The Wayland boys’ track team Monday won the championship trophy in the Comstock Invitational.

The girls narrowly edged Benton Harbor by four points for second place and the boys scored 166 points to take that competition, which included 12 teams.

Coach Marty Howard said performing well for the Wildcats were Tristen Ortiz, David Ruzskowski, Caleb Pletcher and Jacob Butler.

Meet winners were:

  • 400 meter run — Caleb Wolf, 51.54.
    • 800 meter run — Caleb Fletcher, 2:08.35.
    • 3200 meter run — Jon Zuiderveen, 10:50.93.
    • 300 intermediate hurdles — Lee Anderson, 41.66.
    • 3200 relay — Tristen Ortiz, David Ruzskowski, Jacob Butler and Anthony Muscarella, 8:51.62.

Among the teams that competed were Cassopolis, St. Joseph Lake Michigan Catholic, GR Northpointe Christian, Comstock, West Michigan Lutheran and Fennville.

The 4 x 800 relay team of Zoe Antel, Abigail Hasse, Rylee Cronkright and Maggie Whitney ran to a PR of 10:28.46 to take the gold.

Freshman Corinna Courser finished fourth in the 200, second in the 100 high hurdles, second in the 300 hurdles, and anchored the 4 x 400 to a second place finish, running a 63-second split.

Maggie Whitney took the gold in the 800, while Antel took the bronze.

Rylee Cronkright took home the silver in the 1600 and Antel took fourth. Cronkright doubled up on the distance and took the gold in the 3200, running a PR of 12:32.97.

Grace Hasse earned a fourth place medal in the 300 hurdles in a time of 55.94. Asiia Sok took a silver medal in the pole vault. Brittany Ludwig and Julia Belke took third and sixth in the high jump, respectively.

Hannah Rybiski was Wayland’s lone medalist in the shot put with a throw of 27’1″, taking sixth. McKenna Dutkiewicz and Elizabeth Barnes finished third and fourth with throws of 84’10” and 80’10.5″ in the discus. The 4 x 400 team of Whitney, Hasse, Rybiski, and Courser took the silver with a time of 4:29.16. The 4 x 100 team of Brown, Ludwig, Hortman, and Wells ran to another PR of 56.44 to take home a sixth place medal. Klein, Ludwig, Hortman, and Wells took fourth in the 4 x 200 with a PR of 1:58.5.

The Wildcats are looking forward to the Division 2 regionals this weekend at Houseman Field in Grand Rapids.

 

 

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