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Trumansburg's Kayla Prochnow competes in the High Jump. She and teammate Stefani Porter finished in third place. (Photo by Liz Fraboni)

A final farewell to a Classic

WATKINS GLEN, May 10 -- The five-year-old Twisted Classic track invitational at Watkins Glen High School had its last hurrah Friday, and it was an event blessed with unexpected sunny weather.

With dire predictions two days earlier of a rainy, miserable Friday ahead, the day cleared, bringing with it a fittingly bright and fun-filled tournament to mark the departure from high school track coaching at the end of this season of WGHS's Marie Fitzsimmons. And with it will go the Twisted Classic, which Fitzsimmons said was "fun, but I think five years is a good run."

And as if in a bow to Fitzsimmons, there were school records in the 6400 Relay broken -- one by her girls, and one by the boys.

The boys team (pictured at right) of (from left) Jared Lewis, Carter Flahive, Jon Fazzary and Ben Quigley broke the 6400 Relay mark set in 2006 by Fazzary and then-running mates Steven Combs, Jacob Roth and Aaron Thomson.

This year's crew posted a 20:12.4, beating the old mark of 20:17.5 -- but still finishing second in the race to Newark Valley's 20:04.7.

On the girls' side, the team of Shannon Hazlitt, Sunnie Smith, Somer Pettet and Sophie Peters (pictured at right) won the 6400 Relay in 24:13.5 -- breaking the old school mark of 25:05.6 set by Peters, Smith, Jaclyn Conklin and Hilary Niver-Johnson in 2006. Both Pettet and Peters posted splits of 5:36.

In the honored tradition of the Twisted Classic, everything was done as a team event -- with Field competitors pairing in teams of two from each school. Accordingly, Notre Dame's Olivia Weeks set a meet record in the Triple Jump, but shared the honor of victory in that event with a Notre Dame teammate.

Trumansburg ran away with both team titles, the boys outpacing their nearest competitor, Newark Valley, by a 95.0 to 56.5 margin, and the girls outdistancing Newark Valley 93.0 to 63.5.

Watkins Glen's boys placed 5th and its girls 4th. Odessa-Montour's boys were 7th and its girls tied for 5th.

The most notable O-M performance came from Michele Kenney, who was part of O-M's three winning performances: the Shuttle Hurdles (with Ashley Bryington, Samantha Davis and Ariel Naylor), the Long Jump (with Brooke Gardner) and the Pole Vault (with Davis). Those first-place finishes earned the team 24 of its 37.5 points.

On the boys' side, O-M's Brendan Letteer and Jesse Johnson won the High Jump with a combined 11'8", with Letteer accounting for 6'2" of that. The same two athletes finished third in the Triple Jump.

For Watkins Glen's girls, the 6400 Relay record-setter was supplemented by a victory in the High Jump by Shelby Olafson and Jaimie Sedlack, who combined for 9'6".

On the boys' side, Watkins got a win from the Discus duo of Brandon Persha and Zach Pipe in a combined 206' 5 1/4"; and from the boys' coach, Travis Durfee, who won the Coaches Mile in 5:23.

Trumansburg boasted two of the four meet MVPs: Lauren Nelson (Girls Track MVP) and Danny Sullivan (Boys Field MVP).

Other winners were Notre Dame's Olivia Weeks (Girls Field MVP) and Newark Valley's Joe Blazey (Boys Track MVP).

Photos in text:

Top: The Watkins Glen 6400 Relay team, which set a school record Friday. From left, Jared Lewis, Carter Flahive, Jon Fazzary and Ben Quigley. (Photo by Jeff Quigley)

Middle: Watkins Glen's Sophie Peters.

Bottom: Notre Dame's Olivia Weeks, who was named the meet's Girls Field MVP.

Left: Trumansburg's Greg Addicott. Right: Odessa-Montour's Allison Stamp.

Left: Watkins Glen's Andrea Bellavigna. Center: O-M's Ashley Bryington hands off to Erin Terry. Right: Trumansburg's Chelsea Gallup.

Left: Odessa-Montour's Alyssa Bleiler. Right: Trumansburg's Lauren Nelson.

Left: Odessa-Montour's Ariel Naylor. Right: Trumansburg High Jumpers Stefani Porter (left) and Kayla Prochnow.

Odessa-Montour's Brooke Gardner.

Left: Watkins Glen's Cody Dahl. Right: O-M's Nick Curren.

Left: Trumansburg's Danny Sullivan. Right: Trumansburg's Hilary Swartwood.

From left: Watkins Glen's Shannon Hazlitt, Travis Durfee (coach) and Jaclyn Conklin.

Left: Trumansburg Triple Jumpers Cassie Sherwood, left, and Chelsea Gallup. Right: Watkins Glen's Nick Secord.

Left: Watkins Glen's Jaimie Sedlack. Right: Trumansburg's Hilary Swartwood.

Left: Odessa-Montour's winning High Jump team of Jesse Johnson (left) and Brendan Letteer. Right: O-M's Josh Markley.

Watkins Glen girls track coach Marie Fitzsimmons receives congratulations on the last lap of the Coaches Mile in this, her final year as track coach.

Left: Watkins Glen's Eric Mack. Right: Watkins Glen's Brandon Persha, winner in the Discus.

From left: Trumansburg's Stefani Porter, O-M's Sam Davis, Watkins' Alexa Yaskulski.

Left: Watkins Glen's Sunnie Smith. Right: Odessa-Montour's Tara Bradley.

Left: Watkins Glen's Travis Waite. Right: Watkins Glen's Shelby Olafson (Photo by Liz Fraboni).