PIAA TRACK AND FIELD: Lake-Lehman’s Cronin earns two medals in 2A meet
SHIPPENSBURG — Sprinting down the home stretch, Bodhi Cronin closed in on the leader, and the fans rose to their feet. He pushed right to the line and gave one final lunge. His all-out effort earned his team, which included Finn Cronin, Stephen Martin and Parker Smith, a silver medal, coming up just a few hundredths of a second from gold, in the Class 2A 3,200-meter relay Saturday at ...
SHIPPENSBURG — Sprinting down the home stretch, Bodhi Cronin closed in on the leader, and the fans rose to their feet. He pushed right to the line and gave one final lunge. His all-out effort earned his team, which included Finn Cronin, Stephen Martin and Parker Smith, a silver medal, coming up just a few hundredths of a second from gold, in the Class 2A 3,200-meter relay Saturday at Shippensburg University’s Seth Grove Stadium.
Hughesville won gold in 8:00. 38. Lake-Lehman clocked in at 8:00.
46. “I was just trying to keep our position because we were aiming for the top three,” Cronin said. “Right at the last 200, I tried to kick and stay in second place, which is what we got.
I am really happy about this. We were aiming for first, but we got silver, and we are happy about that. ” Cronin, carrying heavy legs from his anchor leg of the medal-winning 3,200 relay, found some energy to carry him to a sixth-place finish in the 800.