Tiger girls win local tri-meet with boys finishing second

The Mountain Home girls track team dominated their track meet on Friday while the Tiger boys finished second.

Mountain Home won 12 of 18 girls events with 10 second- and third-place efforts to rack up 115.5 points. Emmett was a distant second with 47 points and Caldwell was third with 20.5.

Selena Foster had three firsts on the day, winning the 100 meter high hurdles, the high jump and the triple jump. She also placed third in the pole vault.

Whitney Sandberg and Tracey Gordon were both in on four, first-place efforts. Sandberg won the 100 and 200 meter dashes, Gordon won the 400 and long jump, and both were members of the winning 4 X 100 meter relay that included Ashley Harmon and Olivia Ostberg.

Sandberg, Gordon and Ostberg joined Marissa Streeter to also win the 4 X 200 meter relay

Meanwhile, Arisha Karren won both the 1,600 meter run and the 3,200 meter run. Jhorie Kelly won the 300 meter hurdles while finishing second in the high jump and third in the 100 meter high hurdles.

Shelby Henrick was second in the 100- and 400-meter dashes and a member of the 4 X 400 meter relay team that finished second. Henrick also had a third-place effort in the 200 meter dash.

Kacee Cameron was second in the long jump, third in the triple jump and a member of the 4 X 400 meter relay team that included Henrick, Streeter and Venessa Estrella that finished second along with the team of McKenzie Sandberg, Venessa Estrella and Jacci Cristobal.

Mattie Bennett was second in the 100 meter high hurdles and had thirds in the 300-meter hurdles and long jump. Keesha Janis-Gibson was second in the discus and fourth in the shot put.

Other second place efforts went to Ali Sarrett in the 800 meter run and Hailey Belt in the shot put. Kristen Kreutzer had third place efforts in the shot put and discus. Myra Vasquez was third in the 1,600 meter run, and Natasha Feekes tied for third in the high jump.

Fourth-place efforts went to Ashley Harmon in the 100 meters, C.J. Bish in the discus, McKenzie Sandberg in the 200 meters, Hannah Modde in the 800 and Marissa Streeter in the long jump.

Caldwell won the boys competition with 78 points. Mountain Home was second with 63 and Emmett came in third with 45 points.

J.T. Cristobal was part of the squad's four, first-place finishes. He won the 100 and 200 meter dashes and the long jump and was a member of the wining medley relay team that included Michael Daniels, Tyler Knauth and Michael Price.

Ricky Castillo won the 400 meter dash and was a member of the 4 X 200 meter relay team that included Jorge Salinas, Malik Whitfield and Nick Garza, who finished second.

Tyler Knauth won the 800 meter run and was with Jorge Salinas, Chaise Hopkins and Alex Dominquez on the 4 X 400 meter relay team, which finished fourth.

Michael Daniels won the triple jump while Michael Price won the 1,600 meter run.

Nick Garza was second in the 100 meter dash and a member of the 4 X 100 meter relay team that included Malik Whitfield, Juan Silva and Tanner Sessions, which came in third.

Justin Johnson had a second place effort in the pole vault and was third in the high jump. Taylor Croft had a second-place finish in the 3,200 meter run.

Third-place efforts went to Luke Filipovich in the triple jump and Chaise Hopkins in the long jump.

Fourth-place efforts went to Juan Silva in the 100 meters, Andy Croft in the 3,200 and Dion Salinas in the 300 meter hurdles.

Mountain Home head track coach Rich Urquidi was pleased with the efforts by both the girls and boys teams.

"They both did well," he said. "It was a great meet for our girls. They needed a little bit of confidence. We've been trying to figure out where to put people, and we're still trying to figure things out. But (we) saw some good things in our relays this week and individual things."

Urquidi added that the boys have done well this season with a few surprises this year.

"There are some things we still need to work on in some of our different areas, but we're getting a lot out of our sprints and our field events, especially our jumps," he said. "That's been really a positive for us this year. They had a pretty rough couple of years, so it's been nice for them, especially those seniors."

Mountain Home hosts Columbia and Nampa today, April 11, during a home track meet that starts at 4:15 p.m.at Tiger Field.