4A/3A/2A: Sugar-Salem, Firth claim state team titles, with six other teams winning trophies (updated)
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MIDDLETON – The 4A/3A/2A track and field championships ended Saturday with quite a trophy haul for area teams.
Sugar-Salem won the boys 4A team title with 94 points while Firth captured the 3A girls title with 134 points. It was Firth’s first title since 2004.
West Side won a fourth-place trophy in 3A boys by a half point over Malad, and also earning team trophies were the Butte County boys placing third in 2A, the Aberdeen girls taking second in 3A, the Malad girls placing third in 3A, and the Sugar-Salem girls taking third in 4A. Ririe also finished fourth in the 3A girls teams standings.
Highlighting some individuals with multiple titles, sprinters and distance runners each reached the top of the podium as Jose Torres of American Falls won the 4A boys 100 and 200 and North Fremont’s Corbin Johnston won the 3A 3,200 and 1,600 and finished second in the 800. His 9:18.97 in the 3,200 was a personal best.
Firth’s Kynzie Nielson helped lead the Cougars to a team title, winning the 3A 1,600 in a personal-best time of 5:15.86 and finishing second in the 3,200 and 800.
Lilly Stebbins of Challis won the 2A high jump, the 300 hurdles and placed second in the 100 hurdles.
Aberdeen’s Sage Rowlan ran 46.07 to win the 3A 300 hurdles and placed second in the 100 hurdles.
Boys
Track events
Austin Adair of American Falls clocked a PR of 49.32 to win the 4A 400, while West Side’s Ethan Willis won the 3A 800 and was second in the 400 in a PR of 50.01.
Teton’s Zane Lindquist continued the area’s strong showing in distance races, winning the 4A 3,200 and placing second in the 1,600.
Degan Stoor of Soda Springs doubled up in the 3A hurdle races with a win in the 110s and a second-place finish in the 300s.
Sophomore Canon Kunz of Teton won the 4A 110 hurdles in 15.40 and finished fourth in the 300 hurdles.
American Falls (Jakub Sammons, Zakary Grigg, Jose Torres, Austin Adair) won the 4A 4×400 in a record time of 3:25.83 and the North Fremont boys won the 3A SMR 1,600 (Andrew Martin, Lane Klink, Owen Reid, Corbin Johnston), holding off West Side.
Field events
Sho-Ban’s Sky Cree Medicine tossed the javelin 148-11 to win the 2A boys title.
There were two are high jump winners as Roy Wynn of North Fremont cleared 6-4 to top the 3A field and Jack Larson of Sugar-Salem won the 3A crown at 6-4.
Pole vaulters Parker Banks of Challis and Canon Foster of Aberdeen made the top of the podium in 2A and 3A, respectively.
Butte County’s standout football player Keaton Archibald added a 2A long jump title to his resume and West Jefferson’s Rawley Calder doubled up with a first-place finish in the long jump and placed third in the triple jump.
Beau Driscoll of Snake River won the 4A triple jump by more than two feet with a mark of 46-7.25.
GIRLS
Track events
Baylee Johnson racked up points for Firth, finishing second in the 3A 100 and third in the 200.
Coming off a state cross country team title, Ririe’s Lucy Boone won the 3A 3,200, holding off Firth’s Kynzie Nielson. Boone also finished second in the 1,600.
In the relays, Firth (Adyson Park, Ellie Christensen, Ruby Hillman, Baylee Johnson) won the 3A 4×100, the 4×200 (Olivia Christensen, Ellie Christensen, Ruby Hillman, Adyson Park) and 4×400 (Baylie Mecham, Allie Nielson, Kynzie Nielson, Baylee Johnson).
Field events
Firth’s Madison Torgerson won the 3A shot put.
In 4A high jump, Sugar-Salem’s Tasha Larsen cleared 5-4 for the win.
Pole vaulters Paityn Messick of Firth and Lydia Townsend of Marsh Valley won the 3A and 4A events, respectively. Andelin Tilley of Aberdeen also cleared 9-6 to take second in 3A.
Freshman Sorelle Clark of Sugar-Salem set a PR of 19-5.25 to win the 4A long jump.