Superior girls, Hot Springs boys win Dave Tripp
Superior sophomore Landon Richards clears 6-4, his second school record in a week, as he won the Dave Tripp Track Meet high jump title this past Saturday in Polson. (Courtesy photo)
This is shaping up to be a pretty good year for Sanders and Mineral counties' high school track and field teams, as indicated by Superior’s girls and Hot Springs’ boys following the Dave Tripp Track meet this past weekend in Polson.
The Superior Lady Bobcats won the team title with a score of 73 points, edging out runner up Valley Christian in the final standings.
Hot Springs’s boys showed they are a force with which to be reckoned when they amassed 86 teams points at the Dave Tripp meet, giving them the team title by 12 points over second-place Drummond.
Other bi-county teams who fared well in Polson included Hot Springs’ girls (sixth) and St. Regis girls (eighth).
In the boys’ team title race, Superior was eighth, St. Regis came in twelfth, and Alberton placed fifteenth.
In the girls’ competition, Superior freshman Ava White had an outstanding meet for the Lady Bobcats, winning both the 300 and 100-meter hurdle events. White added a second-place medal in the women’s pole vault to her daily total.
Superior senior Braelynn Mangold also had an outstanding meet, winning the 400-meter run with a time of 1:04.33, placing second in the 200-meter sprint (28.37) and taking fifth in the shot-put event.
But the star of the meet for the Lady Bobcats was junior Maryisa Swope, who won the pole vault with a vault of 8-0, placed first in the javelin with a throw of 109-02, and was sixth in the 400-meter run.
Hot Springs girls were led by junior Kara Christensen, who was second in the discus (106-10), second in the javelin (97-02.5) and second in the 300-meter hurdles for the Lady Heat. Christensen was also sixth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 19.43
Lady Heat teammate Lanet Jakabosky also had a productive meet for Hot Springs, finishing second in the 100-meter hurdles, sixth in the long jump (14-7.25), seventh in the 100-meter sprint (14.19) and seventh in the javelin (87-2).
Hot Springs also got team points from Georgia Uski (third in the discus, sixth in the shot put), Lilia Sapanel, seventh in the shot put, and Erica Cannon, tenth in the discus.
St. Regis also put some team points on the board, led by junior Jamie Cleveland, who was eighth in the 200-meters, third in the 100 meters, and fourth in the long jump (15-5). Teammate Cielee Mitchell, an eighth grader, was fourth in both the 200-meters and 100-meters events, seventh in the 100-meter hurdles and eighth in the long jump.
Also scoring for St. Regis’ girls was Lilly Sansom, third in the 300-meter hurdles, fourth in the 1600 meter run and tenth in the 100-meter sprint.
Superior’s Lady Bobcats also got top 10 finishes from Kaydi Erickson, second, 3200 meters and fifth in the 1600. Rainier Acker added a seventh place in the 800-meter run, and a fifth-place finish in the 1600-meter run.
In the boys’ competition, Superior sophomore Landon Richards eclipsed his one-week-old school record in the high jump (set last week) with a first-place jump of 6-4 to lead the way for the Bobcats.
Superior a first-place medal from sprinter Trizten Avila in the 100-meter event (11.39), to go with a second-place outcome in the men’s 200-meter sprint. Hot Springs sophomore Daniel Slonaker was fourth in both sprints.
But it was Hot Springs seniors Nick McAllister, Trizten Avila and David Chapman who provided the bulk of scoring for the team champion Savage Heat.
McAllister won the men’s 300-meter hurldes event, while teammates Ben Aldridge and Chase DePoe were third and sixth respectively. St. Regis senior Hunter Stolla was seventh with a time of 49.68.
Chapman won the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 16.33, just ahead of McAllister and Aldridge, who combined to give the Heat a 1-2-3 sweep of the event. DePoe was seventh in the 110.
McAllister added a second-place finish in the high jump (5-10) to his individual scoring day.
Hot Springs also placed first in the men’s 4X100 relay, with the team of Slonaker, McAllister, Aldridge and Chapman breaking the tape first with a time of 46.98.
Alberton picked up team points in the men’s 400-meter run via a fourth-place finish by junior Shea Fredette (56.50). A pair of St. Regis runners, Barrett Bassette and Leevy Bush were sixth and seventh respectively in the event, while Chapman was eighth.
Superior’s Phin Cataldo was fifth in the long jump, and Aldridge placed ninth.
Hot Springs distance runners did well in the 1600 and 3200 events, with senior Wesley Adams finishing second in the 3200 meters, just ahead of teammate Wyatt Campbell. Adams and Campbell were fifth and sixth respectively in the 1600.
Other local athletes who placed in the top 10 at Polson were Leevy Bush (St. Regis), fourth in the 800-meter run, and Nathan Bohn, seventh in the long jump (34-4).
This week most area athletes' schedules include today’s (April 15) Thompson Falls Invitational, and Friday’s MCPS Invitational in Missoula.