By Cort Reynolds

OTTAWA–The Bluffton High School track and field teams competed at the eight-team Ottawa-Glandorf Gold Medal Meet on Friday, April 14.

Host Ottawa-Glandorf won both the boys and girls team titles. Bluffton finished fourth in the boys standings, while the Pirate girls took seventh.

Eden Antrim won the boys 1600 meter run. Wyatt Lovell took first in the high jump.

Brianna Taber won the girls pole vault. Hayden Dearth captured first in the long jump.

Top Bluffton finishers:

Boys 1600 Meter Run

  1 Antrim, Eden                 Bluffton               4:36.96 

Boys High Jump

  1 Lovell, Wyatt                Bluffton               6-2

Girls Pole Vault

  1 Taber, Brianna               Bluffton             J11-0

Boys Long Jump

Finals

  1 Dearth, Hayden               Bluffton            20-3

Boys 4x800 Meter Relay

  2 Bluffton  'A'                                       8:21.16    8   

     1) Derstine, Sam                   2) Nygaard, Erik                  

     3) Novak, Landon                   4) Antrim, Eden      

Boys 3200 Meter Run

  2 Nygaard, Erik                Bluffton              10:12.27 

Boys 4x400 Meter Relay

  2 Bluffton  'A'                                     3:31.77   2   8   

     1) Hoffman, Nolan                  2) Good, Justin                   

     3) Derstine, Sam                   4) Antrim, Eden 

Girls 4x800 Meter Relay

Finals

  3 Bluffton  'A'                                      10:36.22    6   

     1) Armstrong, Ella                 2) Scoles, Sami                   

     3) Diller, Allison                 4) Eachus, Riley        

Boys 300 Meter Hurdles

  3 Kruse, Carson                Bluffton                 43.73

Boys 4x100 Meter Relay

  6 Bluffton  'A'                                         47.09   1   1   

     1) Bricker, Noah                   2) Shutler, Landon                

     3) Jones, Eli                      4) Mays, Zander 

Girls 1600 Meter Run

  7 Essinger, June               Bluffton               5:55.3

Women‘s Scoring

1) Ottawa-Glandorf - 169  

2) Liberty-Benton - 108   

3) Van Wert - 94       

4) Otsego - 56   

5) Elida - 42      

6) Bath - 22   

7) Bluffton - 21       

8) Van Buren - 15   

Men’s Scoring

1) Ottawa-Glandorf - 96

2) Liberty-Benton - 92   

3) Van Buren - 83       

4) Bluffton - 72   

5) Bath - 60

6) Otsego - 46   

7) Van Wert - 40

8) Elida - 38