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Wolverine track sending big team to state

BHS boys, girls win team titles Saturday in Monte Vista

Bayfield girls and boys are filling a pretty big bus for 3A state track competition this week.

The championship meet started Thursday and runs Friday and Saturday at Jeffco Stadium in Denver. Both the boys and girls teams won Saturday in Monte Vista, with several athletes punching their tickets or moving up the 3A rankings to qualify for the state meet. The top 18 3A competitors in each event qualify for state.

Individual qualifiers are Sam Westbrook in shot put and discus; Carl Heide in 110-meter high hurdles and 300-meter intermediate hurdles; Brian Mashak in the 100- and 200-meter runs; Ryan Phelps in discus; Tymbree Florian in long jump; Amber Johnson in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles; and a huge pole-vaulting contingency of Chad Winkler, Colton Fine, Cash Snooks, Katie Hawkins, Emily Bauer and Maddie Foutz.

Several BHS relay teams also are making the trip north, including the 4x100 girls' team of Sheylea Freier, Florian, Johnson and Foutz.

Running both the girls' 4x200 and 4x400 relays are Isis Gonzales, Bridget Goddard, Johnson and Foutz.

On the boy's side, Gus Roberts, David Hawkins, Heide and Mashak will run the 4x200 relay. The 4x400 team is comprised of Cody Speece, Ethan Tate, Heide and Roberts. The 4x800 team is Brandon Stuever, Sloan Mazur, Alex Knight and Speece.

Relay alternates making the trip for BHS are Josh Westbrook, Jackson Sibley and Courtney Bayles.

Ignacio is sending two sprinters and two pole vaulters to state 2A competition.

Bryan Gram will represent the Bobcats in the 400 meters, while Azala Perez will sprint in the 100 meters.

Competing in the pole vault are Lea Monroe and Chrystianne Valdez, making her fourth appearance at state.

In Monte Vista on Saturday, the BHS boys won easily with 117 points while the girls also had no problem getting points either with 100.

The boys saw six first place finishes with Heide coming up big with two wins of his own. Heide took first in the boy's 110-meter hurdles with a time of 16.21 seconds and first in the boy's 300-meter hurdles with 41.97 seconds.

On the girls side, Bayfield had four first place finishes that included the girl's 4x100 meter relay and 4x200 meter relay teams winning their respective races. The team of Florian, Foutz, Freier and Johnson finished with a time of 53.01 seconds in the 4x100.

The team of Foutz, Goddard, Gonzales and Johnson ran a time of 1 minute, 50.44 seconds in the 4x200.

Rounding out the boys success was junior Mashak who took first in the 100-meter dash with a sprint of 11.51 seconds.

The boy's 4x800 relay team of Knight, Mazur, Speece and Stuever won with a time of 8:36.21.

Westbrook finished the season by taking the top spot at the shot put when he threw for 48 feet, 2.50 inches. Freshman David Hawkins took third with a throw of 41-5.25. Westbrook also took second in the discus with a throw of 141-9.

Sophomore Winkler also took first for Bayfield when he won the pole vault event with a jump of 11 feet, 3 inches. Senior Cash Snooks picked up third place with a leap of 10-0, and sophomore Colton Fine tied for fourth with 9-6.

The boys' 4x100 team of Hawkins, Roberts, Snooks and Tate took fourth with a time of 47.93 seconds. In the 4x200, the team of Mashak, Hawkins, Heide and Roberts took third for Bayfield with a time of 1:38.16.

In the 4x400, the team of Heide, Roberts, Speece and Tate took second with a time of 3:36.54.

Rounding out the girls, Bayfield saw Johnson win in the girls' 300 hurdles with a time of 50.39 seconds. She also took third in the 100 hurdles with a time of 18.77 seconds.

Recent Fort Lewis College signee and senior Katie Hawkins won in the pole vault when she leapt 9-0. Juniors Emily Bauer and Miranda Talbot tied for fourth when they both jumped 7-0.

In the girls' 100-meter, Florian took third with a run of 13.76 seconds with Freier coming in fourth with 13.86. Florian also took second place in the long jump with a finished distance of 16-5.50.

For the girls' 800, Goddard took second with a run of 2:33.41.

The Ignacio girls took 13th with a score of 23 while the boys placed 14th with 18 points. The boys were led by Gram, who took first in the boy's 400 with a finished time of 51.24 seconds. Gram also took fourth in the boy's 200 with a time of 23.59 seconds.

In the girls' pole vault, Ignacio's Valdez tied for second with a finished jump of 7-6. Monroe was tied for fourth in the pole vault with a jump of 7-0.

Azala Perez took fifth with a time of 13.91 in the girls' 100, and also took fourth in the 200 with a run of 28.55 seconds.

Natoni Cundiff rounded out Ignacio with a sixth-place finish in the discus with a throw of 117-9.

The Herald sports staff contributed to this report.