Superior track gets team win in Wallace

Seniors Sorren Reese and Cassie Green, along with junior sprinter Isabella Pereira led a Superior tidal wave that swept the Lady Bobcats to the team title at the recent Wallace, Idaho Small School meet in Wallace. The Superior girls piled up 208 points, well ahead of second place St. Maries, Idaho’s 114.5 team tallies.

And the Superior boys squad, which gathered only one first place finish, had enough depth and quality to tie for second out of eight teams in Wallace. Genesee, Idaho won the boys’ team competition with 121 points, followed by second place Mullan, Idaho with 89. Superior also had 89 points.

Reese, the senior javelin and heptathlon who is headed to Carroll College this fall on an academic/track scholarship, was the overwhelming winner in the javelin throw with her heave of 125 feet, nine inches, more than 58 feet further than the 67-7 throw by St. Regis freshman Kyla Bush.

The javelin event was swept by Superior and St. Regis athletes in part because it is not allowed in Idaho. Reese is currently the leader in the javelin among all B-C schools in Montana and won the state championship as a freshman.

Reese also won the 800 meters race with a time of 2:33.01, almost two second ahead of second place Braelynn Mangold, a freshman teammate from Superior. And the senior standout also finished tied for first in the high jump with a Personal Record 4’8”.

Pereira, meanwhile, the diminutive sprinter who is also a lightning quick point guard for the Lady Bobcats basketball team, won her fair share also. She beat teammate Molly Patko in the 100 meters race as Superior finished 1-2, 4 in the event with Alysha Ryan coming in fourth.

Pereira also won the 200 meters race, an event in which the Bobcats captured five of the top six places, with Mangold placing third. Pereira’s winning time in the 200 was 28.89.

And she added the triple jump to her first-place haul with a winning hop, skip and jump of 32-11, more than two feet ahead of Mangold’s second place showing.

And to wrap things up, Pereria took home second in the pole vault, while Patko finished third.

Mangold also finished first in the long jump with a 13-11 leap, while teammate Molly Patko took third. And she was first in the 400 meters run, crossing the line in 1:07.13, while teammates Eddy Betts and Kylie Quick were fourth and fifth.

Green, meanwhile, won the shot put event with a throw of 34-4, with Betts fourth, teammate Georgia Fredette fifth and St. Regis sophomore Brooke Filek tenth. Green also won the discus throw with a PR toss of 106-9.

Filek placed in all three weight events.

In the boys competition, Silas Acker was a second place finisher in the 400 meters run and fourth in the 200 meters race, while his brother Micah Acker was fourth at 800 meters. Silas Acker also took second place in the shot put and was first in the javelin throw.

Decker Milender was second at 800 meters and fifth in the men’s 100 meters sprint. Superior also got a third place showing in the 3200 meters from Allen Ryan, who came in fourth in the 1600 meters run.

In addition to Acker’s second place finish in the shot put the Bobcats got third from Jaxson Green and fifth from Chandon Vulles, who was also second in the javelin.

Hunter Stolla and Leevy Bush finished seventh and eighth in the shot put, while Kaleb Park was ninth for the Tigers.

Superior and St. Regis will both be competing in the Kim Haines Invitational this weekend in Missoula.