Wells Combined School

The Lady Leopards claimed the regional championship by a wide margin — outscoring second place by 53.5 points with 117 points to Eureka’s 123.5 — won seven individual events and racked up 24 qualifications to state between individual events and relays.

Girls Team Standings

Carlin closed out the top five with 51 points, Jackpot shared eighth with 21 points and Owyhee finished 13th with three points.

Girls State Qualifiers

A large share of Wells’ team success can be attributed to freshman RileyJo Glascock, who won all four of her individual events and set three personal records.

She topped the field in the 100 meters with a time of 12.90 seconds, crossed the line in the 200 meters in 26.45 seconds and lapped the track in 1:01.14 in the 400 meters.

In the long jump, she did not set a personal best but won the event by 9-3/4-inches with a distance of 15-feet.

Wells also did damage in the distance events, winning both the 1600 meters and the 3200 meters.

Freshman Maggie Neff set a one-mile personal best with a time of 6:03.37, and sophomore Millie Cromley topped the 3200 meters with a two-mile time of 13:36.01 for the victory.

In the 100-meter hurdles, junior Marli Dahl bested the field with a time of 17:30 seconds.

As a freshman, Carlin’s Katie Ferguson threw a personal-best distance of 104-feet-10-inches and went beyond second place by 5-feet-10-inches for the victory in the discus.

Neff set another personal best in the 800 meters with a time of 2:41.33 for second place and also crossed second in the 3200 meters with a time of 13:38.94 and took second behind Cromley.

After winning the 100 hurdles, Dahl ran second in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 50.86 seconds for a personal record.

In the shot put, Wells sophomore Stacia Hansen launched a personal-best throw of 29-feet-11-1/2-inches for third place.

Neff earned her fourth qualification to state with a third-place finish in the pole vault at a height of 6-feet-6-inches.

Carlin senior Jaden Loftin booked her first of two individual state qualifications and cleared the bar at 4-feet-5-inches for third place in the high jump.

For the 1A and 2A, the top three finishers from the North and South automatically earn state qualifications.

Then the remaining two state qualifiers were determined by comparing the regional meet finals results and advanced the next best two marks per event, regardless of region affiliation and/or wind-aided marks.

Loftin finished fourth in the triple jump and spanned 29-feet-9-3/4-inches.

Along with her 3200-meter victory, Cromley punched tickets to state with a pair of fourth place finishes in the 800 meters with a personal-best 2:44.52 and the 1600 meters with a one-mile jaunt of 6:08.90.

Dahl notched her third individual berth to state with a personal best of 13.91 seconds in the 100 meters for fourth place, and she finished fifth in the 400 meters in 1:09.87.

Ferguson finished fourth in the shot put with a distance of 29-feet-9-1/2-inches for her second state qualification.

Wells freshman Natalie Dahl ran fifth in the 3200 meters with a time of 14:22.89 for a personal best and earned a qualification in the pole vault after splitting seventh with freshman Brynli Dahl on matching heights of 5-feet-6-inches.

Carlin senior Chloe Erickson booked a state berth with a fifth-place effort in the pole vault at a height of 6-feet for a personal best, and sophomore teammate Jessie Barnes punched her tick to state with a personal-record distance of 28-feet-6-inches in the long jump for fifth place.

In the pole vault, junior April Bochman ranked sixth and cleared the bar at the same height of 5-feet-inches but did so in fewer tries than Natalie and Brynli Dahl.

Relays

Wells earned qualifications to state in all four relay events and placed second in two.

In the 4x100, the Lady Leopards — the freshman team of Roslyn Bella, Reese Livingstone, Lupe Flores and McKinnley Erickson — crossed in 59.32 seconds for second place.

Carlin — freshmen Alyssa Fladland and Savanna Hughes, junior Mercedez Malone and Ferguson — took fifth in 1:01.14.

Three Elko County teams qualified for state in the 4x800 relay.

Wells — Brynli Dahl, Bochman, Natalie Dahl and Cromley — finished in 11:51.13 for second place.

Jackpot (seniors Eunice Dominguez and Jocelyn Cervantes and juniors Banelly Vazquez-Rosas and Karina Lucero) followed in third with a time of 13:14.50.

The Lady Railroaders — Fladland, Erickson, Hughes and Malone — crossed in 14:36.84 for fourth.

In the 4x400, the Lady Leopards — Bochman, Brynli Dahl, Natalie Dahl and Hansen — ran third with a time of 5:00.84.

The Lady Jaguars (Dominguez, Cervantes, Vazquez-Rosas and Lucero) crossed in 5:21.06 for fifth.

Wells and Jackpot will both compete in the 4x200 as well.

The Lady Leopards — Flores, Hansen, Bella and Livingstone — placed fourth with a time of 2:07.97, and the Lady Jags — Cervantes, Vazsquez-Rosas, Dominguez and Lucero — followed in 2:17.03 in fifth.

Boys Team Standings

Wells led the Elko County 1A schools with a third-place tally of 100 points in the team standings, Carlin closed off the top five with 44 points and Jackpot capped the 11-team field with eight points.

Boys State Qualifiers

In total, Elko County’s athletes won four events — three individual and one relay.

In the 100 meters, Independence junior M. Rodriguez jetted to first with a time of 11.37 seconds for a personal best — Wells junior Aron Hansen taking second in 11.61 seconds.

The two swapped places in the 200 meters as Hansen won the race in 23.83 seconds, and Rodriguez finished second in 24.23.

The Leopards ran one-two in the 400 meters as junior Mason Noorda set a personal record of 51.58 seconds for first, and Hansen notched a personal best of 52.68 in second place.

In the 800 meters, Noorda crossed second with a time of 2:02.59.

Wells junior Isaac Gale ranked second in each of his distance events with a time of 4:52.84 in the 1600 meters and 10:46.51 in the 3200.

The triple jump will feature a pair of local athletes, as Carlin sophomore Hayden Grondin spanned a personal best of 38-feet-11-3/4-inches for second and Wells junior Marcos Cobian set a personal record for fourth at a mark of 37-feet-5-1/2-inches.

In the shot put, Carlin senior Jaken Burgener launched a personal-best throw of 39-feet-11-/2-inches for second place.

For the Railroaders, junior Atticus Greer ranked fourth in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 18.69 seconds.

Cobian earned his second state qualification with a height of 5-feet-6-inches for fourth place in the high jump.

In the discus, Wells senior Carson Ballard placed fourth with a heave of 108-feet.

Relays

Independence — Rodriguez, seniors S. Cherry and P. Lay and sophomore A. Marquez — took home the regional title in the 4x100 with a time of 46.73 seconds.

Wells — sophomore Jayden Kiser, junior Henry Morris, Hansen and Noorda — crossed second with a time of 3:55.40 in the 400 meters.

The Colts — Marquez, Lay, Cherry and Rodriguez — took fourth and ran four laps in 3:56.57.

In the 4x800, the Leopards — Gale, Kiser, sophomore Weston Sorenson and Noorda — crossed the line in 9:39.28 for the second runner-up relay.

The Railroaders (sophomore Wyatt Kamensky, freshman Jhon Vicente, senior Tony Robles and Greer) placed fourth with a time of 10:09.66.

State Meet

The Division 1A Nevada State Track and Field Championships were scheduled to start at 2 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday, at Hug High School, in Sparks.