Both the Martin boys’ and girls’ track teams had a more than reasonable start to their track and field season openers Friday.
The boys won the Bellevue Invitational and the girls were runners-up to the host school in the seven team field. The guys accumulated 174.5 points, almost 50 more than second place Dansville and the girls had 167.5, behind Bellevue’s 193.
Jeremiah Van Houten fourth in the 1600-meter run. Hunter Hayes and Jadon Dettmann went 2-3 in the 3200. Blake Sweeting won the 110-meter hurdles and teammate Ethan Fitzpatrick was second. The same Clipper teammates went 2-3 in the 300-meter hurdles.
The Clippers’ 1600-meter relay team finished second with Seth Smit Lucian King, Gari Salvador Garcia and Jeremiah Van Houten. The 3200 relay quartet did the same with VanHouten, King, Hayes and Dettman.
Peyton Schuring-Harris won the shot put with a toss of 43-10 and teammate James Gruber picked up a fourth. Schuring-Harris also took first in the discus at 114-5 and Gruber again added a fourth.
Keating cleared an even 6 feet to win the high jump and King came in second.
Smit won the long jump at 19-8 and Xander Ruiter finished third.
For the girls, Sara Schipper was second in the 100 and took first bins the 800, with teammate Allison Rodgers finishing third; Torryn Harris was second in the 200 and earlier won the 400.
Veyda Conley won the 1600 by more than a full minute in 5:31.57 and Rodgers was runner-up. Conley won the 3200 by about three and a half minutes in 11:51.24 and DuRae Sage finished second.
Alice Kadlecova took second in the 100-meter hurdles and the same in the 300-meter hurdles.
Harris, Aliyah DeGlopper, Mykenna Ten Haaf and Schipper took second in the 800-meter relay; Schipper, Rodgers, Hayes and Conley finished first in the 1600-meter relay in 4:47.54, six seconds faster than anyone else and Riley Bender, Sage, Rodgers and Conley won the 3200-meter relay by a whopping nearly a minute in 11:55.61.
Deglopper outdueled a worthy opponent from Dansville with a winning toss of 32-3 in the shot put. Bender was second in the high jump.
