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Sugar River soaks competition
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Brian Cid (right) hands off to Jayden O’Bel (left) in the final leg of the 4x800 relay at the Raider Invite on Friday, May 12. The Albany boys won the event with a time of 8:42.91. - photo by Natalie Dillon

BELLEVILLE — Sugar River hosted the Raider Invite on Friday, May 12, where both the boys and girls teams won. The Raiders compiled 143 and 131 points, respectively, despite downpour through much of the meet.

Monroe girls took second (123), while the boys took third (125). Black Hawk, Albany and Monticello also participated. First-place finishers are as follows:

● Jack Erickson, Sugar River, 100-meter dash, 11.24

● DeMarcus Conner, Sugar River, 200-meter dash, 23.48

● DeMarcus Conner, Sugar River, 400-meter dash, 51.72

● Carter Scholey, Sugar River, 1600-meter run, 4:39.28

● Carter Scholey, Sugar River, 3200-meter run, 9:53.79

● Kaden Kuester, Monroe, 110-meter hurdles, 16.09

● Jack Erickson, Sugar River, 300-meter hurdles, 41.54

● Black Hawk boys, 4x100 relay, 45.13

● Albany boys, 4x800 relay, 8:42.91

● Lawrence Vasquez, Sugar River, high jump, 6 feet

● Charlie Sarbacker, Sugar River, pole vault, 11-00.00

● Isaac Bunker, Monroe, discus, 139-08

● Alex Atwell, Sugar River, 100-meter hurdles, 16.25

● Sugar River girls, 4x200 relay, 1:49.36

● Alex Atwell, Sugar River, high jump, 4-10.00

● Gracie Atkinson, Sugar River, long jump, 16-10.00

● Lauren Coppes, Monroe, triple jump, 33-09.50

● Raylin Peterson, Black Hawk, shot put, 39-00.00

● Jaliyah Collins, Black Hawk, discus, 116-02.00


Steve Sparky Reynolds Memorial Invite

BOSCOBEL — Darlington and Pecatonica-Argyle couldn’t divert the Flying Arrows, as Lancaster won both the boys (86 points) and girls (100.66 points) divisions at the Steve “Sparky” Reynolds Invite on Thursday, May 11. 

Darlington girls took fifth (49.33) with four, third-place finishes: 

● Jaidyn Evenstad, 100-meter hurdles, 17.16

● 4x100 relay, 52.12

● Catie Blosch, pole vault, 8-00.00

● Chance Lange, discus, 96-09.00

The boys took 12th (26.50), as George West led the Redbirds with this third-place finish in the 400-meter dash (52.67).

Pecatonica-Argyle girls took 12th (28), led by Anna and Loretta Tisch. The pair finished fourth and fifth in the 100-meter hurdles and second and fourth in the 300-meter hurdles. Kaisen Kolb took fourth in the discus. Ridge Toay led the boys to a 17th-place finish, taking third in the 200-meter dash and 110-meter hurdles.


Rock Valley Conference

WALWORTH — Brodhead-Juda fell short in the Rock Valley Conference meet, hosted by Big Foot, on Saturday, May 13. McFarland took the title in both the boys and girls divisions. The Cardinals had just two individual conference champions in Nathan Engen and Kalena Riemer. Engen PRed in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 43.19, and Riemer won the 400- and 800-meters with times of 59.75 and 2:28.13, respectively.