Reeths-Puffer added one new state qualifying event to its tally Thursday at the Division 1 regional meet at Zeeland East, with the boys' 400-meter team earning a spot.
The team of Marvin Moore, Emcee McLaurin, Mason Darke and London Rankin earned a spot in the state field with their 5th-place finish and time of 42.95 seconds, which beat the MHSAA qualifying standard.
Both Darke and Moore earned medals in all four of their events, teaming up for three of them via relays. Darke once again broke his 300-meter hurdles school record and won the regional championship in the event with a time of 38.13 seconds; he'd previously earned an early qualifying spot at the state meet in both hurdles events. Moore finished fourth in the 200-meter dash in a personal best time of 22.78 seconds, narrowly missing state qualification.
In addition to their state qualification in the 400 relay, Darke and Moore, along with Rankin, helped the Rockets to fourth-place finishes in both the 800 and 1,600 relays. The trio joined with McLaurin to run the 800 in 1:30.5 and finished in a time of 3:29.3 in the 1,600 with Ethan Rolewicz in the race.
The Rocket girls medaled in three events at regionals. In the 400-meter relay, Raquel Walker, Addison Mitchelson, Amani Starr and Melana Johnson finished fourth in a time of 50.75 seconds, and in the 800 relay, Walker, Mitchelson, Jersi Bilek and Ivanna Kass took fourth in a time of 1:47.7. Bilek also finished eighth in the 800 with a season-best time of 2:21.1.
