27-05-2025
Trio of champions pace Little Lions to AAA title
SHIPPENSBURG, PA (WTAJ) — A trio of state champion Little Lions paced the way for State College who won a AAA state championship Saturday at the PIAA Track & Field Championships.
The Little Lions Boys team tallied 53 team points, 25 more than second place Palmyra did finishing, in what was a dominant team performance.
Senior Adam Bell, a Navy signee, cleared 15-feet, 6-inches in the AAA Boys Pole Vault, a second try clearance that helped him edge Northampton's Andrew Szeplaki after neither managed to get over the 16-foot bar. It was Bell who got the winning started for the Little Lions and Jesse Myers who capped it off.
In the AAA 200-meter dash, Jesse Myers, took gold in the 200-meter dash, running a 21.05 second race. The senior's win was an exclamation point on State High's boy's title as it was the third gold of the day, but the only in track.
Nathan Haas won the AAA boys javelin with a throw of 204-feet-4-inches. It was a final throw attempt helped the senior jump over Whitehall's Thomas Lloyd into first. Lloyd and Haas were the only throws to eclipse the 200-foot mark.
State High was the only area team to win team hardware, but not the only team with a state champion. Conemaugh Township's Baylee Sleek was the only girl in the AA high jump to clear 5-foot-8-inches and she did so in her first try, winning the event. The junior edged Quaker Valley junior Oumou Thiero by an inch in the event.
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