By Cort Reynolds

DELPHOS – The Bluffton High School track and field teams competed well at the annual nine-team Northwest Conference championship meet Thursday and Saturday, May 11 and 13, in Delphos.

Bluffton took home six individual first-place finishes, and also won three relay events.

Columbus Grove captured the boys and girls league crowns, while Bluffton took second in both team standings.

Seniors Landon Armstrong and Sam Derstine finished one-two in the boys 800-meter run to post the top Pirate finish.

Senior Eden Antrim also crossed the line first in the boys 1600 meters.

Junior Kyle Basil took first in the high jump, while senior Brianna Taber won the pole vault.

Sophomore Sadie Tarplee captured the girls high jump crown. Sophomore Carson Kruse came home first in the 300-meter hurdles.

The Pirate boys took first in the 4 x 400 and 4 x 800 relay races. The Bluffton girls foursome also won the 4 x 800 relay event.

 

Scoring Bluffton finishers:

Boys 800 Meters 

1 ARMSTRONG, Landon SR Bluffton 1:57.48 

2 DERSTINE, Sam SR Bluffton 1:58.51

 

Boys High Jump 

1 BASIL, Kyle JR Bluffton 6' 0"

4 LOVELL, Wyatt SR Bluffton 5' 8"

 

Girls Pole Vault 

1 TABER, Brianna SR Bluffton 10' 6" 

6 DILLER, Allison SR Bluffton 8' 0

 

Girls High Jump 

1 TARPLEE, Sadie SO Bluffton 4' 10"

 

Girls 4 x 800m Relay 

1 Bluffton (A) 10:16.85

 

Boys 1600 Meters 

1 ANTRIM, Eden SR Bluffton 4:26.52

 

Boys 4 x 400m Relay 

1 Bluffton (A) 3:29.04

 

Boys 300m Hurdles 

1 KRUSE, Carson SO Bluffton 42.26

7 DIFFIN, Elijah SO Bluffton 45.56

 

Boys 4 x 800m Relay 

1 Bluffton (A) * 8:01.83

 

Girls 4 x 400m Relay 

2 Bluffton (A) 4:22.25

 

Boys 3200 Meters

2 NYGAARD, Erik SR Bluffton 9:47.85

8 SEHLHORST, Landon FR Bluffton 11:10.15

 

Boys 110m Hurdles 

2 KRUSE, Carson SO Bluffton 16.39

8 BASIL, Kyle JR Bluffton 17.66

 

Girls 4 x 200m Relay 

2 Bluffton (A) 1:52.02

 

Girls Discus

3 YOUNGPETER, Rory SO Bluffton 99' 0" 

 

Girls Shot Put 

3 SUTER, Lizzy FR Bluffton 29' 3”

5 YOUNGPETER, Rory SO Bluffton 28' 4 ¾” 

 

Boys Long Jump

3 DEARTH, Hayden JR Bluffton 19' 33/4 (NW) 18' 101/4 19' 33/4 1

 

Girls Long Jump 

3 GIESIGE, Kendal SR Bluffton 15' 4" 

7 DEARTH, Lauren FR Bluffton 13' 7 1/2 

 

Girls 800 Meters 

4 ARMSTRONG, Ella JR Bluffton 2:30.36 

6 ESSINGER, June SO Bluffton 2:34.5

 

Boys 4 x 200m Relay 

4 Bluffton (A) 1:36.36

 

Girls 200 Meters 

5 MCDOUGLE, Mya FR Bluffton 28.03 

7 GIESIGE, Kendal SR Bluffton 28.75

 

Girls 3200 Meters 

5 TARPLEE, Lydia FR Bluffton 13:58.82 

7 HONSE, Elizabeth FR Bluffton 15:15.54

 

Boys Shot Put 

5 LUGINBUHL, Xavier SR Bluffton 47' 7" 

 

Girls 100 Meters

5 MCDOUGLE, Mya FR Bluffton 13.52

 

Girls 300m Hurdles

5 BURKHOLDER, Aubrey FR Bluffton 50.98

 

Girls 1600 Meters 

5 ESSINGER, June SO Bluffton 5:45.11 

7 CONLEY, Grace FR Bluffton 6:05.48

 

Boys 400 Meters

5 GOOD, Justin SR Bluffton 53.26 

8 DAVIS, Alek SO Bluffton 54.26 

 

Girls 100m Hurdles 

6 BURKHOLDER, Aubrey FR Bluffton 18.14

 

Girls 400 Meters 

6 DILLER, Allison SR Bluffton 1:06.66 

8 DEARTH, Lauren FR Bluffton 1:08.25

 

Boys 4 x 100m Relay 

6 Bluffton (A) 46.53

 

Boys Discus

7 MAYS, Zander SR Bluffton 123' 2" 

 

Boys NWC Team Scores:

1 Columbus Grove 144 points

2 Bluffton 118 

3 Allen East 80 

4 Lincolnview 79 

5 Leipsic 76 

6 Spencerville 54.5 

7 Crestview 45.5 

8 Delphos Jefferson 34 9

9 Ada 32 

 

Girls NWC Team Scores: 

1 Columbus Grove 152 points

2 Bluffton 116 

3 Lincolnview 92.5 

4 Spencerville 77 

5 Crestview 73 

6 Del. Jefferson 45 

7 Allen East 43.5 

8 Ada 40.5 

9 Leipsic 18.5