Dino track and field took to the road, traveling to Nephi for the Juab Five Team invite. It was a good day for both teams, as the boys finished in first place, and the Lady Dinos took second.
Carbon took first on the boys’ side, scoring 175 points, followed by Richfield with 142. Host Juab (136), Box Elder (122), and Emery (20) made up the rest of the field.
Distances were once again where Carbon made up some ground. In the 400, Maxwell Carlson took first with his time of 50.79. Andrew Loveless finished in fifth. Michael Weber took first in the 800, turning in a time of 2:04.81. Dallin Humes came in fourth and would also finish third in the 1600. The Dinos claimed spots two through five in the 3200; Matthew Stromness took second, Weber third, Bracken Hanson fourth, and Josiah Trostle fifth.
In other individual events, Bradley Sweeney earned a first-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles, turning in a time of 43.27; Carter Branch finished in third, and Carson Taylor fourth. Carbon dominated in the 110-meter hurdles, with Branch taking second; Riley Palmer finished third, Sweeney fourth, and Loveless fifth.
Carbon would earn a pair of second-place and a fourth-place finish in relays. The 4×400 was a second-place finish, and then again in the sprint relay medley, Tanner Harker, Benjamin Simms, Carlson, and Weber. The fourth-place finish came in the 4×100 with the team of Dexter Packard, Kayden Vasquez, Ethan Prettyman, and Simms.
Packard earned a second-place finish in the long jump, with Deagan Richard finishing fifth. Branch would take second, Traxton Jewkes third, and Monson Loveless fifth in the high jump.
For the girls, the team from Richfield, with 197 points, took the top spot; Carbon finished second with 161.5. Box Elder (94.5), Emery (78), and host Juab (44) rounded out the field.
The Lady Dinos were also strong in distances, as Gianna White finished second and Emma Bowman third just off Gentry Christiansen of Emery and her pace of 1:00.60. Roz Stowe claimed a first-place finish in the 800 with a time of 2:21.20. Stowe would also take second in the 1600. In the 3200, Carbon’s Josie Yates finished second. Alexandria Bryner took fourth, Hayley Jones fifth, and Kaylee Pitcher sixth.
Brooklyn Lowe finished second in the 100, with Ivy Beecher taking fourth; Lowe also took fourth in the 200. McKinlie Sharp was second in the 100-meter hurdles, and Josie Jespersen came in fifth in the 300-meter hurdles.
The Lady Dinos earned a pair of first-place finishes and a second-place finish in relays. In the 4×100, the team of Beecher, Lowe, Malia Smith, and Emma Bowman turned in a time of 52.06, and in the sprint medley relay, Lowe, Smith, White, and Stowe ran to another first-place finish with a time of 4:13.89. In the 4×400, Rebecca Swasey, Elsie Morley, White, and Stowe took second.
In field events, Swasey took the top spot in the Javelin. Emily Dufour earned first in the high jump, and Elsie Morley took second in the long jump.
Carbon will be at it twice this week. On Wednesday, they will be in Castle Dale for the Darrell Gardner Invitational, and then again on Friday, when teams from around the region will land at Carbon High for the Eastern Utah Championships.
Click HERE for the complete results for the Juab Five Team Invitational.