Good things, it seemed, came in pairs for the Bayfield boys last Friday.
Just ask junior sprinter Brian Mashak.
Not to be caught in the shortest dash at the Center Invitational, he won the 100 meters in 11.44 seconds, .017 faster than 3A Salida's Gallian Roberts and 0.23 ahead of 1A Antonito's Gabriel Romero. Later at the 17-team gathering, he doubled the distance, with his 23.40 in the 200 meter dash proving 1.17 seconds faster than Jeremiah Vigil of 2A Walsenburg John Mall and 1.22 faster than 3A Monte Vista's Noel Heredia.
Wolverine Carl Heide took second in the 110-meter hurdles (17.66s) with his twin brother Dawson Heide taking fourth (18.94), and the two finished similarly in the 300m hurdles with Carl Heide grabbing second (44.30) and trailing only Roberts (41.55), and Dawson Heide again placing fourth (47.13).
The Heides also went 5 feet 6 inches in the high jump, with Carl clearing 5'4" in fewer tries than Dawson. Dax Snooks tied for 10th (5'0") in the event as BHS amassed 83 team points and were outdone only by Salida's 92. JMHS took third with 71, the hosting 2A Vikings were fourth with 45. 3A La Jara Centauri edged 3A Buena Vista 39-36 for fifth.
And as stated before, where there was one Wolverine succeeding, another wasn't far behind.
For a relay team that usually goes without saying, but Bayfield's 4x200-meter foursome of Jesse Westbrook, Josh Westbrook, Brandon Stuever and Ethan Tate said plenty in taking second; their 3:53.61 lopped just over 10 seconds off the team's seeding time of 4:03.67.
The 4x800 relay (Alex Knight, Cody Speece, Jackson Sibley, Stuever) took second in 9:19.73, while the 4x100 (Jesse Westbrook, David Hawkins, Sam Kundrik, Jaden Vitagliano) took third in 48.61 ticks. Knight placed fourth in the 800m run (2:15.44) with Speece seventh (2:17.69), while Hawkins was eighth in the 100 (12.13).
In the open 400, Snooks and Reed Merchant finished 9-10, in respective times of 57.84 and 58.27.
Sam Westbrook was third in the shot put, heaving the heavy sphere 44 feet, 4.75 inches, and Ryan Phelps finished sixth at 37'0.5". Hawkins was also in the top ten with his ninth-place 35'1.25" effort. Phelps and Westbrook then placed 5-6 in the discus, with Phelps flinging the apparatus 117'9" and Westbrook 107'5".
Vitagliano was eighth in the long jump (17'5"), with Snooks and Dawson Heide finishing 8-9 in the triple, registering 35'4", and 35'1.5" distances respectively.
2A Crested Butte Community School and 2A Mancos tied for seventh in the standings with 27 points each, 2A Westcliffe Custer County took ninth with 20, and 1A Mosca Sangre de Cristo rounded out the top ten with 18.
Up next the Wolverines will see action this afternoon at the Montezuma-Cortez Invitational for their final meet before spring break, then pick up April 9 at the Abel Velasquez Invitational in Ignacio.
