By Cort Reynolds - photos from Bluffton Pirates Tweet
FINDLAY - The Bluffton boys track and field team finished a strong third at the 16-team Pat Wagner Liberty Benton Invitational Saturday.
Columbus Grove won the boys team title with 144.5 points, followed by host L-B (108.5) and Bluffton (68).
Senior Jon Schriner won the 400 meter dash to post the top Bluffton finish.
L-B captured the girls team crown with 146.5 points. The Pirate girls came in 11th with 23 points.
Top Bluffton finishers:
Boys 400 Meter Dash
1 Jonathon Schriner 52.65
Boys 4x800 Meter Relay
1 Bluffton 8:15.35
1) Simon Derstine 12 2) Eden Antrim 10
3) Eric Nygaard 10 4) Landon Armstrong 10
Boys 1600 Meter Run
2 Eden Antrim 4:43.59
Boys 3200 Meter Run
2 Eric Nygaard 10:19.49
Boys 4x400 Meter Relay
2 Bluffton 3:39.12
1) Jonathan Schriner 12 2) Ethan Bogart 11
3) Josh Mehaffie 12 4) Nick Jebson 12
Girls Pole Vault
3 Brianna Taber 9-6
5 Allison Diller J8-6
Boys 300 Meter Hurdles
3 Ethan Bogart 43.17
Boys 800 Meter Run
4 Landon Armstrong 2:09.1
Boys High Jump
5 Trey Bobblit J5-6
6 Wyatt Lovell J5-6
Boys Shot Put
5 Aaron Tabler 43-9
Girls 800 Meter Run
6 Clara Matthews 2:38.98
Girls Discus Throw
8 Cierra Ackerman J93-2
Girls team scores:
1) Liberty-Benton 146.5 points
2) Ottawa-Glandorf 78.17
3) Columbus Grove 68
4) Kalida 67
5) Bath 53.17
6) Carey 49.17
7) Waynesfield-Goshen 42.17
8) Van Buren 28.5
9) Vanlue 28
10) Old Fort 27
11) Bluffton 23
12) Arcadia 20
13) Pandora-Gilboa 17
14) Hardin Northern 12.17
15) Arlington 3
16) McComb 0.17
Boys team scores:
1) Columbus Grove 144.5 points
2) Liberty-Benton 108.5
3) Bluffton 68
4) Pandora-Gilboa 61.50
5) Van Buren 54.50
6) Arlington 48
7) Ottawa-Glandorf 31
8) Bath 30
9) Waynesfield-Goshen 29
10) McComb 26
11) Carey 14
12) Vanlue 12
12) Hardin Northern 12
14) Kalida 10
15) Old Fort 9
16) Arcadia 5
Bluffton competes next at the Allen East quadrangular with Bath and Columbus Grove Tuesday, May 4.
The Pirates then run at the Ada Invitational Saturday, May 8.
