Photos by Dusty Butler
Just four points separated first-place finishing Lady Dinos from second-place Provo High School in the girls’ competition of the recent Carbon High Farm Bureau Invitational on Saturday.
After coming from a previous rough season-opener, Carbon Track Coach Jimmy Jewkes was amazed at the work his team put forth, especially with various distractions happening that day.
“Both sides just outperformed where I thought they were,” he said. “They brought their A-game for sure.”
The boys’ team fought their way to a ninth overall finish with both teams combining for a third-place finish overall.
The Emery Spartans grabbed a second-place finish in the boys’ competition behind Stansbury with Lady Spartans coming in eighth. Combined, both teams walked away with a fourth overall.
Pinnacle High School was also represented at the event.
Carbon points came from a fifth-place finish in the boys’ sprint medley relay as well as a second in the 100-meter hurdles courtesy of Sarah Ohlwiler. Megan Swasey finished sixth in the event for Carbon as well.
Ohlwiler continued her work, placing sixth in the 100 meters. Kyle Quinton finished eighth in the same event for the boys’ team. Sadie Crompton put up a second-place finish in the 1600 meters for the girls’ team with fellow Lady Dino Emily Broadbear grabbing fifth.
Carbon girls also managed a sixth in the 4×100 while Carter Fausett finished seventh for the Blue and White in the 400 meters. Madelyn Christensen put up more Dino points with her fourth-place finish in the 300 meters with teammate Swasey notching seventh. Quinton also returned to grab fifth in the 200 meters.
Broadbear grabbed a first for the Dinos in the 3200 meters, coming in six seconds over Emery’s second-place Erin Hurst. Carbon also came in seventh in the 4×400. Carbon’s Jodi Noyes managed fifth in the shot put with teammates Caitlyn Dimick and Ohlwiler coming in third and seventh for javelin.
Mikelle Monson came in third in the high jump with a finish of 4’11”, qualifying her for state action in the high jump and long jump. Quinton grabbed first with his long jump of over 21’, also qualifying for state. Carson Frame also came in seventh for long jump.
Carbon stole the show in the discus competition, with Noyes, Harley Migliori, Maggie Powell and Dimick taking up second to fifth-place finishes. Ohlwiler finished in first in the long jump trials, coming in over 17’ with Monson also notching fourth. Ohlwiler qualified for state in the long jump and 100 hurdles.
Emery was represented by a third in Girls’ sprint medley relay and first in boys’ sprint medley relay as well as a seventh-place finish by Tiana Jensen in the girls’ 100-meter hurdles. Daryl Guymon grabbed fourth in the boys’ 110-meter hurdles with teammate Mason Faimalo grabbing eighth.
Hailey Allred grabbed eighth in the 100 meters with Spartans Braiden Ivie and Logan Cox grabbing fifth and sixth in the same event for the boys, respectively. Lady Spartan Erin Hurst grabbed fourth in the 1600 meters to add more points for the Spartans.
The Lady Spartans added more points to the board with a seventh-place finish in the 4×100 and a sixth-place finish in the 200 meters thanks to Hailey Allred. Freshman Ivie grabbed second in the 200 meters for Emery with Hurst finishing second in the 3200 meters.
Chase Christiansen and Ty Funk continued work for the Spartans, grabbing third and fourth in the 3200 meters while finishing fifth in the girls’ 4×400. Emery also finished fifth in the boys’ 4×400. Marquies Giroux and Drake Hoffman came in sixth and eighth, respectively in the boys’ discus. Sam Morgan came in eighth for girls’ javelin.
Alejandra Carcia finished seventh in the girls’ high jump with Spartans Ty Mecham, Hoffman and Landon Fairbanks grabbing third, fifth and seventh, respectively. Chase Jewkes finished fourth in the boys’ javelin competition as well while Jason Smith put up points for the Black and Gold with his fifth-place finish in the high jump.
Pinnacle’s points came from a seventh-place finish in the boys’ sprint medley relay.
The meet was sponsored by Richard Hackwell and Farm Bureau as well as Tony Basso.
