Superior girls, Plains boys win 7B track

EUREKA —  Superior’s girls were superior and the Plains boys had just enough to keep the competition at bay Friday, at the District 7-B track and field meet. 

With Braelyn Mangold winning the 200, 400 and triple jump and Ava White sweeping the hurdles, Superior scored 147 points to 143 for Plains and 117 for the Eureka Lady Lions. Thompson Falls (50), Troy (35) and Mission (22) rounded out the girls team scores. 

Mangold’s 400 time of 1 minute, .67 seconds sits third in Class B as of Friday; White, who has the second-best time in the class over the 300 hurdles, ran the No. 4 time through the 100 hurdles (16.20). 

The Bobcats’ Juliette Evans didn’t win the discus — she was second to Plains standout Alexis Deming — but did uncork the fifth-best throw in Class B (113-7) Friday. Teammate Marisa Swope cleared 9-3 in the shot put, which ranks sixth in B. 

Plains had two double-winners: Deming (discus and shot put, both marks under her Class B bests) and Marina Tulloch (1,600 and 3,200). Eureka’s Karli Campbell was another double-winner, taking the 100-meter dash and the long jump. 

The Plains Horsemen cut it even closer, edging Eureka 116-115 for the boys team title. Look no further than the 1,600-meter relay for the difference: The Horsemen were first in 3 minutes, 50.15 seconds to earn 10 points; Eureka was next at 3:52.52, earning eight. 

Plains also got a hurdles sweep from Cody West and an impressive victory from freshman John Jermyn in the 1,600. Jermyn won in 4:35.17, a PR and the fifth-best time in B; Mission’s Harlon Leishman and Plains’ Cord Greer also ran sub-4:40. Leishman ran his best 1,600 time, 4:34.22, on April 22 at the Seeley-Swan Invitational. 

Eureka’s Josh Lambertsen won the 400 meters — he clocked 51.15, a PR and the second-best time in Class B, to hold off Superior’s Trizten Avila at 51.98 — and the pole vault.  

The Lions’ Jesse Day provided another highlight by winning the javelin with a throw of 179 feet, 2 inches. He won a dual with Thompson Falls’ Ian Meyers, who threw 176-5. Both marks were PRs, and the two sit 3-4 in Class B in the event. 

Superior was third in the boys team standings at 105 points, with Thompson Falls and Mission tied at 81 and Troy sixth at 18. 

Superior’s Avila took the 100 and 200, and Mission’s Lex LaFrombois swept the long jump and triple jump. 

The top six places in each event move onto next week’s Western B Divisional in Missoula. 

Full results can be found at athletic.net.