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Depew girls indoor track sends two to sectionals
It didn't take long for Depew indoor track runners Amber Maryniewski and Angela Franjoine to qualify for the Section VI championships.
For the second year in a row at Buffalo State College, Maryniewski, a junior, won the long jump event, leaping 15 feet, 3.75 inches. It's also the second consecutive year Maryniewski's going to sectionals.
Maryniewski placed third on Friday in the 55-meter dash.
Franjoine, a freshman, finished second in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 11:41, also qualifying for a sectional berth. She earned a fifthplace finish in the 1,500-meter run.
Franjoine participated in Depew's third-place-finishing 4x800 team, which also consisted of juniors Brittany Bless, Kristen Angierski, senior Katrina Smolarek and Kelsey Smith. Maryniewski, Bless, Smolarek and Angierski also comprised the Lady Wildcats' 4x200 team that finished third.
Maryniewski currently holds Depew's school record in the 55- meter dash and is coming off a season in which she also qualified for sectionals in the long jump, 55-meter hurdles and 4x200 relay events.
Depew head coach Heather Burger also listed senior throwers Kristen Wodarczak and Megan Lindenau, who both qualified for sectionals last year in the shot put, as key returnees. Lindenau holds the school record in the hammer throw.
Angierski qualified for sectionals in 2005-2006 in the 300-meter dash. Franjoine and another freshman, Julie Strychalski are Depew's top distance runners.
"These two girls," Burger said of Franjoine and Strychalski, "are already the ones to watch this season."
On the boys's side, senior Jerry Leidenfrost will also be heading to sectionals after qualifying in the 55- meter dash. Leidenfrost won the event with a time of 6.98 seconds.
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