GOSHEN – Wawasee boys track coach Scott Lancaster was concerned with seeing improvement from his team Saturday in the Goshen Relays.

The Warrior boss got his wish.

“I thought we competed well,” said Lancaster after seeing his team finish in fifth place among 23 teams in Class B competition at Foreman Field. “We wanted to see what some of our younger kids could do and we wanted to target a few areas for improvement.

“Those were the big goals for us today. We made progress in some areas and that was good to see. Our training has been so inconsistent so far because of the weather.”

Fairfield claimed its fifth straight Class B team title on a windy and cold day in the 71st annual relays. The Falcons racked up 99 points to outdistance Gary West Side’s 88. Wawasee was fifth with 62 points and Whitko tied for 10th place with 41.

The Warriors notched a pair of championship performances. The Distance Medley relay team of Adam Doll, Matt Miller, Jaxon Barnes and Zach Cockrill won their event in 11:23.64. Wawasee also took first in the 4 X 100 relay as Michael Pena, Jacob Hutchinson, JJ Gilmer and Clayton Cook prevailed in 46.13.

Lancaster had high praise for the work of Hutchinson, only a sophomore.

“We had someone sick and put Jake in there and he did a great job today,” Lancaster said. “This was just the second time for him on the varsity level. He’s really stepped up his game for us.”

Gilmer placed third in the high jump by clearing 6-1 for the Warriors. He also was sixth in the long jump with a top leap of 19-10.

Chad Eppley was fourth in the shot put with a top toss of 48-3.

“Chad had another PR in the shot today,” noted Lancaster. “He’s just done a tremendous job stepping up for us this season.”

Adam Doll was second in the 1,600-meter run for the Warriors. Clayton Cook took third in the 110 hurdles.

“Clayton is trying to find his rhythm right now, like a lot of hurdlers because of the lack of training so far,” said Lancaster.

The Warriors also got a second-place finish in the 800 Sprint Medley relay from the team of Pena, Hutchinson, Cook and Gilmer.

Connor Stouder led the way for Whitko Saturday. He placed second in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.60 and also ran the anchor leg on the winning 4 X 200 relay team. Stouder teamed with Tyler Sherwin, Blake Sapp and Maley Stewart to win in a time of 1:40.60.

Brady Herendeen captured third place in the long jump for the Wildcats with a top effort of 20-2.

Wawasee is scheduled to compete at Goshen on Monday in NLC action versus the host Redskins and Concord.

 

CLASS B

Team scores: Fairfield 99, Gary West Side 88, Lakeland 66, Westview 64, Wawasee 62, Plymouth 58, West Noble 52, NorthWood 43, Prairie Heights 43, John Glenn 41, Columbia City 41, East Noble 41, Whitko 41, Culver Academies 37, Jimtown 34, New Prairie 32, Bremen 31, Wabash 28, Mishawaka Marian 25, Central Noble 24, Garrett 20, Fremont 13, LaVille 5.

4 x 800 relay (Race one): 1, John Glenn (Alex Crump, Cameron Mester, Nathan Palmer, Luke Runyan) 8:36.94. 2, Gary West 8:39.26. 3, West Noble 8:43.70. 4, Fairfield 8:46.87. 5, Westview 8:47.75. 6, Culver Academies 8:52.34. 7, Plymouth 9:03.67. 8, NorthWood 9:07.44.

4 x 800 relay (Race two): 1, Lakeland (Michael Theis, Joseph Trost, Mitch Herber, Eric Herber) 8:34.94. 2, Columbis City 8:59.74. 3, Wabash 9:05.72. 4, New Prairie 9:10.71. 5, Marian 9:14.08. 6, East Noble 9:32.28. 7, Wawasee 9:32.29. 8, Whitko 9:37.03.

Distance medley (1200-400-800-1600) relay (Race one): 1, Wawasee (Adam Doll, Matt E Miller, Jaxton Bame, Zach Cockrill) 11:23.64. 2, Culver Academies 11:33.61. 3, Gary West Side 11:39.72. 4, NorthWood 11:46.91. 5, Prairie Heights 11:58.42. 6, New Prairie 12:02.36. 7, Marian 12:25.58. 8, East Noble 12:25.85.

Distance medley (1200-400-800-1600) relay (Race two): 1, Lakeland (Eric Herber, Mitch Herber, Michael Theis, Joseph Trost) 11:29.98. 2, Fairfield 11:36.87. 3, Columbia City 11:41.18. 4, West Noble 11:53.60. 5, John Glenn 11:54.39. 6, Westview 12:13.02. 7, Garrett 12:36.73. 8, Central Noble 12:45.19.

4 x 200 relay (Race one): 1, Fairfield (Brett Baumgartner, Dillon Lockwood, Kegan Showalter, Alex Mast) 1:33.61. 2, Gary West 1:34.19. 3, East Noble 1:37.95. 4, Plymouth 1:40.53. 5, Wabash 1:44.80. 6, Columbia City 1:45.05. 7, Garrett 1:46.24.

4 x 200 relay (Race two): 1, Westview (Lindon McDonald, Jarret Slabach, Nic Raber, Max Laughlin) 1:34.15. 2, Bremen 1:41.07. 3, Fremont 1:41.89. 4, Central Noble 1:42.99. 5, New Prairie 1:43.29. 6, Culver Academies 1:43.46. 7, John Glenn 1:45.74. 8, Wawasee 1:46.78.

4 x 200 relay (Race three): 1, Whitko (Tyler Sherwin, Blake Sapp, Maley Stewart, Connor Stouder) 1:40.60. 2, Marian 1:42.64. 3, NorthWood 1:42.77. 4, West Noble 1:50.75. 5, Prairie Heights 1:54.32. 6, LaVille 1:54.78. Lakeland DQ, Jimtown DQ.

110 high hurdles: 1, Cameron Kitson (Fairfield) 15.88. 2, Zach Shepard (Prairie Hts.) 16.23. 3, Clayton Cook (Wawasee) 16.41. 4, Khalil Upshaw (Gary West) 16.96. 5, AJ Mast (Fairfield) 17.06. 6, Carter Gill (Jimtown) 17.50. 7, Drake Landes (Garrett) 17.85. 8, Charles Pates (Jimtown) 18.73.

4 x 100 relay (Race one): 1, East Noble (Kyle Mundon, Brandon Mable, Eric Butler, Walker Boyles) 45.68. 2, Lakeland 46.51. 3, New Prairie 47.68. 4, Plymouth 48.06. 5, NorthWood 48.74. 6, Garrett 49.80. Marian DQ.

4 x 100 relay (Race two): 1, Gary West (Jonvae Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Darnell Jones, Carlton Sims) 43.92. 2, Fairfield 44.82. 3, Westview 45.07. 4, West Noble 47.47. 5, Culver Academies 47.73. 6, Bremen 50.11. 7, LaVille 52.26.

4 x 100 relay (Race three): 1, Wawasee (Michael Pena, Jacob Hutchinson, JJ Gilmer, Clayton Cook) 46.13. 2, Whitko 46.14. 3, Jimtown 46.99. 4, Wabash 47.14. 5, Fremont 47.39. 6, Columbia City 47.78. 7, Prairie Heights 48.33. 8, John Glenn 48.39.

1600 (Race one): 1, Wes Hibbard (Culver Acad) 4:49.26. 2, Evan Harney (Columbia City) 4:52.61. 3, Dijon Smith (Gary West) 4:55.90. 4, Mitch Perkins (Prairie Hts.) 5:00.63. 5, Joe Vandiver (East Noble) 5:10.93. 6, Ryan Kulwicki (Glenn) 5:20.42. 7, Brock Miller (Westview) 5:31.77. 8, Keagan Conneley (Fremont) 5:38.11.

1600 (Race two): 1, Brandon Arnold (West Noble) 4:38.42. 2, Joseph Trost (Lakeland) 4:40.45. 3, Luke Runyan (Glenn) 4:44.24. 4, Sam Hall (Wabash) 4:53.08. 5, Kuyler Bailey (Whitko) 4:55.67. 6, Austin Rose (Plymouth) 4:57.13. 7, Nate Miller (Fairfield) 5:03.37. 8, Josh Perkins (Prairie Hts.) 5:07.59.

1600 (Race three): 1, Ryan Smith (Central Noble) 4:41.78. 2, Adam Doll (Wawasee) 4:42.50. 3, Thomas Dean (Bremen) 4:48.54. 4, Jonathan Weimer (West Noble) 4:50.04. 5, Leopoldo Burguete (Culver Academies) 4:54.16. 6, Alex Oberlin (Fairfield) 4:56.53. 7, Eric Herber (Lakeland) 4:57.23. 8, Mason Reed (Plymouth) 4:58.71.

Sprint medley (100-100-200-400) relay (Race one): 1, West Noble (Kam Bontrager, Erik Mawhorter, Logan Heintzelman, Jonathan Moreno) 1:44.33. 2, NorthWood 1:46.36. 3, New Prairie 1:47.75. 4, Plymouth 1:48.93. 5, Wabash 1:50.45. 6, Prairie Heights 1:51.62. 7, Whitko 1:54.05.

Sprint medley (100-100-200-400) relay (Race two): 1, Fairfield (Mitch DeWitt, Cameron Kitson, Dillon Lockwood, Alex Mast) 1:40.07. 2, Wawasee 1:40.77. 3, East Noble 1:41.82. 4, Bremen 1:44.32. 5, Westview 1:47.36. 6, Columbia City 1:50.31. LaVille DQ.

Sprint medley (100-100-200-400) relay (Race three): 1, Gary West (Darnell Jones, William Wadley, Darius Barnes, Khari Daniel) 1:40.31. 2, Lakeland 1:44.43. 3, John Glenn 1:46.66. 4, Garrett 1:47.58. 5, Central Noble 1:48.67. 6, Marian 1:49.30. Culver Academies DQ.

100: 1, Jonvae Johnson (Gary West) 11.38. 2, Connor Stouder (Whitko) 11.60. 3, Michael Hartman (Plymouth) 11.66. 4, Lonnie Johnson (Gary West) 11.73. 5, Lindon McDonald (Westview) 11.83. 6, Devan Emerson (Jimtown) 11.90. 7, Clayton Cook (Wawasee) 13.35.

4 x 400 relay (Race one): 1, Columbia City (Andrew McFarland, Trent Hinen, David Fulk, Seth Kissinger) 3:45.42. 2, John Glenn 3:47.46. 2, New Prairie 3:48.17. 4, Garrett 3:59.22. 5, Central Noble 4:02.27.

4 x 400 relay (Race two): 1, Fairfield (AJ Mast, Kegan Showalter, Alex Mast, Brett Baumgartner) 3:37.24. 2, Lakeland 3:42.85.3, Prairie Heights 3:43.03. 4, Bremen 3:45.50. 5, West Noble 3:52.04. 6, East Noble 3:54.04.

4 x 400 relay (Race three): 1, Gary West (Jare Glover, Deronte Buggs, Carlton Sims, Jonvae Johnson) 3:27.72. 2, Plymouth 3:37.74. 3, Westview 3:40.10. 4, NorthWood 3:49.22. 5, Wabash 3:49.76. 6, Marian 3:53.58. 7, Fremont 4:10.06.

High jump: 1, Carter Gill (Jimtown) 6-3. 2, Devon Hunsberger (NorthWood) 6-2. 3, JJ Gilmer (Wawasee) 6-1. 4, Lindon McDonald (Westview) 5-10. 5, Kyler West (Prairie Hts.) 5-10. 6, Will Stueve (NorthWood) 5-10. 7, Jarret Slabach (Westview) 5-10. 8, Thomas Martin (Fairfield) 5-10.

Long jump: 1, Lonnie Johnson (Gary West) 21-6 ½. 2, Devan Emerson (Jimtown) 20-10 ½. 3, Brady Herendeen (Whitko) 20-2. 4, Dillon Lockwood (Fairfield) 20-0. 5, Eric Burns (Culver Acad) 19-10 ¾. 6, JJ Gilmer (Wawasee) 19-10. 7, Jaden Kreft (West Noble) 19-8. 8, Drake Landes (Garrett) 19-3 ¾.

Shot put: 1, Dan Samuelson (Plymouth) 52-1 ½. 2, Evan Garretson (Lakeland) 51-8. 3, Kyle Ostrander (Fairfield) 49-9 ½. 4, Chad Eppley (Wawasee) 48-3. 5, David Miller (Fairfield) 47-10 ½. 6, Keion Johnson (Jimtown) 47-8 ½. 7, Adam Lacefield (Plymouth) 47-0 ½. 8, Hunter Schuman (Glenn) 45-4.

Discus: 1, Kyle Ostrander (Fairfield) 153-3. 2, Jacob Brown (East Noble) 149-0. 3, Adam Lacefield (Plymouth) 142-11. 4, Dan Samuelson (Plymouth) 142-0. 5, Nate Strehler (Bremen) 141-6. 6, David Miller (Fairfield) 140-10. 7, Tyler Sherwin (Whitko) 133-8. 8, Ethan Brown (Wawasee) 132-0.

Pole vault: 1, Nate Raber (Westview) 15-0. 2, Trey Kennedy (Westview) 14-9. 3, Zach Shepard (Prairie Hts.) 13-0. 4, Jacob Burnham (Marian) 12-6. 5, Dylan Gust (Lakeland) 12-0. 6, Albert Gongwer (NorthWood) 12-0. 7, Todd Suttor (New Prairie) 11-6. 8, Austin Sheldon (Culver Acad) 11-6.