Track and field athletes advance to OFSAA west regionals in Cambridge

By RTT Staff

Several athletes from both St. Thomas Villanova and North Star high schools have advanced to the Ontario Federation of Schools Athletic Association west regional track and field championships.

This past Wednesday in Chatham, and Thursday at the University of Windsor the Southwestern Ontario Secondary School Athletic Association meet was held with the top performers in each event qualifying for the OFSAA regionals which will be held this Friday and Saturday in Cambridge.

On her first attempt at the SWOSSAA meet, Villanova’s Olivia Douma had a jump of 10.14 metres to win the novice girls triple jump. She will be joined at the regionals in that event by teammate Carly Bolton who had a 9.34 jump good for the eighth spot. Douma also qualified in the 80m hurdles as she was fifth.

With a throw of 53.67 on his third attempt, Kalma Chyz won the senior boys javelin event.

The Villanova Wildcats team of Cary Thomas, Kelsey Antanucci, Selena Guarasci, and Kylie

Provost finished sixth in the senior girls 4x400 metre relay. Antanucci also qualified in the senior girls 400m hurdles as she finished fourth.

Also from Villanova, Adalin Murphy was eighth in the 300m junior girls’ hurdles. Senior long jumper Sara Fazekas was second and also qualified in the 100m hurdles. Carys Thomas was third in the 400 junior girls’ hurdles, Sebastian Levesque had a toss of 33.59 m to place third in the novice discus, and Jackie Leonard qualified in the senior girls 400m. Ezra Hewitt was third in the senior boys shot put. Brendan Currie won the junior boys 3,000m race with a time of 9:24.25 30-seconds ahead of the second place finisher.

Kane Murphy qualified in the senior boys’ hurdles, MacKenzie Doll was fifth in the 800m novice girls’ race, and Mercedes Ferber was third in the 800m senior girls event. Also headed to Cambridge are Luke Samson in the triple jump and Lauren Kelly in the novice girls’ long jump.

For the North Star Wolves, Declan Veldhuis will head to Cambridge for three events. He was first in the 400m senior boys at 49.99 seconds, second in the

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The Windsor-Essex Community Arts Project returned to the Villanova Festival Theatre over the weekend with a production of Disney’s The AristoCats Kids. The young performers took to the stage Friday night with afternoon shows Saturday and Sunday.

200m and fourth in the 100m.

Lily Mulder was second in the senior girls 100m at 12.77, and second in the 200m. Emma Rudling also moved on to the regionals as she was seventh in the novice girls 3000m and Ashyln Gascoyne was sixth in the senior girls 400m.