SYRACUSE – Wet weather and a lot of talent from Goshen and Plymouth made it a long night for the Wawasee girls track team in its final home showing. Depth in the right places allowed Goshen to claim two wins Tuesday night, beating Wawasee 68-64 and Plymouth 73.5-58.5. Plymouth had too much in the arsenal to beat Wawasee 57.5-74.5.
The Lady Warriors had four event wins, two in the field and two on the track. On the rubber surface, Maddie Birch claimed her first-career win in the two-mile at 12:20.78. The 4×100 relay team of Leigh-Ann Shrack, Skylar Janda, Sarah Lancaster and Catherine Yankosky took honors at 52.62.
Throws continue to be a strength of the Lady Warriors, with Katlyn Kennedy taking shot put with a toss of 36-8 and Hannah Winters sending the discus 107-09.
Plymouth was led by the duo of Allie Wright and Kaydon Fosler. Wright won the 100 (13.31), 200 (26.89) and 400 (59.89) while Fosler jumped to 5-0 in high jump and 15-1 in long jump.
Goshen had Adrienne Henke take the one-mile race at 5:41.95, Nora Rangel take the 800 at 2:25.69, and the two help the 4×400 relay to a 4:12.46 win.
Wawasee finishes the NLC round robin 1-6.
“We lost two close meets to opponents who brought some very talented athletes to our place,” said Wawasee head coach Scott Lancaster. “Both our opponents were very strong in events where we count on scoring. On the more positive side, we had many girls set personal bests. We are beginning to peak at the right time.”
Wawasee will run Saturday at the Goshen Relays.