Track team opens strong, girls finish first, boys second

The Mountain Home Tigers girls track team won the season opening triangular track meet at Bishop Kelly Friday, while the Tiger boys finished second.

Mountain Home won the girls competition with 76 points, Bishop Kelly was second with 66.5, and Kuna was third with 43.5.

Emily Moranda and Shelby Posey were double winners for Mountain Home. Moranda won the 100 and 300 meter hurdle events, Posey won the shot put and discus.

Other first-place efforts went to Jessica Liercke in the 100 meters and Jasmyn Jewett in the high jump. Mountain Home also won the 4x100 meter relay (Fran Hale, Sherica Holman, Jessica Liercke and Emily Moranda) , the 4x400 meter relay (Haley Schaefer, Lauren Moore, Emily Moranda and Fran Hale) and medley relay (Angie Rios, Sherica Holman, Lauren Moore and Jessica Liercke).

Second-place efforts went to Sherica Holman and Angie Rios in the 100 meters, Haley Schaefer in the 800, Fran Hale in the 300-meter hurdles, Jasmyn Jewett in the triple jump and the 4x200 meter relay team (Angie Rios, Lauren Moore, Jasmyn Jewett and Chelsea Bacon).

Third-place efforts went to Kristie Sigloh in the 400 meters, Fran Hale in the 100-meter high hurdles, Christina Segovia in the high jump, Jasmyn Jewett in the long jump and Jessica Liercke in the triple jump.

Kuna won the boy's competition with 84.5 points, Mountain Home was second with 53, and Bishop Kelly was third with 45.5.

First-place efforts went to Tyree Harmon in the 110-meter high hurdles, Nich Barrie in the triple jump and Billy Derome in the discus.

Mountain Home also won the 4x100-meter relay (Tallon Pauley, Nick Barrie, Kyle Kerfoot and Jacob Viola), the 4x200-meter relay (Tallon Pauley, Billy Derome, Stefen White and Nick Barrie) and the 4x400-meter relay (Ricardo de la Cruz, James Simon, Layne Compos and Matt Bernyk).

Second place efforts went to Tallon Pauley in the 200 meters, Stefen White in the 110-meter high hurdles and long jump, and the medley relay team (Stefen White, Kyle Kerfoot, Gavin Cline and Matt Bernyk).

Matt Bernyk had a third-place finish in the 400 meters and Billy Derome was third in the shot put.

Tiger head track coach Rich Urquidi was pleased with their efforts for the first meet of the season.

"The weather was cold and we had to stop for a while for the storm and it rained and kind of snowed on us a little bit, but we had a good effort. The coaches are pleased with everybody. We placed in a lot of things. Our girls ended up winning and our boys were in second place, which we're real happy with that, they're a young group of guys so that was good, and it was a great effort all around."

The Tigers head to Nampa on Thursday for a triangular meet with the Nampa Bulldogs and Middleton Vikings.

"I haven't seen any results from Nampa or Middleton yet, but I think we'll do pretty well," said Coach Urquidi.