It was a successful short trip over to Bayfield High School for the Pine River Invitational for the Durango track and field teams on Saturday.
Both teams finished first out of the 10 teams that participated. The Durango girls finished first with 231.50 points. Montezuma-Cortez was second with 119 points and Centauri was third with 92 points. Host Bayfield was sixth with 43 points.
“It went really well,” Bayfield head coach Josh Walton said about the invitational “We thought it went really smoothly. Sometimes you have to work out kinks the first meet of the season. Just figuring out some stuff and making sure that everything's working from the cameras to your wind gauges … you don't want to have anything happen to where a kid doesn't get a time or something like that.”
On the boys side, Durango finished first with 224.50 points while Montezuma-Cortez was second with 102 points and Alamosa was third with 97.50 points. Bayfield was seventh with 33.50 points.
In the girls 100-meter dash, Durango junior Jeanne Campbell finished third with a time of 13.56 seconds. Bayfield freshman Vivien Clance finished fourth with a time of 13.64. Junior Sienna Rose from Pagosa Springs won the event with a time of 13.20.
Durango sophomore Juliana McKown won the girls 200 with a PR time of 28.57.
“That's a great PR for her,” Durango head coach Johnny Bertrand said. “I think last week she PRed in the 29s and now to go in the 28s that's really good.”
In the 400, Demons junior Ainsley Sampson finished second with a time of 1 minute 6.42 seconds Pagosa Springs junior Sienna Rose won the event with a time of 1:04.03.
In the 1600, Demons junior Dewa Ilg finished second with a time of 6:05.16. Durango junior Brynn Aggeler finished third with a time of 6:06.65. Centauri sophomore Mckenzie Torres won the race with a time of 6:01.88.
Freshman Lacy Ruggiero won the 3200 for Durango with a time of 12:42.14. Sophomore Mira Quayle finished second with a 13:40.02.
In the girls 100 hurdles, Durango sophomore Aileen McManus finished second with a time of 18.77. Demons freshman Arrow Nachtrieb finished third with a time of 19.33 while sophomore Evie Morris finished fourth with a time of 19.49. Montezuma-Cortez sophomore Marlee Mack won the event with a time of 17.77.
Mack won the 300 hurdles as well with a time of 50.29. Morris finished second for the Demons with a 52.71 and McManus was third with a time of 55.19.
The Wolverines performed well and won the girls 4x100. Senior Genesis Barrera, junior Emily Cordova Rios, freshman Vivien Clance and sophomore Mimi Ramirez combined for a time of 55.47.
In the 4x200, the Demons took the win with McKown, Sampson, sophomore Molly Bertrand and Campbell ran a 1:52.11. Bayfield finished second with Clance, Cordova Rios, senior Meili Lovejoy and Ramirez running a time of 2:00.57.
Durango took the win in the 4x400 with Morris, Ilg, McManus and junior Sofia Voss with a time of 4:27.24.
In girls high jump, Campbell finished third for Durango with a 4-06 jump. Pagosa Springs senior Jordan Lindstrom won the event with a jump of five feet.
Durango sophomore Sonya Tocco finished second in the pole vault with a jump of seven feet. Sophomore Rye Standifer finished third with a jump seven feet also. Durango sophomore Maggie Glick finished fourth with a jump of 6-06.
Mack won the girls long jump with a jump of 16-02 while Clance finished second for Bayfield with a jump of 15-02.75.
“It's really exciting because she can help multiple relays potentially get into state … but then we also want her to have her individual opportunities whether it be in long jump or the 100 where she can go try to … hopefully be competitive, possibly when we go to the state competition,” Walton said about Clance.
McManus and McKown finished first and second in the girls triple jump for Durango. McManus jumped 31-03.25 while McKown jumped 31-03.
Bertrand said because of the wind the jumpers were jumping from farther back so they didn’t step over the board.
“With Eileen and Juliana, they both had great jumps that were farther than what the timing showed and what the results showed because they were so far behind the board,” Bertrand said. “If we get a nice day on those jumps, both of those girls will be up to 32 or 33 feet.”
In girls shot put, junior Megan Hutchins finished first for Durango with a throw of 32-09.50. Demon sophomore Oshi Reider finished second with a PR throw of 31-08.50 and junior Violet Mazenko was third with a throw of 30-10.
Reider finished second in girls discus throw with a 102-foot throw, followed by Mazenko with a 97-03 throw in third and Hutchins with a 92-07 throw in fourth.
Durango freshman Mason Miller showed his speed in the boys 100. He finished second with a time of 11.53. Bayfield sophomore Ayden Casillas finished tied fifth with a time of 11.72. Mancos sophomore Jonah Ritter finished first with an 11.49.
Bertrand was impressed with Miller’s time and said it was the second-best time in the state for freshmen in the 100.
Demons senior Jaxon Fancher won the 400 with a time of 52.65. Durango senior Kaleb Roberts was in third with a 55.57.
“He's going start dropping down to 51 and 50s here pretty soon,” Bertrand said about Fancher. “He took off from the gun and he was pretty far ahead of everybody by the time he got to 200 meters to go.”
In the boys 800, Durango sophomore Miles Snow won with a time of 2:14.84. Demons sophomore Slader Schweitz finished third with a time of 2:18.16.
Durango was victorious in the boys 1600 as well. Junior Luke Swenk finished first with a time of 4:43.33 while Snow was in third with a 4:58.09.
In the boys 3200, Durango senior Charlie Dillman finished first with a time of 10:26.49. Demons junior AJ Bonanno was second with a time of 10:51.21 and Bayfield senior Tristan Sager was third with an 11:37.12.
Durango junior Xavier Sutherlin won the boys 110 hurdles with a time of 15.81. He was also second in the 300 boys hurdles with a time of 44.91. Demons senior Ethan Flores finished third in the 300 with a 45.47. Montezuma-Cortez senior Raul Soto won the race with a 44.04.
The boys relay events were dominated by Durango. In the 4x100, Miller, sophomores William Zahradnik and Seb Tripp and senior Mason Palmer won the event with a 44.54.
In the 4x200, the Demons won again with Tripp, Zahradnik, Roberts and Fancher combining for a 1:31.81.
Durango won the 4x400 with Tripp, Roberts, Fancher and junior Malakai Baier combining for a 3:41.15. Then in the 4x800, the Demons won with Bonanno, freshmen Benjamin Lively and Jack Purcell and Swenk with a time of 9:21.31.
In boys high jump, Bayfield freshman Tanner Neeley finished third with a jump of six feet. Durango sophomore Grant Gordon finished third in boys pole vault with a jump of 11 feet.
“He's in the top 10 in the state in 3A right now,” Walton said about Neeley. “I’m really excited to see where his talents take him. We also could see him helping us in some races as well.”
Zahradnik finished second in boys long jump with a 20-07. Montezuma-Cortez junior Tay Wheat was first with a 21-03 jump.
Durango senior Leith Davis finished second in boys shot put with a throw of 38-08.50. Demon junior Bryce Hughes finished third with a throw of 37-08.50. Mancos senior Cole Dainty-Guilfoyle finished first with a throw of 41-02.25
Sophomore Owen Cheatham finished first for Durango in discus throw with a PR throw of 116-04.
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