Track: Lady Tigers win Big George Invite

The Douglas High girls' track team continued its amazing season Saturday afternoon, winning the Big George Invitational in impressive fashion.

The Tigers broke five meet records in their home meet and scored 236.4 points as a team, well ahead of second place Damonte Ranch, who came in with 94.

For the season, the Tiger girls have won six of their seven meets (they came in third at the Reed Rotary Invitational earlier in the month behind Reno and McQueen, but did not have the services of standout thrower Jessica Waggoner at the meet) and are rolling into the Regional trials next week as one of the favorites to win the team title.

On Saturday, sophomore Kyra Barth led the charge for the Lady Tigers, breaking in the meet records in both the 100 hurdles (15.24 seconds) and the 300 hurdles (48.46) and tying second in the high jump along with teammate Jessica Gorton with a leap of 4-10.

Waggoner beat her own meet record in the discus by almost five feet at 131-5 and Liz Nickles topped the meet record in the long jump by an inch at 16-7.

The 4x800 team of Tia Lyons, Taylor Biaggi, Natalie Freitas and Cara Dunkelman continued to hone in on the school record of 9:51.14 with a meet-record 9:56.72 on Saturday.

Other highlight performances for the girls included Halie Niehoff winning the 400 with a time of 1:03.35. Biaggi won the 3,200 with a time of 12:51.35. The 4x400 squad won its event with a time of 4:11.94

Katie Dry took second in the 100, Dunkelman was second in the 800 and Sadie Gastelum was second in the 3,200.

Amanda Brazeau was third in the pole vault, followed by Shannon Prinz and Whitney Bullion and Nickles led a sweep in the long jump, followed by Gorton and Natasha Brown.

Brown took second in the triple jump, followed by Nickels.

On the boys' side, junior Jordan Cruz took second in both the 100 and 200 events and the 4x400 relay team took second with a time of 3:40.77.

Sierra Lutheran's Wade Meddles also set meet records in the 1,600 and 3,200, easily winning both events with times of 4:36.25 and 9:54.90 respectively.

Girls

Team scores: 1. Douglas 236.4; 2. Damonte Ranch 94; 3. Carson 67; 4. Churchill County 53; 5. Fernley 49.5; 6. Spanish Springs 45; 7. Dayton 44; 8. Whittell 38.33; 9. Lowry 28; 10. McQueen 16.25; 11. South Tahoe 14.5; 12. Reno 11; 13. Bishop Manogue 10; 14. Sierra Lutheran 9; 15. North Tahoe/Wooster 6.

Individual results (Area athletes only): 100: 2. Katie Dry, Dou, 13.28; 5. Alexyss Easlick, Dou, 13.89; 7. Brianna Randall, Dou, 13.99. 200: 5. Shannon Sturgess, Dou, 27.90; 6. Alexyss Easlick, Dou, 28.17. 400: 1. Halie Niehoff, Dou, 1:03.35. 800: 2. Cara Dunkelman, Dou, 2:26.18; 5. Natalie Freitas, Dou, 2:37.65. 1,600:  3. Tia Lyons, Dou, 5:41.79; 4. Taylor Biaggi, Dou, 5:49.19; 8. Becky Grabow, SL, 6:01.47. 3,200: 1, Taylor Biaggi, Dou, 12:51.35; 2. Sadie Gastelum, Dou, 12:53.60; 5. Becky Grabow, SL, 13:44.55. 100 hurdles: 1. Kyra Barth, Dou, 16.24; 2. Shannon Marshall, Wh, 16.95; 3. Amanda Brazeau, Dou, 17.67. 300 hurdles: 1. Kyra Barth, Dou, 48.46; 2. Shannon Marshall, Wh, 49.31; 5. Darby Reeder, Wh, 52.77; 6. Cora Moody, Do, 53.11.

4x100: 3. Douglas 52.86. 4x200: 2. Douglas 1:50.59. 4x400: 1. Douglas 4:11.94. 4x800: 1. Douglas 9:56.72; 5. Sierra Lutheran 11:54.35; 6. Distance medley: 2. Douglas 14:23.99; 4. Whittell 15:20.82. High jump: 2. Kyra Barth, Dou; Shannon Marshall, Wh, Jessica Gorton, Dou 4-10. 8. Shannon Sturgess, Dou, 4-6. Pole vault: 3. Amanda Brazeau, Dou, 8-6; 4. Shannon Prinz, Dou, and Whitney Bullion, Dou, 8-0; 8. Cora Moody, Dou, 7-0. Long jump: 1, Elizabeth Nickles, Dou, 16-7; 2. Jessica Gorton, Dou, 16-2; 3. Natasha Brown, Dou, 15-7; 5. Shannon Hubbard, Dou, 15-5-1/2. Triple jump:  2. Natasha Brown, Dou, 33-9-3/4; 3. Elizabeth Nickles, Dou, 33-3. Shot put: 3. Jessica Waggoner, Dou, 35-4-3/4; 5. Isabel Concha Foley, Wh, 31-1-3/4; 6. Minneah Holdridge, Dou, 30-10. Discus: 1. Jessica Waggoner, Dou, 131-5; 6. Minneah Holdridge, Dou, 102-3; 8. Ally Freitas, Dou, 92-2.

Boys

Team scores: 1. Damonte Ranch 145.5; 2. Carson 73; 3. Spanish Springs 64; 4. Reno 56; 5. Churchill County 55; 6. Douglas 53.5; 7. Fernley 46; 8. Sierra Lutheran 41.5; 9. Dayton 35.5; 10. South Tahoe/McQueen 33; 12. Whittell 22; 13. North Tahoe 18; 14. Lowry 14; 15. Bishop Manogue 4; 16. Wooster 3; 17. Tahoe-Truckee 2.

100: 2. Jordan Cruz (Do) 11.36. 200: 2. Jordan Cruz, Dou, 22.70. 400: 8. Nick DePaoli, SL, 54.89. 800: 4. John Robinson, Wh, 2:06.57; 7. Preston Lyons, SL, 2:10.66. 1,600: 1. Wade Meddles, SL, 4:36.25; 5. Brad Boyd, Dou, 4:46.66. 3,200: 1. Wade Meddles, SL, 9:54.90; 5. Scott Lococco, Dou, 10:55.40; 6. Nathanael Williams, SL, 11:00.0; 7. Michael Kubel, SL, 11:05.0. 300 intermediate hurdles: 4. Kyler Felton, Wh, 42.53. 4x100:  4. Douglas 46.03. 4x200: 6. Douglas 1:38.52. 4x400: 2. Douglas 3:40.77; 6. Whittell 3:51.42. 4x800:  5. Whittell 9:19.20; 7. Douglas 9:40.0; 8. Sierra Lutheran 9:44.20. Distance medley: 2. Sierra Lutheran 11:14.71; 3. Douglas 11:44.51. High jump: 4. Robert DePaoli, SL, 5-8. Pole vault: 4. Nick Maestretti. Dou, 11-6. Long jump: 4. Kyler Felton, Wh, 20-3-1/2; 8. Nick DePaoli, SL, 18-3-3/4.