GMS track teams capture team titles in Burlington

With a strong tailwind at their backs and a malfunctioning timing system, local athletes produced some truly eye-popping stats at Friday’s Burlington Invitational.   
Coach Becky Eichelberger put less stock in the numbers that the timing system produced than the individual and team finishes of her athletes.
And on that count, it was a very successful day for GMS.
The following athletes qualified for next week’s Best of the Best competition in Lander:
• Alan Burgos, in the 200 meters
• Jayden Marchant, in the long jump
• William Harlow and Elijah Rice, in the discus
• Triston Gross, in the 100-meter hurdles
• Reagan Vigil, in the 100-meter hurdles
• Lovely Araiza, in the 100 meters.
GMS also fared well as a team, with the eighth-grade girls and the sixth- and seventh-grade boys topping their divisions, which included Rocky Mountain, Meeteetse, Burlington, Riverside and Ten Sleep.
Individual event winners for GMS included Addison Coscarelli (200 meters), Caitlyn Hunt (100-meter hurdles and triple jump), Aaron Corral (200 meters), Elijah Rice (discus), Alan Burgos (seventh 100 and 200), Cruz Sorenson (seventh shot, discus and 400), Liam Wisehart (seventh 200-meter hurdles) and Baron Eichelberger (seventh long jump).
The season wraps up in the coming days with the annual Big Horn Conference meet Saturday at Rocky Mountain, followed by Tuesday’s Best of the Best.
While track is considered an individual sport, Eichelberger has preached the team concept all season and it will come into play this weekend.
“We’d love to be able to bring home some hardware,” she said.
Both seventh-grade teams “have a good shot” of winning their divisions.  “We’ve been in first place at a number of meets, and when we haven’t, we’ve trailed bigger schools that we won’t see (in Cowley),” she said.
The eighth grade teams may not have the depth to make a run at a team title. “The girls could go either way, depending on their performances and how they step up to that conference meet pressure,” she said. “Most of them have already made it to Best of the Best.”

BURLINGTON INVITE
EIGHTH GRADE GIRLS — Greybull 134, Rocky Mt. 72, Meeteetse 56, Burlington 50, Riverside 41, Ten Sleep 33.
100 METERS — 2, Addison Coscarelli, 14.24.  5, Angela Myers, 14.92.  6, Soraya Porras, 15.18.
200 METERS — 1, Coscarelli, 31.52.  3, MaKenna Schell, 33.3.
400 METERS — 2, Adeline Kunkel, 1:10.14.  
100 HURDLES — 1, Caitlyn Hunt, 16.71. 2, Ashlyn Chacon, 16.84.  3, Adeline Kunkel, 17.65.  5, Lydia Craw, 19.49.
400 METERS — 1, Greybull (Avery Allen, Hunt, Coscarelli, Myers), 58.21.
800 MEDLEY RELAY — 1, Greybull (Reagan Vigil, Lovely Araiza, Ashlyn Chacon, Adeline Kunkel), 2:15.47.
LONG JUMP — 4, Avery Allen, 12-2 1/2.  7, Ashlyn Chacon, 11-9 1/2.  8, Craw and Myers, 11-0.
TRIPLE JUMP — 1, Hunt, 29-0 1/4.  2, Kunkel, 28-5 1/2.5, Allen, 27-8 1/4.  7, Schell, 20-7 1/2.
DISCUS — 4, Porras, 49-4.

SIXTH-SEVENTH GIRLS — Burlington 159, Riverside 105.5, Greybull 75, Meeteetse 64, Ten Sleep 62.5, Rocky Mt. 54.
100 METERS — 3, Lovely Araiza, 14.01.
200 METERS — 3, Araiza, 32.4.  4, Amelia Emmett and Mia Aguilar, 34.04.  
100 HURDLES — 2, Reagan Vigil, 19.78.  5, Josey Whaley, 20.65.  6, Emmett, 20.74.
200 HURDLES — 6, Vigil, 37.55.  7, Maythe Garay, 37.55.
400 RELAY — 1, Greybull (Vigil, Julie Garcia, Lovely Araiza, Ella Keisel), 1:00.02.
800 MEDLEY RELAY — 2, Greybull (Garcia, Lydia Rios, Whaley, Garay), 2:36.47.
LONG JUMP — 7, Garay, 11-0.
SHOT PUT — 3, Wendy Garcia, 18-7 1/2.  8, Aguilar, 16-3.
DISCUS — 3, Garcia, 56-5.8,  8, Whaley, 48-6.

EIGHTH GRADE BOYS — Rocky Mt. 171, Burlington 72, Greybull 70, Ten Sleep 61, Riverside 55, Meeteetse 13.
100 METERS — 2, Jordi Araiza, 12.95.  5, Ben Jacobs, 14.18.
200 METERS — 1, Aaron Corral, 24.81.
800 MEDLEY RELAY —  2, Greybull (Araiza, Jacobs, Elijah Rice, Xavier VanderPloeg), 2:20.38.
LONG  JUMP — 6, Jordi Araiza, 13-11.  7, Corral, 13-8 1/2.
TRIPLE JUMP — 6, Corral, 30-10 1/2.
SHOT PUT — 2, William Harlow, 36-5 1/2.  3, Elijah Rice, 33-11 3/4.  7, Phillip Thomas, 24-10.
DISCUS  — 1, Rice, 114-02.  4, Harlow, 109-6 1/2.  8, Thomas, 58-5.

SIXTH-SEVENTH BOYS — Greybull 182, Burlington 133.6, Rocky Mt. 105.6, Riverside 40.8, Ten Sleep 33, Meeteetse 1.
100 METERS — 1, Alan Burgos, 13.49.  3, Jayden Marchant, 13.64.  4, Cody Myer, 14.02.  6, Jace Julson, 14.81.
200 METERS — 1, Burgos, 28.23.  3, Marchant, 29.51.   4, Myer, 30.46.   
400 METERS — 1, Cruz Sorenson, 1:09.24.  7, Jace Pouska, 1:18.0.
800 METERS — 2, Angelo Aguilar, 2:38.28.  6, Braxten Link, 3:09.96.
1,600 METERS — 5, Link, 6:53.28.
100 HURDLES — 2, Triston Gross, 18.58.  4, Pouska, 21.81.  
200 HURDLES — 1, Liam Wisehart, 36.75.  4, Braxten Link, 40.56.
400 RELAY — 1, Greybull (Burgos, Baron Eichelberger, Marchant, Riley Wiggins), 57.58.
800 MEDLEY RELAY  —  1, Greybull (Easton Spragg, Liam Wisehart, Kayson Herebia, Cody Myer), 2:11.37.
HIGH JUMP — 2, Myer, 4-8.  3, Julson, 4-4.
LONG JUMP — 1, Eichelberger, 11-11 1/2.  
TRIPLE JUMP — 2, Wisehart, 29-3 1/4.
SHOT PUT — 1, Sorenson, 30-4.  2, Triston Gross, 27-9 1/2.   
DISCUS — 1, Sorenson, 85-9 1/2.  6, Gross, 63-11 1/2.