The Emporia High track and field team came away with five events titles Friday at the Topeka High Relays.
The five victories helped EHS finish eighth out of 13 teams on the girls side, while the EHS boys came in fourth out of 14 teams.
On the girls side, seniors Michaela Reynolds and Samantha Kraft turned in event-winning performances, as Reynolds won the 3,200-meter run while Kraft took the title in the pole vault.
Reynolds blew away the field in the 3,200, winning the event in a time of 11 minutes, 12.54 seconds, with the next fastest finisher, Blue Valley North’s Ellie Mohr, coming across the line nearly 42 seconds later (11:53.16).
As for Kraft, she won the pole vault with a clearance of 10 feet, which was 2 feet better than the runner-up.
On the boys side, Jacob Davies, Caydrick Bloomquist and Brandon Childs all won titles to round out the event winners for EHS.
Davies led a trio of Spartan runners that finished in the top-10 in the 1,600-meter run, as Davies finished first in a time of 4:26, which was 9 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. Asher Delmott came in fourth (4:39.61) and Tyler Anliker placed seventh (4:41.36).
Bloomquist took the pole vault title with a clearance of 13 feet, winning the event over Topeka High’s Andrew Woodward (12-6).
Childs took first in the high jump with a leap of 6-6, which was 2 inches better than Highland Park’s James Caraway. Childs also picked up a pair of third-place finishes in the long jump (20-8) and the triple jump (44-2 1/2).
Delmott and Andrew Wayman gave EHS a pair of top-10 finishes in the 3,200-meter run, as Delmott came in third (10:07.45) while Wayman finished ninth (10:33.20).
Kyle Goodwin (42.82) and Taylor Euler (43.32) finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 300-meter hurdles, and Tyler Tilton placed fifth in the 800-meter run (2:05.99). Troy Pierce placed ninth in the shot put (43-1) and Lorenzo Serna finished 20th in the discus (101-9).
Elsewhere, on the girls side, freshman Sarah Kolmer turned in an impressive day, taking second in the triple jump with a leap of 34 feet, 9 inches before coming in sixth in the long jump (15-11).
Junior Raelynn Pearson earned two top-five showings, coming in fifth in the shot put with a throw of 35-4 1/2 before taking third in the discus with a toss of 114-10 — a personal record by 5 inches.
Rhani Henry placed fifth in the 100-meter hurdles (17.55 seconds) and seventh in the 300 hurdles (52.39), while Jenna Stanbrough came in seventh in the 1,600-meter run (5:34.61) and ninth in the 800 (2:31.59).