BLOOMINGTON — A quartet of Brown County track athletes made history Saturday at the Boys Track and Field State Finals at Indiana University.

Seniors Isaiah Keefauver and Wyatt Wyman and juniors Marino Dolph and Jackson McPheeters ran 7 minutes, 49.43 seconds to shatter the school record by five seconds and finish sixth in the 4×800-meter relay.

“We wanted to do something big here at state, and we each ran our hardest and did our job,” Wyman said. “Top nine was our goal. It was a blessing (to get sixth). I’m speechless.”

The runners thought if each ran the way they were capable, the Eagles could come away with a high finish. And they did just that.

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Keefauver opened with a 1:58.29 split. Dolph ran a 2:01.27, followed by McPheeters with a 1:56.06 and Wyman with a 1:53.81.

“That was a great race,” McPheeters said. “We set goals for ourselves, and we timed ourselves out beforehand, and that was about what we thought we could do. We ran really awesome, and I’m really proud of the team.”

Wyman came back to finish 16th in the 800 in 1:57.04, while McPheeters took 26th in 2:01.39. Keefauver, junior Dale Phelps, McPheeters and Wyman were 22nd in the 4×400 relay in 3:24.68.

Brown County had one competitor in Friday’s Girls Track and Field State Finals. Senior Vivien Crimmins finished 25th in the preliminaries of the 100 hurdles in 16.47 seconds.

Crimmins had tied the school record at 15.48 in the Bloomington North Regional.

“I’m really happy that I got this opportunity, but it just didn’t go the way that I planned it to,” Crimmins said. “It’s a totally different experience. I was all by myself. I didn’t have other teammates to root me on or warm up with. It was just a different experience, and I’m glad I got to experience it to see how it was.”