Heading for the beginning of the post season this week at the District 7B meet in Eureka Friday, Plains track and field teams warmed up for the stretch run of the season by competing in the very tough Archie Roe meet in Kalispell Saturday.

Led by Hadyn Rice, Kalli Tuma and Katelyn Subatch, the Trotters scored 22 team points to place ninth in Roe varsity team scoring, while the Horsemen, led by Owen Jermyn, Matthew Thurston and Cooper Meredith, scored eight team points on the varsity side.

“The girls did really well, continue to be on an upwards swing,” coach Jesse Jermyn said. “All in all, we are happy with how we performed in Kalispell, we gave it what we had.”

A wildly talented sophomore, Rice continued her impressive spring of track and field by winning second in the javelin (tossing the spear a personal best 118-8) and placing fifth in both very competitive hurdles races, timing out in a personal best 16.87 seconds in the 100s and in 47.40 in the 300s.

Both seniors, Tuma edged out Rice, clocking a season-best 16.74 seconds to win fourth place in the 100 meter hurdles and Subatch high jumped 4-9 to win fifth in that event. Junior Aubree Butcher placed tenth in the javelin with a fine throw of 95-10.

Owen Jermyn reportedly got into a kind of a dogfight with a Glacier runner and finished third in the 3200 meters. “There was some pushing and shoving, he kind of lost his focus and it ended up costing him,” his coach and dad Jesse Jermyn said. “It was a good learning experience for him.”

Also both outstanding Horsemen distance runners in their own right, Cord Greer and Simeon Costner did not compete in Kalispell Saturday.

Thurston won fifth place in the 300 meter hurdles in 43.01 and Meredith, who has been hitting his stride in the hurdles races recently, finished seventh in both events, just missing placing points, in the Roe meet.

For the Horsemen JV, Jackson Revier ran a strong 800 meters (winning third in 2:17.11) besides throwing the javelin over 130 feet for the first time this season, coach Jermyn said. In his off time last week, the multi-talented Revier won fifth place individually

in the Gary Thompson Invitational golf tournament in Thompson Falls last Tuesday to lead the Plains golf team.

Back on the track, Plains thinclads will now participate in the District 7B meet in Eureka Friday. The top six placers in each event in Eureka qualify for the Western B portion of the combined Western B/Western C divisional meet at MCPS Stadium in Missoula May 22-23.