PROVO -- A group of Bruins won team titles, a Jaguar continued to dominate the local track scene, and a Tiger from Wyoming did something he'd never done before, in fact three things.
That summed up Day 2 of the BYU-First Security Bank High School Track and Field Invitational that concluded late Saturday night. When the final races ended in the dark, the Mountain View Bruins had once again won both team titles during the combined competition for 3A, 4A and 5A schools.Mountain View won the boys' title with a 19-point win over West Jordan. The Bruins got their usual strong performances from junior Nic Arrhenius, who took the discus (195-0) and shot put (60-0), as well as winning the medley relay at 3:39.86.
Mountain View's distance program also produced 20 points in the 1600-meter race, with four racers placing in the top six, led by Dustin Bybee in second (4:20.44), just behind Provo's Josh Rohatinsky, the state's top runner, who won at 4:17.96.
But West Jordan's Jake Garlick showcased his superior talent with four wins, in the 110 hurdles (13.95), the 300 hurdles (37.41), the 200 meters (21.57), and as anchor on the 1600-meter relay, which West Jordan captured in a time of 3:20.09. Garlick, who will run for the University of Oregon next year, narrowly missed the state record of 21.5 in the 200, and has a legitimate shot at a couple of new marks before the season ends with state finals in Provo in two weeks.
The Tiger came from Rocks Springs High in Wyoming in the form of senior Kody Newton, who before entering the decathlon this week had never thrown a shot put, a discus or a javelin, the latter sport not even competed in Wyoming. Yet, he did all three things well enough to amass 5,570 points in the 10-event competition, holding off Springville's Nick Augustas (5363) and Provo's Ben Millar (5332).
Right now, Newton has no specific college plans for fall, as he plans to serve an LDS mission after graduation before entering school.
Among the other top male performers on Saturday were Lone Peak's Rich Larsen, who won the high jump with a 6-11 mark; Alta's Brian Taylor in the pole vault (a winning vault of 14-6), Box Elder's Cammeron Hodson in the 100 meters (10.88), Viewmont's Jake Randall in the long jump (23-0), and Jake Scheieter of Bonneville in the 400 meters (50.26).
The Lady Bruins scored 88 points to easily outdistance the field. Cedar City was second with 57 and Kearns third with 40. Heather Houle of Mountain View won both the 100 (12.10) and 200 (24.86), teammates Lindsey Steele (5-8, high jump) and Lindsey Nieaporte (57.85, 400 meters) added individual titles, and the Bruins won the 1600 meter relay (4:01.34).
Clearfield's Candice Workman captured two titles, the shot put (46-6) and discus (139-2), Roni Moore of Kearns edged Alta's Amy Menlove to win the long jump (17.7), Missy Wood of Copper Hills won the javelin (142-10), Kassi Andersen of Provo captured the 800 meters (2:14.58), and Laura Zeigle of Bingham won the 3200 meters (10:53.55).
It was an exciting meet for Cedar City's Kelly Schoney as well. She set a new 3A state record in the 100 hurdles (14.71), and led her relay teams to a first in the 400 meters and a second in the medley.
In the heptathlon, Bingham sophomore Shanna Wylie held off Uintah's Hillary Enloe and Bountiful's Amanda Magalei to take the championship. Wylie finished with 4,056 points, Enloe with 4,041 and Magalei with 4,040 in one of the closest competitions in the heptathlon since the BYU Invite began contesting the event.