Sprint medley team qualifies

By Nathan Oster

For the second consecutive weekend, it was Wyatt and the Relayers making noise for the Greybull High School track team.

Wyatt, last name Whaley, added another event to her state meet lineup, qualifying for the discus at Saturday’s L.A. Kohnke Powell Invitational after bettering the 2A standard in the shot put at last week’s Bill Gerrard Memorial.

Whaley threw 103 feet, 2 inches, a personal best and good for sixth place at the highly competitive meet, which attracted approximately a dozen teams, many of them big schools from the 3A classification.

“Another great week of improvement for Wyatt,” said Coach Nolan Tracy, noting that the sophomore’s PR prior to that was a 92-2, recorded at the season-opening Burlington meet. 

At 103-2, she hit the 2A qualifying standard right on the nose.

The weekend’s other significant achievement also came in Powell — and like last week, it was a relay team that produced it.  In their first time entering it, Addison Coscarelli, Ashlyn Chacon, Marlee Henson and Adeline Kunkel ran a 4:53.88 in the medley relay, bettering the 2A standard of 4:58.67.

Tracy called it a pleasant surprise. “A lot of it had to do with the 800,” he said. “Adeline doesn’t run the 800 and hasn’t been training for it, but said, ‘O.K., I’ll run it at that meet.’  It was kind of funny — not just because they qualified, but because after the meet, she was saying she might want to start running it.  We may have found another event for her.”

The week before, it was a different relay team — the 400-meter foursome of Angela Myer, Caitlyn Hunt, Ellie Holloway and Marlee Henson — celebrating an AQ time, which it posted at the Greybull meet.

“It’s awesome adding three more girls (Coscarelli, Chacon and Kunkel) as state qualifiers,” said Tracy.

Another highlight on the girls’ side came Friday in Dayton, where Chacon placed first in the 100-meter hurdles and second in the 300-meter hurdles.  Henson was also a winner at the smaller meet, taking the 100-meter dash.

While there were no new qualifiers on the boys side, Tracy cited the improvements of Elijah Rice, who threw 118 feet in the discus, betting his PR by 16 feet; Jesse Brown, who set a PR in the 100 meters with a 12.07, and Carter Peasley, who cleared 5-8 in the high jump, his best of the year.

The Buffs were scheduled to run a meet today in Shoshoni, but with inclement weather in the forecast, it was moved up to Tuesday.  Results were not available at press time.

“A lot of teams will be going to Worland, which will be a lot bigger meet, but I’d  rather go farther for a smaller meet,” Tracy said. “Plus, it’s our regional track and I like to give kids a chance to compete it beforehand.”

TONGUE RIVER INVITE

GIRLS — Sheridan 133, Tongue River 125.5, Thunder Basin 103.5, Shoshoni 67, Greybull 53, Big Horn 48, Western Heritage 2.

100 METERS — 1, Marlee Henson, 13.12.  13, Addison Coscarelli, 14.63.  17, Angela Myers, 14.91.

200 METERS — 3, Henson, 27.79.  17, Coscarelli, 30.49.

1,600 METERS  — 7, Destany Shiplet, 7:17.92.

100 HURDLES — 1, Ashlyn Chacon, 19.01.  4, Caitlyn Hunt, 19.27.

300 HURDLES — 2, Chacon, 53.93.

400 RELAY — 3, Greybull (Myers, Hunt, Ellie Holloway, Henson, 54.08.

LONG JUMP — 9, Ellie Holloway, 13-9.  11, Avery Allen, 13-7.

TRIPLE JUMP — 9, Allen, 28-4.

DISCUS  — 8, Wyatt Whaley, 84-3 1//2.  

SHOT PUT — 4, Whaley, 34-8 1/2.  28, Heather Roll, 21-3.

BOYS — Sheridan 238, Big Horn 97, Tongue River 95, Thunder Basin 88, Ten Sleep 29, Greybull 22, Shoshoni 17, Western Heritage 3.

100 METERS — 10, Jesse Brown, 12.16.  16, Daniel Baker, 12.45.  24, Carter Peasley and Anthony Chacon, 12.62.  35, Jordi Araiza, 12.95.  49, Xavier VanderPloeg, 13.47.

200 METERS — 13, Chacon, 25.81.  

400 METERS — 8, Nikoah Sorensen, 56.58.  16, VanderPloeg, 1:02.01.

800 METERS — 12, Shawn August, 2:34.74.  14, Sorensen, 2:47.95.

3,200 METERS — 5, Isaac Vigil, 13:33.05. 7, Leonard Marsh, 14:50.0.

300 HURDLES — 16, Sorensen, 51.25.  

400 RELAY — 2, Greybull, 47.10.

HIGH JUMP — 3, Peasley, 5-8.

LONG JUMP — 10, Brown, 17-11.  12, Araiza, 17-8.

TRIPLE JUMP — 8, August, 34-2 1/2.

DISCUS — 15, Elijah Rice, 100-6.

SHOT PUT — 19, Rice, 35-5.  38, Marsh, 30-6 1/2.

LA KOHNKE INVITATIONAL

GIRLS — Powell 150, Lander 130, Worland 99.5, Cody 96.5, Riverton 81, Lovell 54.5, Greybull 22, Thermopolis 21, Burlington 18.5, Rocky Mt. 10.

100 METERS — 7, Henson, 13.51.  36, Myers, 14.93.

200 METERS — 17, Coscarelli, 31.13.

800 METERS — 21, Shiplet, 3:15.56.

100 HURDLES — 19, Chacon, 19.5.

400 RELAY— 4, Greybull (Myers, Hunt, Holloway, Henson), 55.02.

SPRINT MEDLEY RELAY — 5, Greybull (Coscarelli, Chacon, Henson, Kunkel), 4:53.88.

LONG JUMP — 21, Allen, 13-0.

TRIPLE JUMP — 10, Hunt, 28-4 1/2.  14, Allen, 27-11 1/4.

DISCUS — 6, Whaley, 103-2.

SHOT PUT — 2, Whaley, 34-5 1/2.  28, Roll, 22-3 1/2.

BOYS —Lovell 150.5, Cody 102.5, Powell 78.5, Lander 73.5, Thermopolis 73, Riverton 67, Worland 63, Burlington 43, Rocky Mt. 11, Riverside 11, Greybull 8, Meeteetse 3. 

100 METERS — 18, Brown, 12.07.  51, Peasley, 12.59.  55,  Chacon, 12.67.  91, VanderPloeg, 13.61.

200 METERS — 27, Brown, 25.85.  32, Sorensen, 26.12.  55, Baker, 27.3.  58, August, 27.64.

400 METERS — 27, VanderPloeg, 1:04.88.

1,600 METERS — 26, Vigil, 5:52.35.

300 HURDLES — 10, Sorensen, 47.17.

400 RELAY — 8, Greybull (Peasley, Baker, Chacon, Brown), 48.04.

SPRINT MEDLEY RELAY — 6, Greybull (VanderPloeg, Chacon,   August, Sorensen), 4:16.97.

HIGH JUMP — 12, Peasley, 5-4.

LONG JUMP — 21, Araiza, 17-1.  53, Roll, 9-11 3/4.

TRIPLE JUMP — 16, August, 34-0 1/4.

DISCUS  — 5, Rice, 118-0. 

SHOT PUT — 11, Rice, 38-11 1/2.