Improving from a collective one-point, 17th-place tie with Mancos at the March 12 Piedra Vista Invitational in Farmington, the Ignacio Bobcat girls amassed 30 points and finished fifth at the Montezuma-Cortez Invite. The March 25 meet was their final competition before spring break.
Thrower Alana Watts, whose sixth-place 86-foot, 3.5-inch launch of the discus earned IHS its season-opening scratch inside Hutchison Stadium, was not entered in the discipline-nor the shot put, in which she'd taken 20th (25'4.5") at the PV-hosted gathering and 17th (25'4") at the next weekend's Farmington Invite at the same site-inside Panther Stadium. Ignacio made up for the absence as senior Lillianna Romero earned two points with a fifth-place 76'3".
Junior Kelly Campbell took first in the high jump, earning 10 points for her team. Campbell was higher over the bar than 3A Pagosa Springs' Andie Miller and 2A Dolores' Shavargus Noyes with it set 4'8" above ground. Fellow junior Azala Perez almost added another 10 points, but had to settle for eight by taking second in the 100-meter dash with a time of 14.07 seconds and trailing only 3A Bayfield's Tymbree Florian (13.70).
The 4x100 relay-comprised of juniors Rachel Cooper, Jaylynn Herrera, Perez and Lea Monroe-took sixth in 1:00.95, and the 4x200 (Cooper, Herrera, Perez, Romero) finished fourth in 2:08.38. Herrera also took 10th in the long jump (12'4").
At Farmington, the 4x100 team ran a slightly-faster (1:00.17) eighth-place, and Campbell tied for 13th in the high jump at 4'4". Senior Chrystianne Valdez finished third in the pole vault with a best of 7'6" achieved in more tries than second-place Taylyn Miller of 5A Farmington Piedra Vista, and trailing only the winning 8'6" of 4A Durango's Jessica Lee. Monroe cleared 6'0" to finish 12th.
Up next for IHS is its own Abel Velasquez Invitational on Saturday, April 9.
