CHURUBUSCO – Warsaw again proved it was the toast of the Turtle Town Classic Saturday at a dreary Churubusco High School. The Lady Tigers blew away the competition to repeat as champions for the fourth straight year with 158 points, 73 more than runner-up Columbia City’s 85 points.

Warsaw claimed 10 of the 16 events in the Gold Division, to which held the larger schools in the mega-meet. Westview won the Black Division title among the smaller schools, scoring a similar dominance to Warsaw’s with 148 points, well ahead of runner-up Central Noble’s 71 points and Whitko’s 66 points.

Warsaw was the cream of the crop on the track, taking all of the sprint races as well as all three relays and a pair of jump events. Leading the sprint wins were Mariah Harter in the 100 (13.07), Sam Alexander in the 200 (27.14) and Tennie Worrell in the 400 (1:01.60). The 4×100 relay won at 52.28, the 4×400 at 4:17.98 and 4×800 at 10:28.38.

Hannah Dawson and Anna Craig were one-two in the 800, with Dawson at 2:31.00 and Craig right behind at 2:32.92. Warsaw also “swept” the 300 hurdles with Nicole Eckert winning at 48.02 and Rebecca Lemon second at 50.37.

Warsaw jumped its way to a pair of titles in the field, with Alexander far ahead of the field in the long jump at 15-7 and Jazzmine Brown besting all high jumpers at 5-2.

Warsaw nearly claimed two other titles, with Brooke Rhodes second in the mile race and Allison Miller and Mia Beckham both within a second of first in the two-mile race, with Lauren Beckmann of DeKalb needing to do plenty of work to hold off the Tiger tandem for the title at 11:46.26.

Wawasee placed ninth at Turtle Town with 27 points in the Gold Division. It’s top showing came from Katlyn Kennedy in the shot put, sending the pill 34-9 for third place. Alexis Manges and Hannah Winters with fifth and seventh, respectively, in the discus at 102-7.5 and 96.5-5.

The 4×400 relay from Syracuse placed fifth at 4:37.97, the 4×800 sixth at 11:26.50, Skylar Janda sixth in the 100 dash at 13.92 and Maddie Birch seventh in the two-mile at 12:38.65.

Whitko had a champion among its Saturday showings. Senior Elaine Warner was the top long jumper at 15-2, with teammate Reghan Craig fifth at 13-9.25. Warner was also fourth in the 300 hurdles at 52.20 and Craig was fifth in pole vault at 6-6. Michelle Kelsey was third in pole vault at 7-0.

Kaitlyn Reed had a big day, taking second in the 100 dash (13.41), second in high jump (5-1) and third in the 200 dash (27.86). Brigit Nemitz added a fifth-place finish in the one-mile at 5:45.75. Abby Overmeyer was also fifth in the 100 and seventh in the shot put with Reghan Craig seventh and Quinn Craig eighth in the 100 hurdles race.