SANTA ROSA — Middletown High School swept the shotput portion of the Big Cat Invitational track and field meet on Saturday at Santa Rosa High School as seniors Taelor Roderick and Bryson Trask captured top honors, Roderick with a school-record throw.
Trask also won the discus to round a solid day for the Mustangs under the direction of first-year coach Don Cobb.
Middletown athletes set 34 personal-best marks between the running and field events.
Girls
Roderick’s throw of 32 feet, 9 inches broke her own school record in the shotput. She also placed sixth in the discus at 96-4. Teammate Hanna Morris placed fifth in the discus (100-5) and eighth in the shotput (28-2 ½).
Among Middletown’s other top finishers, senior Grace Southern placed second in the 400 meters at 1 minute, 2.17 seconds, senior Kelsey Lemoine came in third in the 100 meters at 13.56 seconds and sixth in the triple jump at 29-5, Alyssa Hart placed fifth in the 300 hurdles at 55.18 and sixth in the 100 hurdles at 18.65, Bella Dubois was ninth in the 100 hurdles (20.73), and Brooklyn Huffman took 10th in the 1,600 meters at 5:43.50.
Middletown’s 4×100 and 4×400 relay teams also did well, both finishing second – the 4×100 in 52.42 and the 4×400 in 4:28.37.
Boys
Trask, a Redwood Empire standout who attended Lower Lake High School a year ago, was the big story of the meet on the boys side as his winning throws of 175-4 in the discus and 55-5 in the shotput easily topped the field. Trask threw 176-3 in the discus a week earlier at the Mini-Honker Invite in Yuba City to break the Middletown record.
Also for Middletown, Jack Farres cracked the top 10 in the 300 hurdles, placing eighth in 45.85. Tenth-place finishes went to Hagan Cadwallader in the 100 high hurdles (17.88) and to Isaac Rascon in the 3,200 (10:19.87).
Schedule
Middletown’s track and field teams return to action Saturday for the North Coast Extravaganza at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa.
