Senior Delaney Fox and freshman Kaitana Martinez continued to lead the Wood River High School girls' track and field team during its early-season meets in Magic Valley.
Fox won the 100-meter dash and 200m dash in personal-record times Friday. Martinez was a winner in the triple jump and long jump. The pair teamed up with Lucy Paisley and Corrine Smith to win the 4x400-meter relay by a full 10 seconds.
On the boys' side, Rob Paris (long jump and triple jump), James Paris (3200m run) and Dale McLaughlin (pole vault) provided other Hailey gold medals in Friday's four-school Jerome Invitational meet.
Winning the boys' medley relay by over two seconds was the Hailey squad of John Bartoletta, McLaughlin, Ben Stout and James Paris.
In all, 33 Wolverines traveled and brought home 10 gold medals. The team titles went to host Jerome by a sizable margin, but Wood River finished second in both the boys' and girls' final standings.
There was an injury. Junior Grace Lagodich was running second in 100m high hurdles and arrived at the final hurdle. She caught her foot and fell, bringing the toe of her spikes into her left knee. Grace needed 27 stitches to close the three tears which, fortunately, weren't as deep as first feared.
"Excellent attitudes marked the day. There were 12 personal records set," Hailey girls' coach J.C. Nemecek said about an afternoon that featured sun, clouds, a cool breeze and rain.
Wood River goes to Buhl High School Thursday, April 16 for the Buhl Rotary Invitational, then heads over to Rupert for the Minico Invitational track meet April 24.
Results from Jerome:
Boys results
Teams: 1—Jerome 166. 2—Wood River 56. 3—Burley 13. 4—Minico 8.
100m: 5—Dale McLaughlin 11.88. Others—Josh Arters 12.1 (PR), John Bartoletta 12.3 (PR), Ben Broderick 12.6 (PR) and Miles Hendricks 12.6. 200m: 2—Arters 25.47 (PR). 3— Hendricks 25.6. 4—Bartoletta 25.86. 5—Broderick 26.99 (PR).
800m: 2—Ben Stout 2:10.96 (PR). 4—Greg LeBlanc 2:23.02. 1600m: Others—Andrew Pfeiffer 5:28.00 (PR), Andres Morales 6:10.00 (PR). Josh Arters 6:16 and Will Drier 8:03. 3200m: 1—James Paris 10:31 (PR). 5—Pfeiffer 11:22 (PR). Others—Morales 12:49.00 and Drier 17:32.
Long jump: 1—Rob Paris 18-11. Triple jump: 1—Rob Paris 40-8.5. Pole vault: 1—Dale McLaughlin 11-6. Shotput: Others—Colton Seely 37-9 (PR), Aubrey Tribble 36-3 (PR), Zeb Glenn 35-11 (PR), Anthony Williamson 31-6 (PR), Daniel Midby 29-9 and Isaiah Garza 25-10 (PR). Discus: Others—Seely 97-6, Glenn 92-7, Greg LeBlanc 87-3 (PR), Williamson 79-11, Midby 79-1, Drier 68-7 and Garza 69-4 (PR).
4x100m relay: 2—Wood River 54.20 (Bartoletta, Pfeiffer, Stout, Rob Paris). Medley relay: 1—Wood River 4:04.54 (Bartoletta, McLaughlin, Stout, James Paris). 4x400m relay: 2—Wood River 4:01.07 (LeBlanc, McLaughlin, Stout, James Paris).
Girls results
Teams: 1—Jerome 140. 2—Wood River 46. 3—Burley 19. 4—Minico 16.
100m: 1—Delaney Fox 12.56 (PR). 3—Kaitana Martinez 13.6. 4—Lucy Paisley 14.1. Others—Emily Matthews 15.1 and Taylor Jameson 16.6 (PR). 200m: 1—Fox 26.23 (PR). 4—Paisley 29.05. Others—Matthews 33.7 and Jameson 36.0 (PR). 400m: 4—Matthews 1:25.4.
800m: 3—Corrine Smith 2:55.4 Others—Dani McLaughlin 3:07 (PR), Ellie Shay 3:10 (PR) and Ashton Lupton 3:14 (PR). 1600m: 4—Brooke Bowers 6:38. Others—Dani McLaughlin 7:04 (PR), Shay 7:14 (PR), Jade Glenn 7:32 and Lupton 8:19.
Long jump: 1—Martinez 13-6.5. Triple jump: 1—Martinez 30-9.5. Shotput: Others—Cheyenne Swanson 29-5.5 (PR) and Amy Heather 22-10.5 (PR). Discus: 5—Swanson 89-11. Others—Heather 57-9 (PR).
4x400m relay: 1—Wood River 4:37.8 (Fox, Paisley, Martinez, Smith).
