Whitehall romped to its 21st consecutive boys track league
championship Thursday by dominating the West Michigan Conference Lakes
finals at Ludington, setting four league meet records in the process.
Whitehall racked up 161 points, nearly double that of second-place
Fremont (93).
Mason Mulnix broke league meet records in both
sprint events, earning times of 10.99 seconds in the 100-meter dash and
22.44 in the 200. Camden Thompson set a personal best in the 110-meter
hurdles with his league finals record time of 14.83 seconds, and Ayden
Mendoza set a new high jump record in the event with a leap of 6-4.
Mulnix
also won the 400-meter dash with a time of 50.97 seconds, and his
1,600-meter relay team - along with Andon Palmer, Tyler Van Antwerp and
Jevon Hilliard - finished third (3:40.2).
Thompson's hurdles
record was one of three wins for him; he also won the 300 hurdles
(40.99) and the discus (142-11). Thompson took second behind Mendoza in
high jump (5-10).
Also for the Viking boys, Stewart Waters won
both long-distance events, with times of 4:37.8 in the 1,600 and
10:28.6 in the 3,200. Kal Koehler won the long jump at 20-4, and
teammate Cole Essebaggers was third (19-1). In pole vault, Graysen
Olstrom was second (12-6) and Keegan Frees was third (11-6). The
Vikings' 3,200 relay team of Waters, Van Antwerp, Hilliard and Palmer
took second (8:46.8), and Corde Anderson was third in the 110 hurdles
(15.07).
The Montague boys finished in sixth place. Devlin
Dean provided the Wildcats' top finish, coming in second in long jump
with a personal best mark of 19-6. Isaac French took third in shot put
(43-11.5).
In the girls' finals, Montague finished in fourth
place with Whitehall in fifth. Annelyse Schneider won two events for the
Wildcats - the high jump (4-10) and the long jump (14-3.5). Amanda
Cederquist was second in shot put (32-9) and in the 100 hurdles, earning
a personal best time of 15.98 seconds. Addison Smith placed second in
pole vault (8-0). The 'Cats also earned third-place finishes in three
relays. Cadence Fox, Gabriella Dietz, Celina Pruitt and Smith ran in the
400 relay (56.91); Cederquist, Fox, Smith and Schneider were in the 800
relay (1:56.98), and Dietz, Fox, Pruitt and Schneider was the lineup in
the 1,600 relay (4:41.96).
Cami Kraai took home the Viking
girls' lone win, finishing the 800 in 2:24.0. Teammate Adalyn Britton
was third (2:30.4). Evelyn Darke placed third in discus (79-7) and in
shot put (32-6), and Lexi Poulin was third in high jump (4-8). The 3,200
relay team of Britton, Kraai, Ella Nicholson and Kassidy Parmley took
second (11:42.4).
