Hornets placed. Improving literally every time she competes in this event, the talented ninth-grader hopped, skipped and jumped 34’ 4.75”, good for second in the meet and 10th all-time. Read that again…She doesn’t know how good she is going to be. With her willingness to listen and try, her accomplishments in this sport could be scary. The girls’ track team has been a highly successful landing ground for gymnasts to be successful in the sport. It makes pure sense. Check out this list: Heather Taft Garrow, Mary Krug, Kimmy Dirmaier, Evans, Michelle Robitaille Campbell, Sarah Dahl, Sue Stannard, Jen Whitten, Amanda Liguri…the list goes on and on. Gymnastics is a seamless connection to a high level of success in TF. Some of these young ladies competed in college with partial and/ or FULL scholarships. She has a very bright future, as do many of her gymnastic/TF teammates. Kyle Baker led the boys with a first place in the pole vault. He powered his way to 14’ and won the event by a foot over his buddy from SB, Caleb Kasupski. The senior also led off the Hornets’ 4x100m relay with Jeremy Jarvis (seventh in the TJ 39’ 2”PR), Jacob Rigoli and Chike Asanya to fifth place in a season’s best 46.26 HR mark. Peter Feehan excelled in his distance races running a fine 800m in 2:02.91, placing second and into the boys’ record book, and ran 4:26.73 for sixth in the 1500m. Freshman Justin Barnes continued to shine in his first high school season. He ran a PR freshman record 53.02 in the 400m good for fifth and an HR mark in the book. Sophomore Martin Thomas was fifth in the 800m with a time of 2:05.49. The 4x8 relay started the day for the Hornets by placing fourth. Connor Knowles, Matt Davis, Thomas and Feehan ran 8:37.64 4x4 sixth. The mile relay squad of Barnes, Nate Rodrigue-Hotchkiss, Thomas and Knowles ended up sixth, sprinting their best 3:39.57. OTHER STATE MEET COMPETITORS INCLUDE: Seventh: Green 300H PR 51.85; Mia Verro HH; Gleason LJ; Davis 3000
12th: Angus Hutcheon 400
Eighth: Whitney 200; Gleason HH PR 17.68 Ninth: Arianna Moffat 200; Guilia Eddy 800; Minadeo HH PR 17.73; Barnes 200; Shaun Morris SHOT
13th: Abby Trombley 1500; Asanya 200; Knowles 800; Scharf 3000; Sam Velasquez HJ 14th: Hannah Poquette HH 15th: Jarvis HH PR 18.69; Jenna Agricola 1500; Hankey LJ 16th: Rodrigue-Hotchkiss 800m; Justin Poulin 1500m 19th: Feora Leveillee 1500 20th: Chris Irish 1500 21st: Jarvis IH; Alaina Mejia 1500 22nd: Grace Murphy 1500; Martin Deutsch 3000 On Friday, a talented contingent of Hornet tracksters are off to Saco, Maine for the New England’s. On Monday and Tuesday, a contingent of nine Essex athletes will be competing in the Vermont Decathlon championships at UVM. Come on by all day, both days to cheer them on. Congrats to both teams on their seasons as 12 senior boys and two senior girls will retire their spikes. GIRLS’ TENNIS The girls’ tennis team saw its season end in the semifinals. CVU beat Essex 6-1. In one of their most successful seasons in years with record of 10-5, the team turned things around in a big way this spring. Three seniors were a part of the turnaround. BOYS’ TENNIS The boys’ tennis team defeated CVU 6-1 in the semis last week. Their big win set up a championship match against the SB Rebels. In the rubber game/match of the spring it was fitting to see two 13-1 teams vying for the title. In the most exciting match of the season, Evan Greer, Marsh Palin, and the doubles team of Matt Wu/Noah Laporte all notched victories, but the Rebels prevailed 4-3. The Hornets and 10 seniors owned a final record of 13-2. GOLF The golf team finished fifth in the states last week at Green Mountain National. The Par 71 course hosted the Division I championships. Team scores were as follows: South Burlington 314, North Country 321, Rutland 322, Champlain Valley 337, Essex 351, Burr and Burton 359. Medalist: 70 - Drake Hull, Rutland. Hornet golf scores went this way: Stuart Irwin 79, Zac Godin 86, Adam Ely 88, Teagan Anderson 98. No word on the girls match…Looks like two seniors wrapped up their careers on the links. ST. MICHAEL’S COLLEGE Thirty-five St. Michael’s College student-athletes were inducted into 13 different academic honor societies during the 2014-15 school year, including three into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and largest academic honor society. Founded in 1776, it promotes excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. A former Hornet student/ athlete was among the honorees. Women’s cross country May graduate Allie Gratton earned two Honor Society awards: Delta Epsilon Sigma – National Catholic Honor Society and Sigma Beta Delta – business, management
and administration. Congrats! We held our annual Sand Hill Pool re-certification training meeting Sunday. The entire staff of lifeguards and water safety instructors, along with a few visitors from Maple Street Pool, was in attendance. Sand Hill is slated to open Thursday, June 18 at 1 p.m. sharp. Pool hours are 1 p.m.-8 p.m., Monday-Friday; 12 p.m.- 8 p.m, Saturdays and Sundays. Daily swimming lessons are Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., with park and rec camp lessons from 12:1512:45 p.m. We also have two Saturday morning Shrimps and Striper lessons and Monday and Wednesday evening lessons for very young swimmers from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The latter takes place during open swim hours. This just in under the deadline…Essex youth lacrosse girls’ U-11 (second-, third- fourth-graders) went 7-0 in their second season of the program. Coaches Skip Harris, Matt Kulhmeier and Bryan Hirschman were very happy with their play. Hirschman quipped, “The girls were rock stars this year!” Here’s a look at the team: Acadia Bilodeau, Lily Boutin, Cassidy Daniels, Harriet Danis, Sierra Harris, Becca Hirschman, Jenna Hirschman, Reese Holcomb, Payton Hoy, HannahKuhlmeier, Abby Lacross, Dylan Line, Breya Montague, Morgan Curtis, Safari Pike, Hailey Routhier, Emmerson Stapleton, Emily Stempek, Chelseau Tatro and Rose Van Buren. Birthdays this week include Shelburne’s own Charlie Peet, one of the masterminds at Harbour Industries with Essex’s Joe Hennessey and Mike Well. Charlie is somewhere over 39 and is lucky enough to have a wonderful twin sixth-graders until Friday when they turn into seventh graders, and an awesome wife. SUMMER TRAINING Summer Training Program at Essex Middle School starts Monday June 22. The end date is Friday, July 24 (No training Friday July 3). Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday 5:-7 p.m. Workout takes 90 min. Individuals: Per week— $50, $125 for the whole summer (5 Weeks). Team Price (4-6 athletes training together) $180 a week, $750.00 for the summer session per team. Special Team Time Schedule per requests. Essex residents, $100 for the summer. Located at Essex Middle School, the center’s focus will be on athletes training to increase preexisting levels of speed, power, strength and increased performance. Clients will be using a combination of training including the teaching of speed technique, both for acceleration and maximum speed. Developing the organism for greater force production, mainly through weightlifting means. And lastly, to employ training to increase the muscles ability to elicit an elastic response to a muscular contraction via jump (Plyometrics) training. The goal is to prepare athletes to express greater speed and power while playing in their chosen athletic event. Sample Daily Schedule for summer workouts. Warmups, both general and specific (15-25 minutes). Technical Work (15 -30 minutes) Strength Training (30 minutes to an hour) Conditioning - Mostly Strength mode (10-15 minutes) Cool Down (10-15 minutes) Each Workout will take about 1.5 hours. One week equals three sessions. Coach Pol can be reached by the following: cpolakowski@ etsd.org. Cell Phone: 802-881-8590.
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