GILBERT — Youth in the ranks showed for Collins-Maxwell/Baxter’s Raider girls Monday at the Gilbert Bengal Relays.
“With a young team, you are going to have some good nights, and some bad nights, and tonight was one of those nights where we didn’t compete our best,” said CMB girls’ head coach Jerry Meinerts,
“No excuses, we just need to be more consistent in the field events and on the track. We’re not going to set personal bests every time we compete, but we should be right there competing hard and making the other teams run their personal records to beat us. I look for us to bounce back and have a good meet on Thursday night at home.”
CMB hosts a girls’ invitational track meet Thursday at Baxter.
The Raiders’ 4x100-meter relay team of Maddy Poage, Toni Spencer, Bridget Hurley and Mackenzie Schmitz had the top performance of the meet. They combined for second place in 54.10 seconds.
Schmitz and Spencer ran third and fourth in the 100-meter dash in 13.35 seconds and 13.60 seconds, respectively. Hurley placed third in the 400-meter dash in 1 minute, 6 seconds and Abbie Haupert ran sixth in 1:09.
Payge Jurgens earned third place in the shot put with a throw of 32 feet, 1 1/2 inches. Haupert was fourth in the discus with a toss of 102’1” and Mikayla Eslinger took sixth at 87’10”. Poage was sixth in the high jump, clearing the bar at 4’6”.
Poage, Megan Ritter, Bekah Pearson and Schmitz combined for fourth in the 4x200-meter relay race in 2:00. In the sprint medley relay race, Poage, Jurgens, and Haupert teamed with Kathleen Baldwin for fifth in 2:13.
Chantel Maxwell placed sixth in the 800-meter race in 2:52. Chasity Moody finished sixth in the 3,000-meter race in 13:52.
The Raiders’ 4x400-meter relay team of Megan Ritter, Haupert, Elizabeth Jones and Moody was sixth in 5:00. Heather Jessen, Stephanie Twohey, Veronica Condon and Maxwell combined for sixth in the 4x800-meter relay race in 12:11.