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SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Levi Prementine and the Slippery Rock track and field team were at their best when the stage was the biggest.
Prementine took home two gold medals and the Rockets finished in second place in the team standings at the PIAA Class 2A Track and Field Championships with a team score of 40 points, trailing only Danville Area, which finished with a team score of 45.
“It puts us on the map,” Prementine said. “It makes everyone look at Slippery Rock and be like that’s the competition we have to go against.”
Prementine began his championships on Friday with gold in the long jump. Not only was his jump of 23’ 1 ¼” a personal best, it cleared the second-place finisher, Anthony Conrey of Conwell-Egan by nearly a foot.
Prementine started Day 2 of the championships by finishing sixth in the 110 hurdles with a time of 14.74. He and his teammates were just getting started, however.
Prementine took home his second gold, winning the 300 hurdles with a time of 38.19, with teammate Eli Anderson finishing third with a time of 38.55, both breaking Prementine’s previous school record set at the D10 championships.
“It’s great,” he said. “To get another one feels amazing.”
Tyler Arblaster was sixth in the 400 for the Rockets with a time of 50.19 (Josh Stolarski of Penn Cambria won in 49.09).
The Rockets’ 4×400 relay team of Prementine, Anderson, Arblaster, and Sam Schwartz capped a brilliant two days in the final event on the track, finishing second with a time of 3:24.72. Only Montoursville was better with a time of 3:24.72.
“We push each other a lot in practice,” Anderson said. “Especially at all these different meets, we’ve been able to push each other and try to get better.”
