The Houlton track and field members made their final attempt to push their qualifying times and marks for the States, according to Houlton coach Chris Rines.
The Houlton team will compete in the States on Saturday, June 6 at 10 a.m. in Yarmouth.
“I am happy to report that many of our kids took the challenge and hit their personal bests in at least one event, showing me, they are peaking at the right time of the season,” Rines added.
Houlton track and field members competed in last Friday’s Penobscot Valley Small School Championships at Foxcroft Academy.
“For this meet, they had to have a qualifying time or distance from a previous meet to be entered,” Rines said.
In the PVC meet, Austin Brown automatically qualified for States in the high jump and 100 meter, while Natalie Hill, also qualified for the States in the javelin. Josh Upton is state-bound in the shot put.
In the girl’s 100 meters, Hill was 16th with a time of 14.23 and Emily Mooers was 22nd in a time of 14.36; 200 meters, Mooers, 18th, 31.91; 400 meters, Hill, seventh, 1:07.10; Mooers, ninth, 1:08.48 and Rylee Warman, personal best, 11th, 1:11.48; 800 meters, Hill, 12th, 2:45.04; Mooers, personal best, 14th, 2:46.21; and Warman, personal best, 15th, 2:46.92; and 1,600 meters, Warman, fifth, 6:12.42.
In the javelin, Hill, personal best, fifth, 95 feet, 6 inches and Emma Drew, 13th, 72 feet, 11 inches.
The girls accumulated four points and came in 12th.
On the boys’ side, 100 meters, A. Brown, personal best, seventh, 11.88; and Upton, 19th, 12.57; 200 meters, A. Brown, personal best, seventh, 24.51; 800 meters, Isaiah Brown, personal best, sixth, 2:15.83; and 1,600 meters, I. Brown, sixth, 5:00.35.
In the high jump, A. Brown, personal best, third, 5 feet, 8 inches; long jump, A. Brown, 11th, 17 feet, 2.5 inches; javelin, Timothy Glatter, personal best, 109 feet, 6 inches; discus, Upton, seventh, 93 feet, 3 inches; and shot put, Upton, personal best, sixth, 40 feet, 6 inches.
The Houlton boys totaled nine points for a ninth-place finish.
