Despite nasty spring weather, the Medical Lake High School boys and girls track and field teams managed some solid performances in competition last week.
Both Cardinals squads downed Freeman in their first Northeast A League meet of the season. The boys handled the Scotties 90-38 while the girls topped the hosts 71-54 in windy and cold conditions at Rockford last Wednesday.
Medical Lake fell to the other NEA school at the meet, Lakeside, the boys losing 89-51 and the girls 108.66-41.33.
“This is the first time the boys and girls both beat Freeman,” head coach Gene Blankenship said. “Obviously we are struggling against Lakeside, which is shaping up to be the best team in the league right now.”
Medical Lake set 45 new personal records at the meet. Nicholas Henry led the way for the boys, coming from behind to win the 1,600 and 3,200 meter runs, finishing the former in 4:50.73 and setting a new PR of 10:52.31 in the latter.
Second-place finishes went to Pedro Sandre in the 100, Elias Edmondson in the 400, Connor Palmen in the 800 and Quintin Collins in the 3,200. Andrew Kysar set a new PR of 1:00.67 for third in the 400.
Sandre, Ezekiel Lewis and Logan Luszcz all captured first in their field events. Sandre won the long jump with a PR of 19 feet, 1 inch while Lewis won the high jump in 5-08 and Luszcz the triple jump with a PR of 36-04.
Colton Lewis was second in the shot put at 43-03.75 and the discus, setting a PR of 120-11.50 in the latter. Kysar set a PR of 17-08 for third in the long jump.
In the relays, the team of Mitchell Hale, Sandre, Grant Greenhall and Alex Stith was second in the 4x100, while the team of Quintin Collins, Palmen, Henry and Jeremiah Windle was second in the 4x400.
Jaxyn Farmen continues to lead the girls team in event scoring. The senior captured first-place in both the long and triple jumps, winning the former with a leap of 15-04 and the latter with a vault of 34-05. Farmen also took second in the javelin with a season-best throw of 94-05.
Emma Keister was second in the shot put at 30-00.75, with Natalie Salinas-Sanders second in the long jump in 14-05. Ellie Acord was third in the high jump and Paige Headrick was third in the pole vault with a PR of 7 feet, beating her previous best by a foot, Blankenship said..
On the track, Salinas-Sanders and Mayah Eberhardt both set PRs to go 1-2 in the 100-meter dash with respective times of 13.17 and 13.44. Eberhardt also set a PR of 1:06.26 for second in the 400 and was third in the 200, while Headrick and Allison Payne each finished third in the 800 and the 3,200 respectively.
The 4x100 team of Eberhardt, Acord, Natalie Salinas-Sanders and Sophie Salinas-Sanders was second, while the 4x200 team of AJ Spivey, Joanna Gaudet, Amblessed Okemybo and Madelyn Kubes was third.
Medical Lake traveled to Spokane Falls Community College on Saturday for Cheney High School’s annual Van Kuren Invitational, with the girls placing 10th and the boys 25th out of 50 schools competing. The Cardinals had 10 boys and eight girls set new PRs and garnered first-place finishes from Farmen in the triple jump and Kelton Earl in a rain-shortened boys pole vault.
Farmen was also second in the long jump. Top-10 finishes for the girls went to Eberhardt in the 100 (eighth) and 200 (fifth, PR of 28.53) and Acord in the high jump (seventh, PR of 4-08).
Getting top-10 finishes for the boys were Henry in the 1,600 (seventh, PR of 4:35.92), Colton Ellis in the shot put (seventh, PR of 44-04) and Lewis in the high jump (sixth, PR of 5-10).
John McCallum can be reached at jmac@cheneyfreepress.com.
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