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Broncos have strong showing at home track meet
Lind-Ritzville's Shawn Steinberger, left, passes the baton to teammate Damon Schilling in the boys 4X100 Relay as Colfax's Jaxon Wick passes to John Largent.
Senior exchange student Cindy Julien finished in sixth-place with a shot put of 29 feet 9 inches on Saturday.
Lind-Ritzville junior Alexis Mendoza tosses the shot 29 feet five inches, finishing 37th overall in the event at the Undeberg Invitational on Saturday at Snider Field.
Bronco Erik Klewin flies out of the blocks faster than his competition in heat No. 3 of the boys 100-meter dash.
Lind-Ritzville's Claire Wellsandt, right, runs stride-for-stride alongside Oakesale's Grace Perry in the final heat of the girls 400-meter..
Bronco senior long-distance runner Caleb Heater outpaces athletes from Republic and Mary Walker in the boys 1,600-meter race. Heater finished 13th overall, with a time of 5:32.45.
Northwest Christian's Natalie Barker, left, waits for the baton from Elouise Dimmel as Lind-Ritzville's Zoe Galbreath races into Turn 3 after receiving the pass from Claire Wellsandt in the girls 4X200 Relay. Colfax trails on the right.
RITZVILLE - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague track team had a strong showing Saturday, April 27, at their home Undeberg Invitational on Jimmy Snider Field.
The Bronco girls finished fourth out of 21 teams with 62 points. Kittitas won the girls title with 75 pints, followed by Davenport with 64 and Reardan with 63.
In the boys division, the Broncos tied for seventh with Liberty (Spangle), with 30 team points teach.
Davenport won the boys title with 119 points. Rounding out the Top 6 teams are Northwest Christian (Colbert) second with 79 team points, Garfield-Palouse third with 72, Kettle Falls fourth with 69, Oakesdale fifth with 57 and Colfax sixth with 36.5.
The boys competition featured 22 teams.
The Broncos were paced by juniors Brody Boness and Zach Klein. Klein was the fastest runner in the boys 200-meter, winning the event in 24.08 seconds and Boness won boys shot put with a throw of 42-08.75, a personal record.
In other Top 3 finishes for the Bronco boys, the 4X400 relay team of seniors Shawn Steinberger and Bridger Moore, Klein and sophomore Damon Schilling finished second with a time of 3:37.99.
And Klein was third in the 400-meter with a time of 53.57.
For the Bronco girls, junior Claire Wellsandt, sophomores Zoe Galbreath and Saige Galbreath, and freshman Allie Mendez combined for a second-place finish in the 4X100 relay in a time of 4:36.27.
Wellsandt had the best individual finish for the local girls, taking third in the 400-meter in 1:06.07.
In other indivudal results:
Boys
100-meter - Senior Brock Kinch, 5th, 12.15; Schilling, 14th, 12.47; freshman Brett Cresse, 26th, 13.03; sophomore Jackson Blanten, 32nd, 13.61; junior Fredy Granados-Lopez, 33rd, 13.87; sophomore Erik Klewin, 34th, 13.98; and junior Alexis Mendoza, 40th, 15.18.
200-meter - Steinberger, 5th, 24.61; Cresse, 13th, 26.27; and junior Brix Curtis, 15th, 26.70.
400-meter - Schilling, 5th, 53.67; Steinberger, 8th, 54.42; and Moore, 18th, 57.95;
1,600-meter - Curtis, 7th, 5:05.68; and senior Caleb Heater, 13th, 5:32.45.
4X100 Relay - Ritzville-A (Klein, Steinberger, Schilling and Kinch), 4th, 45.82.
Shot Put - Sophomore Aidan Miller, 20th, 32-02.50; sophomore Jerod Harder, 25th, 30-009.75; Mendoza, 37th, 29-05.00; and Klewin, 43rd, 25-00.00.
Discus - Miller, 5th, 111-08; freshman Cameron Boness, 13th, 98-00; Brody Boness, 15th, 93-08; Herod, 20th, 86-02; Mendoza, 33rd, 80-05; and Klewin, 37th, 61-09.
Javelin - Junior John Stromberger, 5th,
136-07; senior Kemper Smith, 19th, 111-08; Brody Boness, 21st, 107-09; Cameron Boness, 25th, 94-06; and Klewin, 39th, 65-08.
Long Jump - Cresse, 10th, 16-07.00; and Blanten, 16th, 15-09.00.
Girls
100-meter - Freshman Lexi Hernandez, 22nd, 15.12; and junior Addy Colbert, 32nd, 16.41.
200-meter - Hernandez, 14th, 30.91; and Colbert, 24th, 34.75.
4X100 Relay - Ritzville-A (Wellsandt, Mendez, Saige Galbreath and Hernandez), 5th, 55.52.
4X200 Relay - Ritzville-A (Mendez, Wellsandt, Zoe Galbreath and Saige Galbreath), 5th, 1:57.92.
Shot Put - Senior Cindy Julien, 6th, 29-09.00; and freshman Rose Fedie, 23rd, 22-03.50.
Discus - Saige Galbreath, 14th, 70-08; and Fedie, 19th, 68-03.
Javelin - Junior Temple Gefre, 11th, 81-07; Julien, 16th, 67-03; junior Brooklyn Norton, 20th, 62-03; and freshman Hope McClanathan, 24th, 50-09.
Pole Vault - Zoe Galbreath, 4th, 8-00.00.
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