Gracie Kenny, of Dalbrae, won the Intermediate Girls long jump with a distance of 4.61m at the Highland Region track and field meet held in Sydney on the weekend.
-by Bill Dunphy
Led by their Senior Female athletes, the Riverview High School Ravens won the Carly Bunyan Memorial trophy for top Intermediate/Senior school at the School Sport Nova Scotia Highland Region track and field meet.
The biggest multi-school event in the Highland Region, the meet was held Friday and Saturday at Cape Breton University’s Ness Timmons Field.
The complete school scores and division results were not available as of press time and the following is based on the limited information that was available.
Riverview’s Senior Girls won their banner with a score of 117.
However, the Dalbrae Academy Dragons came away with three regional banners. Both the Intermediate Girls, with 92 points, and the Int. Boys, with 82 points, won their divisions, along with the Senior Boys who had 76.
The Bayview Education Centre Bears put their name back on the trophy as top Junior school, collecting 132.5 points.
The Bears were led by their Junior Girls team who took the Highland Region banner with 89 points.
The Junior Boys banner was won by the Tamarac Education Centre Timberwolves with 62 points.
Ella Barry, of Riverview, was the top Senior Female athlete and was also the winner of the Joey Mullins Memorial trophy for the top overall athlete of the meet.
Riverview’s Alex Arsenault was the top Senior Male.
Scotia Van den Heuvel, of Dalbrae, won the award for top Intermediate Female. She won the triple jump with a distance of 9.87m; tied for first with her Dragons teammate Gracie Kenny in the long jump, each with a jump of 4.61m; and had two third-place finishes, one in the 100m dash (13.77 seconds) and the other in the 200m (28.76).
Sydney Academy’s Lucas Holloway was the top Intermediate Male.
Ashton Hawley, of Bayview, was the top Junior Male of the meet. He had four first-place finishes and set new records in the 400m (58.70 seconds) and 200m (25.08); he won the 100m (12.22) and long jump (5.09m), and finished fifth in the 800m (2:34.32).
And Summer Kersten, of Tamarac, was the top Junior Female. She won the javelin with a throw of 27.93 metres; the 3,000m with a time of 12:35.60; finished second in the discus (21.47m); and placed third in the 1,500m (6:00.29).