Bravette track wins Tri with Knights, Spartans
Flathead boys track and field coach Dan Hodge, right, is presented with a plaque by Derek Schulz, Flathead High class of 1985 and a former track and field athlete under Hodge, before a triangular meet with Missoula Hellgate and Missoula Sentinel at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, May 3. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Flathead's Kelcey Copping leans in near the finish line in the girls 100 meter dash during a triangular meet with Missoula Hellgate and Missoula Sentinel at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, May 3. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Flathead's Gabe Felton finishes first in the boys 800 meter run during a triangular meet with Missoula Hellgate and Missoula Sentinel at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, May 3. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Flathead's Peyton Walker takes first in the girls 400 meter dash during a triangular meet with Missoula Hellgate and Missoula Sentinel at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, May 3. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Flathead's Dylan Zink competes in the boys long jump during a triangular meet with Missoula Hellgate and Missoula Sentinel at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, May 3. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Flathead's Tali Miller releases a throw of 118 feet 11 inches in the girls javelin during a triangular meet with Missoula Hellgate and Missoula Sentinel at Legends Stadium on Tuesday, May 3. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
As warmups for Archie Roe go, this will do nicely for Flathead.
The host Bravettes won their own triangular track and field meet at Legends Stadium Tuesday, winning four individual events and one relay on the way to 64 points. Defending AA champion Missoula Sentinel was next with 59 ½, and Missoula Hellgate was two points further back.
Sentinel scored 76 points to take the boys crown; Flathead edged off Hellgate for second, scoring 53 ½ points.
Kelcey Copping (100), Peyton Walker (400), Taliana Miller (shot put) and Kennedy Moore (high jump) were individual winners for the Bravettes, and Walker’s time of 61.37 seconds unofficially slips into the top 10 in AA.
Miller also set a PR, but it was in the javelin — she threw a personal-best 121 feet, 5 inches. Trouble was Hellgate’s Keke Davis also PR’d, throwing 142-10, pushing Miller down to fourth in AA.
Another PR was by Flathead’s Hania Halverson, who cleared 10-6 in the pole vault. She was second to Hannah Moses of Hellgate, who cleared 11-3.
Sentinel had some standouts — Brooke Stayner swept the 200 and both hurdles races — but not the depth, though Emily McElmurry won the triple and was second in both hurdles.
On the boys’ side, Dylan Zink swept the jumps for Flathead and increased his season best in the long jump to 21-3.
Teammate Noah Hannah cleared 12-6 to win the pole vault; and the Braves lowered their long relay time almost 4 seconds, to 3:34.43.
Sentinel had a lot of firsts and depth, and the toughest race was the 1,600 where both Sentinel’s Keagan Crosby (4:22.14) and Hellgate’s Finneas Colescott (4:24.83) ran under what had been the fastest time in the AA: 4:25.13, by Glacier’s Sam Ells.
That sets up one of many marquee battles for Saturday’s 43rd Archie Roe Invitational at Legends Stadium. The multi-team meet begins at 10 a.m.
Flathead Triangular
GIRLS
Team scores — Flathead 64, Missoula Sentinel 59 ½, Missoula Hellgate 57 ½.
100 — 1, Kelcey Copping, Fla, 13.10; 2, Rylee Barnes, Fla, 13.32; 3, Lily McHood, Sent, 13.40; 4, Anneliese Bessette, Hgt, 13.43.
200 — 1, Brooke Stayner, Sent, 26.62; 2, Anneleise Bessette, Hgt, 27.97; 3, Afton Wride, Fla, 28.89; 4, Grace Boyles, Hgt, 29.00.
400 — 1, Peyton Walker, Fla, 61.37; 2, Sophie Miller, Hgt, 61.15; 3, Ruby Lorenz, Sent, 61.18; 4, Akilah Kubi, Fla, 62.75.
800 — 1, Kensey May, Hgt, 2:17.94; 2, Mykayla Miller, Sent, 2:27.87; 3, Stella Diaz, Hgt, 2:23.85; 4, Rose Wiltse, Hgt, 2:24.78.
1,600 — 1, Emmaline Derry, Hgt, 5:31.42; 2, Lilli Rumsey Eash, Fla, 5:36.41; 3, Clare Castleberry, Hgt, 5:37.20; 4, Josie Wilson, Fla, 5:43.35.
3,200 — 1, Malia Bradford, Sent, 11:51.66; 2, Aurora Baker, Fla, 14:01.04; 3, Hailey Hendrickson, Fla, 14:10.38; 4, Elizabeth Cornelius, Sent, 14:25.33.
100 hurdles — 1, Brooke Stayner, Sent, 15.47; 2, Emily McElmurry, Sent, 15.56; 3, Zoey Bortz, Fla, 18.42; 4, Madi Gilchrist, Fla, 18.58.
300 hurdles — 1, Brooke Stayner, Sent, 45.56; 2, Emily McElmurry, Sent, 49.41; 3, Harlie Roth, Fla, 50.46; 4, Madi Gilchrist, Fla, 50.687.
400 relay — 1, Hellgate 50.01; 2, Flathead 50.77; 3, Hellgate 55.49.
1,600 relay — 1, Flathead 4:07.69; Hellgate 4:09.36; 3, Sentinel 4:13.17.
Discus — 1, Braden Kopp, Hgt, 104-2; 2, Faith Marshall, Sent, 103-8; 3, McKenna Storment, Hgt, 102-5; 4, Ashleigh Hall, Hgt, 97-2.
Javelin — 1, Keke Davis, Hgt, 124-10; 2, Taliana Miller, Fla, 121-5; 3, Bailey Casagrande, Sent, 113-9; 4, Elly Thorpe, Hgt, 110-8.
Shot put — 1, Taliana Miller, Fla, 34-6; 2, Alliyah Stevens, Fla, 34-5; 3, Avery Youbles, Hgt, 33-4; 4, Quincy Frohlich, Sent, 30-8 ½.
High jump — 1, Kennedy Moore, Fla, 5-1; 2, Jayden Nash, Sent, 4-11; 3, Peyton Walker, Fla, 4-9; 4 (tie), Lillie Lambert, Hgt, and Adalyn Ascher, Sent, 4-7.
Long jump — 1, Perry Paffhausen, Hgt, 18-0; 2, Brooke Stayner, Sent, 17-4; 2, Ava Kellenberg, Sent, 16-10; 4, Akilah Kubi, Fla, 16-5 ½.
Triple jump — 1, Emily McElmurry, Sent, 35-8; 2, Ava Kellenburg, Sent, 35-7; 3, Mia Stephan, Fla, 34-3 ¼; 4, Rylee Thompson, Fla, 33-6.
Pole vault — 1, Hannah Moses, Hgt, 11-3; 2, Hania Halverson, Fla, 10-6; 3, Alyssa Conrwell, Sent, 8-0; 4, Aviv Guscio, Sent, 8-0.
BOYS
Team scores — Sentinel 76, Flathead 53 ½, Hellgate 51 ½.
100 — 1, Hudson Lembke, Sent, 11.40; 2, Karsen Beitz, Sent, 11.55; 2, Easton Leadbetter, Sent, 11.60; 4, Brody Thornsberry, Fla, 11.62.
200 — 1, Karsen Beitz, Sent, 23.32; 2, Easton Leadbetter, Sent, 23.51; 3, Brody Thornsberry, Fla, 23.53; 4, Quentin Schraeder, Sent, 23.54.
400 — 1, Chase Cox, Sent, 52.67; 2, Wyatt Thompson, Fla, 52.99; 3, Grady Caton, Hgt, 53.56; 4, Samuel Hopp, Fla, 54.97.
800 — 1, Gabe Felton, Fla, 2:02.15; 2, Kelser Hughes, Fla, 2:03.67; 3, Ridley Key, Hgt, 2:05.17; 4, Vincent Lincoln, Sent, 2:08.01.
1,600 — 1, Keagan Crosby, Sent, 4:22.14; 2, Finneas Colescott, Hgt, 4:24.83; 3, Colin Shaules, Sent, 4:27.96; 4, Tanner Klumph, Sent, 4:29.14.
3,200 — 1, Jacob Sriraman, Sent, 10:09.79; 2, Bauer Hollman, Fla, 10:40.31; 3, McKay Whiting, Hgt, 10:49.84; 4, Tom McKee, Sent, 10:54.02.
110 hurdles — 1, Drew Klumph, Sent, 15.27; 2, Zac Crews, Sent, 15.47; 3, Corbin Weltzien, Hgt, 16.15; 4, Ohani Porter, Hgt, 17.26.
300 hurdles — 1, Corbin Weltzien, Hgt, 42.57; 2, Ohani Porter, Hgt, 43.60; 3, Carter Bullins, Fla, 44.46; 4, Michael Manning, Fla, 45.36.
400 relay — 1, Sentinel 42.75; 2, Flathead 44.08; 3, Hellgate 45.21.
1,600 relay — 1, Sentinel 3:31.72; 2, Flathead 3:34.43; 3, Hellgate 3:38.26.
Discus — 1, Layne Cooney, Hgt, 145-9; 2, Zac Crews, Sent, 144-2; 3, Danny Sirmon, Sent, 142-3; 4, Tommy Nilson, Hgt, 135-4.
Javelin — 1, Aiden Nichols, Hgt, 161-11; 2, Zac Crews, Sent, 161-1; 3, Timbur Nilson, Hgt, 153-0; 4, Shaun Liechty, Sent, 148-1.
Shot put — 1, Tommy Nilson, Hgt, 49-6 ½; 2, Zac Crews, Sent, 48- ½; 3, Alex Shields, Hgt, 45-4; 4, Cuinn Powers, Hgt, 43-10.
High jump — 1, Dylan Zink, Fla, 5-10; 2 (tie), Odin Erickson, Fla, and Emmett Zander, Hgt, 5-9; 4 (tie), Skeet Scharfe, Hgt, Aiden Nichols, Hgt, and Easton Sant, Hgt, 5-6.
Long jump — 1, Dylan Zink, Fla, 21-3; 2, Brody Thornsberry, Fla, 19-11; 3, JJ Dolan, Sent, 19-1; 4, Tyler Christensen, Sent, 19-9.
Triple jump — 1, Dylan Zink, Fla, 43-3 ¾; 2, Zac Crews, Sent, 41-0; 3, Skeet Scharfe, Hgt, 40-5 ½; 4, Carter Bullins, Fla, 40-2.
Pole vault — 1, Noah Nannah, Fla, 12-6; 2, Wyatt Zander, Hgt, 12-0; 3, Colten Graham, Hgt, 12-0; 4, Kaimana Benson, Sent, 11-0.