C-M boys track and field defends title in home invitational

COLFAX — The Colfax-Mingo boys track and field team scored in all 19 events during its home meet on Tuesday night.

Sullivan Wilkins and Xavier Woods both were part of three wins and each had a runner-up finish to lead the Tigerhawks to a defense of the Colfax-Mingo Coed Invitational.

Colfax-Mingo scored 193 points to win the meet championship. AGWSR (122), Colo-NESCO (107), Woodward Academy (96), Bondurant-Farrar (78), Grand View Christian (45) and Meskwaki Settlement School (20) completed the field. It was mostly Bondurant-Farrar’s junior varsity squad.

The Tigerhawks claimed eight wins and finished second and third five times each.

Wilkins won the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs and placed second in the 800. His winning time in the 1,600 was clocked in a career-best 5 minutes, 00.12 seconds. Owen Ament finished third in a career-best 5:19.36.

Wilkins and Ament also doubled up in the 3,200 and the 800. Wilkins won the 3,200 in a career-best 10:43.02 and Ament was fourth in 12:00.42. Wilkins’ time was the fifth-best in school history.

Wilkins posted a runner-up time of 2:11.2 in the 800 and Ament was fifth in 2:21.56.

Woods won the 110 high hurdles, the high jump and he anchored the 4x400 relay to a win.

His winning time in the 110 highs was clocked in 16.74 seconds and Wyatt Thornton (18.24) placed fourth. The duo also was 2-3 in the 400 hurdles as Woods (59.4) finished second and Thornton (1:02.96) took third.

Chase Trotter posted a career-best time of 53.98 to win the 400 and his career-best 23.62 in the 200 was good enough for second. Tony Buenrostro ran a career-best 24.48 to finish third in the 200.

Woods posted a mark of 5 feet, 10 inches to win the high jump, Buenrostro (12.1) placed third in the 100 and Isaiah Baucom (35-4) and Lawrence Solasberry (career-best 34-9 1/2) finished 4-5 in the shot put.

The other two individual top-five finishes came from Trotter (18-4 1/2) in the long jump and Camden Cunningham (98-6) in the discus. Trotter was fourth and Cunningham placed fifth.

The Tigerhawks won the sprint medley, distance medley and 4x400 relays.

Baucom, Cunningham, Fisher Grove and Thornton posted the seventh-fastest time in school history and won the sprint medley relay in 1:43.26.

The distance medley relay team of Grove, Cunningham, Izaiah Lewis and Wilkins won the race in 4:03.67.

Woods anchored the 4x400 relay to a win. He was joined by Trotter, Thornton and Lewis and they won the race in 3:42.94.

Colfax-Mingo’s 4x100 relay team was second in 48.18. That foursome featured Baucom, Cunningham, Grove and Buenrostro.

Mario Rodriguez, Willie Fitzgerald, Joseph Grimm and Ament placed second in the 4x800 relay in 9:48.7 and the shuttle hurdle relay team of Lewis, Tanner Miller, Josue Rodriguez and Kyle Wood took third in 1:19.66.