Mount Vernon wins nine events at LCL track championships

The Mount Vernon track team showed out at the Licking County League Championships.

The Yellow Jackets captured nine LCL individual titles and set two school records in the meet held May 15 at Granville.

The boys team captured four of those titles and both of the school records en route to a second-place finish.

Distance runner Calvin Heithaus was responsible for two of those titles and both of the school records. The freshman set school records in winning both the 800-meter run (1:56.86) and the 1,600 (4:21.77).

Brady Mills took home one of the other gold medals, winning the 400 in 49.54, and Ben Fitzpatrick captured first place in the long jump, leaping 22-foot-1.5.

The Jackets also had four runner-up finishes on the day. The 4x400 relay team of Jamison Oakes, Theo Miller, Heithaus and Mills came in second in 3:29.70; Austin May was runner-up in the high jump at 6-0; Grady Pope took second in the discus (123-4); and Logan Autherson was second in the shot put (46-0.5).

Fitzpatrick was also third in the 200 (22.71); Jake Hubbard third in the discus (123-3); and the 4x100 relay team of Oakes, Fitzpatrick, Mills and Mason Richards was third in 43.60.

The girls team captured five LCL titles while finishing third as a team with 118 points.

Lucy Rush and Khloe Bradley each had two of those titles. Rush won the 800 (2:21.43) and 1,600 (5:12.20), while Bradley took gold in the shot put (34-10.25) and discus (110-2). The 4x100 relay team of Juliet Boyd, Nadia Nougi, Savannah Rose and Danaisa Best won their event in 50.35.

The Jackets had three runners-up — Best in the 100 (12.91); Kennedy Howard in the pole vault (12-6); and the 4x200 team of Boyd, Rose, Kinsley Firebaugh and Best in 1:47.44.

Rose placed third in the 100 hurdles (15.95) and Nougi was third in the long jump (16-6.75). Two relay teams also finished third — the 4x400 team of Boyd, Rush, Nougi and Firebaugh (4:18.49) and the 4x800 team of Cora Stetler, Nora De La Fuente, Charlotte Smith and Amelia Martin (10:25.12).