Individual performances by the Gardner Edgerton Blazers boys and girls track teams took the gold in three categories at the April 28 home invitational.
The Blazer boys featured two individual and a team champion: Trot Wood in the 100-meter (10.99), Parker Walion in the 800-meter (1:56.13) and a champion 4×100-meter relay team of Padilla, Shoemaker, Linden and Wood.
The Blazer girls featured one event champion in freshman Hayden Meats, who again won the triple jump in a loaded field on her fourth and final jump of 36-2 3/4.
Other top performances came in the boys’ discus where all three Blazers, Thomas Savasten, Spencer Easley and Remy Carpenter, all had personal best throws and brought in 13 points. The top performance of the evening came from junior standout Dawson Kindler, who launched the javelin 190-4, just barely missing the win by an inch. Still, the toss ranked him in the top-4 boys’ javelin athletes in Blazers’ program history.
Boys’ team standings:
Olathe West 123
Olathe East 103
Gardner Edgerton 91
Olathe Northwest 85
Mill Valley 65
Blue Valley Southwest 62
Free State 47
Ray-Pec 45
Paola 41
Girls team standings
Olathe West 160.5
Olathe Northwest 108
Mill Valley 103
Gardner Edgerton 72.5
Ray-Pec 62.5
Olathe East 53
Paola 49
Blue Valley Southwest 37.5
Free State 14