Douglas High School in Minden was the site of the last road meet of the regular season for the Lowry High School track and field team last weekend, and the girls carried the torch for the Bucks.
“It was a good meet," said LHS coach Grant Beatty. "We had a lot of personal records and a lot of good times and nobody got hurt.”
Becca Kuskie finished first in the 3,200 meters with a time of 12 minutes, 15.38 seconds.
She also teamed up with her sister Jovi, Kinsey Albisu and Adia Bengochea for a silver in the 4x800 relay (10:30.72).
Jovi also took second in the 300-meter hurdles (49.67) and fourth in the 1,600 meters with a PR (5:44.53). Bengochea finished fourth (2:34.17) in the 800 meters, and Julianna Gonzalez was fourth (27.86) in the 200 meters. McKenzi Petersen (4-10) picked up a fourth place finish in the high jump. Rachel Garrison continued her dominance in the shot put with a winning toss of 35 feet, 10 inches, and she took silver in the discus (113-5). Heather Hall finished fourth in the shot put (30-4) and the discus (112-2) with a personal best.
“Rachel is consistently dominant and Heather did well also,” Beatty said.
Anthony Peterson was the top boy finisher with a personal-best silver (20-3.5) in the long jump and a 10th-place finish (37-9) in the triple jump, for another personal best.
“Anthony had a really good day, so we were happy about that,” Beatty said. “He was flying off of that board.”
Will Kracaw had a fourth -place finish (4:43.63) in the 1,600 meters, which was a personal best and Kevin Warren finished fifth (40-0.5) with a personal best in the triple jump.
Jace Mentaberry, Samuel Roth, Brandon Lee, Tyler Morrison, Jesse Hawkins, and Nikolas Jung all had PR’s on the day as well.
The Lowry Invitational starts today (Saturday) at 9 a.m.
“We have our home meet at Lowry on Saturday, so we don’t have to get on a bus to travel anywhere,” Beatty said. “We can sleep in our own beds and get up and run. Hopefully the weather is good and we can post some good times and close out the season on a strong note and get ready for zone.”
Lowry travels to Fallon and Churchill County High School for the Northern 1A/2A/3A Regional Championships.
The four finishers in each event advance to the NIAA the Championships on May 17-18 at Desert Oasis High School in Las Vegas.
