Baldwin tunes up for states
The 2013 Honolulu Marathon Track & Field Meet (sponsored by the Honolulu Marathon) was held at Mililani School track field. This is Gary Fanell, Jr. (from Damien High School, in the middle) running in the 1500 meter race. Faneli finishes 2nd to Puanhou's Nikolai Scharer (2nd from right).
The 2013 Honolulu Marathon Track & Field Meet (sponsored by the Honolulu Marathon) was held at Mililani School track field. Baldwin's sprinters were well represented including (l-r) Dylan Leigh, Gerard Nakamura, Aaron Marzon and Keelan Ewaliko, who took first in the 4x100 meter relay.
The 2013 Honolulu Marathon Track & Field Meet (sponsored by the Honolulu Marathon) was held at Mililani School track field. Gary Fanell, Jr. (from Damien High School) is running in the 1500 and 400 meter races. This is (l-r) coach Brother Bernard Samp, Gary Faneli, Jr. and coach Eddie Klaneski.
The 2013 Honolulu Marathon Track & Field Meet (sponsored by the Honolulu Marathon) was held at Mililani School track field. Gary Fanell, Jr. (from Damien High School) is running in the 1500 and 400 meter races. Before the races, Gary poses with his mother, Connie Comiso-Fanelli (who is a well known local runner).
The 2013 Honolulu Marathon Track & Field Meet (sponsored by the Honolulu Marathon) was held at Mililani School track field. Baldwin's sprinters were well represented including Dylan Leigh, Gerard Nakamura, Aaron Marzon and Keelan Ewaliko, who took first in the 4x100 meter relay. This is the anchor leg as Aaron Marzon just handed off to Keelan Ewailiko in the 4x100 meter relay race on their way to a first place finish. Kamehameha has just dropped their baton.
Baldwin's sprinters were well represented in the 100 meter dash. (l-r) Kamehameha's Logan Ne (finished 1st), Baldwin's Aaron Marzon (4th), Baldwin's Keelan Ewailiko (2nd), Castle's Albert Bee (3rd) and St. Louis' Drew Kobayashi (5th) in the 100 meter dash.
Punahou's Elli Brady (left) and Seabury Hall's Dakota Grossman runs in front of the girls 1500 meter race. Brady finished 1st while Grossman was 2nd.
The 2013 Honolulu Marathon Track & Field Meet (sponsored by the Honolulu Marathon) was held at Mililani School track field. This is Pearl City's long jumper, Daicorri Briscoe. He won the long jump at 23' 3/4".
This is Baldwin's long jumper, Ricky Casco jumps at the 2013 Honolulu Marathon Track & Field Meet at Mililani High School.
The Baldwin boys track and field team made a recon mission to Mililani on Friday and got an eyeful.
The defending state champions had four individual winners in the Honolulu Marathon Invitational, hoping that they can follow it up when the state meet hits the same site next month.
"We’re considering this a pre-state championship," Baldwin coach Ardis Anguay said. "We feel like we have the bodies trained, but now it is time to train the brains. We hope competing here does that."
Baldwin brought six athletes to the regular-season meet at Kamehameha last year, and it helped them win the state crown. The Bears brought 12 to the meet on Friday, hoping they will be twice as good.
"It is a good outlook on what to expect at states," Keelan Ewaliko said. "We were just coming here to try our best — that’s all you can ask for. It was good to win, but now we go back home and get better before states."
Ewaliko won the 200-meter dash and his mates swept the hurdles, with Abraham Reinhardt taking the 110 and Tyler Feitera winning the 300. Miki Fangatua won the shot put for the Bears, and their sprinters won the 4×100 relay. Nothing came easy for the Bears, though, especially for Ewaliko.
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Ewaliko entered the meet with the top marks in the state in the 100, 200 and long jump and anchored the top-ranked 4×100 relay. He did not jump on Friday due to event restrictions.
Ewaliko was a loser the first time he hit the track on Friday, getting a bad start and running a 10.82 and losing to Kamehameha’s Logan Ne’s 10.7 effort in the 100. The field was a victim of a false start and Ewaliko lost his focus and was surprised how quickly the gun sounded. Still, Ewaliko passed everyone but Ne.
"I think it was nerves, a little bit of everything," Anguay said. "He still has to work on his starts, but he is getting better. Sometimes he likes to play catch-up."
Ewaliko made up for that loss by anchoring the Bears in the 4×100 relay. Their 42.84 clocking beat Damien by 1.10 seconds.
But it was in the 200 where the crowd saw what the defending state champion was made of. Ne jumped out in front of Ewaliko again, and kept the lead after the turn. Ewaliko turned on the jets with about 40 yards left and just got past Ne at the tape.
"I got out good," Ewaliko said. "But after he beat me in the 100, I was like, OK, he is fast. Trailing him was not a good feeling, after the turn I had to throw everything out there. It took all I had."
Moanalua’s Thomas Cheong and Punahou’s Nikolai Scharer joined Ewaliko as state champions winning their events on Friday. Cheong won the triple jump with a mark of 45 feet, 4 inches and Scharer ran a 4:13.03 in the 1,500 meters to beat Gary Fanelli of Damien’s 4:13.46.
Seabury Hall’s Dakota Grossman won the 800 meters but lost to Elli Brady of Punahou in the 1,500. The distance darlings ran shoulder-to-shoulder for much of the race, but Brady outkicked her for a time of 4:45.90 and Grossman couldn’t respond and clocked a 4:47.19. Punahou’s Teri Brady won the 3,000 meters.
Alyssa Bettendorf of Seabury Hall won the 200- and 400-meter dashes, beating Pearl City’s Diamond Briscoe and Christian Academy’s Raion Black in the former. Bettendorf also anchored Seabury Hall’s winning 4×400 relay team.
