Loyal girls, boys take 4th at Medford

Loyal athletes competed at the Early Bird Invite in Medford last Thursday, with both the girls and boys teams placing fourth out of six teams, the girls with 71 points and the boys with 69 points.

“It’s a revolving door this time of the year. We have athletes coming off of injuries, not able to compete due to injuries, athletes who are sick and still competing, and athletes missing due to other school or family activities. This has always been the story for spring sports, other than that the weather has been better than normal,” wrote coach Jim Genteman in an email.

“Last night’s meet was the first outdoor meet for the athletes. There were a lot of good times and efforts shown. There were several first-place finishes. This should make practice go easier the rest of the week.”

Shown clockwise from bottom left are: Bryce Deegan, Molly Zvolena, Jerome Buchanan handing the baton to Eli Zettler, Sheila Tellock, Addie Holm and Gwen LaMarr.

Athletes placing in the top eight in their event to score points for Loyal were as follows: -- Sheila Tellock, fourth, pole vault -- Olivia Nikolai, sixth, pole vault; third, 100m hurdles -- Molly Zvolena, second, long jump; third, triple jump -- Gwen LaMarr, fourth, long jump; fifth, 100m hurdles -- Summer Smith, sixth, triple jump; fifth, 300m hurdles -- Bryce Deegan, second, triple jump; fifth, 400m dash; sixth, 200m dash -- Hope Peroshek, fifth, discus -- Jaden Smith, first, discus; third, shot put -- Lesly Soto, sixth, 100m hurdles -- Connor Genteman, first, 1600m run; first 800m run -- Girls 4x200m relay team, first -- Girls 4x100m relay team, first -- Boys 4x100m relay team, first -- Boys 4x400m relay team, third

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