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Skylar Ciccolini has record night in track action

By Kenny Varner
LEWISTOWN – Skylar Ciccolini shine bright Tuesday afternoon after a day full of Personal Bests and School Records in the Mifflin County track team’s meet against Cumberland Valley.
The Huskies’ girls battled but fell 87-63 while to boys fell to Cumberland Valley 119-31.
“I was pleased with effort we got from the girls tonight. I think we gave Cumberland Valley a better run than a lot of people expected,” Mifflin County coach Scott Gantz said. “We gave all three relay events and if you look at pointwise, that’s your meet right there. There were some other places that we could of pulled out points and probably and helped our cause. But they are strong team and our girls didn’t lay down for them. They went after them and I was pleased with the effort.
Skylar Ciccolini broke her own school record with a throw of 165’1/2”. Her sister, Taylor finished second with a throw of 114’2”.
Skylar also won the triple jump with a personal best of 33’11” while teammate Kiana Sechler took third with a jump of 32’ 8”.
In the long jump, Skylar took top honors with a PR of 16’0”. Sechler took second in that with 15’10”.
Skylar picked up her final first place finish of the day in the high jump with a final leap of 4’10”.
Taylor Ciccolini finished with a first of her own as she finished with a 10’01” leap in the pole vault.
In the shot put, Mifflin County got a first place finish from Layla Shimp with a toss of 30’9” while teammate Hannah Diehl finished with a second place grave of 29’2”.
Shimp also was victorious in the discus as she landed a throw of 118’4”. Casey Laky rounded things out in the third spot with a throw of 87’9”.
Rounding out the girls first place finishers was Joy Galbraith who finished with a top time of 12:53.2 in the 3200-meter run. Teammate Rebecca Montgomery finished second with a time of 13:32.3.
On the boys side, the Mifflin County distance crew paced the young Huskies.
Chayce Macknair paced Mifflin County in the 1600-meter run and 3200 with times of 4:42.0 and 10:01.2, respectively.
Teammate Brayden Harris finished third in the 1600-meter with 4:43.2.
Brock Sinkus took care of the 110-hurdles with a time of 18.1.
In the pole vault, Mifflin County’s Kyler Snook finished with a jump of 10’7” while teammate Anthony Fultz finished second with a leap of 9’7”.
“It was a long night for us tonight. We had some strong performances. Chayce Macknair had another good night as he won the mile and the two mile. Brock Sinkus PR’d big time in 300-hurdles by a second. That was for second place but the one who beat him was an exceptional athlete. He(Sinkus) took First in the 110-hurdles. Kyler Snook had another good night,” said Mifflin County coach Scot Sechler. We’re getting there but we just weren’t on our game tonight.”
Both boys and girls teams will be back in action Saturday as they travel to compete at the Lock Haven Invitational.

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