The Wayland boys’ track team annexed yet another track invitational title Friday at the Kent City Elite meet with 87 points, 18 better than runner-up Pewamo-Westphalia.
Strangely, the girls’ squad tied Martin for eighth place, both with 26 points. Lansing Catholic took first and Pewamo-Westphalia second.
Jake Reeder and Henry Maass finished second and third, respectively, in the 200-meter dash. Maass earlier had taken third in the 100-meter dash.
Brock Wheeler finished second in 400, missing first by less than a half second.
Alex Hubbard had a similar fate in the 110-meter high hurdles, taking runner-up honors, just 24 hundredths of a second away from first. He also was third in the 300-meter hurdles.
Drew Hudson, Jake Reeder, Luke VandeZande and Maass hooked up for a second in the 400-meter relay in 43.76 seconds, only 18-hundredths of a second slower than the winning quartet. Maass, Wheeler, VandeZande and Reeder came back to capture first place in the 800 relay in 1:30.79. The only other first for Wayland that day was turned i9n by Justin Springs in the long jump with a leap of 21-2.75.
Wheeler, Hubbard, Chance Lenhart and Reeder came in second in the 1600 relay.
Ashton Kulman captured this in the shot put.
In the girls’ meet, there were no surprises when Wayland’s Evie Mathis cleared 12-0 in the pole vault and Martin’s Veyda Conley won the 3200-meter run in 11:30.75. Megan Stack was sixth.
Conley added a third in the 800 and a fourth in the 1600. She, Torryn Harris, Allison Rodgers and Sara Schipper checked in fourth in 3200 relay.
Wayland scored a seventh in the 800 relay with Mathis, Ryleigh Haveman, Gwen Howard and Quinn Reeder. Howard came up with a third in the high jump and Mathis scored an eighth in the long jump.
Martin lands only 1 first at Constantine
The Martin track teams stumbled onto a buzzsaw Wednesday at the third Southwest Athletic meet, a double dual.
The Clipper boys were defeated by Constantine 119-18 and by Kalamazoo Hackett 101-36. The girls’ squad, meanwhile lost 118-18 to Constantine and 83-41 to Hackett.
The Clipper boys’ 3200-meter relay quartet with Xander Ruiter, Hunter Hayes, Jadon Dettman and Jeremiah VanHouten checked in second with a time of 9:34.7.
Peyton Schuring-Harris was runner-up in the shot put at 43-3. He was second in the discus as well with a toss of 119-9.
Blake Sweeting finished second in the high jump, as he cleared 5-8.
For the girls, Veyda Conley finished second in the 1600-meter run with a time of 5:20.74, just two-tenths of a second slower than the winning effort.
She came back later in the meet to win the 3200 with a time of 12:06.67. It was the only Martin victory in the meet.
