There was plenty of track and field action on Monday as Mountain Home hosted the Junior Bomber Relays. The host teams swept both team titles.
On the boys’ side, Salem finished second, Omaha was third, Melbourne ended up fourth, Pinkston was fifth, Yellville-Summit finished seventh, Mountain Home’s junior varsity team was ninth, Flippin and Timbo ended up tied for 10th, Rural Special took 13th place, Mammoth Spring and Lead Hill finished tied for 14th, Harrison was 16th, and Norfork ended up 17th.
Individually for Mountain Home’s junior high varsity squad, Brody Brown won the high jump, the long jump, the triple jump and the 200-meter dash; Chris Leaming won the discus throw; Simeon Costner won the 800-meter and 1600-meter runs; Garret Watts won the 100-meter dash and took second place in the long jump and the 400-meter dash and third in the 200-meter dash; William Tucker finished second in the pole vault; Oakley Recktenwald was second in the 1600-meter run; Michael Gomez ended up third in the shot put and the discus; Colt Thomas took third place in the pole vault; and Skylar Moore finished third in the 1600-meter run. The team of Brody Rose, Eli Mason, Alex Chafin and Ryan Cooper won the 4×800-meter relay; Costner, Recktenwald, Cooper and Rose won the 4×400-meter relay; Watts, Jeremiah Partee, Westin Potter and Mason Reppond won the 4×100-meter relay; and Partee, Bredon Lara, Potter and Brantley Gale were third in the 4×200-meter relay.
Among other area athletes, Pinkston’s Austin Still won the 110-meter hurdles, Trey Fox of Salem won the 400-meter dash, Salem’s Cooper Cox won the 300-meter hurdles. Salem’s team of Grant Draper, Fox, Jamer Holloway and Cox won the 4×200-meter relay.
Among the girls’ teams, Pinkston ended up second, Harrison took fourth place, Melbourne finished fifth, Flippin and Bergman were tied for seventh, Salem ended up ninth, Mountain Home’s J.V. squad and Cotter finished tied for 11th, Lead Hill took 13th place, Yellville-Summit was 14th, Norfork ended up 15th, Timbo took 16th place, Mammoth Spring finished 17th, and Omaha was 18th.
For the Junior Lady Bombers, Ella Hampton won the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, Brook Bertalotto won the 800-meter and 1600-meter runs, Jocelyn Green won the 100-meter and 300-meter hurdles and ended up third in the triple jump, Joslin Haney won the discus, MaKenna Miller won the pole vault, Eliana Pepin won the high jump and took second place in the triple jump and the 100-meter dash and third in the 200-meter dash, Addison McCarn finished in the long jump, Jayden Jones was second in the discus, Audrey Birkhimer ended up second in the 300-meter hurdles and third in the high jump, and Makenzie Kotlowski took third place in the shot put. The team of Green, Callie Kohler, Mayce Carlson and Bertalotto won the 4×400-meter relay; Shayn Whickersham, Birkhimer, Christieann Stickles and Carlson won the 4×200-meter relay; Pepin, Green, Hampton and Miller won the 4×100-meter relay; and Ashley Smith, Whickersham, Ruby Hargett and McCarn finished second in the 4×800-meter relay.
In addition, Pinkston’s Harper Hutchens won the long jump, Grace Rosenlof of Pinkston won the 400-meter dash, Emma Rush of Melbourne won the triple jump, and Harrison’s Colbie Ricketts won the shot put. Pinkston’s team of Blair Beyen, Samira Gassama, Farrah Coleman and Lydia Lewis won the 4×800-meter relay.
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