Runners win at Columbia

After competing in dual track meets for their first two track events, the Mountain Home Tigers competed against 12 teams at the Columbia Invitational last week.

The results were good for the Lady Tigers, who won the girls' competition, while the boys finished eighth.

Mountain Home had just two first and two second-place efforts, but placed 14 in third through fifth place in individual events to rack up 114 points for first place overall. Emmett was second with 105, followed by Bishop Kelly at 99.5, Skyview with 89.5, Caldwell with 85, Middleton at 80, Columbia at 44, Fruitland with 33, Ontario with 17, Cole Valley Christian with 15, Nampa at 7 and Kuna with 3.

Jordan Vivier and Dakota Barrie picked up the two first places for Mountain Home -- Vivier in the 1600-meters and Barrie in the 100-meter high hurdles.

Second-place efforts went to Dakota Barrie in the high jump, and the 4x100-meter relay team made up of Shelby Henrick, Heather Williams, Marissa Streeter and Jessica Tindall.

Third-place efforts went to Dakota Barrie in the 300-meter hurdles, Jordan Vivier in the 3200-meters, Kacee Cameron in the long jump, Marissa Streeter in the triple jump, Kristen Kreutzer in the shot put and Mountain Home's 4x200-meter relay team of Heather Williams, Tracey Gordon, Shelby Henrick and Jessica Tindall.

Fourth-place efforts went to Kacee Cameron in the triple jump, Shelbie Toenjes in the discus and the Mountain Home 800-meter sprint medley relay team of Ashley Harmon, Heather Williams, Tracey Gordon and Haley Schaefer.

Fifth-place efforts went to Keesha Janis-Gibson in both the shot put and discus, Jordan Vivier in the 800-meters, Christina Segovia in the pole vault, and the 4x400-meter relay of Tracey Gordon, Dakota Barrie, Marissa Streeter and Jessica Tindall.

Sixth-place efforts went to Ashley Harmon in the 100-meter dash and Jessica Tindall in the 200-meters.

Eighth-place efforts went to Shelby Henrick in the 200-meters and Haley Schaefer in the 800-meters.

Emmett won the boys' competition with 115 points. Bishop Kelly was second with 107.6, Skyview third with 82.6, Kuna fourth with 68, Columbia fifth with 61, Ontario sixth with 50, Caldwell seventh with 49.6, Mountain Home eighth with 42.6, followed by Cole Valley Christian with 40, Middleton with 38, Nampa at 28.6, and Fruitland with 19.

J.T. Cristobal was Mountain Home's highest finisher, finishing second in the 100-meter dash, while Curtis Jackson had a third-place effort in the discus.

Fourth-place efforts went to Tyler Knauth in the 400-meters and Alexander Ling in the 110-meter high hurdles.

J.T. Cristobal was fifth in the 200-meters.

Mountain Home had sixth-place efforts in the 4x100-meter relay (Juan Silva, John Payton, Chaise Hopkins and J.T. Cristobal), the 4x200-meter relay (J.T. Cristobal, John Payton, Chaise Hopkins and Ricky Castillo), the 4x400-meter relay (Juan Silva, Austin Lisonbee, Michael Daniels and Ricky Castillo) and the 1600-meter spring medley relay (John Payton, Juan Silva, Ricky Castillo and Michael Price).

Alexander Ling was part of a five-way tie for seventh place in the high jump.

Colby Hall was eighth in the pole vault and Michael Daniels finished eighth in the triple jump.

"For our first big meet of the year, we had some really good results," said Tiger head track coach Rich Urquidi. "Christina Segovia broke the school record in the pole vault. Her nine-foot jump was even into a head wind.

"Dakota Barrie placed in the top three in her three events, and Jordan Vivier was in the top three in her two distance races.

"On the boys side, J.T. Cristobal and Curtis Jackson both competed well. When I saw the team results, I have to say I was a little surprised to see our girls end up on top at the end of the meet. We knew the competition was going to be really good and we are still trying to figure out what events to place everyone.

"The boys were in the middle of the pack -- about where we were expecting them to be -- and they keep improving each week," Urquidi said.

The Tigers host Emmett, Nampa and Middleton in a meet on Thursday, and will send a select group to the Bandana Invitational at Mountain View on Friday and Saturday.