Montezuma-CortezMorgan Short brought home the Lady Panthers’ sole first-place finish at the Aztec Invitational last weekend with a 15-8.75 leap in the long jump, and she also finished second in the 200 (27.64).
Tayla Topaha took second in the discus with her best throw of the season (113-6), Trinity McCain finished third in the 400 (1:06.27) and Emma Thissen (2:36.45) and Kristine Candelaria (31-6) took eighth in the 800 and shot put, respectively.
Coby Baer led the M-CHS boys team with a first-place finish in the long jump (20-11.75), while Elisha Vaquera finished sixth (19-3).
Vaquera also took second in the 400 (53.00), Josh Ramos was second in the 800 (2:05.60) and Skyler Yarbrough’s 5-4 high jump was good for eighth place.
The Panthers only sent a few competitors to Bayfield on Wednesday, but they had great results.
Weslie Kirks won the 100-meter hurdles (16.58) and finished third in the triple jump (30-7.5), while Short finished fifth in the long jump (14-8.5) and Candelaria was sixth in the shot put (28-9).
Baer led the boys again, this time finishing second in the long jump (19-9.5), with Vaquera taking fourth (19-1.25). And then Yarbrough took fifth in the high jump (5-1) and Austin Wagner finished seventh in the triple jump (36-2).
MANCOSSeniors Ro Paschal and Andrew Plunkett led the Blue Jays at Aztec last weekend.
Paschal won the 800 (2:03.90) and finished third in the 1,600 (4:36.56), while Plunkett finished third in both the high jump (5-8) and triple jump (40-3.5) and also took eighth in the long jump (19-1).
The Lady Blue Jays’ individual placers were Kaylee Rose, who finished fifth in the 800 (2:35.04) and Emma Most, who was eighth in the 1,600 (6:24.71).
On Wednesday in Bayfield, the Blue Jays’ only first-place finish came from the 4x8 team of Paschal, Hernandez, Simon Kearns and Caleb Yoder (8:42.78).
Individually, Paschal took third in the 400 (53.15) and Christensen finished eighth (57.79), Hernandez was third in the 300-hurdles (46.42), Kearns was fifth in the 800 (2:17.09), Teslin Stecher (5:30.64) and Asa Kearns (5:33.54) were fifth and sixth in the 1,600 and Griff Huver finished sixth in the 100 (12.14) and seventh in the long jump (19-0.25).
The Lady Jays were led by third-place finishes by Most in the 1,600 (6:25.04) and the 4x2 team of Cole, Gutierrez, Ericka Peacock and Morgan Rose (2:07.35).
Most also placed fifth in the 800 (2:55.31), Skinner (6:48.24) and Mimi Archuleta (7:21.74) took sixth and seventh in the 1,600 and Faith Asnicar was eighth in the shot (27-0).
DOLORESAlthough Dolores missed out on the finals of the Aztec Invitational on Saturday due to its prom being held on the same day, the Bears still had a handful of athletes qualify for finals on Friday.
For the Lady Bears, Aryelle Wright qualified for the finals in the 100 (13.86), 200 (28.02) and 400 (1:02.59). And then Larissa Umberger (18.22) and Shavargus Noyes (18.25) each qualified for the finals in the 100-meter hurdles, and Sierra Schwartz qualified in the 300-hurdles (52.17).
Shavargus Noyes finished fourth in the high jump (4-6) and Larissa Umberger was eighth in the long jump (14-8.5) to lead in field events.
The Dolores boys were led by Ruben Gomez’ fifth-place finish in the long jump (19-3.5) and by Cael McHenry and Tristen Medina in hurdle races.
McHenry (17.49) and Medina (17.74) each qualified for finals in the 110-meter hurdles, and Medina finished ninth (43.49) in the 300-hurdles after preliminaries, while McHenry was 14th (45.53).
The Lady Bears cleaned house in the relay races in Bayfield on Wednesday.
The 4x2 team of Wright, Umberger, Nichole Kibel and Cameron Elder (1:54.81) and the 800-meter sprint medley team of Wright, Kibel, Schwartz and Noyes (1:59.98) each finished in first place, and the 4x1 team of Wright, Umberger, Kibel and Schwartz finished second (53.48).
Individually, Umberger took second in the long jump (14-11.25) and third in the 100-hurdles (18.11), Schwartz finished fifth in the 100-hurdles (18.89) and third in the 300’s (55.03) and Noyes was third in the high jump (4-5) and fifth in the triple jump (28-11.75).
McHenry led the boys with a first-place finish in the 110-hurdles (17.57) and fourth place finish in the 300’s (46.87), Skieler Grooms was sixth in the 200 (25.53) and McHenry, Grooms, Medina and Forest Pejsa took third in the 4x2 (1:40.07) and sixth in the 4x1 (48.85).
DOVE CREEKSpencer Gatlin was the lone Bulldog to place in the top eight at the Aztec Invitational – finishing seventh in the shot put (39-7) – but Madilyn and Mikayla Hankins came close for the Lady Bulldogs.
Madilyn was seventh (54.46) in the 300-hurdles after preliminaries, but did not run in the finals, and was 13th (19.40) in the 100 hurdles after prelims.
In final standings, Mikayla finished 14th in the discus (81-9) and 24th in the shot (25-9).
Dove Creek did not attend the Pine River Invitational.
