Colin Kravitz put together an impressive performance by sweeping the three sprint events at the District 2 Class 3A Championship Meet at his home track Tuesday afternoon and evening.

The truly remarkable stat from the effort isn’t even his impressive times, but the fact that he is in his sophomore season after missing out on a full year of track because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He only recently started running the 100-meter dash, because normally he is part of a dominant 3,200 relay for the Trojans. Interestingly, his best event could be the 800.

But he is fast. And he is fast on a big scale.

His winning times: 100 (11.27), 400 (49.82) and 200 (22.58).

 

 

 

His dominance stirred up discussion from the Lackawanna Track Conference coaching fraternity. North Pocono coach Jason Sepkowski texted to ask when the last time anyone swept the sprints at a district meet.

 

So, quickly, we put the Way Back Machine to work.

 

MAY 17, 2018

 

 

Lakeland’s Cy Babcanec swept the 100 (11.35), 200 (22..61) and 400 (49.80), and added a gold in the 1,600 relay at the District 2 Class 2A Championship Meet at Scranton Memorial Stadium.

What is interesting there is, after a continued Look Back, he became the third athlete from Lakeland to pull off that 4-gold achievement in those events.

 

 

GOING WAY BACK

 

1980

 

BOB SPEICHER, LAKELAND:  Won the 100 in 11.3 (11.54 FAT), 200 in 22.9 (23.14 FAT), 400 in 50.5 (50,74 FAT) and anchored the 1,600 Relay to a win as a junior at the District 2 Class 2A Championship Meet at Wilkes-Barre Memorial Stadium.

• NOTE: Speicher also swept the 100 in 11.1 (11.34 FAT), 200 in 22.6 (22.84 FAT) and 400 in 49.3 (49.54 FAT) and set meet records in the 200 and 400 in 1981.

 

 

 

 

 

1985

 

This may have been the greatest night for sprinters in Lackawanna Track Conference history.

 

 

 

GREG HINE, LAKELAND: Won the 100 in a meet-record time of 11.0 (11.24 FAT), won the 400 in 50.6 (50.84 FAT) and won the 200 in 22.7 (22.94 FAT), then anchored the 1,600 relay to a gold medal in the Class 2A meet..

 

JERRY PRESCHUTTI, VALLEY VIEW: Won the 100 in 11.1 (11.34 FAT), won the 400 in 50.3 (50.54 FAT) and won the 200 in 22.9 (23.14 FAT) in the Class 3A Championship Meet.

 

Both sprinters were juniors in 1985. Their achievements came on the same night at Wilkes-Barre Memorial Stadium when the boys championship meets were held on the same day.

 

• NOTE: The next year in 1986, Hine ran into Raghib “Rocket” Ismail in the 100, but repeated as champion in the 200 and set a meet record in 22.5 (22.74 FAT) and in the 400 in 50.3 (50.54 FAT). Preschutti repeated as champion in the 100 and set a meet record in the 100 in 10.7 (10.94 FAT) and in the 400 49.8 (50.04 FAT), but got inched out at the finish in the 200 by Tunkannock’s Don Knowles (22.74 FAT).

 

 

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2021 DISTRICT 2 CLASS 2A BOYS TEAM CHAMPIONS

 

 

MID VALLEY SPARTANS

 

 

2021 DISTRICT 2 CLASS 3A BOYS TEAM CHAMPIONS

 

 

 

NORTH POCONO TROJANS

 

 

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FINAL RANKINGS

 

Because there was an unusual event where there were still regular-season meets to complete the week before the District 2 Championships, ON THE BLOG held off on the final regular-season rankings.

However, here they are:

 

2021 FINAL GIRLS RANKINGS

GIRLS WIN STREAKS

• Abington Heights Lady Comets: Have won 84 straight dual meets (Conference record)

 

• Lakeland Lady Chiefs: Have won 46 straight dual meets

 

Abington Heights won the Lackawanna Division I title and beat Scranton Prep to achieve it. Wallenpaupack won the LTC Division II title and also defeated Scranton Prep. Lakeland had its eighth straight undefeated season in the LTC Division III and Montrose went unbeaten in LTC Division IV.

 

		Team
1		Abington Heights LADY COMETS
2		Wallenpaupack LADY BUCKHORNS
3		Lakeland LADY CHIEFS
4		Scranton Prep CLASSICS
5		Montrose LADY METEORS

 

 

2021 FINAL BOYS RANKINGS

North Pocono won the Lackawanna Track Conference Division II title, Mid Valley won the Division III crown, Valley View, which lost to North Pocono, won the Division I title, Wallenpaupack had its only loss to North Pocono and Montrose went undefeated in Division IV.

 

		Team
1		North Pocono TROJANS
2		Mid Valley SPARTANS
3		Valley View COUGARS
4		Wallenpaupack BUCKHORNS
5		Montrose METEORS

 

 

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