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Collings, Forbes, relay quartet win at GVSU indoor track meet

Hopkins senior Quincy Collings and Quincy Collings HJjunior Julia Forbes both won individual titles Friday at the GVSU Indoor Track Invitational and the 4×600-meter relay quartet also emerged in first place.

Collings, Division 3 high jump state champion last June when he cleared 6 feet 9 inches, went 6-6 last Friday at GVSU. He also was first in the long jump at 21-3.5.

Forbes, customarily a sprinter, leaped 16-6 in the long jump, a good three and a half inches better than all other competitors.

The winning relay performance was turned in by Josie Freybler, Kennedy Miedema, Samantha Ludlam and Rachael Weber, with a time of 7:32.4, more than five seconds faster than runner-up Benzie Central.

The Viking girls also had several runner-up finishes.

Freybler, Miedema, Forbes and Nicole Pavlak hooped up for second place in the 4×300-meter relay, edging third-place Benzie Central by 12-hundredths of a second.

The Viking girls made a strong showing in the throws, as Nicole Opolski was second in the shot put at 32-2 and Bailey Ballard was runner-up in the discus at 91-3.

Anthony Steffens took a fourth in the 200-meter race in 23.89 seconds, Forbes was fifth in 60 meters, Weber fifth in the 1600, Shelby Henshaw fifth in the shot, and a third by the 4×300 relay with Lennart Baldreich, Sid VanderTuin, Hayden Graczyk and Jared Croad.

PHOTO: Quincy Collings

 

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