...maybe I'm missing something, but how does anybody NOT put Oil City's 1600 relay

on the first team of the Region 4 all-stars?

The coaches voted Warren first team, Oil City second team.

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Well, as it turns out out I was missing something. Coach Dave Skinner left a message on Facebook explaining only times and distances from region meets can count toward all-region status. He said the Oilers' best times in the "mile relay" came in non-region meets. In region meets they didn't have to run the "A" team because they already had the meet won by the time the last event -- the "mile relay" as I like to call it -- rolled around.

I still think that's stupid. You either have the best mile relay, or you don't. And Oil City had the best mile relay, period.

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Earlier, I noted:

• Warren lost head-to-head in the mile relay to the Oilers in the dual meet between the two teams, 3:36.76-3:42.43.

• Warren's best time in the event, as far as I can find, was 3:35.85 compared the Oil City's 3:26.28. 

• Warren finished fifth in the D-10 3A meet in 3:40.22. McDowell (3:26.76), Grove City (3:31.03), Cathedral Prep (3:37.17) and McLane (3:40.06) were all better. Oil City was runnerup to Sharon (3:25.88-3:26.38) in 2A with a squad consisting of junior Dylan VanWormer and sophomores Rilee Matalino, Carter Thompson and Morris Woodhouse.

The boys all-stars were released today (June 22) by the Erie Times News. You'd never know looking at it that Oil City won its fifth straight Region 4 crown, despite not having its best distance runner (Keegan Kirkwood) practically all season. The Oilers landed one athlete on the first team: Spence Singleton in the javelin. And judging by Skinner's explanation, that's why Singleton probably got first team over Corry's Landon Atha, the District 10 champion.

Singleton's best throw was 183-1 vs. Warren; Atha's best was 187-6 in the Ft. LeBoeuf Invitational. Atha had two other throws better than Singelton's 183-1, and they both came in non-region meets.

Anyhow, the Oilers landed zero athletes on the District 10 all-stars, which is picked by the ETN staff. (No Franklin athletes were on the D-10 stars, either, not even Franklin weight man Logan Knight.

Knight did, however, make first team in the shot and discus on the Region 4 team along with teammates Max Griffin, Davis LeGoullon, Ryder Stevens and A.J. Rodriguez in the 3200 (two-mile) relay. 

Second team picks for Oil City were said 1600 relay along with Matalino in the 1600 and 3200, Woodhouse in the 400 and Nevin Stinson in the long jump. No Michael Fink, despite some really fine times, but when you have a state champion hurdler in your midst (Corry's Blake Cook) competition for second team is tight.

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