The Bayfield High School track and field teams are seeking championships this season. One down for the boys.
The Wolverines’ boys team won the High Altitude Challenge/Intermountain League championship meet Tuesday in Alamosa. BHs scored 157 points, while Alamosa scored 126 to place second.
The girls team placed second with 132 points and was narrowly beat by Alamosa’s 149 points.
Bayfield’s boys earned eight first-place finishes. Sam Westbrook took home two, as he wont the shot put with a throw of 48-feet, 5 inches. The senior also claimed first in the discus throw at 139-feet, 2 inches.
Carl Heide continued his sensational junior season. He won 110-meter hurdles in 15.30 seconds and the 300-meter hurdles in 40.17 seconds. He also was on the 4x100-meter relay team that placed first in 44.55 seconds. He was joined by Wyatt Killinen, Brian Mashak and Jaden Vitagliano.
The BHS boys 4x200-meter relay also took first in 1:34.6. That team consisted of Briant Cuellar, Killinen, Gus Roberts and Ethan Tate.
Mashak also was first in the 100-meter dash in 11.50 seconds. Dax Snooks earned first place in the high jump at 5-feet, 10-inches.
Snooks also placed second in the 110-meter hurdles in 16.16 seconds. Colton Fine was second in pole vault at 10-feet, 7-inches, and Ryan Phelps was second in discus throw at 136-feet, 2-inches.
Bayfield’s 4x800-meter relay team of Alex Knight, Sloan Mazur, Jackson Sibley and Cody Speece placed second in 8:48.03.
Tate also was third in the 200-meter dash in 11.88 seconds. Chad Winkler was third in pole vault at 10-feet, 7-inches, and Phelps was third in shot put at 45-feet, 10-inches.
Killinent added a fourth-place result in the 100-meter dash in 11.88 seconds, and Gus Roberts was fourth in the 400-meter ddash in 53.10 seconds. Dawson French placed fourth in the pole vault with a leap of 9-feet, 1-inch.
Snooks added to his total with a fifth-place finish in 300-meter hurdles. He crossed the finish line in 44.87 seconds. David Hawkins was fifth in shot put at 42-feet, 7-inches, and Hunter Killough was fifth in discus with a throw of 125-feet, 5-inches.
Snooks scored again with a seventh-place finish in triple jump at 38-feet, 5-inches.
Jordan Lanning earned four first-place finishes for the Wolverines. She set a school record in the 100-meter hurdles in 15.89 seconds. She also was first in the long jump at 16-feet, 6.5-inches, the triple jump at 33-feet, 2-inches, and the high jump at 5-feet, 6-inches.
Amber Johnson broke two of her own school records with a 200-meter dash time of 26.25 seconds and a 300-meter hurdles time of 46.20 seconds. Both were good for first place.
Maddi Foutz as first in the pole vault at 9-feet, 3-inches. Bridget Goddard was first in the 800-meter runer in 2:28.61.
The 4x400-meter relay team of Claire Belmear, Tymbree Florian, Foutz and Goddard was second in 4:24.96. Florian also was second in the long jump at 16-feet.
Belmear, Foutz, Goddard and Isis Gonzales were third in the 4x200-meter relay in 1:52.87.
Tessa Heydinger was third in pole vault at 6-feet, 3-inches, and Tiarra Christensen placed third in discus with a throw of 99-feet, 2-inches.
Belmear, Emma Candelaria, Florian and Foutz added a fourth-place finish in the 4x100-meter relay in 54.95 seconds. Mikayla Barnes also was fourth in shot put at 31-feet, 9.5-inches.
Candelaria, Olivia Kietz, Mylee Sanders and Gracie Weybright also were sixth in the sprint medley relay in 2:08.84, while Courtney Bayles was sixth in the discus throw at 95-feet, 7.25-inches.
Bayles also was seventh in shot put at 30-feet, 2-inches, and Jacqueline George was eighth in the high jump at 4-feet, 4-inches.
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