Western Middle School Track Scores Big at Saline Relays

The Western Middle School Boys and Girls Track teams both took home accolades at the Saline Hornet Relays on Wednesday as the two teams combined to win 18 individual and relay medals.

Western sported four winners in the individual field events.

Darren Greene (8th) won the Boys High Jump with a personal best height of 5’8”.

James Harris (8th, 44’0.5”), Christian Johnson (8th, 43’5.25”) and Chanddym Stephenson (8th, 33’8.5”) swept the Shot Put medals, finishing first, second and third respectively.

Willow Addleman (7th) won the Girls High Jump with a personal best height of 4’7”.

Zaviana Jackson (8th) took first place in the Long Jump with a personal best distance of 15’10”.   Avery Woodhurst (7th, 14’6.75”) medaled by finishing third, and Julianna Smith (7th, 13’11.75”) took fourth.

Maurice Qualls (8th), Stephenson, Johnson and Greene also took second place in the 4x200 Meter Relay with a time of 1:40.82, bettering their school record by more than two seconds.

Alivia Stahley (8th), Morgan Smith (8th), Jackson and Adalynn Newton (7th) took second place in the Distance Medley Relay with a time of 14:43.81.

Derek Boldt (8th), Theo Bayn (8th), Ethan Robinson (8th) and Qualls placed second in the 4x55 Meter Shuttle Hurdle Relay with a time of :37.41.

Leeland LaRose (8th), Greene, Liam Bryant (8th) and Devin Hill (8th) finished in second place in the Sprint Medley Relay with a time of 1:52.54.

Hunter Honeycutt (8th), Jacob Kubish (8th), Stephenson and Bryant took home third place medals in the 4x100 Meter Relay with a time of :51.30.

Mariska Brand (7th), Braelynn Schaffer (8th), Mallie Backinger (8th) and Olivia Sweezey (7th) also took third place in the 4x100 Meter Relay with a time of :56.83.

Eden Stahl (7th), Brand, Alivia Pluta (7th) and Emmary Carothers (7th) finished third in the 4x400 Meter Relay at 4:45.92.

Derek Boldt (8th), Devin Hill (8th) and Kanon Kelch (8th) placed second, third and fourth in the Individual Pole Vault.  Boldt cleared a personal best 9’0”, while Hill and Kelch each cleared 8’6”.

Anthony Hannah (7th) took a second place medal in the Long Jump with a personal best distance of 16’9.75”.

The 4x800 Meter Relay team was the last of the medal winners, as Stahley, Morgan Smith, Stahl and Jackson placed third with a time of 11:12.83.

Other finishers for Western were as follows:

Boys Open 1600 Meter Run

Dexter Rice (8th), 6:02.09 (personal best), 27th place

Cormac Heath (8th), 6:05.45 (personal best), 29th place

Quentin Woods (7th), 6;19.24, 32nd place

Leo Zhang (8th), 6:19.58, 33rd place

Ethan Gienapp (8th), 6:39.05, 35th place

Girls Open 1600 Meter Run

Adalynn Newton (7th), 6:33.58, 21st place

Gabrielle Ultz (8th), 7:18.32 (personal best), 32nd place

Emma Decker (7th), 7:50.22

Boys 4x100 Meter Relay

Giuvanni Tinervia (7th), Mason Barber (8th), Leeland LaRose (8th), Anthony Hannah (7th), :52.60, 6th place

Boys 4x200 Meter Relay

Tinervia, Barber, Honeycutt, Ryan Crownover (7th), 1:51.39, 7th place

Boys 4x400 Meter Relay

Liam Rivera (7th), Avery Hackworth (7th), Xavier Flores (7th), Woods, 4:57.64, 8th place

Boys 4x800 Meter Relay

Woods, Bradley Smith (8th), Nathan Bowser, Flores, 11:59.43, 13th place

Boys Sprint Medley Relay

Bayn, Crownover, Donald Hudie (7th), Hackworth, 2:05.35, 9th place

Boys Distance Medley Relay

Biswal, Wesley Nierer (7th), Heath, Ben Hammond (7th), 14:14.18, 9th place

Boys High Jump

Maruice Qualls (8th), 4’8”, 7th place

Dexter Rice (8th), 4’8” (personal best), 8th place

Boys Long Jump 

Mason Barber (8th), 16’0” (personal best), 6th place

Ryan Crownover (7th), 15’5.75”, 9th place

Girls 4x100 Meter Relay

Isabella Velez-Alvarenga (8th), Kiyami Eddy (8th), Violet Olney (7th), Bella Justice (8th), 1:03.92, 13th place

Girls 4x200 Meter Relay

Monica Smith, Justice, Olney, Mikaela Ricker (8th), 2:14.42, 13th place

Girls 4x800 Meter Relay

Emma Decker (7th), Alivia Pluta (7th), Julianna Smith (7th), Mercedes Ferraro (8th), 12:25.54, 11th place

Girls Sprint Medley Relay

Harper Backinger (8th), Raelyn Lore-Woods (8th), Kiyami Eddy (8th), Tessa Pryor (8th), 2:51.07, 14th place

Girls 4x55 Meter Shuttle Hurdles

Mariska Brand (7th), Avery Woodhurst (7th), Harper Backinger, Ashlyn Darrow (8th), :42.21, 4th place.

Girls Shot Put

Tessa Pryor (8th), 24’4.75” (personal best), 9th place

Analia Ballaron (8th), 22’0.75”,15th place

Emma Lee (8th), 21’10.5”, 16th place

Girls High Jump

Kiyami Eddy (7th), 4’0”, 7th place

Girls Pole Vault

Mercedes Ferraro (8th), 6’6”, 5th place

Ashlyn Darrow (8th), 6’0”, 7th place

Bella Justice (8th), 5’6”, 10th place

Co-Ed Mixed 4x400 Meter Relay

Willow Addleman (7th), Ethan Robinson (8th), Wesley Nierer (7th), Karcen Snider (7th), 4:32.70, 4th place.

Both Panther teams head to Ypsilanti Lincoln next Wednesday for the Regional track meet.