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Local track athletes attend trio of meets

Yorkton and area athletes recently attended three track meets in the past little while. The first one, Derek Campbell traveled to Edmonton for the Last Chance Meet Nov 29-30. He entered the meet with former teammate Jaden Porte.
Kelsey Haczkewicz
Kelsey Haczkewicz (blue singlet, far right) took the silver medal in the 800m Midget girls race at the Regina Friendship Games.

Yorkton and area athletes recently attended three track meets in the past little while.

The first one, Derek Campbell traveled to Edmonton for the Last Chance Meet Nov 29-30.

He entered the meet with former teammate Jaden Porte.

Campbell did very well placing third in the Midget Boys 1200m race and second in the Midget Boys 2000m race.

His former teammate Porte, from Yorkton, placed first in both the 1,500m and 800m Youth Boys races.

The week after on December sixth there were two track meets, one of which was the Regina Friendship Games, where eight local athletes competed.

Following are the results for the Regina Friendship Games: Brianna Antonichuk, first in youth girls high jump, second in long jump.

Kelsey Haczkewicz, second in both the 800m and 1200m midget girls races.

Josh Haczkewicz, fifth in the 800m youth boys race.

Alex Flaman, third in the youth girls 1500m race.

Zoe Flaman, third in the 800m bantam girls race.

Matthew Zalys-Smeretsky, first in midget boys shot put, fifth in 60m dash.

Karlee Duczek, first in midget girls long jump, high jump and triple jump.

Bob Edwards, second in masters mens shot put and weight throw.

One Yorkton Legion Tral Club member took part in the PR Athletics First Chance meet in Saskatoon on December 6.

Cole Burkholder from YLTC attended this meet and joined some other former YLTC members  that are training with the U of S Huskies. Like Brandey Blahut, Daniel Mandziak, Jaden Porte and Brooke Mentanko

For the Mens 600m Open: Jaden Porte finished in first, Daniel Mandziak finished third and Cole Burkholder finished just off the podium in fourth place.

Brooke Mentanko finished in eighth and Brandey Blahut ninth in the Ladies 600m race at the event.

The Yorkton Legiona Track Club took part in the Sled Dogs Track Meet in Saskatoon from January 17-18, however results are unavailable.

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