State Champion

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kyle Schlum­bohm took a gam­ble Fri­day in the Divi­sion II State Cham­pi­onship pole vault. The junior from Pem­berville East­wood had been fol­low­ing right behind Bellevue’s Matt Row­land through the entire tour­na­ment, and Schlum­bohm knew it was going to take a big risk on a big stage to beat out the sopho­more in the Red­men uni­form.
With the bar set at 14–9 and Row­land with the clear­ance recorded for him­self on only one attempt, Schlum­bohm upped the ante and went for 15–0 as he passed on 14–9 — some­thing that is rarely done. Reach­ing the height of 15–0 would’ve put him­self ahead of Row­land as the Belle­vue great failed his first attempt at the mea­sure­ment. It was strate­gic, gutsy and smart, but the move didn’t pay off as the attempt failed, giv­ing Row­land, the only sopho­more in the his­tory of Belle­vue to do so, the Divi­sion II State Cham­pi­onship title in the pole vault.

Read more in Saturday’s Belle­vue Gazette!

Posted by Dani Orr on Jun 4 2011. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.