Columbus North's Matt Newell and Mateo Mendez (front center) teamed with Kellen Hottell and Reese Kilbarger-Stumpff (back center) to set a Hoosier State Relays record in winning the 4x800-meter relay.
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BLOOMINGTON — It was a record-setting day for the Columbus North boys at Saturday’s Hoosier State Relays, the unofficial state indoor track and field meet.
Senior Tucker Smith, the defending state outdoor champion in the shot put, threw an HSR-record 69 feet, 1/4-inch to win the shot in the big school division by almost nine feet. Juniors Mateo Mendez and Kellen Hottell and seniors Matt Newell and Reese Kilbarger-Stumpff ran an HSR-record 7 minutes, 46.04 seconds in winning the 4×800-meter relay.
Tucker Smith
The Bull Dogs’ Evan Carr finished 10th in the 3,200 in 9:33.45. Carr, Noah Abfall, Clayton Guthrie and Kellen Hottell took 12th in the distance medley relay in 10:54.64.
Meanwhile, North’s girls 4×800 relay team of Brianna Newell, Lily Baker, Jessica Meza and Julie Klaus finished second in 9:37.73. Brianna Newell, Kylah Lawson, Klaus and Kyleigh Wolf took 10th in the distance medley relay in 12:52.51.
Katherine Rumsey finished seventh in the 3,200 in 11:11.56, while Alyssa Green took 11th in 11:22.16 and Abby Jacobi was 17th in 11:37.49.
The Bull Dog boys tied for sixth as a team with 30 points, and the North girls tied for 10th with 18 points. The Carmel boys and North Central girls won the team titles.
In the small school boys meet, Hauser’s Aleck Lopez finished third in the long jump at 20-9 1/2. The Jets’ Cameron Toole took 12th at 19-4 1/2.
Brown County’s Rafe Silbaugh, Rhett Silbaugh, Cord Smith and Chase Austin finished fifth in the 4×800 relay in 8:38.72. Austin, Ethan Spiece, Rhett Silbaugh and Smith took 14th in the distance medley relay in 11:47.67; and Austin, Rafe Silbaugh, Spiece and Waylon Patrick were 15th in the 4×400 relay in 3:44.66.
Hadley Gradolf finished eighth in the small school girls 3,200 in 11:54.34.
