The Wayland boys’ varsity track team Friday came home from Mason with the Division 2 regionals runner-up trophy.
The girls’ squad didn’t do badly either, finishing sixth among the 15 teams in the competition.
The Wildcat boys scored 82 points behind champion Parma Western’s 130. The Lady Wildcats accumulated 49.5 points, as Parma took that title as well.
Seth Sevenski-Popma was regional champion in the the open 400-meter run with a time of
50.99 seconds and teammate Caleb Wolf was third with a time of 51.88.
Wolf and Sevenski-Popma went 3-4 in the 200-meter dash with times of 23.28 and 23.55 seconds, respectively.
Sevenski-Popma fifth in the 100-meter dash, in 11.46 seconds.
The Wildcat boys, as usual, scored heavily in the relays.
Taking second in the 1600 relay in 3:28.7 were Wolf, Devin Jakey, Josh Butler and Sevenski-Popma. Jakey, Thompson, Butler and Austin Reeder earned runner-up honors in 400 relay in 45.09 seconds. Jakey, Thompson, Butler and Wolf did the same in the 800 relay, at 1:33.5.
Faring the worst of the foursomes, but still taking third were Elijah Gamelin, Caleb Pletcher, Alessandro Porta and Butler in the 3200, at 8:18.07.
Porta, a foreign exchange student, picked a good time to turn in his best 800-meter run and took sixth with a time of 2:07.13. Caleb Pletcher was ninth in the event and copped a seventh in the 1600 with a time of 4:38.88.
Senior Tryston Sloan captured a sixth place slot in the 110-meter hurdles with a 17.19 clocking and Devin Westfahl was ninth in the 300 hurdles.
Senior Robert Bausick hurled the shot 45-11.5 to claim fifth place. He was ninth in the discus.
Jakey was third in the long jump at 20-05 and Elijah Veldman cleared a career-best 11-10 in the pole vault and was10th.
Juniors Corrina Courser and Rylee Cronkright did a lot of scoring again for the Lady Wildcats.
Courser was regional champion in the 100-meter high hurdles in 15.48 seconds came back later to win the 300 hurdles in 47.25 seonds. She was second in the open 200-meter dash at 26.93 seconds, less than two-fifths of a second from first. Teammate Khylea Wells was sixth.
Sophomore Madelyn Probst finished eighth in the open 400 with a time of 64.75 seconds.
Cronkright was fourth in the 1600 with her personal best time of 5:28.01. She was third in the 3200 at
12:15.96 and she anchored the only Lady Wildcat relay quartet to score, the 3200, with Zoe Antel, Naomi Oosterhouse and Holly Jandernoa.
Junior Jessica Hortman threw her best ever discus of 97-02 to finish sixth.
Probst cleared 4-10 to tie for sixth in the high jump.
