Wood River High School track and field athletes are keeping their fingers crossed for better weather today, Wednesday because their only home meet, the Bob Shay Memorial, is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. on the Hailey oval.
Girls' coach J.C. Nemecek said, "It will be nice to finish at home in the Bob Shay meet. The field will include Wood River, Buhl, Minico, Jerome, Burley and Canyon Ridge. The weather forecast isn't the best, but it should be a good meet."
Typical Idaho spring weather with wind and moisture has been the rule so far, and that was the case Friday at the Minico Invitational in Rupert. Coach Monte Brothwell said, "Minico lived up to its reputation as the windy spot."
Brothwell added, "It was a large 19-school meet with limited entries so we could put only three individuals into each event. We had our sprint group post most of our personal records, and some of the field events also had great results."
Wood River sophomore Cheyenne Swanson was the discus runner-up for eight points with a 108-2 toss. Swanson added another point with an eighth-place shotput, 30-5.
The Wolverine girls (14th place, 14 points) earned fifth place in the medley relay at 2:05.2 with Nicole Pratt, Amy Heather, Grace Lagodich and Corrine Smith. They were eighth in the 4x400m relay at 5:04.0 with Maranda Stopol, Lagodich, Alison Town and Olivia "Ozzy" Roche.
Personal records among the girls: Gracie Eagan and Amy Heather 30.7 in the 200m, plus Eagan 14.1 and Heather 14.5 in 100m; Julianna Herrera 71-9 discus; Kennedie Howard 22.2 in 100m high hurdles and 33.3 in 200m; Lagodich 4-6 high jump; Nicole Pratt 14.3 100m.
Nemecek said, "Nine personal records in the extremely windy conditions was very heartening. The team is becoming more confident and competitive as we move into the final week before districts."
Jerome (136.5 points) won the girls' team title at Minico ahead of host Minico (77).
The Wolverine boys didn't have any points in the team standings topped by Rigby (104.5 points) and Minico (93.5). Those with personal records:
Connor Hesselbacher 25.8 in 200m, Micah Merritt 34-0 shotput, Ketchum Wilt 13:02 in 3200m, Teague Ruhter 36-0 shotput, 17-4 long jump and 12.1 in 100m dash.
Boise YMCA Invitational
Wood River senior Chase Caulkins finished third in Friday's YMCA Invitational 3200-meter run on the Ed Jacoby track at Boise's Bronco Stadium. His time was 9:31.85, nine seconds behind race winner Cody Helbling of Lake City.
James Paris, a Wood River junior, had a personal record 10:03.06 to finish 13th at 3200m.
