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 long 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).
