Lady Tigers win Big George Invite

After winning the Big George Invitational Saturday on their home track, the Douglas High girls' track team put the finishing touches on a stellar regular season that saw two invitational wins and second-place finishes at two other invites.

On the boys' side, Douglas picked up wins in the 4x800 and the 800 with Derrick Jenkins on its way to a sixth-place team finish.

Douglas will now head into the most critical part of the season, starting with regional trials Saturday at Damonte Ranch.

As far as tuneups went, things couldn't have gone much better on either side for the Tigers over the weekend.

Twenty-one schools were in attendance with more than 1,000 athletes competing. The only Northern 4A teams missing were Reno, Carson girls, Elko and North

Valleys.

Jessica Gorton led the Tiger scorers, winning the 100 hurdles (17.22), the 300 hurdles (48.88) and the long jump (16-6).

Jessica Waggoner won the discus with a throw of 126-7.5 and took second in the shot put with a throw of 36-4.

The Douglas distance medley relay team took first with a time of 14:00.39,

Nicole Mehrer won the triple jump with a 36-4.5, Natasha Brown took sixth with a 33-7 and Sarah Hartley took seventh with a 33-5.

Hartley won the 400 with a 1:00.34, which was just a half-second off of the school record.

Kyra Barth took second in the high jump with a leap of 5-0 and Cami Arend took fifth with a leap of 4-10.

Amanda Boyd took second in the 3,200 with a time of 13:02.36 and Hartley took second in the 200 with a 27.98.

The team of Hartley, Mehrer, Bridget Maestretti and Susie White took third in the 4x400 with a time of 4:18.95.

Ne'Jae Jackson took third in the 100 with a 13.67.

Maestretti took sixth in the pole vault (7-6) and the high jump (4-10).

Shannon Sturgess was sixth in the long jump (15-1.25) and Brown was eighth (14-11.75).

Taylor Biaggi took sixth in the 1,600 with a 5:54.56.

On the boys' side, Jenkins won the 800 with a time of 2:01.84 and then teamed with Brad Boyd, James Leonard and Seth White to cruise in the 4x800 with an 8:19.3, which was good enough for the win by 16 full seconds.

Curtis Hartzell took second in the 200 with a time of 23.58 while Jake O'Farrell took fourth with a 23.72.

Andrew Lococo took fourth in the 3,200 with a 10:50.38, White took fourth in the 1,600 (4:50.75), Jordan Cruz took fifth in the 100 (11.6).

Douglas took fourth in the 4x400, fourth in the distance medley and fifth in the 4x100.

Senior Luke Wartgow took sixth in the discus with a throw of 135-11.5.

Minden's Sierra Lutheran High School was also in attendance and got sixth-place finish in the 3,200 (11:12.93) and an eighth-place finish in the 1,600 (4:54.96) from Taylor Love and an eighth-place finish in the 3,200 from Michael Kubel.

Bob DePaoli took seventh in the high jump with a 5-8.