The West Liberty-Salem Girls Track and Field team is in fourth place after Day One of the DIII Southwest District held at Graham High School.
Team Scores (top 5):
1st Botkins, 22; 2nd (tied) Triad & Anna, 16; 4th WL-S, 15; 5th Cedarville, 11
The Lady Tigers 4×800 Relay team of Malia Miller, Addison McAuley, Ashley Yoder, and Mallory Bostick captured first place and a Regional berth with a new district meet record time of 9:50.13. Also qualifying for next week’s regional meet was Lyndee Harrison in the shot put with a career PR of 31’3.
Several athletes qualified for Saturday’s finals:
- 100 Meter Hurdles-Claire Longshore (16.93) and Sophia Hardwick (17.22)
- 100 Meter Dash-Delaney Jones (12.53) and Chloe Griffith (13.22)
- 400 Meter Dash-Mallory Bostick 1:03.54
- 300 Meter Hurdles-Sophia Hardwick (48.39) and Claire Longshore (48.79)
- 200 Meter Dash-Delaney Jones (26.26) and Tori Douthwaite (28.52)
- 4×100 Meter Relay team of Tori Douthwaite, Delaney Jones, Gwen McCullough and Chloe Griffith (50.23)
- 4×200 Meter Relay team of Tori Douthwaite, Hattie Jacobs, Claire Longshore and Gwen McCullough (1:51.66)
- 4×400 Meter Relay team of Ashley Yoder, Gwen McCullough, Claire Longshore and Mallory Bostick (4:15.88)
Senior Lily Smith wrapped up her track and field career at WLS running a 1:12.40 in the 400 Meter Dash.
Saturday’s finals will begin at 10:00 a.m. for field events and 11:30 a.m. for running events.
Calvary Christian advances runners to the district finals on Saturday at Graham.
Girls:
- 6th 200m Anastacia Rogan 28.11
- 7th 100m hurdles Abigail Reinhard 17.23
- 7th 300m hurdles Makarios Kariuki 53.08
Boys:
- 4th 100m Charles Krumm 11.56
- 6th 200m Clay Howard 23.8
- 7th 200m Charles Krumm 24.14
- 7th 400m Clay Howard 54.93
- 8th 4×400 Elias Peterson, Christian Rogan, John Gaertner, Clay Howard 3:46.2
