The Boardman High School boys track and field team concluded the regular season with a record of 9-0 after a 142-12-9 victory over Cardinal Mooney and Youngstown East last week.
      This is the first back-to-back undefeated seasons for the Spartans since the 2008-2009 campaigns.
      The Spartans opened the meet with a first place finish in the 4x800 meter relay with the team of senior Andrew Yocum, senior Joel Cuevas-Pixley, junior Antajuan Hightower, and freshman Adam Nigro.
      Senior Brady DePietro placed first in the 110H with junior Breylin Jones in second. In the 100 meter dash, junior Aiden Berg placed first, sophomore Marcus Rutledge was second, and junior Phil Clark was third. The 4x200 team of junior Ethan Yi, freshman Joe Kasbee, sophomore Sam Boor, and freshman Micah Bukovac placed first.
      In the 1600 meter run, the Spartans scored all of the four places with junior Brock Farris in first, sophomore David D’Altorio in second, freshman Chase Moore in third, and freshman Dom Theodore in fourth.
      Boardman’s 4x100 team of senior Logan Thompson, DePietro, Cuevas-Pixley and senior Jared Mahood placed first.
      Spartan junior Ethan Boots placed first in the 400 with D’Altorio in second, and sophomore Danny LaCivita in third. In the 300 meter hurdles, DePietro placed first with freshman Kevin Tomlin in second.
      In the 800 meter run, senior Ben Zilavy was first with Hightower in second, Yocum in third, and Moore in fourth. The 200 meter dash was won by Cuevas-Pixley with Berg in third and Clark fourth. The Spartans swept the 3200 with Nigro in first, D’Altorio in second, LaCivita third, and freshman Jonah Stevens in fourth. The 4x400 relay team of Zilavy, Boots, D’Altorio, and Yocum placed first.
      In the field events, the Spartans placed three athletes in the high jump with sophomore Kayant Fontanez-Waid in first, freshman Victor Dimargio in second, and freshman Quin Swavel in third. Thompson placed first in the long jump with Jones in third.
      In the discus, senior Tyler Cherne placed first overall with sophomore Santino Radjukovic in second, freshman Ahmed Mohammed in third, and senior Ricky Boyarko in fourth.
      In the shot put, Cherne was first with sophomore Chase Conner in second and Boyarko placed fourth. Sophomore Isaiah Doyle placed first in the pole vault with Theodore in second.
      The Track Meet MVP went to freshman Jonah Stevens.
      The meet served as Senior Night for Boardman, the eight member class competing at Spartan Stadium for the final time includes: Ricky Boyarko, Tyler Cherne, Joel Cuevas-Pixley, Brady DePietro, Jared Mahood, Logan Thompson, Andrew Yocum and Ben Zilavy.