NASHVILLE — Brigham Kleinhenz had a record-setting day at the Brown County Talon Relays on Saturday.
Kleinhenz’ 14-foot, 9-inch clearance in the pole vault set a Columbus North school record and helped he and Carson Reedy place first as a pair with a combined jump of 24-9.
Because of computer errors in the field-event scoring, official team scores will not be available until Monday. But the unofficial scores had the Bull Dog boys in first by 34 1/2 points and the North girls in first by 24 after 16 scored events.
The Brown County boys currently are 7 1/2 points behind Terre Haute South in fourth place, but could possibly move up or down depending on the final results. The Eagle girls are sitting in sixth, but could also move up, being just 2 1/2 points behind fifth-place Seymour.
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The North boys took three more first-place finishes in relays. The 4×1600-meter relay team of Rishi Poludasu, Peyton Shelton, Andrew Thompson and Charlie Allen ran 19 minutes, 2.25 seconds. The 4×100 team of Damon Hunter Jr., Hunter Spalding, Ben Malone and Daveed Jolley took first in 43.82. Malone, Noah Kestler Nash Johnson and Spalding won the shuttle hurdle relay in 39.03.
First-place finishes from the Bull Dog girls came from Adrienne Salemee and Sami Heathcote in the pole vault with a combined height of 19-0, and Marie Harrison and Emma Wetherald took the discus with a combined throw of 370-6. Carley Finke, Jahna Smiley, Helena Ho and La’Monica Smith captured the 4×100 relay in 51.91.
Logan Abbott and Luke McDonald finished second in the boys shot put (162-3) and discus (243-4). Thompson, Pruitt, Allen and John Sluys placed second in the distance medley relay (11:12.54); and Evan Porter, Carson Littrell, Joel Carroll and Pruit were second in the 4×800 relay (8:39.19). Also taking second were Malone in the 110 hurdles (15.72), Sam Horak in the 3,200 (10:00.14) Hunter in the 100 with (11.49).
Second-place finishes for the girls came from Smiley and Finke in the long jump (29-9 ½), and the 4×1600 relay team of Arig Tong, Kirsten Ballard, Mackenzie Barnett and Kennedy Kerber (23:28.62). Aric and Arig Tong also teamed with Sydney Geckler and Emma Smith to place second in the distance medley relay (13:42.24). Olivia Morlok placed second in the 3,200 (12:06.33). Dani Aguilar, Tara James, Kamryn Denney, and Tateana Cutter finished the 4×200 in 1:57.85 for another second-place finish. The shuttle hurdle relay team of Heathcote, Gretchen Bless, Maura VanDeventer and Roxana Mendoza also placed second in 43.08.
Also for the girls came from Smiley and Sydney Wheeler paced third in the high jump (9-2). Heathcote finished third in the 100 hurdles (17.02), and Helena Ho took third in the 100 (13.58). Herndon, Harrison, Wetherald and Caroline West placed third in the throwers 4×100 relay (1:06.52).
“I thought the kids did awesome … (The relays format) just changes it up,” North coach Lou Sipe said. “They’re still getting to compete, but it adds more of a team aspect to it, so the kids really buy into that and enjoy it.”
The Brown County boys team earned first place finishes in the distance medley, 4×400 and 4×800 relays. Marino Dolph, Isaiah Keefauver Jackson McPheeters and Wyatt Wyman finished the distance medley in 10:47.55. Keefauver, Dale Phelps, McPheeters and Wyman ran the 4×400 in 3:27.83. Wyman, Dolph, McPheeters and Keefauver took the 4×800 in 8:20.65.
The Eagles’ Evan Fleischman and Ricky Stanley placed third in the pole vault (18-0).
“Our team really brought it today,” Brown County boys coach Kirk Wrightsman said. “…Just to get something different for one weekend is really cool.”
Anna Fleetwood, Kaylen Combest, Emma DeBord and Kathleen McCann earned a first-place finish for the Brown County girls in the 4×400 relay (4:19.91). Vivien Crimmins also placed second in the 100 hurdles (16.87).
The 4×200 relay team of Hollander, McCann, Evey Crimmins and Coralynne Robinson placed third (1:58.36). Vivien Crimmins, Robinson, Evey Crimins and Lunsford also took third in the shuttle hurdles (43.83).
“Our girls came out and performed well,” Brown County girls coach Jay Myers said. “We had a lot of (personal records) across the board. This meet is a unique meet with the relays and things like that, so sometimes we’re asking girls to do things a little different.”
