It was a really good night at the Wayland High School track where the boys’ and girls’ home teams recorded two dual meet victories.
The boys, who remain undefeated this spring, swamped Wyoming 109-27 and Grand Rapids Northview 79-58. The Lady Wildcats took out Wyoming 80-52 and Northview 90-46.
Taking firsts in the entire meet for the Wildcat boys were Jake Reeder run the 200-meter dash, 23.25 seconds; Brock Wheeler in the 400, 51.87; Ethan Manning in 3200, 10:31.33; Alex Hubbard in the 110-meter high hurdles, 15.76; Hubbard in the 300-meter hurdles, 43.36; Drew Hudson, Reeder, Luke VandeZande and Henry Maass in the 400-meter relay, 44.75; Maass, Wheeler, VandeZande and Jake Reeder, 1:31.7, and Ashton Kuhlman in the shot put, 55-4, and the discus, 136-7.
Evie Mathis turned in an abbreviated performance in the pole vault. Though she has cleared 12-6 before, she stopped at 10-6 Monday, winning nonetheless, and she was first at 14-8 in the long jump.
Other Wildcat girls’ firsts were copped by Abree VanDenBrink in the 1600 in 5:53.19 and in the 3200 in 12:49.49; freshman Lillian Lakatos in the 100-meter hurdles in 20.22 and in the 300-meter hurdles in 55.48; Ryleigh Haveman, Megan Brogger, Bre Hoodgewind and Lakatos in the 1600-meter relay, in 4:35.2; Madison Bumhoffer, Tessa Miller, Hoogewind and Aubrey VanDenBrink in the 3200 relay, and Gwen Howard in the high jump, 4-10.
Wayland Middle School seventh-grader Maverick Kasprowicz Monday set the school record in the 3200-meter run with an astonishing time of 10:38.32. He recorded the feat at Middleville Thornapple Kellogg High School.
