#Mother Nature held off long enough to give the Battle Mountain track and field team a nice day to host its annual invitational on Friday at Tim Knight Field.
#Battle Mountain senior Andy Wall won the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 47.96 seconds and was second in the 110-meter hurdles.
#Teammate Joey Smith placed third in the 300 hurdles at 19.06.
#Longhorn senior Ben George posted a personal best in the discus with a toss of 110 feet, 6 inches to earn the runner-up spot. George added a 13th-place finish in the shot put (31-5).
Battle Mountain's Lindsey Bleak lands in the triple jump pit.
#Andres Molina and Hunter Gilbert placed third and fifth, respectfully, in the shot put. Molina set a personal best at 35-4.5 and Gilbert threw it 33-10. Molina finished seventh in the discus (89-4) and Gilbert was 16th (80-0).
#Blake Stuart turned in a fifth-place finish in the high jump, clearing the bar at 5-8 and the sophomore was eighth in the 100-meter dash at 12.15 seconds.
#Eli Colver placed fourth in the 3,200 meters, 11th in the 1,600 meters and 13th in the 400 meters. Moroni Colver placed sixth in both the 400 and 800 meters.
#Elias Goodman finished sixth in the 100 meters with a personal best time of 12.07 and was 10th in the 200 meters with another best time of 25.14.
Elias Goodman runs in a relay.
#Jenna Chopp (28-10) and Olivia Lemaire (28-2) paced a 3-4 finish for the Lady Longhorns in the shot put. Both throws were personal bests.
#Lisette Haney (28-9.5) and Lindsey Bleak (28-5) finished fifth and sixth in the triple jump and Haney was sixth in the long jump with a mark of 12-10.5.
#Sophomore Sonja Sherve placed third in the 3,200 meters with a time of 16:33 and she set a personal best in the 1,600 meters to place seventh in a time of 7:23.
#Juliet LaRiva finished 10th in the 800 meters and 12th in the 1,600 and Hailey Cook and Taylor Clark placed 11th and 12th in the 100 meters.
#Battle Mountain travels to Minden on Saturday for the Big George Invitational.