The Panthers had a very busy week, with 13 athletes competing at JV meet to start the week, followed by the Meeker Invitational Friday and the Cedaredge Invitational Saturday. | MATT SCOGGINS PHOTO
RANGELY I The Rangely Panthers had a very busy week for track and field. Many of the athletes started the week off by going to a JV meet on Monday, then they all went to Meeker on Friday and Cedaredge on Saturday.
The week started off Monday with freshman, sophomore and first-year track and field athletes going to a JV meet hosted by Palisade in Grand Junction. Rangely took 13 athletes; they had the opportunity to compete in different events or in events for the first time without feeling a lot of pressure as they might from a varsity meet. There are no official results from the JV meet. Coach Beth Scoggins said, “They all competed well and worked hard on their events that many had not yet done. It is fun seeing the young athletes grow and challenge themselves each week.”
On Friday the team found themselves in Meeker for the Meeker Invitational. There were nine teams at the meet. This has been the smallest meet so far of the season but there was some great competition. The girls found themselves placing first, beating Meeker by only 2.5 points and the boys taking third overall.
Mary Scoggins was the top scorer for the girls placing first in all of her events: long jump (16-7), triple jump (33-09), 100-meter dash (13.83) and 400-meter (1:03.65). Hayley Burr was the second top scorer; she placed first in the 100-meter hurdles (18.82) and 300-meter hurdles (53.00) and second in the 100 dash (14.00). Other good performances were Kyrah Phelps in the shot put placing second with a new personal best of 30-0. The 4×200 relay team placed second with a new best time of 2:00.73. The relay team is made up of Miah Wren, Ryann Mergelman, Annika Cantrell and Emma Smith.
On the boys side freshman James Talbot was the top scorer with a first in the 3,200-meter (12:11), second in the 800-meter (2:14.24) and 1,600-meter (5:12.47). Other boys who competed well were Andrew Dorris in the 1,600 (4:57.36) first place, Timothy Scoggins high jump (5-8) first place, and Kenyon Cochrane with a second in discus (133-8.50). The boys also put together a 4×200 relay with Fisher Winder, Aydan Christian, Anthony Dorris and Robert Murray. They took fifth with a time of 1:55.98.
On Saturday the team went to the Cedaredge Invitational. The meet had 14 teams ranging in size from 1A to 4A. With all the athletes competing the day before many only had two events. Both the boys and girls team took sixth place overall. “We do two meets in a weekend so the athletes can get use to competing back to back since the state meet is a three day meet. It challenges them to go hard on both days even when they are tired,” said coach Scoggins.
The Panthers head to Stocker Stadium for another meet this Saturday. | MATT SCOGGINS PHOTO
The boys team ran their 4×800 for the first time of the year. The team had Timothy Scoggins, Colton Noel, Clay Allred and Andrew Dorris. They took third place with a time of 9:24.06. They were also able to put together a sprint medley relay with Christian, Murry, Anthony Dorris and Justin Allred, they took sixth with a 2:01.33. Top performers for the boys were Fisher Winder in triple jump for fourth place (37-07), Scoggins high jump second place (5-10), Cochrane discus (133-9), Andrew Dorris second place (2:08.25).
The girls team ran the sprint medley relay with Hayley Burr, Emma Smith, Miah Wren and Mary Scoggins for a new season’s best of 1:58.49. Other top performers were Mary Scoggins in the 800 with a first place (2:33.51) and second in the 3,200 (13:26.55), Burr fifth in the 200 (28.93), and fourth in the 100 hurdles (18.72), Miah Wren in the 400 for fifth (1:08.47). Rylee Allred fourth in discus (93-07) and Kyrah Phelps also in the discus (93-01).
The team will be heading to the Frank Woodburn meet at Stocker Stadium on Saturday, April 9. They will be helping out with the middle school meet on Friday.
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