The Hopkins boys’ and girls’ track teams continue to impress, as they both improved their O-K Silver Conference dual meet records to 2-0 Tuesday with triumphs over visiting NorthPointe Christian.
The boys won handily, 92-45, and the girls’ victory was even more of a runaway, 99-24.
The boys combined some outstanding performances from veterans and the continuing results from newcomers.
Freshman Logan Klinge cleared 12 feet even in the pole vault in only his third meet and he won both hurdle events. He won the 110-meter hurdles by an astonishing nearly three seconds and he joined the winning 400-meter relay.
Junior Todd Henley continued to win in what he does best, in the 1600- and 3200-meter distance runs, but he’s getting some serious competition from junior teammate Zach Nutter, who was only four-tenths of a second off the pace in the 1600. Nutter also won the 800 in 2:18.87.
The Vikings won three of the four relays, as coach Jamie Kiss mixed things up a bit. It was Dan Rausch, Nutter, Nolan Hugmeyer and Henley in the 3200; Trey Collins, Hunter Braford, Brady Bockheim and Rausch in the 800; and Klinge, Braford, Quinten Prather and Jason Sapp in the 400.
Collins also turned in astonishing individual performances by winning the long jump at 19-2 and finishing second to Klinge in the pole vault at 11-6.
Sophomore Trevor Long won the shot put with a toss of 44-3.5, junior newcomer Dylan Perry took the high jump at 5-6 and junior Nathan Tew took the discus at 113-10.
Braford turned in runner-up finishes in sprints.
The Lady Vikings got firsts from Lauren Brown (100-meter hurdles), the 800 relay (Anna Washburn, Evangelina Helderop, Hannah Crouch and Cassidy Finney) Emma Helder (1600 meters), the 800 relay (Crouch, Washburn, Alex Jackson, Finney), Helderop (400 meters, 63:19, and 200, 27.7 seconds), Jasmine Fisher (1600 and 3200), the 1600 relay (Riley Landrigan, Alyssa Beilby, Mary Krcatovich and Kelsey Dusseau), the 3200 relay (Beilby, Mary Wells, Helder and Fisher), Savannah Emaus (long jump, 15-0, pole vault), Shannon Henshaw (shot put, 31-8, and discus, 77-7).
The Viking track teams will be at home again Thursday to take on O-K Silver opponent Belding.
Shannon Henshaw was first for discus with 77’07. There was an error on athletic.net that has been fixed