The Montague boys team finished in third place, only two points out of second, at Friday's Division 3 regional meet in Saugatuck. The Wildcat girls finished seventh.
Montague earned state qualification in several events. Isaac French took second in shot put to reach state, posting a mark of 45-11. Devlin Dean's personal best 20-8.5 in long jump earned him third place and got him to the state meet by beating the qualifying standard. The Wildcat boys also reached state in the 3,200-meter relay, where Gibson Sholes, Nolan Kessler, Alix Draves and Noah Raeth finished third in a time of 8:28.6.
Wyatt Fairchild also advanced to state with his efforts in the 200 and 400-meter adaptive races. Though he was the only competitor in both, Fairchild earned new personal best marks each time, with times of 57.30 seconds in the 200 and 1:23.2 in the 400.
In the girls' meet, Amanda Cederquist qualified for state in two events, winning the regional championship in shot put with a mark of 32-3 and beating the standard in the 100-meter hurdles, finishing fourth in a time of 16.60 seconds.
The Wildcats also earned medals in many other events. Raeth finished fourth in the 1,600, setting a new personal best with a time of 4:38.5. Kessler was fourth in the 3,200 in a time of 10:28.97. Logan Hansen finished fifth in discus with a throw of 117-6.5, and Riley Mulder medaled three times, finishing sixth in the 100 (11.74), sixth in the shot put (a personal best 43-6.5) and eighth in the 200 (24.03). Isaiah King added a seventh-place in high jump (5-7).
Montague also medaled in the two sprint relays. Mulder, Dean, Talan Degen and Wyatt Grawey were fourth in the 800 relay (1:35.9), and Degen, Dean, Grawey and Clay Jordan took fifth in the 400 relay (45.89).
Annelyse Schneider picked up a pair of medals for the Wildcat girls, earning fourth place in high jump (4-10) and eighth in long jump (14-9). Addison Smith also medaled twice, earning a personal best in pole vault, where she was fourth (8-6), and taking fifth in the 100 (13.78). Molly Mulder set a personal best by finishing sixth in shot put (29-0.5), and Grace Torsch also earned a personal best, in the 3,200, and finished sixth (6:00.3). Gabriella Dietz was seventh in high jump (4-4).
The 'Cats earned two relay medals. The 800 relay team of Cederquist, Fox, Smith and Schneider was sixth (1:54.4), and the 400 team of Fox, Dietz, Smith and Celina Pruitt was eighth (55.14).
