By TYLER HENRY
Salina Post contributor
The Southeast of Saline Trojan track and field team made the trip to Ellinwood on Friday and posted one final record setting day ahead of next week's league meet.
The boys team kept their perfect season alive, winning the meet by a comfortable 68 points over Sterling while the girls finished in third just 17 points off the pace of the winners in Kiowa County.
On the girls side, several athletes made a return to the podium as Jentrie Alderson brought home the gold in the 800 and 1600, Ivie Douglas took silver in the discus throw, and Ashley Prochazka took second in the 3200.
Alsersons time of 5:13.7 in the 1600 was fast enough to set a new meet record, breaking Jeanene Rugans time set in 1991.
Rounding out podium places SES got third place finishes from Prochazka in the 1600, Joni Schroeder in the 3200 and Brynn Hawbaker in the long jump.
The girls team also posted a second place finish in the 4x800 meter relay.
On the boys side nine different athletes found a step of the podium, and the relay teams swept the meet, winning the 4x1, 4x2 and 4x800 meter races.
The 4x800-meter relay team of Luke Gleason, Dominic Jackson, Drake Augustine and Dylan Sprecker set a time of 8:06.30, which shattered the previous school record that had stood since 1993.
In individual events, first place finishes were earned by Eddie McVay in the 100-meter dash, Dominic Jackson in the 800, Damion Jackson in the 1600, Dylan Sprecker in the 3200, Chase Poague in both the 110 and 300-meter hurdles and Jude Golden in the javelin throw.
Poague’s time of 13.96 in the 110m hurdles broke the previous record of 14.5 set by Steve Fritz in 1986.
Dylan Sprecker also broke his own school record in the 3200 with a new top time of 9:30.68
Second place finishers included Nakari Morrical-Palmer in both the 100 and 200-meter dash, Luke Gleason in the 800, Dominic Jackson in the 3200, Damion Jackson in the 3200 and Grant Stumpf in the 300m hurdles and high jump.
Rounding out the podium finishers on the boys side were third place finishes from Drake Augustine in the 800 and Stumpf in the 110m hurdles.
With the Ellinwood Invitational in the books, both SES track teams will focus on the league meet next Friday, which will be the final meet of the season before regionals.
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