By Jim Newell
Managing Editor
ORION TWP. — The Lake Orion girls varsity track and field team took home their first dual meet win of the season on April 16 with a 67-61 victory over Oxford at Lake Orion High School.
Both the girls and boys teams had lost to Rochester Adams on April 9 in their first dual league meet of the season.

“After a tough loss last week against Rochester Adams, the girls’ team was ready to perform on a sunny afternoon of track and field,” head coach Andrew McDonald said.
In the field events junior Mikaela Redmon was first in the high jump in a jump of 4-feet, 10-inches and sophomore Elyse Avey took third place with a jump of 4-feet, 6-inches.
Senior Madison Boos-Niespolo threw 31-feet, 6-inches, a personal best, to take second place in the shot put, and sophomore Emily Adkins took third in a season best throw of 29-feet, 8-inches. Senior Kristin Franklin threw 69-feet, 10-inches for a third place in the discus.
In the long jump sophomore Olivia Bagdasarian took first place with a jump of 15-feet, 3.75-inches and junior Layla Thomas jumped 14-feet, 9-inches to take second place.
The pole vault was very competitive with Sabrina DiMaggio and Bagdasarian both jumping 11-feet in an impressive effort to tie for the sixth best effort in the state of Michigan, McDonald said.
The 4-by-800m relay team of senior Lauren Ritz, sophomore Natalie Meldrum, freshman Betsy Hetu, and sophomore Abbey Neering finished in first place in 10:30.34 minutes, a personal record for the team.

Sabrina DiMaggio won the 100m hurdles with a time of 15.12 seconds. Freshman Zoe Moss ran to a season best 13.35 seconds to take second place in the 100m dash, and followed that with a win in the 200m dash in 27.43 seconds.
The 4-by-100m and 4-by-200m relays both ran to first place finishers in dominating fashion, McDonald said. The 4-by-100m relay team of Moss, DiMaggio, Madison Saunders and Jenna Eichbrecht finished in 52.26 seconds, while the same group of girls won the 4-by-200m relay in 1:50.29 minutes.
In the 400m dash, Abbey Neering ran a season best 59.93 seconds to take first place, a personal best in the event.
Freshman Greta Colquitt took first place in the 300 hurdles in 47.75 seconds. Senior Lauren Ritz took second place in the 800m run in 2:27.93 minutes.
Sophomore Natalie Meldrum led from start to finish in a personal best time of 11:51.93 minutes in securing first place in the 3,200m run.