Girls, Boys Win Nevada Relays

Led by double winners Emily Landers and Elliott Wolfe, the McDonald County High School boys' and girls' track teams swept the team titles at the Nevada Relays held April 7 at Nevada High School.

The Lady Mustangs also received wins from Ragan Wilson and Jordan Witt as the Lady Mustangs scored 180 points to easily outdistance second place Nevada with 142 points. Adrian finished third with 114 points followed by Aurora with 91, Butler 63, Thomas Jefferson 42, Liberal 41 and El Dorado Christian 2.

Landers won the shot put (31-1) and discus (102-5.5) and added a second in the javelin (86-1).

Witt won the triple jump (31-11.75) , took second in the long jump (14-9.5) and high jump (4-6) while Wilson won the 400 (1:03.69) and also ran a leg on the winning 4x800 relay (11:30.0). The freshman added a third in the 1600 in a time of 5:58.5.

Other members of the winning 4x800 relay were Riley Rickman, Adyson Sanny and Addy Mick.

Rounding out the remaining top eight place finishes for McDonald County were:

• Britiny Calvert, third, 200, 29.27 and fifth, 100, 13.8;

• Sanny, fourth, 400, 1:06.7 and fourth, 800, 2:45.97;

• Cassadi Dowd, sixth, 800, 2:49.69;

• Rickman, eighth, 800, 2:57.84;

• Ruby Palomo-Martinez, second, 300 hurdles, 53.5 and third, 100 hurdles, 18:22;

• Liberty Boer, sixth, 100 hurdles, 19.69;

• Andrea Creason, eighth, 300 hurdles, 59.22;

• Sage Moore, sixth, high jump, 4-2;

• Chloe Teague, third, pole vault, 8-0;

• Sammi Dowd, fifth, pole vault, 7-0;

• Addy Mick, fifth, long jump, 14-3 and sixth, triple jump, 29-2.5;

• Jackie Grider, third, shot put, 26-7.5, fourth, discus, 70-11 and seventh, javelin, 59-1.5;

•Brittanie Serr, fifth, shot put, 24-9, third, discus, 75-7.5 and fifth, javelin, 62-2; 4x100 relay (Calvert, Moore, Caitlin Hall and Teague), third, 59.4.

The McDonald County boys totaled 143 points while second place Adrian had 116. Rounding out the team totals were Nevada in third with 114.5, Butler 102, Liberal 70, Thomas Jefferson 66, Aurora 63 and El Dorado Christian 52.5.

Wolfe led the Mustangs with wins in the shot put (41-5.5) and discus (126-0) and added a fourth in the javelin (120-11.5).

Also picking up individual wins were Alex Guadarrama in the 1600 (4:44.96) and David Lazalde in the 3200 (11:04.97). McDonald County added a win in the 4x800 relay (Truman Craig, Drew Landers, Guadarrama and Lazalde in a time of 9:06.44.

Rounding out McDonald County's top eight place finishes were:

• Corbin Jones, second, 100, 11.4 and fourth, triple jump, 35-11.5;

• Craig, second, 800, 2:12.8;

• Landers, third, 800, 2:14.1;

• Garrett Spears, fifth, 1600, 5:19.0 and fifth 3200, 11:49,.8;

• Cole DelsoSantos, fourth, 300 hurdles, 45.9 and sixth high jump, 5-2;

• Zach Woods, second, pole vault, 12-0;

• Huechi Xiong, fifth, pole vault, 10-0;

• Jack Teague, third, triple jump, 36-1 and fourth, long jump, 18-3;

• Bucky Harrell, sixth, triple jump, 34-1.5;

• Francisco Jasso, fourth, discus, 108-8;

• 4x100 relay (Jones, Harrell, Bowers and Saul Garcia), fourth, 48.95;

4x200 relay (Harrell, Garcia, DelosSant5os and Yanghue Vang), sixth, 1:46.56;

•4x400 relay (DelosSantos, Craig, Guadarrama and Landers), third, 3:49.66.

McDonald County's next meet is set for April 13 at East Newton followed by the Pitt State Relays on April 14 in Pittsburg, Kan.

Sports on 04/13/2017