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Tiger boys, led by pole vaulters, fare well in Lemoore track and field action Friday night in Lemoore
Lemoore’s next track and field action will be Wednesday, March 27 with a home meet against Golden West High School.
Madera came to Lemoore Friday night and cleaned house, winning the varsity boys, boys’ frosh-soph and women’s frosh-soph. Madera’s varsity girls team finished second.
Lemoore’s varsity girls’ team took fourth place, with its 26.25 points, well behind Edison’s winning 200.25 points. In other action, Lemoore’s women’s frosh-soph team was fourth with 44 points. First place went to Madera while in the boys’ frosh-soph division, Lemoore was 10th.
Lemoore’s best athletes Friday night could be found in the pole vault competition where Ryan White (12-06), Trevor Heck (12-00), and Elijah Smith (11-06) finished first, second and third respectively to dominate the meet.
Amier Hollis took top honors in the triple jump Friday night, edging fellow teammate Jaden Jones as they finished first and second respectively, Hollis with a 41-05 effort. Hollis later took third in the long jump and Jones fifth, but Madera’s Garrett Potkey won with a leap of 19-09.
On the ladies’ side, Lemoore’s best finisher was Iiyanii Jones, who managed a close second place (13.12) in the 100 meters, losing only to Edison High’s Brooklyn Lee, with her 12.92. Jones also took fifth in the 200 meters.
One of Lemoore’s top sprinters managed a fourth-place finish in the varsity 100 meters. Jaden Jones ran an 11.59 to finish behind South Bakersfield’s winner, Kenneth Rugnao (11:16). In the 200 Lemoore’s Joseph De La Mora was sixth overall, finishing the race in 24.21. The winner again was South Bakersfield’s Rugnao with a fast 22.83.
De La Mora managed a third-place showing in the 400 meters where he finished third (53.08) behind winner Isaiah Villalobos (Caruthers) and Anthony Hodson, Edison High.
In the 3200 race, the Tigers’ Demetrius Moore Jr. had an 11.33.01 to finish fifth, well behind Edison’s Bryan Banuelos, the event’s winner.
In the 300 hurdles, Nathan Blankenship (46.19) and Donald Wengerd (46.55) were sixth and seventh respectively while McLane’s Adrian Guzman easily topped the winners’ list. Lemoore’s 4 x 100 relay team of Amier Hollis, Steven Wilhite, Joseph De La Mora, and Jaden Jones took fourth. The winning team came from Madera.
