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36 | May 23, 2019 | The wilmette beacon SPORTS<br />
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Boys track and field<br />
Posted to WilmetteBeaconDaily.com 6 days ago<br />
Loveland wins sectional title; NT, LA athletes head to state<br />
Michael Wojtychiw<br />
Sports Editor<br />
Coming down the final<br />
straightaway, Jack Loveland<br />
knew he needed to get<br />
his last kick into high drive<br />
if he was hoping to end his<br />
senior season on a happy<br />
note with a trip to the state<br />
finals in Charleston.<br />
The Loyola senior<br />
would recover in time to<br />
pull away for a win in the<br />
400-meter dash, taking<br />
the sectional crown with<br />
a time of 49.3 at the Niles<br />
West Sectional Thursday,<br />
May 16, in Skokie.<br />
“I was thinking that I<br />
might have this if I just<br />
stride at the end, but they<br />
kept keeping up,” Loveland<br />
said. “And then I<br />
heard this guy coming<br />
up behind me, so I had to<br />
push the hardest I’ve ever<br />
pushed in my life, honestly.<br />
“I came out strong, finished<br />
strong, it was a rollercoaster<br />
of emotions.”<br />
Loveland will be making<br />
his first trip downstate<br />
after missing out on making<br />
it out of the sectional<br />
last season by .2.<br />
Doing that in his senior<br />
season isn’t something<br />
that’s lost on Loveland.<br />
“This one meant a lot<br />
because I had the best time<br />
coming in,” he said. “The<br />
entire time people were<br />
telling me I’m going to<br />
state, so there were a lot<br />
of expectations. I wanted it<br />
really badly.”<br />
Loveland won’t be the<br />
lone Rambler going downstate,<br />
however. After only<br />
having one qualifier last<br />
year, Loyola added two<br />
more state qualifiers in<br />
freshman Spencer Werner,<br />
who took third in the 3,200<br />
run with a time of 9:18.74,<br />
and Kieran Thompson,<br />
who took third in the high<br />
jump with a high of 6-03.<br />
Werner had arguably<br />
the best run of the day for<br />
the Ramblers, improving<br />
on his nine seed time of<br />
9:34.89.<br />
Werner, Loveland and<br />
Thompson will all be<br />
looking to do well at the<br />
state meet May 24-25 in<br />
Charleston.<br />
“It’s really exciting going<br />
there as a senior,”<br />
Loveland said. “I’m sad<br />
I might miss graduation<br />
but it’s a dream come true.<br />
I’ve wanted this my entire<br />
high school career, so I’m<br />
really happy.”<br />
Loyola’s Jack Loveland runs in his sectional-winning 400-meter dash race Thursday,<br />
May 16, in Skokie. Michael Wojtychiw/22nd Century Media<br />
New Trier<br />
Like rival Loyola, the<br />
Trevians will also have a<br />
number of competitiors<br />
advancing downstate after<br />
finishing fifth with 48 team<br />
points. Prospect pulled the<br />
upset, dethroning Evanston<br />
and taking the title<br />
with 103.5 points. Evanston<br />
finished second with<br />
87 points and Maine South<br />
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Girls track and field<br />
Posted to WilmetteBeaconDaily.com 3 days ago<br />
New Trier wins 3,200-meter relay state title<br />
Daniel L. Chamness<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
The New Trier Trevians<br />
saw gold at the end of the<br />
track.<br />
In the finals of the Illinois<br />
High School Association<br />
Class 3A State Championships,<br />
the Trevians<br />
dashed to victory in the<br />
3,200-meter relay, finishing<br />
the race in 9 minutes,<br />
11.70 seconds.<br />
“That was a great way to<br />
start the meet,” said James<br />
Klotz, a New Trier assistant<br />
coach. “We wanted to<br />
be close when the third athlete<br />
(Leah Ulrich) handed<br />
off to Marnie Sullivan, our<br />
anchor leg. We knew if we<br />
were close, we had a good<br />
chance to win it.”<br />
Part of the Trevian<br />
coaching staff was<br />
100 yards away when the<br />
moment happened and<br />
hugged each other enthusiastically.<br />
What probably<br />
made it more satisfying<br />
for the competitors as well<br />
as the coaching staff was<br />
the victory was extremely<br />
hard-fought.<br />
“I just kept my head<br />
down and tried to run<br />
through the end,” Sullivan<br />
said. “I did not know<br />
how close Hoffman Estates<br />
was. I just focused<br />
on the finish line and concentrated<br />
on getting there.<br />
When I crossed the finish<br />
line, I was a little shocked.<br />
I am just enjoying this moment.”<br />
How hard-fought? Hoffman<br />
Estates was less than<br />
six-tenths of a second behind<br />
the Trevians in the<br />
eight-lap race, finishing in<br />
9:12.26.<br />
Two Trevian seniors,<br />
Ulrich and Sullivan, combined<br />
talents with junior<br />
Bridget Forbes and sophomore<br />
Emma Braband to<br />
earn the state championship<br />
in the event.<br />
The top five teams all<br />
broke 9:20 and by 9:27, all<br />
the placing teams had finished<br />
the race. In the final<br />
100 meters, Sullivan, clad<br />
in green and white with<br />
pink socks, emerged with<br />
the lead. Hoffman Estates,<br />
also uniquely attired, was<br />
in hot pursuit. But, Sullivan<br />
was more than capable<br />
of holding off the hardcharging<br />
runner-up team,<br />
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