WHEELER, RECORD-BREAKING GADOW LEAD WAVERLY AT SECTION IV CLASSIC
By: Tim Birney | WaverlyAthletics.com | January 4, 2020 | Photo courtesy Chela Bubniak
ITHACA — Junior Caden Wheeler notched Waverly’s lone win of the day, and fellow junior Alex Gadow continued the Wolverines’ assault on the school’s record book here Saturday afternoon in the 38-team field at the Section IV Classic at Cornell University’s Barton Hall.
Wheeler won the long jump with a leap of 21-feet, 10-inches. He also finished fourth in the 300-meter dash in 37.41 seconds, and 8th-grader Ralph Johnson was 13th in 39.9 seconds.
Gadow finished 10th in the weight throw with a school-record heave of 37-feet, 4-inches, shattering the previous record of 32-feet, 5-inches set by Mike Moore in 2016.
Gadow also finished 11th in the 600-meter run in a time of 1:33.86, and senior Brandon Bubniak was 12th in 1:34.33.
Junior Collin Wright finished fourth in the 3,200-meter run in a time of 10:27.51, while junior Jayden Rose finished sixth in the 1,000-meter run in a time of 2:51.24.
Sophomore Nate Ackley finished eighth in the 1,600-meter run in a time of 4:54.03
Junior Skyler Dengler finished 13th in 10.33 seconds, and Johnson was 15th in the 55-meter dash in 7.04 seconds.
Waverly returns to action Friday in the Section IV Class meet at Ithaca College.
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