The Hopkins boy
s’ and girls’ track teams Thursday both captured runner-up honors in the Bangor Relays.
The boys’ team scored 77 points, eclipsed only by Berrien Springs in the nine-team field. The Lady Vikings accumulated 95 points, only three points shy of winning the meet championship. Vicksburg won the nine-team competition with 98.
Two Hopkins boys’ relay teams won their events. The Sprint Medley, which included the 100-, 100-, 200- and 400-meter dashes, was won by Spencer Timm, Wyatt Stegeman, Anthony Steffens and Hayden Graczyk.
The other first-place Viking quartet was the 1600-meter or 4×400, made u
p Isaac Kukulies, Lennart Baldreich, Anthony Steffens and Jared Coad.
The Lady Vikings scored five first-place finishes for the day. The winners were:
- Discus Relay — Bailey Ballard and Shelby Henshaw.
- Shot Put Relay — Nicole Opolski and Shelby Henshaw.
- Distance Medley — which includes the 400, 800, 800 and 1600 — Megan Heft, Josie Freybler, Kennedy Miedema and Rachael Weber.
- 4×400 Relay, or 1600-meter relay — Kennedy Miedema, Josie Freybler, Julia Forbes and Nicole Pavlak.
- The 4×800, or 3200-meter relay — Kennedy Miedema, Josie Freybler, Megan Heft and Rachael Weber.
The performances came just 24 hours after the two Viking squads registered double victories over Wyoming Godwin Heights and West Michigan Aviation Academy.
The Vikings have a big O-K Gold Conference double dual meet at Grandville Tuesday afternoon, when they will take on Calvin Christian and North Pointe Christian.
