Track team finishes 2nd at local meet

Mountain Home finished a close second in both the girls and boys competition at last Wednesday's home track meet.

Middleton won the girls' competition, racking up 194.5 points. Mountain Home followed with 185 points. Emmett was third with 133, Columbia a distant fourth with 14 and Bishop Kelly finished with 13.5 points.

Shelby Posey was a double winner, winning both the shot put and discus.

Dakota Barrie won the 100-meter hurdles and finished second in the 300-meter hurdles and high jump. Jessica Liercke won the triple jump, finished fifth in the 100-meters, and was a member of the 4x100-meter relay (with Jasmyne Moore, Lauren Moore and Jessica Tindall) and 4x200-meter relay (along with Shelby Henrick, Lauren Moore and Jessica Tindall) that both took first place.

Jordan Vivier had Mountain Home's other first place, winning the 3200-meter run. She finished fifth in the 1600.

Besides her effort in the 4x200-meter relay, Shelby Henrick finished second in the 400-meters and third in the 200.

Shelbie Toenjes came in second in the discus.

Mountain Home's 4x400-meter relay team made up of Jasmyne Moore, Marissa Streeter, Jessica Tindall and Lauren Moore, finished second.

Jasmyne Moore also had third-place finishes in both the 100-meter and 300-meter hurdles.

Regina Rodriguez was third in the discus and fourth in the shot put. Ashley Harmon was third in the 100-meter dash and McKenzie Sandberg was third in the 400 meters.

Kacee Cameron had fourth-place efforts in both the 1600 meters and the long jump, and Jessica Tindall was fourth in the 200-meters.

Keesha Janis finished fifth in the discus and sixth in the shot put.

Haley Schaefer finished fifth in the 800-meter run, and Chelsea Bacon was fifth in the triple jump and long jump.

Vanessa Estrella finished sixth in the 400-meters, McKenzie Dorr was sixth in the 3200, Brittany Orie was sixth in the 100-meter hurdles and Marissa Streeter placed sixth in the triple jump.

Middleton also won the boys competition, putting up 170 points.

Mountain Home was a close second with 162, Emmett had 141, Bishop Kelly 49 and Columbia 24.

Tyree Harmon was Mountain Home's only first-place finisher. He won the 110-meter high hurdles, the 300-meter hurdles, the long jump and the triple jump.

Alexander Ling finished second in the 110-meter hurdles and high jump and was fourth in the 300-meter hurdles.

Jake Lewis had second-place efforts in the shot put and discus. Colby Hall was second in the pole vault.

J.T. Cristobal had a third-place effort in the 100-meters, a fourth in 200, was a member of the 4x100-meter relay (along with Juan Silva, Chaise Hopkins and Robert Jackio) that finished second, and was a member of the 4x200-meter relay (along with Luke Filipovich, Robert Jackio and Tyler Knauth) that finished third.

Devonte McClain was third in the 400-meters,and a member of the medley relay (along with Robert jackio, Luke Filipovich, and Raif Armstrong) that finished third.

Dylan Johnson finished third in the 3200-meter run, Jacob Perry was third in the shot put and Chaise Hopkins was third in the long jump.

Jovanne Carrizales finished fourth in the 3200-meter run and sixth in the 1600. Juan Silva finished fourth in the 100 meters and fifth in the 200 meters, and Raif Armstrong was fourth in the 400 meters.

Fifth-place efforts also went to Gavin Cline in the 800-meter run and Clint Farmer in the pole vault.

Sixth-place efforts also went to Raymond Aflague in the discus and Perry Savage in the pole vault.

Tiger head track coach Rich Urquidi was pleased with the efforts at the home meet.

"I thought our kids ran well at home, we just came up a little short place-wise. Middleton got us in both the girls and boys, but I thought, with our guys being young, I thought they had a real good performance.

"We had some depth that kind of came through scoring some points, and our girls are just solid. We can't take anything away from Middleton, they're a good team, but we're still running well. Our times are coming down and we're just jugging along getting ready for district, trying to figure out where we can place everybody, and that's basically why we have our meets during the year."

Mountain Home sent a number of athletes to the Bandana Invitational at Mountain View High School on Friday and Saturday.

Host Mountain View won the girls' competition. Mountain Home ended up tied for 17th with Rigby. There were 24 teams competing.

Mountain Home's points came from a fourth place for Shelby Posey in the discus, a fourth-place effort by the 4x200-meter relay team of Shelby Henrick, Lauren Moore, Jessica Tindall and Jessica Liercke, a sixth place by the 4x100-meter relay team of Jasmyne Moore, Lauren Moore, Jessica Tindall and Jessica Liercke, a seventh place by Jessica Liercke in the triple jump and eighth-place finishes by the 4x400 (Jessica Tindall, McKenzie Sandberg, Marissa Streeter and Shelby Henrick) and 4x800-meter relay (Jordan Vivier, Haley Schaefer, Ashley Mayberry and Kacee Cameron).

Eagle edged Elko by a half a point to win the boys' competition.

Mountain Home came in 21st overall.

Tyree Harmon had fourth-place efforts in the 110-meter high hurdles and the triple jump. He also placed eighth in the long jump.

Mountain Home's 4x800-meter relay team of Gavin Cline, Devonte McClain, Dylan Johnson and Jovanne Carrizales came in eighth.

Coach Urquidi thought they did well considering the tough competition.

"It was a really good track meet. There were quality kids in everything. We had Nevada schools there, we had schools from the east. There were 5As and 4As there. We took just a limited amount of kids, but the weather was finally nice and I think everybody ran times that were their best times of the year."

The Tiger thinclads travel to Vallivue Friday for a meet that Coach Urquidi says is set up in relays.

"We're going to have four kids in each event, and it's kind of a relay thing, so the best three times out of those four, they add them up and they give the medals off that, so we're looking forward to that. It's kind of a little different setup for a meet and there's just going to be four teams, Vallivue, Caldwell, Kuna and us, so we're looking forward to getting some good times and keep bringing our times down."