Dominique Johnson, Huntley, run away with sectional title

HUNTLEY – Huntley scored 159 points and easily rolled to the Class 3A Huntley Sectional title Wednesday night for the program’s fourth sectional championship in a row.

Hampshire was a distant second with 78 points.

Dominique Johnson paced the Red Raiders, who last week won the Fox Valley Conference Meet by almost 100 points, with first-place efforts in the triple jump and long jump. The Miami-bound Johnson jumped 13.18 meters in the triple jump and 6.17 meters in the long jump.

Haley Rahman claimed top honors in the 1,600 with a time of 5:09.27.

Huntley claimed top honors in all four relays. The Red Raiders’ 4x800 winning relay team consisted of Morgan Sauber, Cori Kilvinger, Aspen Maldonado and Rahman (9:31.74).

The champion 4x100 that finished in 47.82 seconds was made up of Johnson, Reagan Ellis, Emily Byers and Addison Busam.

On the winning 4x200 were Johnson, Byers, Ellis and Busam (1:40.90). Huntley finished the night by winning the 4x400 relay. The quartet was made of Ava Acevedo, Myla Wade, Neveah Fonjo and Byers (4:00.43).

Wade qualified for the state meet with a second-place finish in the 400, finishing in 58.40 seconds.

“It was amazing,“ Wade said. “I was shocked.”

Other state qualifiers for Huntley were Elena Fetzer (shot put; 12.28 meters), Sienna Robertson (discus; 41.31), Brianna Felde (shot put; 11.99), Emma Garofalo (pole vault; 3.20), Busam (long jump; 5.77), Sauber (800; 2:22.00) and Isabella Ciesla (3,200; 11:31.11).

Hampshire also got a victory from Alyssa Garcia in the 400 (58.40).

“I was really focused,” Garcia said. “I conserved my energy on the curves and had enough gas at the end.”

Kassidy Papa took top honors in the pole vault (3.50 meters)

Hampshire qualified in all four relays with second-place efforts behind Huntley. In the 4x800 relay, the team consisted of Miya Moraga, Hannah Jones, Reese Long and Kaley Byhre (9:38.77).

The 4x100 relay was made of Papa, Garcia, Maya Ligon and Chinae Ukachukwu (48.61). The runner-up 4x200 relay quartet consisted of Papa, Ligo and Ukachukwa and Jmrya McCoy (1:43.80).

In the 4x400 relay, Hampshire’s team was Ligon, Byhrem, Garcia and Ava Sanchez (4:01.16).

Also for the Whip-Purs, Haley Homola qualified in the shot put (11.37 meters).

DeKalb was fourth with 56 points.

Northern Michigan recruit Alyssa Tumminaro was second in the pole vault (3.50 meters).

“It feels great to qualify for state again,” the DeKalb senior said. “I want to make it to the finals and make it to the podium.”

The Barbs’ Angela Gary qualified for state in the discus with a fourth-place effort (35.26). Sydney Miles qualified in the high jump (1.57).

McHenry took sixth with 48 points. Addison Hoffmann qualified in both the 100 (12.33) and 200 (25.61). The Warriors’ Olivia Meyer made it to state in the 100 hurdles (16.04).

Cary-Grove, behind wins from Olivia Parker in the 100 hurdles (15.45) and 300 hurdles (44.35), took seventh with 47.5 points.

Jacobs was eighth with 44 points.

Hudson Szymonik won the 3,200 meters for the Golden Eagles with a time of 11:29.88.

“It means a lot to qualify for the state finals for a second straight year,” the Jacobs senior said. “I will have less nerves this year.”

Jacobs’ Carly Uehlein finished first in the discus (41.64 meters) and also qualified in the shot put (11.59).

Crystal Lake Central took 10th with 33.5 points and was led by 200 champion Elynor Raithel (24.98). Raithel also qualified for state in the 100 (12.14).

Also for the Tigers, Ryleigh Mazzacano made it to state in the high jump (1.67 meters) and Grace Fujino in the pole vault (3.20).

Crystal Lake South (23.5 points) was 12th, and Dundee-Crown (16) was 13th.

Dundee-Crown’s Marisa Klaas qualified for state in the high jump (1.57).

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