WP Boys Win First League Meet

LAPWAI, Ida. – The Waitsburg-Prescott boys’ track team easily won the first Southeast District 9 1B/2B track meet this year, which was held here last week. The Cardinals outpointed a strong Asotin boys’ team, 191 to 174.

Senior Owen Lanning and sophomore Travis Crockett each tallied three individual wins at the meet. Lanning captured both the 110 meter and 300 meter hurdles events. He also won the triple jump and took third in the long jump.

Crockett won the 100 meter and 200 meter races and took first in the high jump. Crockett’s fourth event was running the anchor leg of WP’s 4x100 relay team. But the team took a disqualification in that event.

“They both are looking very good,” said WP coach Jeff Bartlow of Lanning and Crockett. “Our hurdlers in general scored well and our high jumpers did very well.  It was a good measuring stick for us.”

The Cardinals swept the first three places in the high jump, with sophomores Landon Callas and Andre Potts tying for second place behind Crockett.

WP also dominated the hurdles. Freshman Joe Larue took third in the 110 meters, and sophomore TJ Morrison was fifth. WP swept the first three places in the 300 meter hurdles, with Callas taking second behind Lanning, and Larue third.

WP also got a victory from Tyler Shafer in the 400 meter run. In the field events, Juniors Zion Branson and Mark Montgomery took second and third in the shot put. The two also took third and fourth, respectively, in the discus.

For WP’s Girls, sophomore Emily Adams had another outstanding meet, winning the triple jump event and taking second places in the 100 meters, 800 meters and long jump. She was runner up to Dayton’s Kaitlyn Andrews in the 100 and jump, but outdistanced Andrews in the triple jump for the win.

“[Adams] ran hard and tough in the 800 and will get that time down here soon,” Coach Bartlow said. “Overall, it was a great day.”

The Cardinals were to compete next in the second league meet of the year, held in Dayton on Wednesday.