Tiger track team continues with wins

Mountain Home dominated both the girls and boys competition at a triangular track and field meet at Timberline last Tuesday against the Wolves and Boise.

Mountain Home won the girls competition with 93 points, Timberline was second with 59, Boise had 26 points.

Picking up points for Mountain Home were Maggie Peterson, winning both the shot put and discus, and taking second in the long jump, Alyssa Saltzgaber won the 100 meter dash.

Jessica Furst won the 3,200 meter run, and was second in the 1,600. Francesca Hale won the 300 meter hurdles, Ashley Robins won the pole vault, and LaNeesha Moore won the triple jump and was second in the 200.

Mountain Home also swept the relays, winning the four by 100 meter relay (Brandie Riggs, Sherica Holmon, Alyssa Saltzgaber and Emily Moranda), the four by 200 (Riggs, Holmon, Lauren Moore and Fran Hale), the four by 400 (Moranda, Riggs, Lauren Moore and Hale) and the medley relay (Hale, Holmon, L. Moore and Kristie Sigloh).

Jasmyn Jewett was second in the triple jump and fourth in the 100 meter dash. Sarah Howell was second in the shot put and fourth in the discus. Chelsea Garner was second in the discus and third in the shot put. Anastasia Sansone was second in the 100 meter hurdles and Dani Dean took second in the high jump.

Mireya Martinez was third in the 800 meter run and fourth in the 1,600. Bre Sugden was third in the long jump and Tiffany Rosenberger was third in the discus.

Steffany Furst finished fourth in the 200 meter dash. Shelby Slone was fourth in the 3,200 meter run, Ashley Benham was fourth in the 100 meter hurdles, and Sarah Hyde was fourth in the shot put.

Mountain Home racked up 122 points in the boys competition to far outdistance Boise (32.5) and Timberline (29.5).

Nick O'Briant won the high jump and long jump, Josh Driskell won the shot put and discus. Jesse Donez won the 100 meter dash and was second in the 200. Robert Moss won the 200, Zacq Hale won the 400, Brandon Doble won the 110 meter high hurdles, Tyree Harmon won the 300 meter hurdles and was second in the 110 meter high hurdles, and Robert Daniels won the triple jump.

Mountain Home won the four by 100 meter relay (Robert Moss, Tallon Pauley, Robert Daniels and Nick Barrie), the four by 200 (Daniels, Jesse Donez, Zacq Hale and Pauley) and the medley relay (Pauley, Donez, Garrett Wood and Brett Kohring), and was second in the four by 400 meter relay (Jacob Allies, Tyree Harmon, Billy Derome and Brett Kohring).

Mathew Bernyk was second in the 800 and 1,600 meter runs.

Chris Austin was second in the 300 meter hurdles and third in the 110 meter high hurdles. Jovanne Carrizales was second in the 3,200 and third in the 1,600 meter runs. Jacob Viola was second in the 100 meter dash and tied for fourth in the shot put. Garrett Wood was second in the pole vault, Jacob Allies was second in the triple jump, Zack Wegrzyniak finished second in the discus, and Billy Derome was second in the shot put.

Tallon Pauley was third in the 100 meter dash, Eric Weiss was third in the 3,200 meter run, Blake Pharis was third in the shot put, Matthew Lewis was third in the discus, Dustin Mondloch and Jerrod Sell tied for third in the pole vault, and Brett Kohring tied for third in the 400.

Chui Kwok Lin was fourth in the 300 meter hurdles, Tanner Carpenter was fourth in the long jump, Jake Filipovich was fourth in the discus, and Jake Posey tied for fourth in the high jump.

Mountain Home Tiger head track coach Rich Urquidi was pleased with efforts at the Timberline meet.

"The younger kids really competed well and we gave them a chance to get in there and do some things. We kind of moved some of our varsity kids around a little bit. We did run some of our varsity relays just because we wanted to try some handoffs because we were going to do them new at the Treasure Valley meet."

Mountain Home found the competition much stiffer at the Bandana Treasure Valley Invitational with the 18 5A and 4A teams there. Borah won both the boys and girls competition, with Mountain Home finishing 10th in the boys competition and 13th in the girls competition.

Brandon Doble finished second in the 110 high hurdles and was fifth in the 300 meter hurdles. Nick O'Briant was second in the high jump. Josh Driskell was third in the shot put, and Zacq Hale was eighth in the triple jump.

In the girls competition, Francesca Hale finished sixth in the 100 meter high hurdles, Jasmyn Jewett was sixth in the triple jump and Alyssa Saltzgaber was eighth in the triple jump.

"It was pretty stiff competition," said Coach Urquidi of the Treasure Valley meet. "The kids we were expecting to do some things did. There were no real big surprises with what happened, but it was good practice to kind of get ready for -- we hadn't had any meets yet that had prelims and then finals, so that was good for our kids. Thursday the weather was pretty cool and the times were kind of down, but Friday the weather was a little bit better. There wasn't quite as much wind, and there was some good competition."

Coach Urquidi will be taking some of his best to the Boise Relays meet this Friday at Bronco Stadium.