Colonel Crawford boys defend N10 track title; girls see dominance end

CAREY - Coming into Friday's Northern 10 championships, Joey Bauer his Colonel Crawford boys had a good shot at repeating. "We knew that we had studs in the hurdles and we had studs in the sprints, the relays are still really good, the throwers, distance, all of our field events," he said. OK, maybe he was confident the Eagles could defend their league title and earn their seventh Northern 10 championship since 2015.

Colonel Crawford's boys not only won the league at Carey High School, they ran away with it scoring a 169 to runner-up Seneca East's 122. "Galion was a great moment for our boys team," Bauer said of last weekend's Kiwanis Invitational . "The conditions were terrible but we had John (DeGray) run really well, Roen (Thew) ran well in the open hundred, Avery (Powers) went out and won long jump and the 300 (hurdles) against a really good Ashland kid.

"We're ready to take off for postseason. " Their ascent began with Dom Dean winning the shot put (52-0¾) and Powers taking long jump (20-06) by less than an inch. Dean was then runner-up in the discus, Jacob Cochran was third in high jump, Kyle Smith third in pole vault, Luke Christman fourth in discus, and Payne DeGray fifth in shot put.

When it came time to step on the track, Thew and Powers went head-to-head in the high hurdles finishing first and second and would do it again later on in the low hurdles again sweeping the top two spots, but they flipped places. "Avery and Roen love to duke it out," Bauer said. "Usually Roen gets him in the 110s and Avery gets him in the 300s, but today they knew it didn't matter who got first or second, they just wanted to get first and second to make sure they sealed the deal and helped our team win.