Trenton Girls Win Seventh Meet Title

The Trenton High School girls track and field team appears to be peaking at the right time. At the Marcus Hounsom Relays at Putnam County High School in Unionville on Friday, the Bulldogs posted 183.5 team points – their second-highest total of the season – to blow the field away and capture their seventh meet title of the season.
Clark County, with 166 points, was second and Putnam County’s total of 88 rounded out the top-three in the 10-team field.
Trenton won just four events at the meet, but had eight runner-up finishes and double-placed in 13 events to push their team total to the top of the standings.
Trenton’s relay teams led the way as the 4×400-meter team of Kristi Ewing, Lexi Gott, McKayla Blackburn and Lexi Whitaker won with a time of 4:15.98 and the 4×200-meter team of Ewing, Gott, Chandler Lynch and Whitaker was first with a time of 1:50.05.
The 4×100- and 4×800-meter relay teams each came in second. Gott, Emma Curtis, Mykah Hurley and Shay Westerhof were runners-up in the 4×100 with a time of 55.22 and the 4×800 team of Gwyneth Foster, Katie Markell, Morgan King and Blackburn finished second with a time of 11:38.39.
Individually, Trenton got one gold medal on the track and one in the field. Ewing won the 400-meter dash with a time of 59.83, one of the many events where Trenton double-placed. Lynch was fifth in the event with a time of 1:06.61. In the field, Maci Moore won the triple jump with a mark of 31-5. Hurley finished second to her teammate in that event, jumping 31-1 and Lynch was seventh in the triple jump with a mark of 27-11.
Hurley added a runner-up finish in the long jump with a mark of 16-3 and Moore was second in the shot put with a throw of 35-0 and third in the high jump after clearing 4-8.
Salem Croy placed in three throwing events, finishing second in the javelin with a throw of 107-2, sixth in the discus with a throw of 90-2 and eighth in the shot put with a throw of 28-11. Curtis was third in the pole vault with a mark of 6-0 and sixth in the long jump with a leap of 14-7 and Kendall Crowley was fourth in the discus with a throw of 95-6 and fourth in the javelin with a mark of 92-9 to round out the Bulldogs’ placewinners in the field.
On the track, Whitaker was second in both the 200-meter dash and 300-meter hurdles. Her time in the 200 was 26.96 while her time in the 300 hurdles was 47.46. Ewing, meanwhile, added a third-place finish in the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.05.
Other placewinners on the track for the Trenton girls included Evy McCullough, third in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 19.61 and sixth in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 58.91; Foster, fourth in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 6:28.84 and sixth in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:50.85; Blackburn, fourth in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:96.9; King, fourth in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 14:57.11; Markell, fifth in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 6:32.23 and fifth in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 15:18.02; Westerhof, seventh in the 200-meter dash with a time of 28.68; Teya Cooksey, eighth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 14.15; and Lily Berti, eighth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 23.02.
TRENTON BOYS
A very shorthanded Trenton boys team placed last in the team standings with 20 points.
Dylan Harris picked up a gold medal for Trenton in the triple jump, winning with a mark of 39-03.7. Harris was also eighth in the high jump, clearing 5-4.
Carson Burchett was third in the shot put with a throw of 47-7 and Kayden Spencer was sixth in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:40.70.
Trenton’s track and field teams are scheduled to return to action, weather permitting, today (Tuesday) at the Grand River Conference track meet at South Harrison High School in Bethany. That event was scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.