Pine Creek Dominates the Boys
Pine Creek's Charles Nnantah had a narrow lead over teammate Christian Seaquist at the midway point, but expanded that lead in the second half of the race.
Pine Creek's uniforms are a little on the side of understated. Their performances are not.
From the first event to contest finals, almost up to the very end, Pine Creek was in control.
The Eagles won the 4x800 in a nice early-season time of 8:35.95. But figure there's more to come from this crew--the pedal was barely down on this effort.
Charles Nnantah had both hurdle events firmly in his control, 15.58 (wind legal) in the 110s, and 40.98 in the 300s. Maybe, perhaps, there was a little rust from three days of no formal hurdle work but, if so, it wasn't evident in his level of domination.
Caleb Boutelle dominated the 3200 with one of the season's few sub-10 efforts to date, a 9:57.
In between, the Eagles piled up lots of points via the nickel-and-dime route.
Meanwhile, another set of Eagles was screaming loudly. That would be the Pueblo East Eagles.
Rumor has it the folks in Pueblo City Schools are pondering the closure of a high school in Pueblo. The buildings aren't running close to capacity any longer, and it may be time to think about shuttering one of the schools. Right now, some of that kind of talk is centering around Pueblo East High School.
Whatever the outcome of that might end up being, Pueblo East track and field is doing very well right now. Kain Medrano, in his first meet of the season, established state-leading marks in the shot put and discus. Luc Andrada, between last week and this, has state-leading marks in the 100 and 200.
Zion Freeman, also of Pueblo East, earned a second in the shot put and a third in the discus.
And a 4x100 relay which had all the marks of a last-minute pick-up kind of affair, ran Medrano third and Andrada fourth and finished third in 45.04. There might be more thunder to come from that storm.
Another team earning high marks on the day was Widefield. Ryan Outler was chief among the Gladiator standouts. Outler outdueled TCA's Mason Norman at the end of a sensational 1600. Then, at the end of the day, Outler wore out the Mesa Ridge resistance on the final leg to claim the 4x400 crown.
Norman reconciled the loss to Outler in the 1600 with a come-from-behind win in the 800, taking that event in 2:01.68.
Doherty? Yeah, the Spartans were there, too, making some of their usual--of late--noise in the sprints. Isaiah Escalante won the 400 in 50.67. There's a sub-50 coming soon. Meanwhile, Doherty blitzed the field with a blazing 4x200, followed a little over an hour later by a blazing 4x100. Rumor has it the 'D' on their chests stands for domination.