The West Liberty-Salem girls track and field team placed 1st at the 7-team Urbana Invitational on Saturday.

Girls Team Scores:  1st WLS 116.5, 2nd Benjamin Logan 112, 3rd Miami East 104.75, 4th London 101.75, 5th Urbana 88, 6th Bellefontaine 79, 7th Cedarville 31

Hillary Seely gave the Lady Tigers their only first place finish winning the 3200 meter run. Kelsie Markin contributed a pair of second place finishes in the 1600 meter run and in the pole vault where she tied with teammate Hannah Ropp. Heather Bumbalough placed second in the 300 meter hurdles. The 4x800 relay team of Seely, Markin, Courtney Karg and Christine Naderer also placed second.

On the boys side WLS placed 4th overall.

Boys Team Scores:  1st Bellefontaine 140, 2nd Benjamin Logan 123.5, 3rd Urbana 120, 4th WLS 97.5, 5th London 65.5, 6th Miami East 42.5, 7th Cedarville 11

The Tigers' 4x800 relay team of Seth Baker, Matt Vogel, Brandon Shivley and Eric Salley placed first. Second place finishes for the Tigers were provided by Brice Baumgardner - long jump, Austin Wilson - high jump, Nate Bratka - discus and the 4x400 relay team of Salley, Baker, Baumgardner and Jake Anderson.

The Tigers host the King Classic on Friday evening with field events starting at 4:45 p.m.

Several Benjamin Logan girls turned in strong performances at Urbana.

Placers included:

            High Jump

Place    Name                            Height

2         Jordan Millsap              4' 10

3          Brianne Britton             4' 10

            Long Jump

Place    Name                            Distance

2          Lauren Anderson           14' 09.50

            Discus

Place    Name                            Distance

4          Lauren Newland             71' 09

            Shot Put

Place    Name                            Distance

7          Alex Ross                     28' 08

            Pole Vault

Place    Name                            Height

1          Anissa Tevis                 7' 06

            3200 Meter Relay

Place    Name                            Time

5            Benjamin Logan          11:35.36

(Jensen-Forsythe-Cayla Orr-Holden)

            100 High Hurdles

Place    Name                            Time

2          Keri Stafford             17.12

3          Lauren Anderson       17.42

            100 Meter Dash

Place    Name                            Time

2          Keri Stafford             13.90

            800 Meter Relay

Place    Name                            Time

5            Benjamin Logan             2:01.38

            (Millsap-Kenoyer-Catty Orr-Yelton)

             400 Meter Relay

Place    Name                            Time

5            Benjamin Logan             58.48

            (Hamm-Kenoyer-Millsap-Yelton)           

              400 Meter Dash

Place    Name                            Time

4          Scarlet Tevis                 1:06.87

6          Catarina Orr                    1:07.87         

              300 Meter Low Hurdles

Place    Name                            Time

1          Lauren Anderson          49.83

           800 Meter Run

Place    Name                            Time

2          Lynn Holden              2:43.53

4          Stephanie Dahl-Jensen            2:47.08

            3200 Meter Run

Place    Name                            Time

7          Brittany Poling               14:39.46

8          MacKenzie Roebuck        14:45.96         

            1600 Meter Relay

Place    Name                            Time

2            Benjamin Logan               4:33.41

(S. Tevis-Holden-Catty Orr-Anderson)   

Many Bellefontaine athletes did well at the meet, too. They included:

Boys Individual Placers (top 8)

3200 Relay  2nd 9:05.53 (Cameron Crain, Tyler Wisse, Taylor Cornell, Blake Price)

110 Hurdles 1st Jeff Rollins 15.45    7th Cody Sigrist  17.75

100 Dash  1st Sean Egler 11.59  2nd Keith Morgan 11.60

800 Relay 1st 1:33.85 (Chris Lowe, Jeff Rollins, Keith Morgan, Sean Egler)

1600 Run 2nd Blake Price 5:00.55, 5th Cameron Crain 5:18.05

400 Meter Relay 1st 46.12 (Brett Meadows, Jeff Rollins, Keith Morgan, Sean Egler)

400 Meter Dash 2nd Chris Lowe 53.16

300 Hurdles 1st Jeff Rollins 41.18  6th Jake Maze 50.41

200 Dash 2nd Chris Lowe 24.66

3200 Run 1st Blake Price 10:47.62, 5th Chris Walker 11:29.13

1600 Relay 5th 4:43.23 (Chris Badenhop, Cameron Crain, Todd White, Tyler Wisse)

High Jump 7th 5' 2"

Long Jump 1st Chris Lowe 19' 7.5" 7th Cody Sigrist 17' 2.5"

Shot Put 2nd Zack Vermillion 45' 9.5"   7th Eric Mitchell 37' 4"

Girls Individual Placers (top 8)

3200 Relay 3rd 11:05.72 (Lauren Rutledge, Chelsea Harshfield, Heather Alinson, Michelle Goble)

100 Hurdles 1st Tomika Brown 16.20

100 Dash 1st Danielle Hill 13.82, 7th Kea Lewis 14.52

800 Meter Dash 6th 2:04.90  (Tyleigh Ward, Libby Hill, Ashley Post, Alex Stephens)

1600 Run 6th Michelle Goble 6:23.83, 7th Rachel Rapp 6:28.16

400 Meter Relay 1st 53.55 (Haley McCloud, Tomika Brown, Danielle Hill, Kea Lewis)

800 Run 7th Bethany Harshfield 2:49.98

High Jump 1. Tomika Brown 5' 2"  7. Dominique Brown 4' 6"

Long Jump 1. Kea Lewis 14' 10.5"  5. Dominique Brown 14' 4"

Shot 3. Kylee Moon 34' 5.25"

Here are some of the results from the Graham Middle School Invitational track meet held on Thursday.

For the girls, Benjamin Logan was 8th out of the 13 participating teams.

Scoring for the Lady Raiders were:

Courtney Forsythe was 6^th in the 1600m run

Marissa Wilbur was 5^th in the 200m hurdles

Courtney Forsythe was 6^th in the 800m run

Ciarra Wirick was 6^th in the 400m dash

Kirsten Milton was 2^nd in the pole vault

The 4x400m relay team of Kirsten Milton, Ciarra Wirick, Marissa Wilbur and Courtney Forsythe finished 3^rd and set A NEW SCHOOL RECORD WITH A TIME OF 4:38.19.

Coaches congratulate the girls on breaking a 13 year-old record.

The Bellefontaine Middle School boys track team placed third at the 13-team Graham Middle School Invitational.  Team scores were:  Anna 87, Urbana 83.5, and Bellefontaine 58.  Individual placers for BMS were:

1^st

Aaron Dunn                   110m hurdles              16.22

Aaron Dunn                   200m hurdles            26.28

Aaron Dunn                   long jump                 18'2.5"

2^nd

Peyton Kesler            1600m run                    5:00.61

3^rd

Xavier Kesler            1600m run                    5:04.92

4^th

Peyton Kesler            800m run                    2:18.96

5^th

Peyton Kesler            4x400m relay                 4:07.93

Xavier Kesler

John  Maurice

Cody Proffitt

6^th

7^th

Xavier Kesler            800m run                    2:20.61

Shaff Gorham            200m dash                 26.29

8^th

Aaron Dearth             2x200m relay                 1:52.73

Shaff Gorham

John Maurice