The Kewanee boys track and field team was crowned the winner of the Howard-Monier Co-ed Invitational Thursday night in Princeton. The Boilers scored 154 points en route to besting the 6-team boys’ field.
“This was our best team performance of the season,” said Kewanee Coach Chad Palm.
Bureau Valley was the runner-up with 127 points, Princeton was third with 115, Annawan-Wethersfield was fourth with 61, Hall was fifth with 51 and LaSalle-Peru was sixth with 46 points.
Kewanee finished first in seven of the 18 events. Anthony Padilla swept the two hurdles events and ran a leg of the winning 4×200 relay (Cristian Cazares, Davontae Jordan, Tyson Currie, Anthony Padilla). Prestin Stabler won the 400 meter dash and was part of the first place 4×400 relay (Davontae Jordan, Michael Bermudez, Dontaveon Thomas, Prestin Stabler).
Dontaveon Thomas was the winner of the long jump and he was also a member of the winning 4×400 relay. Davontae Jordan was another a double winner. He ran legs in the 4×200 and 4×400 relays. Leocadio Gandarilla placed first in the discus.
Karson Shrum of Annawan-Wethersfield topped the field in the 800 meter run.
Bureau Valley had three event winners. Justin Moon finished first in the high jump and triple jump and the Storm won the 4×800 relay (Maddox Moore, Nathan Siri, Zac Wiggin, Adrian Gallardo).
Results (Top 5 finishes in each event)
100M 1.) Caleb Bickett (Hall) 11.69 2.) Brady Hartz (BV) 11.75 5.) Payton Walowski (BV) 12.10
200M 1.) Caleb Bickett (Hall) 23.69 2.) Eli Attig (BV) 24.59 3.) Tres Amos (Kew) 25.04 4.) Kai Walowski (BV) 25.14 5.) Drew Haverback (A/W) 25.52
400M 1.) Prestin Stabler (Kew) 54.04 5.) Tucker Shane (BV) 58.31
800M 1.) Karson Shrum (A/W) 2:05.35 4.) Michael Bermudez (Kew) 2:20.86 5.) Chance DeSplinter (Kew) 2:20.88
1600M 1.) Tyler VandeVenter (Pri) 5:05.32 3.) Zac Wiggin (BV) 5:12.85 5.) Jason Rusk (Kew) 5:16.71
3200M 1.) Tyler VandeVenter (Pri). 10:56.13 3.) Noah Feltner (A/W) 11.04 4.) Jason Rusk (A/W) 11:26.06 5.) Alex Ly (Kew) 11:49.50
110M Hurdles 1.) Anthony Padilla (Kew) 16.23 2.) Andrew Roth (BV) 18.24 3.) Brook Shane (BV) 18.64 4.) Jesus Del Toro (Kew) 20.56 5.) Marquelle King (Kew) 21.30
300M Hurdles 1.) Anthony Padilla (Kew) 44.55 2.) Dontaveon Thomas (Kew) 46.16 4.) Andrew Roth (BV) 46.78 5.) Brock Shane (BV) 46.82
4×100 Relay 1.) Hall – 46.43 2.) A/W (Drew Haverback, Wyatt DeSplinter, Riley Rumbold, Castin Rash) 46.74 3.) BV (Paytin Walowski, Kai Walowski, Cameron Lemons, Eli Attig) 47.06
4x200M Relay 1.) Kew (Cristian Cazares, Davontae Jordan, Tyson Currie, Anthony Padilla) – 1:37.64. 2.) A/W (Riley Rumbold, Wyatt DeSplinter, Irvin Landwehr, Castin Rash) – 1:39.16. 3.) BV (P Walowski, K Walowski, Cameron Lemons, Eli Attig) – 1:39.42å
4×400 Relay 1.) Kew (Davontae Jordan, Michael Bermudez, Dontaveon Thomas, Prestin Stabler) – 3:45.99. 2.) BV (Brock Shane, Adrian Gallardo, Tucker Shane, Justin Moon) 3:52.48 3.) A/W (Brayden Novak, Kaden Gradert, Karson Shrum, Irvin Landwehr) – 3:55.92
4×800 Relay 1.) BV (Maddox Moore, Nathan Siri, Zac Wiggim, Adrian Gallardo) 9:16.46. 2.) A/W (Karson Shrum, Logan Davis, Cash Verstraete, Matthew Ponce) 9:33.45 3.) Kew (Michael Bermudez, Jack Coombs, Chase Palm, Chance DeSplinter) – 9:37.50
Shot Put 1.) Cade Odell (Pri) 51′ 4.5″. 4.) Leocadio Gandarilla (Kew) 46′ 5.5″ 5.) Ayden DeValkenaere (A/W) 46′ 0.75″
Discus 1.) Leocadio Gandarilla (Kew) 146′ 5.5″ 5.) Landon Hulsing (BV) 129′ 8″
High Jump 1.) Justin Moon (BV) 5′ 10″ 2.) Dontaveon Thomas (Kew) 5′ 8″ 3.) Landon Hulsing (BV) 5′ 8′ 4.) Prestin Stabler (Kew) 5′ 5.75″
Pole Vault 1.) Andrew Peacock (Pri) 11′ 0 2.) Tyson Currie (Kew) 10′ 0 3.) Cameron Lemon (BV) 9′ 5.75″ 4.) Irvin Landwehr (A/W) 9′ 5.75″
Long Jump 1.) Dontaveon Thomas (Kew) 20′ 1.75″ 2.) Andrew Roth (BV) 18′ 3.75″ 3.) Tre Amos (Kew) 18′ 2″ 4.) Brayden Novak (A/W) 17′ 9″
Triple Jump 1.) Justin Moon (BV) 37′ 4.5″ 2.) Cristian Cazares (Kew) 37′ 2.5″ 3.) Anthony Padilla (Kew) 36′ 3.5″ 5.) Connor Scott (BV) 33′ 11″