Sheffield’s track and field teams competed on Friday at the Northern Tier League 2025 Invitational with the boys team finished third out of eight teams. Photo submitted

SMETHPORT — Sheffield’s track and field teams closed out their regular season with their third meet of the week, Friday at the Northern Tier League (NTL) Invitational at Smethport High School.

“Despite a grueling and emotional week, the team produced strong performances, with several place winners in various events,” said Sheffield coach Jason Snell. “The teams showed great resilience in the face of key absences and shoved through with the next-man-up mentality. The emotions went from happy tears so high Monday to sad tears Thursday and Friday, knowing the end was near.

“Lots of underclassmen stepped up to fill in events and some of them placed,” added Snell. “Also thought it was a pretty neat highlight of the night having three boys javelin throwers over the 130-foot mark and placing 2-3-4.

“The emotions train kept on a rollin’ Friday as many knew that was their last time ever competing in the orange and black,” Snell continued. “For the rest, the District 9 qualifiers and provisionals that will compete and be announced later this week, (they) await the same fate as they compete for an opportunity for the state championships. It will be really nice to have a full week of practice under our belts this week before Friday’s District 9 Championships.”

Highlights on Friday included:

Boys:

100M: Colby Barr 5th

200M: Colby Barr 3rd

400M: Colby Barr 3rd

800M: Marc Lewis 5th

110 Hurdles: James Chapman 5th, Alex Marfink 6th

300 Hurdles: Chase Fetzeck 3rd

4×800 relay team of Chase Fetzeck, James Chapman, Marc Lewis, and Emre Morgan 4th

4×100 Meter relay team of Jack Chapman, Isaac Hammerbeck, Chase Fetzeck, and Colby Barr 3rd

4×400 Meter Relay team of Chase Fetzeck, Aamond Bowman, Jack Chapman, and Marc Lewis 5th

High Jump: James Chapman 2nd, Owen Winslow 5th

Long Jump: Aamond Bowman 4th, John Whipple 5th

Triple Jump: Aamond Bowman 4th

Shot: Alex Marfink 5th

Discus: Emre Morgan 3rd

Javelin: Alex Marfink 2nd, Wyatt Newark 3rd, Ben Lindberg 4th

Girls:

100M: Dajayna Thomas 4th

200M: Dajayna Thomas 5th

400M: Dajayna Thomas 6th

100 Hurdles: Sarah Hoffman 5th

300 Hurdles- Sarah Hoffman 6th

4×800 relay team of Lily Richards, Addisen Heeter, Peyton Heeter, and Alanna Warrior 3rd

4×100 Meter relay team of Tymber Barr, Dajayna Thomas, Sarah Hoffman, and Madison Snell 3rd

High Jump: Katie Finch 4th, Kelci Kiser 6th

Shot: Madison Connolly 3rd, Madison Snell 6th

Discus: Madison Snell 5th

Javelin: Madison Connolly 5th

“Three meets in a week was too much,” said Coach Snell. “What those kids emotionally went through this week, I don’t know how they had anything left for Friday, but endurance-wise, most of us were just so happy to get back to the bus and finally sit down Friday about 10:30.”

The District 9 Championships will begin on Friday afternoon at Brookville High School.