In a final tune-up meet before the class 2A state qualifying meet on Thursday, the Southeast Valley boys’ track team headed to Sac City on Monday, May 11th for the East Sac Relays. With the qualifying meet on Thursday, the Jaguars’ line-up was a mixture of varsity and JV runners from the season. With this mix of runners, the Jaguars were still able to continue their winning ways with their ninth win of the season winning the meet with 149 points, 39 points ahead of Ridgeview.

The Jaguars were led by a handful of first place finishes. Kayden Showers won the 100m dash in 11.16 while Colden Mapel won the 110m high hurdles in a time of 15.92, a new freshmen record and 7th overall best time in school history. Owen Nuss won the 800m run in a time of 2:09.43 while Colin Johnson won the 200m dash in 22.99.

The Jaguars also found gold in three relays. The Shuttle hurdle relay (Alex Burger, Casey Hanson, Kolton Ollinger, Colin Johnson) finished 1st in 1:01.20. Casey Hanson, Logan Jaeschke, Byrce Harrison and Kayden Showers claimed gold in the 4 x 100m relay in a time of 44.31 while the 4 x 400m relay (Landon Vote, Owen Nuss, Keelan Wellman and Kolton Ollinger) finished in a winning time of 3:37.26.

Three field events earned runner-up honors as Deegan Brandel took 2nd in the discus (134-02), Ian Brunner in the shot put (42-11”) and Ethan Martin in the long jump (16-07.75). Both the sprint medley relay (Parker Bintz, Colden Mapel, Josiah Hefley and Ethan Martin) and the distance medley relay (Keelan Wellman, Kolton Ollinger, Landon Vote and Lincoln Akins) took 2nd in their respective relays with a 1:47.04 and 3:52.33. The sprint medley relay set a new freshmen record.

Logan Jaeschke picked up a third place finish in the 100m dash (11.39) as so did Leo Ramirez in the 110m high hurdles (16.94, PR). The 4 x 800m relay (Drew Dorsey, Logan Bintz, Kasen Loeffler, Ethan Tucker) and 4 x 200m relay (Riley Fawcett, Parker Bintz, Tennis Stevens, Ethan Martin) also earned bronze medals. Their times were 9:34.15 and 1:39.10 respectively.

Some other performances of note were PRs set by Riley Fawcett and Jaiden Johnson in the 100m dash (12.06 and 12.62), Josiah Hefley in the 400m dash (57.26), Logan Bintz in the 800m run (2:20.48) and Blaise Echevarria in the 800m run (2:32.18). There was a non-scoring 4 x 100m relay were the JV quartet of Leo Ramirez, Riley Fawcett, Jaiden Johnson and Colden Mapel won in a time of 46.99.