Another school record falls to Kahleifeh

June 11th, 2010 Posted in 2009

 

Photo by Peter W. Zubaty

Bardstown senior Adam Kahleifeh won the 1600 at the Bardstown All-Comers meet Tuesday, with University of Kentucky track head coach Don Weber, left, watching closely.

By PETER W. ZUBATY

Bardstown’s Adam Kahleifeh just keeps on chuggin’ on.

The Tiger senior relished the strong competition in last week’s inaugural Dream Mile — a race designed to pit the top milers in Kentucky regardless of school size against one another — coming in fifth and shattering the Bardstown school record by nearly five seconds in the process.

Kahleifeh’s 4:24.88 at the Eastern Relays originally set the school record and was the ninth-best mile time in Kentucky until the Dream Mile, held last Friday at St. Xavier. Greenwood’s Ryan Eaton, the defending Class 3A state champion in the mile (1600 meters), won the race with a time of 4:16.22, and will be the favorite in next month’s state meet.

Kahleifeh’s fifth-place time of 4:20.09 outran his ninth-place expectations, and established him as the favorite in the mile at next month’s Class 1A state meet. His top competition figures to come from Holy Cross’ Jacob Thomson, who ran sixth in the Dream Mile (4:20.77), and James Maglasang of Paducah St. Mary’s, who finished eighth (4:23.53).

The Kentucky Track and Field State Meet for Class 1A and 3A are June 5 at Owsley Brown Frazier Cardinal Park on the University of Louisville campus.

The Bardstown girls are in action tonight in the Boyle County Invitational, while the Tiger boys are in Saturday’s Dunbar Invitational. Nelson County is participating in Saturday’s St. Xavier Invitational, and all local teams are in Tuesday’s Heartland Conference meet at Central Hardin.

Bardstown All-Comers

Bardstown’s boys and girls squads each rolled up more than 200 points in winning their home meet Tuesday. The Tiger girls captured 10 of the 18 events, while the boys grabbed firsts in eight events. Nelson County was runner-up in boys and girls, while Bethlehem’s boys and girls were sixth.

Bardstown’s Cierra Allen dominated the sprint events, winning the 100- and 200-meter dash, and the junior anchored the Tigers’ winning 4×100 and 4×200 relay squads. Freshman Karis Rogers won the 400, and joined Allen as part of the winning relay squads.

Nelson senior Amber Thurman won the shot put (29-08) and discus (88-08).

Bardstown’s boys won three of the four relay events, and just missed a clean sweep as Marion County edged the Tigers’ 4×100 squad by .24 seconds.

Seniors Adam Kahleifeh and Nick McCarty had a hand in the Tigers’ winning 4×400 relay squad, while Kahleifeh also crushed the field by more than 13 seconds in the mile and McCarty won the 110-meter high hurdles by more than a second over his nearest competitor.

Bardstown’s Keith Mattingly won the shot put and was second in the discus, and Nelson’s Antonio Railey won the high jump.

Bryan Station Invitational

Bardstown’s “Big Three” of seniors Adam Kahleifeh, Nick McCarty and J.P. Willett accounted for 38 of the Tigers’ 57 points amassed in a fourth-place performance at the 17-team Bryan Station Invitational on Saturday.

Kahleifeh won the 3200-meter run, besting his nearest competitor by nearly 15 seconds. Willett, the defending Class 1A pole vault state champion, delivered a first-place vault of 11-06 to top 14 other rivals. McCarty won the high jump (6-00), was third in the triple jump and placed fifth in the 110 high hurdles.