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sophomore’s longest leap of the day measured 18 feet, 8.75 inches, putting him just a few inches behind Owen-Withee’s Brandon Geldernick, who won the event with a leap of 19 feet, 0.5 inches. Xander Buchanan added a seventh place finish for the Hornets in the event, posting a jump of 16 feet, 8.75 inches.

The pair of Hopperdietzel and Buchanan also competed in the high jump, with the former taking fifth place after reaching a height of five feet, eight inches and the latter grabbing sixth by clearing the bar at five feet, six inches.

Oliver Steen added two more scoring efforts for the boys squad in the field events, picking up a pair of thirds in the shot put and discus. His longest throw in the shot put measured 36 feet, 11.25 inches while his best effort in the discus traveled 121 feet, six inches.

Mateer added a third for the girls in the triple jump with a distance of 29 feet, 2.5 inches and Kloth and Jenelle Ertl did so on the track. Kloth’s came in the 400-meter dash, where she finished with a time of 1:08.88 and Ertl grabbed her third in the 1600-meter run with a time of 6:22.25.

The 4x400-meter relay of Adams, Schmitt, Kloth and Nicole Verhoef captured the Hornets final third place finish, finishing with a time of 4:50.65.

Other individual scoring performances included a fourth place finish for Romina Perez in the 200-meter dash with a time of 30.44 seconds, a sixth place finish for Mateer in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 20.53 seconds, a seventh place finish for Carisa Steen in the 400meter dash with a time of 1:11.87 and an eighth place finish for Verhoef in the long jump with a distance of 11 feet, 6.25 inches.

The Hornets will be back in action on Thursday, May 8 as they travel to Stratford to take on athletes from 11 other area schools. The meet is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.