Charlo track teams run away with District 14C titles
Ethan Smith/Leader<br>Bo Herak took three individual events and helped his team in the relay events, too. At left is Noxon's Tad Singbeil.
The Charlo track teams blew away the competition at last week's District 14C meet, taking both titles with easy wins over Noxon and the other three teams.
Charlo girls racked up 303 points to Noxon's 111, while the boys got 238 points to Noxon's 133
The Vikings placed at least one person is almost every event. Amanda Murphy led the girls, getting second in the 100 with Mary Barnett taking sixth. Murphy took second in the 200, and Barnett took fifth.
Staci Stipe finished second in the 400, with Barnett getting third and Turquoise Devereaux finishing fifth.
In the 800, Adri Hammond, Stipe and Ashley Lobdell finished first, second and third, respectively, for the clean sweep.
Stevie-Leigh Sammons took the gold in the 1,600, finishing a few seconds ahead of teammate Addy Rockwell, who finished second, and Ashley Vincent and Lobdell, who took fourth and fifth.
Rockwell and Vincent finished third and fourth in the 3,200.
In the 100 hurdles, Samijo Kain took second ahead of Hayley Carr, Rochelle Toussaint, Ann Thompson, and Shianne Montgomery, for the third, fourth, fifth and sixth spots.
Kain finished second in the 300 hurdles, just ahead of Toussaint, Naomi Knight and Thompson.
Charlo took first in the 400 and 1,600 relays, with the team of Ma'Rya Hungerford, Stipe, Kain and Hammond.
Carr took first in the javelin, while Sammons and Montgomery finished third and fourth, respectively.
Murphy led the team in the discus, finishing just ahead of Amanda Hout, with Megan Harriman, Kate Coburn and Montgomery taking the third through fifth spots.
In the shot, Murphy took first, with Hout, Harriman, Coburn and Montgomery right behind her.
Kain took first in the high jump, with Toussaint getting second and Thompson tying for fourth.
Rhondell Esterby took second in the long jump, while Hungerford took fourth and Devereaux finished sixth. Hungerford took first in the triple jump, with Esterby getting second and Vincent taking fourth.
Hammond edged Carr for the pole vault title.
On the boys side, Bo Herak, Joey Ray and Brandon Rollins all had great days.
In the running events, JP Toussaint took fourth in the 100 and second in the 200, with teammate Ed Dumont placing fourth.
Rollins took first in the 400, with Jeff Bucholz finishing a few seconds behind for third.
The same happened in the 800, with Zach Daugherty getting fourth behind Bucholz.
"Brandon's getting to the point where he's figuring things out. It's tough to run the 400 and 800, but he's getting good at it," head coach Bret Thompson said.
Aaron Young took first in the 1,600, just ahead of Daugherty and Matt Faroni. Faroni and Daugherty took third and fourth in the 3,200 later that day.
Charlo's relay team - made up of Toussaint, Rollins, Jared Kingery and Herak took first in the 400, while Young substituted for Toussaint in the 1,600 relay to get first with the rest of the team.
Herak took first in the 110 hurdles, with Kingery and Brandon Pope finishing second and third.
Herak also took first in the 300 hurdles, with Pope finishing fourth.
"I think Bo has a shot at being in the Top 5 at state," Thompson noted. "He's been doing well individually."
TJ Kerr finished first in the javelin, with Shadow Devereaux getting third and Roman Firestone taking sixth.
Joey Ray took first in the discus, with Andrew Marcure taking fourth and Devereaux taking fifth.
Ray set another new school record in the shot - one he broke earlier this year - with a throw of 49-3 _. Kerr, Marcure and Devereaux rounded out the fourth, fifth and sixth spots.
"Joey is still a little ways from 50 feet, but we are hoping he'll get it in the next few weeks," Thompson said.
Pope took second in the high jump, while Young took sixth in the long jump.
Firestone finished third in the triple jump, Young took fourth and Bucholz took sixth.
The boys swept the pole vault, with Herak, Toussaint and Pope finishing first, second and third.
The divisional meet will be at Big Sky in Missoula on Friday starting at 2 p.m. and all day Saturday. The top five placers go to state.
"We have a lot of them with a shot at state. It's a matter of being able to put together a lot of personal bests," Thompson noted.