MHHS harriers do well at invitational

Mountain Home faired well at Friday's Vallivue Invitational Track Meet.

The format was a relay format, with the top three people on a team in any event counting as a team's score in that event. Mountain Home ended up winning 13 of the combined 34 events for girls and boys.

In the girls' events, Mountain Home won the 200-meter dash, based on Kristie Sigloh, Jessica Tindall and Shelby Hemrick's efforts.

Mountain Home came in first in the 400 (Lauren Moore, Shelby Hemrick and Kacee Cameron), 300-meter hurdles (Dakota Barrie, Jasmyne Moore and Brittany Orie), long jump (Jasmyn Jewett, Kristie Sigloh and Kacee Cameron) and triple jump (Jessica Liercke, Jasmyn Jewett and Kacee Cameron).

Mountain Home also won the 4x100-meter relay (Angie Rios, Jasmyn Jewett, Jessica Tindall and Jessica Liercke) and the 4x200-meter relay (Jessica Tindall, Jessica Liercke, Lauren Moore and Kristie Sigloh).

Mountain Home's 4x800-meter relay team (Jordan Vivier, Jessi Cameron, Ashley Mayberry and Haley Schaefer) finished third, but set a new school record.

The Tiger boys ended up winning six of the events, winning the 100 meters (Jesse Donez, Tallon Pauly and Juan Silva), the 110-meter high hurdles (Tyree Harmon, Stefan White and Garrett Wood), the 300-meter hurdles (Garret Wood, Tyree Harmon and Stefan White), the long jump (Tyree Harmon, Garrett Wood and Tallon Pauly) and the triple jump (Garrett Wood, Jacob Allies and Luke Filipovich).

Mountain Home also won the 4x200 meter relay (Jesse Donez, Kyle Kerfoot, Tyree Harmon and Tallon Pauly).

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

"The weather held out for us, it didn't rain on us, so we had some pretty decent times, it wasn't really cold, so we were happy with that, and the kids just keep improving -- the handoffs looked better in all our relays -- and just the little things that we keep fine-tuning.

"We had some depth in some of the events, and that kind of proved in our relays, the way that they scored the meet, winning 13 out of the 34 events. That will help when we go down the line at district to score some -- I know we'll score quality points -- but being able to get some of those thirds, fourths, fifths, that's what will really help."

The Tigers will send some of their squad to Nampa on Thursday for a quadrangular meet, and send a few on to the Bandana Team Invite at Mountain View on Friday and Saturday.

"It'll be pretty much all of our squad at Nampa -- it won't be our true JV -- we'll have some of our varsity because we won't get all of our kids to the Bandana Meet -- the 5A and 4A meet. We get to have one person for sure in most of the events, and we might get a couple in some other ones, plus one relay, so not everyone will get to go, but we're looking forward to that meet, too, just to be able to run against some different people and kind of see where we stand against some of the best in the conference."