Brown County High School Eagles hosted the annual Talon Relays on April 23.
This year the meet featured six teams: Bloomington North Lawrence, Greensburg, Columbus East, Heritage Christian, Providence and Brown County.
The 4×1600 team of Kai Koester, Will Hiatt, Corbin Brahaum and Josh Redmon finished second as Redmon beat the third place finisher at the line.
In a couple of early sprint events, Ethan Spiece finished seventh in 100 in a time of 12:42 and Kody Shugars picked up a scoring position in the hurdles, placing seventh. In the first sprint relay of the day, the 4×100 meter team was fifth. That team includes Jacob Finley, Carter Condon, Eli Webb and Aaron Woodrum, according to boys track and field Coach Kirk Wrightsman.
The first victory of the day for the Eagles was when distance medley relay took the track.
“Rafe Silbaugh started the Eagles off with a solid 1200 leg, Waylon Patrick followed with one of his fastest 400 splits, Rhett Silbaugh used an aggressive first lap to put the Eagles firmly ahead and Chase Austin was able to keep the distance on second place as he ran a strong 1600 leg for the Eagles,” Wrightsman said.
”Patrick came back a few minutes later to lead of the 4×400 relay team. He and his team of Shugars, Finley and Eli Webb picked up a fourth place in that event.”
One of the regular running events of the day was the 3200. Charlie Webb took home fourth place and Case Smith finished seventh.
The Eagles finished fifth in the 4×200 (Condon, Garrett Braden, Woodrum and Spiece). In the sprint medley, Cameron Higgins joined Braden, Woodrum and Spiece to finish fourth.
“It was a great finish to the day on the track for the Eagles as the 4×800 team of Rafe Silbaugh, Patrick, Rhett Silbaugh and Austin brought home first place in the 4×800,” Wrightsman said.
There were a lot of points scored in the field events for the Eagles on Saturday.
Two teams scored for Brown County in the long jump. Braden and Finley picked up sixth place and Woodrum and Eli Webb were eighth. In the pole vault, Felipe Medina-Jimenez and Braden took third place, according to Wrightsman.
In the throws, two pairing scored for the Eagles in both the shot and discus. Wyatt Barnett and Jack Redding were third in the shot and the team of Wyatt Sutter and Jackxon Goldsmith were eighth. In the discus, Barnett and Redding were fourth and Sutter and Goldsmith were sixth.
Overall, the Eagles finished the meet in fifth with Bedford North Lawrence taking the win.
The girls track team started off their day with a second place finish in the 4×1600 meter relay with a team of Hadley Gradolf, Madalyn Purlee, Jamie Bube and Livie Austin. Alli Majors set a personal best of 19.98 in her fourth place finish in the 100 meter hurdles, Coach Jay Myers said.
Gradolf battled the heat to a third place finish in the 3200 meter run. The girls sprint group of Christy Sebastian, Xyleigh Thompson, Majors and Paige Moore finished second place in the 4×200 relay with a time of 1:58.87.
“The same girls came back a couple of events later in the sprint medley relay where Xyliegh Thompson and Christy Sebastian anchored the last two legs — the 200 and 400 — to bring the team a first place finish,” Myers said.
In the field events, Lizzie Roush had a big personal best throw in the shot put of 28 feet, 10 inches to take fifth place individually.
Thompson and Majors took third place for the the long jump team with their combined distance of 17 feet, 10 inches (14 feet, 10 inches and 13 feet).
Thompson also tied her season best of 4 feet, 10 inches in the high jump to take send place individually.
The girls team finished fifth place overall in the meet.
