The West Ottawa boys track & field team didnt win the OK Red Conference meet Friday but turned some heads, nevertheless. <\/p>\n
The Panthers stunned East Kentwood by winning the 4x200-meter relay in a photo finish, moving all the way up from the eighth seed. <\/p>\n
Austin Vasquez, Cristian Ramirez, Ato Condelee and James Lacy finished in 1 minute, 31,.89 seconds, beating East Kentwood by seven hundredths of a second. <\/p>\n
That is the first time we had all of those guys run it together, West Ottawa coach Craig Kingma said. That race was solid guts. They held off everyones anchors. <\/p>\n
West Ottawa finished sixth in the boys meet with 49 points. East Kentwood won (190.5). <\/p>\n
The West Ottawa girls finished seventh with 31 points. Rockford won (162). <\/p>\n
Condelee was the lone individual conference champion for the Panthers, winning both the long jump (22 feet, 7 3\/4 inches) and the high jump (6-4). <\/p>\n
I feel pretty good, but I know I can go higher, Condelee said. <\/p>\n
He teamed with Vasquez, Ramirez and Lacy to take third in the 4x100 relay (44.32). The four earned all-conference honors. <\/p>\n
Ramirez took fifth in the 200 meters (23.3). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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