Blue Devils sweep A track, girls top Whitefish by point

LAUREL — So close.

Both the girls and boys team races at the State A track and field meet came down to the final event Saturday, and each were decided by a single point.

The Corvallis boys with 63 points. Hamilton and Dillon were next with 62 and 61.

On the girls side, Corvallis edged defending champion Whitefish 84-83; the meet’s final event, the 1,600-meter relay, saw the Bulldogs win impressively in 4 minutes, .71 seconds.

Corvallis star Olivia Lewis pushed the Blue Devils from deep in the pack to second, with a time of 4:07.10 — and that was enough to clinch the team title.

Brooke Zetooney, like Lewis a junior, was again a force for Whitefish, winning the 100 meters in 12.35 seconds and the 200 in 25.32. On Friday Zetooney tied the State A record in the 100, clocking 12.24 in the prelims.

Teammate Maeve Inglefinger won the 800 Saturday in 2:20.71, and Hailey Ells PR’d (46.01) while finishing second in the 300-meter hurdles.

Winning the 300s was the Blue Devils’ Lewis, who clipped through in 43.37. She also won the 100 hurdles by a full second over teammate Rylee Herbstritt. Her time of 14.86 was a PR.

Junior Norah Schmidt added a fifth in the triple jump for Whitefish; Billings Central’s Kendall Wahl (37-8) and Ronan’s Leina Ulutoa (37-0) went 1-2 in that event.

On the boys’ side, Hamilton and Dillon were in range of the Blue Devils going into that long relay. Dillon won it over Hamilton — if their places were switched, Hamilton has 64 points — by less than half a second.

Meanwhile Corvallis took sixth, garnering that single, winning point.

Frenchtown senior Carter White swept the 100 and 200 dashes, winning tight battles with Columbia Falls junior Malaki Simpson. In the 100 the gap was 10.90 to 10.98. In the 200 both runners had PRs: 21.87 and 21.95.

Lane Voermans, just a sophomore, hit his PR (166-5) and won the discus for the Wildcats. Teammate Bryce Dunham was fourth in the javelin.

Columbia Falls also won the short relay Saturday, beating Dillon by .02 with a time of 42.72, and the Cats took third in the long relay.

Frenchtown was fourth in the team race with 56 points, and the Wildcats were fifth at 49.

Carson Krack second in the 300 hurdles and sixth in the 110 hurdles for Whitefish; his time in the 300s was 40.97, a PR. Dillon’s Treyton Graham won in 39.86.

The Bulldogs scored 22 points, tying them for eighth. Bowdrie Krack furnished six of those points with a third-place finish in the pole vault.

Full results can be found at athletic.net.