Thanks to several title-winning performances on the track, the Bellevue boys track team captured the KingCo 3A/2A team title at the KingCo Championships, held Wednesday and Friday of last week at Eastlake High School.
Bellevue finished with 146.5 points, distancing second-place finisher Mount Si, who ended with 135 points.
The first place finish was the best for an area team in both boys and girls track. Mount Si dominated the girls competition, scoring 213 points, beating second-place Mercer Island by 85 points. Bellevue finished in fourth with 96.66 points. The Sammamish boys finished sixth and the girls finished seventh, while the Interlake boys finished fifth and the girls took seventh.
The Newport girls finished fourth in the 4A competition, while the Newport boys finished 11th.
Skylar Yu (100 meters), Michael Williams (800 meters), Anthony Monahan (110 hurdles), and Willy Gervais all took home individual titles for the Bellevue boys team. The Wolverines 4×100 relay team also took home a title, winning the event in 44.20, narrowly beating Mercer Island, who finished in 44.51. The team is composed of Stephen Heppler, Peter Nguyen, Will Fields and Brandon Gardner.
Other area boys who took home titles were Sammamish’s Taylor Regan (200 meters) and Aaron Phillips (triple jump), and Newport’s Ross Quarre, who won the 4A pole vault by vaulting 14-0.
Area winners on the girls side included Newport’s Jasmine Cho, who won the 400 in a personal-best time of 57.63, and Maggie Roe, a junior at Newport who won the discus with a toss of 104-11, nine inches further than Skyline sophomore Haley Ziegler. Newport’s 4×400 relay team took home a title by finishing in 3:59.44. That team consisted of Cho, Mary Carr, Alisa Poplawski and Devan Paxton. Newport’s Rachel Wirtz won the 4A pole vault with a heighth of 10-06.
Jackie Hamilton won the shot put for Bellevue, out-distancing Interlake’s Litia Ngauamo by 3.25 inches with a throw of 34-05 1/4. Interlake’s Qiaoyi Zhang (high jump) and Sammamish’s Taylor Moravec (long jump) won titles in the jumps.
