Baldwin girls seize title

? The Bulldogs are back.

Baldwin High dominated Thursday’s Frontier League track meet yet again, holding off its next closest opponent by more than 20 points at Jim Wright Track.

Wait a minute.

Thursday it was Baldwin’s girls, not its guys, that snagged their second straight meet victory with 116 points.

The Bulldog boys, who had won two straight league meets and the Class 4A state title last year — not to mention pushing four of its athletes to the Division-One level — finished in seventh place Thursday.

“Yeah, they’ve been doing this all year,” said BHS girls coach Ted Zuzzio. “And it’s been all of the girls, we haven’t run behind just one horse.”

What Baldwin lacks in field events, the Bulldogs more than make up for that on the track. Thursday, the Bulldogs scored in all 11 running events.

Junior Erica Ogle and freshman Denise Orloff did the damage in the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs. Each was victorious in one of the marquee mile events and finished top-three in the other. Rachel Miles added 22 points with two second-place finishes in the 100 and 200 and a third in the 400.

But it was Baldwin’s relay teams that bested everyone — and set Frontier League records.

Baldwin’s 4×100 relay team of Leah Clay, Kyleigh Garman, Missy Westgate and Miles won with a time of 51.33, breaking a 2000 record time of 51.80.

The Bulldogs’ 4×400 team of Westgate, Clay, Leslie Haeffner and Kelsey Heckathorne shattered Wellsville 1996’s mark of 4:13.70 with a time of 4:11.36.

“This team has been awesome all year,” said Orloff, who won the 1,600 fourth-tenths of a second faster than Ogle.