Superior girls tie for third place at first track meet
The Superior boys and girls track team had a good showing at their first season meet. The meet took place on Wednesday, March 31 at the Dornblaser Field in Missoula. The girls had a huge showing tying third with Darby overall in the team ranking with 64 points, while the boys didn't fair so badly, winding up ninth overall with a total of 19.5 points.
In the 200 meter dash, Garrett Stephens took fifth place with a time of 24. 80 seconds. Distance runner Bajin Smith took third in the 800 meter dash with a quick time of 2:09.07. The boys' 1,600 relay team secured a third place finish with a time of 3:56.83. At the javelin throw, Eric Steinebach scored a fifth place win, hurling the javelin 142 feet, 8 inches. Smith tied for sixth place at the long jump, jumping 18 feet, 0 ΒΌ inches. Kevin Ryan managed fifth place in the pole vault, 10 feet.
In the girls' events, Kinzie Cooper took third place at the pole vault with a height of six feet, six inches. Cooer also took a fourth place finish home in the 200 meter dash with a time of 29.79 seconds. As part of the 400 meter relay team Cooper, along with Nicole Stroot, Kaitlynn Koke and Ashley Blaylock, took first with a time of 53.44 seconds. Blaylock, Koke and Stroot also teamed up with Shelby Cooper to score a first place finish in the 1,600 meter relay with a time of 4:41.47.
Blaylock also took home a second place finish in the 400 meter dash with a time of 1:05.52. Stroot took fourth in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 18.78 seconds and took first in the long jump jumping 15 feet, 11 and a half inches. Koke brought scored a second place finish in the javelin throw with 93 feet, seven and a half inches. In the triple jump, Shelby Cooper took fourth with 31 feet, 10 inches.