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Hillsboro boys track gains first place at Miami Trace Invitational

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Stephen Forsha-sforsha@gmail.com
As they have continued to do many times this season, the Hillsboro Indians boys track and field team left the competition as the winner, taking home first place at the 2018 Miami Trace Invitational on Thursday at Miami Trace High School.

The Indians gained the win by 23 points over the second-place Jonathan Alder Pioneers as Hillsboro scored 139 points, and the second-place Pioneers scored 113 points. In third place was host Miami Trace, followed by Waverly in fourth (107) and McClain in fifth (62).

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The rest of the teams in the event included Washington (57), Greeneview (47.5) and Westfall (25) for sixth through eighth places.

For the Indians at the Miami Trace Invitational, they totaled five first-place finishes, including Britton Haines in the high jump with a height of 5-10, and teammate Quinn Conlon was third at 5-06. (Listed below are Top 5 finishes.)

The long jump saw Austin Goolsby place second at 20-09.50, and Logan Hester of Hillsboro was fifth at 18-04. Goolsby was also first in the pole vault event at 14-00.00, and Matt Gallimore was second at 11-06.00.

Draven Stodgel was first in the discus at 147-05.00, and in the shot put Stodgel also was first place at 51-09.00. Deon Burns placed fourth in shot put at 47-06.50.

Hillsboro was second in the 800-meter relay with a time of 1:36.73, with the team of Tyler Workman, Haines, Gallimore and Ty Alexander. The 400m relay team of Taylor Lucas, Gallimore, Keith Doughman and Goolsby were first at 45.85.

Tyler Workman placed fourth in the 400m dash at 54.52, and in the 300m hurdles Conlon was fifth at 44.72. The 800m run saw Alexander in fourth place at 2:11.11 and Haines in fifth place at 2:12.19. Hillsboro in the 200m dash saw Workman place second at 24.74, and in the 3200m run Bailey Lucarello placed fifth at 10:55.23. The 1600m relay had Workman in second place with a time of 3:34.83.

The McClain Tigers also had athletes place in the Top 5 of the boys event, with Riley Moon being third place in the long jump at 19-04.50 and their 3200m relay team in fifth place at 9.24.56.

The 100m dash had Patrick Fout in second place with a time of 11.61, and the 800m relay team was fourth place at 1:39.11. The Tigers’ 400m relay team placed second with a time of 46.16.

McClain in the 300m hurdles had Griffin Foltz in fourth place with a time of 54.32. Trevor Newkirk was third for McClain in the 400m dash with a time of 54.32, and Gabriele Chiossi was fifth at 55.09.

In the 200m dash, Matt Bliss placed third at 24.56, and in the 1600m relay the Tigers placed fifth at 3:45.59.

For the girls events, the McClain girls were fourth with 91 points, and in sixth was Hillsboro at 67.5 points. Washington won the event by scoring 120.5 points. In second was Jonathan Alder (117), and third was Miami Trace (105). Following McClain was Waverly in fifth place at 86 points. The seventh and eighth place teams were Greeneview (49) and Westfall (26).

Finishing in the Top 5 at the Miami Trace Invitational for the McClain Lady Tigers was Maddy Crawford, who was third place in the long jump with a distance of 15-06.50. Teammate Hunter Scott was second in the discus at 102-08.00. MHS had two in the Top 5 of the pole vault with Kerigan Pollard having a height of 7-00.00 for third and Patricia Poole at 6-00.00 for fourth place.

Chayden Pitzer was first in the 100m hurdles at 15.61 and second place in the 100m dash at 12.58. Pollard was fourth in the 100m dash with a time of 13.31. McClain had a fourth-place finish in the 400m relay with a time of 54.79, and Pitzer placed second in the 300m hurdles at 48.10. Pollard finished third in the 300m hurdles at 51.64, and Pitzer was third in the 200m dash at 27.35.

Hillsboro had a third-place finish from Emma Hess in the high jump event at 4-08.00, and Hess was fifth place in the long jump with a distance of 15-01.50. Kailey Dietrick was fifth in the discus at 89-07.00, and in second place in the pole vault for HHS was Lucy Hart at 7-00.00.

The Lady Indians 3200m relay team was third at 11:32.64, and in fourth place in the 100m hurdles event was Hess at 18.04. Hillsboro’s 800m relay team was second at 1:56.84, while a fifth-place finish came from Molly McCreary on the 800m run with a time of 2:50.23. The HHS 1600m relay team placed third with a time of 4:32.88.

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