Fallon senior Hailey Guerrero places sixth in the high jump on Friday.
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After competing in three-to-four-team meets this season, the Greenwave track and field team hosted the season’s biggest meet on Friday.
The Northern 3A region converged in the Lahontan Valley for the regional championships at the Edward Arciniega Athletic Complex where Spring Creek won both the boys and girls divisions.
The Spartans won the boys division over Fernley, 162.5 to 91, while host Fallon finished seventh with 42. North Valleys finished third with 82 points followed by Dayton with 76 and Lowry with 56 to round out the top five.
Spring Creek’s girls team won 192-152.5 over Truckee while Dayton was third with 81 points followed by Fallon with 75.5 and South Tahoe with 65.
Elko did not travel due to the school’s closure with a rise in COVID-19 cases.
Competing against all teams in the region for the first time this season, the Greenwave won a pair of events in the girls division with junior Michaella Pursley taking the pole vault title and the 4x200-meter relay team winning by 0.62 seconds.
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Fallon sophomore Cameron Christy runs in the 1600-meter event during Friday’s Northern 3A region meet.
Pursley saved her best for the last meeting, vaulting to personal-best 8 feet, 3 inches to win the event by 3 inches over Fernley’s Heaven Conner. Although she didn’t place in the hurdle events, Pursley recorded personal bests.
The 4x200 relay team of seniors Bianca Lopez and Makayle Mathisen, junior McCartney McAlexander and freshman Jessalyn Lewis won their race in 1 minute, 57.64 seconds. Mathisen, who competed on the second-place soccer team, finished sixth in the 200 in 28.53 and eighth in the 100 in 13.83, a personal best. Lewis also placed in the 200, coming in seventh at 28.79. McAlexander placed fourth in the triple jump at 31-7, a season best, and fifth in the 100 hurdles with a season-best 17.55.
The 4x100 team of seniors Aisha Sharron, Danyelle Andrews, Lopez and Mathisen finished fifth in 55.65. The 4x400 team of freshman Brienna McArthur, Aubrey Jaques and juniors Savanna Regli and Zoey Brown took sixth with a time of 4:59.29.
Regli finished sixth in the 3200 with a season-best 13:35.79 while Brown came one spot shy from placing in the 400, finishing ninth at 1:09.43, a season record.
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Fallon senior Makayle Mathisen anchors the 4x200-meter relay team to the Northern 3A region title on Friday.
Sharron leaped 32-4.5 to take second in the triple jump, needing 9 inches to win, and a season-best 14-11.25 to finish fourth in the long jump. Senior Hailey Guerrero, who won her heat in the 100 hurdles, finished sixth in both the high jump and pole vault with marks of 4-8 and 7 feet, respectively.
Although the boys didn’t win any events, several placed in the top eight.
Senior Will Swisher and junior Luke Sorensen were the top individualists, while three relay teams placed in the top six.
Swisher finished fourth in the 110 hurdles in 20.06, a personal best, and fifth in the 300 hurdles in 49.61. Sorensen vaulted a personal-best 10-3 to take fourth in the pole vault. Swisher and Sorensen were also on the 4x400 relay team along with James Calvert and Brian Sanchez-Rehkop that took fifth in 3:58.82.
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Fallon junior Michaella Pursley stands atop the podium after winning the region title in pole vault.
In the sprints, Alcaraz-Avalos, Sanchez and Sanchez-Rehkop – all seniors – ran personal bests in the 100 race. Alcaraz-Avalos finished sixth in 11.90 followed by Sanchez in seventh in 11.90 and Sanchez-Rehkop in ninth at 12 seconds.
Although they didn’t place in the distance events, sophomores Cameron Christy and Quentin Dowler, and freshman Edmond Allyn each ran a personal best in the 1600. Dowler also had a personal best in the 800, and Christy and Allyn each ran a personal record in the 3200.
In the throws, DeAloia, a junior, came close to the top eight by throwing 34-6 to finish 10th. Sanchez placed fifth in the long jump at 18-00.25 and seventh in the triple jump at 34-11.5. Alcaraz-Avalos finished with a personal-best 5-8 to finish sixth in the high jump.
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Fallon junior Luke Sorensen competes in the pole vault during the rain on Friday.
