Two Bullpups, three relay teams win at CDA Charter Invitational
(Photo courtesy of JACOB PETERSON) From left to right, Ayiana Prevost, Ara Clark and Korbynn Tonge start the girls 1600 meter run during the Coeur d’Alene Charter Invitational on April 25.
Rusty Lee’s pair of wins in the boys 110 meter hurdles (16.57) and the 200 (24.40), plus Aurora Miller’s 33-0 throw in the girls shot highlighted Sandpoint Middle School track and field’s showing that the CDA Charter Invitational on April 25.
Although Lee and Miller were the Bullpups’ lone first-place individual finishes, the girls 4x100 (56.72) and both the girls and the boys’ 4x200 relays teams won in a 1:49.19 and a 2:03, respectively.
Other top five finishers include the aforementioned Miller — who nearly missed out on her second win of the meet with a 77-4 in the girls discus — Lee’s second-place finish in the high jump (5-2), and Evan Dickinson’s second-place finish in the 800 meter dash with a time of 2:25.16.
Ara Clark ran a 5:44.94 in the 1600 meters but was edged out at the finish line by River City’s Kaley Bohl, who won the event in a 5:44.06. Bohl would also beat out Sandpoint Middle School’s Karin Davidson in the 400 meters; the former won the meet in a 1:05.53, while Davidson was close behind in a 1:05.6.
SMS’s boys 4x100 meter relay team also finished third with a time of 52.94.
Sandpoint is bearing down towards the Middle School Districts meet (for large schools), which will be held at Lake City High School this Thursday.