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Mexico junior high boys track wins in first time out

Photos by Jalaya Davis and Sarah Gleeson
Posted 4/8/25

In their first meet of the season, the Mexico Middle School boys were winners.

The Bulldogs won the Westran Middle School Relays in Huntsville on Monday while beating out 14 other schools, …

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Mexico junior high boys track wins in first time out

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In their first meet of the season, the Mexico Middle School boys were winners.

The Bulldogs won the Westran Middle School Relays in Huntsville on Monday while beating out 14 other schools, including runner-up and North Central Missouri Conference rival Moberly by one point 76-75. The boys won five events and had eight medals, and the girls medaled in four events while finishing seventh out of 17 schools.

For the boys, Caden Fridley was first in the high jump at 1.55 meters; Seth Stevenson was first in the 800 meters with a time of 2:17.74; Fridley, Stevenson, Reid Bickell and Roman Kelly were first in the 4x800 relay with a time of 9:46.05; Stevenson, Kelly, Fridley and Kamarion Brookins were first in the 4x400 relay with a time of 4:07.85; and Kelly, Fridley, Ve 'Ron Williams and D'Naz Smith were first in the 4x200 relay with a time of 1:46.48. The 4x800 relay team is chasing the 2019 school record of 9:34.34 set by William Bingham (class of 2024) and Race Adell, Thomas Peuster and Morgan Grubb (all class of 2023). J.T. Lentz was second in the 100 meters with a time of 13.11, Kelly was fourth in the triple jump at 9.96 meters, and Reid Bickell was fourth in the 1600 meters with a time of 6:01.26.

The medalists for the girls included Jalaya Davis, Caroline Fisher, Avery Sells and Lehua Grantz finishing second in the 4x200 relay with a time of 2:03; Sells, Fisher, Julia Goerne and Myah Wolfe finished third in the 4x400 relay with a time of 12:17; Davis, Grantz, Sells and Zuri Crews were third in the 4x100 relay with a time of 58.6; Crews was third in the 200 meters with a time of 30.31.


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