Area athletes compete on first day of Penn Relays
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Thursday, April 25, 2019 | 9:43 PM
Brownsville’s Gionna Quarzo runs to a first place finish in the Class AA girls race during the TSTCA cross country meet Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, at California University.
Oakland Catholic senior Jayla Ellis earned a seventh-place medal in the high school girls long jump Thursday at the annual Penn Relays Carnival at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
She recorded a best leap of 18 feet, 4.25 inches. The winning jump covered 19-6.
Ellis’ Eagles teammate, fellow senior Hannah Shupansky, claimed 19th in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 10 minutes, 17.36 seconds.
Brownsville junior Gionna Quarzo, No. 1 in the 1,600 and 3,200 runs on this week’s WPIAL AA girls performance list, placed 13th in the 3,000 meters.
South Park’s Maura Huwalt took fifth in the discus (149 feet, 6 inches).
Upper St. Clair’s girls 400 and 1,600 relays also took part in the Penn Relays on Thursday. The 1,600 relay took 234th out of 422 teams with a time of 4:16.27, while the 400 relay came in 250th out of 601 teams with a time of 51.74.
The Penn Relays, which attracts athletes from hundreds of schools in more than a dozen states, will continue Friday and conclude Saturday evening. There are at least 12 hours worth of events each day.
Michael Love is a TribLive reporter covering sports in the Alle-Kiski Valley and the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh. A Clearfield native and a graduate of Westminster (Pa.), he joined the Trib in 2002 after spending five years at the Clearfield Progress. He can be reached at mlove@triblive.com.
Tags: Brownsville, Oakland Catholic, Upper St. Clair
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