On Monday, May 17, Beaver County Christian School hosted a track mini meet at Geneva College with four middle school teams: Beaver County Christian School, Trinity Christian School, Redeemer Lutheran School, and Rhema Christian School. The weather was perfect and the runners and fielders were on their game!
For Boys, the two Greater Pittsburgh Christian Schools Network teams placed first and second: Beaver County Christian School took first place and Trinity Christian School took second!
For Girls, Rhema took first place and Beaver County Christian School took second!
Some highlights:
First place in the girls 1600 (that’s a mile!) was Trinity Christian School’s Eilidh Edgar, whose time was 6:23.84!
Second place went to Alyson Stepp from Rhema (6:34.65).
Also placing from GPCSN, Beaver County Christian School’s Ella Michalik took third with 6:40.91 and Joy Detrow took fifth.
Our girls had a great race!
For the Boys 1600, Beaver County Christian School had an amazing showing! First, second, and sixth places all went to BCCS brothers, first place Eli Bosch (who ran a mile in 5:35.86!), second place Ty Bosch who ran his mile in 5:40.44, and sixth place Jonah Bosch who came in at 6:18.78! BCCS had one more runner placing, Rocco Desarbo in fourth at 5:48.43.
Trinity Christian School also placed in the Boys 1600. Tobey Brown came in third at 5:41.00 and Silas Bolen came in fifth at 6:18.71!
You’ll also see a lot of Greater Pittsburgh Christian Schools Network Representation in the hurdles:
| MS GIRLS 30″ | |||
| lane | time | place | name |
| 1 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | 20.75 | 2 | Rachel Baird (BCCS) |
| 4 | 20.53 | 1 | Ella Michalik (BCCS) |
| 5 | 21.56 | 4 | Millie Francona (BCCS) |
| 6 | 23.94 | Anika Van Wyk (RLS) | |
| 7 | 22.75 | 6 | Tabby Hogan (Rhema) |
| MS GIRLS 30″ | |||
| lane | time | place | name |
| 1 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | 22.91 | Anna Witterman(BCCS) | |
| 4 | 21.78 | 5 | Alaina Desarbo(BCCS) |
| 5 | Sydney Vescio(BCCS) | ||
| 6 | 21.47 | 3 | Mimi Chamberlain(Rhema) |
| MS BOYS 30″ | |||
| lane | time | place | name |
| 1 | 22.31 | 4 | Jonah Bosch (BCCS) |
| 2 | 31.00 | Luke Volger (TCS) | |
| 3 | 29.81 | Jake Miller (TCS) | |
| 4 | 21.75 | 3 | Ty Bosch (BCCS) |
| 5 | 20.31 | 1 | Eli Bosch (BCCS) |
| 6 | 21.37 | 2 | Luke Schellhase (TCS) |
| 7 | 23.25 | 5 | Isaiah Galvas (TCS) |
| 8 | 24.22 | 6 | Kian Wilsey (BCCS) |
The other GPCSN first and second places of the day:
| 100m Girls Rachel Baird (BCCS) took second place with a time of 13.93 | 100m Boys Robert McMahan (BCCS) took first place with a time of 13.05 Nahum Fu (TCS) took second place with a time of 13.94 |
4x100m Boys
BCCS (Rocco, Tyler, Nolan, Robert) took first place with a time of 55.72
| 400m Girls Zephaniah Scott (TCS) took first place with a time of 1:03.69 Eilidh Edgar (TCS) took second place with a time of 1:08.62 | 400m Boys Nolan McKinney (BCCS) took first place with a time of 1:03.66 Luke Kost (TCS) took second place with a time of 1:05.69 |
| 800m Girls Elilidh Edgar (TCS) took first place with a time of 3.01.69 | 800m Boys Rocco Desarbo (BCCS) took first place with a time of 2:37.21 Eli Bosch (BCCS) took second place with a time of 2:41.50 |
| 200m Girls Zephaniah Scott (TCS) took first place with a time of 28.10 | 200m Boys Robert McMahan (BCCS) took first place with a time of 27.16 Liam Birchler (BCCS) took second place with a time of 30.07 |
4x400m Relay Boys
Silas Bolen, Tobey Brown, Isaiah Galvas, and Luke Kost (TCS) took first
BCCS took second
| SMR: 100/100/200/400 Girls BCCS Girls took first with a time of 2:14.93 | SMR: 100/100/200/400 Boys BCCS (Rocco, Tyler, Nolan, Robert) took first with a time of 2:08.84 BCCS (Liam, Eli, Ethan, Josiah) took second with a time of 2:11.50 |
| Triple Jump Girls Julia McChesney (BCCS) took first Ella Michalik (BCCS) took second | Triple Jump Boys Robert McMahan (BCCS) took first Andrew Kickasdola (BCCS) took second |
Long Jump Boys
Robert McMahan (BCCS)took first
Liam Birchler (BCCS) took second
Discus Boys
Mike Lanigan (BCCS) took second
Shot Put Boys
Nolan McKinney (BCCS) took second
TurboJav Boys
Nolan McKinney (BCCS) took first
Mike Lanigan (BCCS) took second
There’s one more big invitational coming up on Saturday, May 22, where these two schools (as well as Cheswick Christian Academy) will face each other again! Have fun at the NCSAA Track and Field Championship!
*Stats from Beaver County Christian School Athletic Director