Layton High sweeps Region 1 track titles, girls 1st region title since 1996; results
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- Layton’s Tyler Poole throws the shot put at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville. Poole won the shot put and discus titles.
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- Layton’s Hailey Low smiles after winning the girls 3200 meter race at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville.
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- Fremont’s Amare Harlan wins the girls 100 meter race at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville. Harlan also won the 200 meters and long jump.
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- From left, Brinley Bush of Davis, Abby Affleck of Syracuse and Kenley Fuit of Fremont make the turn during the girls 4×100 meter relay race at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville.
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- Weber’s Eden DeVries, center, wins the girls 100 meter hurdles at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville.
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- Syracuse High’s Brevin Hamblin throws the javelin, an event he won, at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville.
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- Syracuse sprinter D’Angelo Mayes wins the boys 200 meter race at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville.
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- Runners begin the girls 800 meter race at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville.
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- Syracuse sprinter D’Angelo Mayes wins the boys 200 meter race at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville.
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- Weber’s Joshua Hamblin, left, and Farmington’s Tanner Crosland clear hurdles during the boys 300 meter hurdles race at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville. Hamblin won the event.
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- Fremont’s Amare Harlan smiles after winning the girls 100 meter race at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville.
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- Layton’s Tyler Poole throws the shot put at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville. Poole won the shot put and discus titles.
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- Layton’s Hailey Low wins the girls 3200 meter race at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville.
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- Weber’s Joshua Hamblin, center, wins the boys 110 meter hurdles race at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville.
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- Fremont sprinter Amare Harlan wins the 200 meter race at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville.
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- Layton’s Tyler Poole throws the shot put at the Region 1 track championship Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Kaysville. Poole won the shot put and discus titles.
KAYSVILLE — Last year, the Layton High boys track team broke a 30-plus year drought to win its first region championship since the 1980s.
Thursday, it was the Layton girls team’s turn. The Lancers swept the team titles at this week’s Region 1 track and field championships, with the girls winning their first region championship since 1996 and the boys going back to back.
LHS senior distance runner Hailey Low accounted for 38 of Layton’s 169 team points, as she won the 1600 meters, the 3200, ran a leg on the first-place 4 x 800 relay team and then took second in the 800.
“I think it’s just been pretty awesome as a team, I’ve been doing it for my team. I wouldn’t usually run the 800, just for fun, but we had a chance to win on the girls and on the boys side,” Low said.
Low led by as much as 90 meters on the final lap of the 3200 and ended up winning the race by 12 seconds. The 800, which isn’t her specialty, happened at the end of the meet with the wear and tear of the 1600 and 3200 very apparent, but Low finished second and teammate Carli Nelson took third.
“During the race, yeah (my legs) were burning. Definitely more of a leg-burner than a lot of races, which is different than what I’m used to, so it’s hard to get used to that but it’s fun,” Low said.
Layton won eight events: two relays, Low’s two races, the pole vault and all of the throwing events.
Anastasia Witte and Burklie Burton finished first and second in the javelin, scoring 18 team points. Witte also won the shot put and Burton won the discus. Emily Conlin won the pole vault. To cap off a meet where the Lancers won by 40 points, their 4 x 400 relay team took first place.
Fremont standout Amare Harlan won three events — the 100, 200 and long jump — and ran a leg on the Silverwolves’ first-place 4 x 100 relay team.
Harlan already owns state records in the 100 and 200, and she jumped 19 feet, 4 inches in the long jump, which is the second-best mark in state history (just behind the 19-04.75 set in 2001 by Amy Menlove of Alta).
Weber’s Eden DeVries won both the 100 hurdles and 300 hurdles, running a personal-best 14.09 seconds in the 100 hurdles that ranks as the fourth fastest time in state history.
The boys team race was much closer. Layton beat Davis 153.5 to 142.5.
Tyler Poole, who owns the best marks in the state in the discus and shot put, won both events and also finished sixth in the javelin.
“It feels great. Going into this year I didn’t know how we were going to do, we lost a lot of our seniors last year … our throws really picked up a lot of points this year, our relay teams have been very good,” Poole said. “At first I didn’t think we had it but going through the season, meet through meet, I think we all started gaining confidence in ourselves to be where we’re at.”
He threw 184 feet, 11 inches in the discus and 57 feet, 11 inches in the shot put. Both distances were well out in front but Poole was frustrated afterward because he wanted to hit a personal record.
“It’s just so close. Every throw I’ve thrown this year it’s just been one thing off,” Poole said. “One day it’s gonna click, one day it’s gonna happen, so until then we’re going to keep learning — what we can do better, what we did wrong.”
Layton won the 4 x 100, 4 x 200 and 4 x 800 relay races, as well as the long jump with Christian Perez’s jump of 21 feet, 6 inches.
Detrik Reed, who ran a leg on both the 4 x 100 and 4 x 200 relay teams, came into the region meet with a personal best of 11.46 seconds in the 100 meters. He ran 10.93 seconds in Wednesday’s qualifying, then clocked 11.11 on Thursday to take third place.
D’Angelo “DJ” Mayes of Syracuse won the 100 and 200-meter races, and Weber freshman Joshua Hamblin won the 110 hurdles and 300 hurdles.
The state track and field meet is scheduled for May 18-20 at Brigham Young University.
GIRLS INDIVIDUAL WINNERS
100 meters: Amare Harlan, Fremont, 11.69
200: Amare Harlan, Fremont, 23.85
400: Annalise Rire, Weber, 58.35
800: Skye Siddoway, Farmington, 2:18.14
1600: Hailey Low, Layton, 5:09.25
3200: Hailey Low, Layton, 11:28.83
4 x 100 relay: Fremont, 48.62 (Charlee Ortgiesen, Megan Wood, Kenley Fuit, Amare Harlan)
4 x 200: Weber, 1:46.05 (Annalise Ririe, Isabelle Ririe, Sadie Fletcher, Halle Weston)
4 x 400: Layton, 4:11.08 (Janaka Seegmiller, Carli Nelson, Brianna Brown, Anna Ward)
4 x 800: Layton, 10:02.43 (Hailey Low, Reagan Wright, Carli Nelson, Emily Ormsby)
100 hurdles: Eden DeVries, Weber, 14.09
300 hurdles: Eden DeVries, Weber, 45.18
Long jump: Amare Harlan, Fremont, 19-04
High jump: Loryn Helgesen, Davis, 5-07
Shot put: Anastasia Witte, Layton, 36-08
Discus: Burklie Burton, Layton, 115-06
Javelin: Anastasia Witte, Layton, 90-07
Pole vault: Emily Conlin, Layton, 10-09
GIRLS TEAM SCORES
1. Layton, 169
2. Fremont, 129
3. Weber, 120
4. Davis, 108
5. Syracuse, 70
6. Farmington, 69
7. Clearfield, 31
BOYS INDIVIDUAL WINNERS
100 meters: D’Angelo Mayes, Syracuse, 10.95
200: D’Angelo Mayes, Syracuse, 22.26
400: Bode Jensen, Farmington, 50.65
800: Brandon Geckler, Davis, 1:56.98
1600: Andrew Harris, Weber, 4:20.13
3200: Jonny Reed, Davis, 9:27.46
4 x 100 relay: Layton, 43.44 (Detrik Reed, Elias Parkinson, Christian Perez, Teague Farr)
4 x 200: Layton, 1:29.87 (Detrik Reed, Teague Farr, Easton McMillan, Lance Martin)
4 x 400: Weber, 3:25.80 (Andrew Harris, Easton Martin, Nikolas Larsen, Dallin Minnoch)
4 x 800: Layton, 8:18.61 (Elias Nalder, Todd Koch, Dalin Holje, Davis Rydman)
110 hurdles: Joshua Hamblin, Weber, 15.19
300 hurdles: Joshua Hamblin, Weber, 39.52
Long jump: Christian Perez, Layton, 21-06
High jump: Cashe Bennett, Davis, 6-01
Shot put: Tyler Poole, Layton, 57-11
Discus: Tyler Poole, Layton, 184-11
Javelin: Brevin Hamblin, Syracuse, 184-03
Pole vault: Sam Price, Syracuse, 14-00
BOYS TEAM SCORES
1. Layton, 153.5
2. Davis, 142.5
3. Syracuse, 119
4. Weber, 98.5
5. Farmington, 73
6. Fremont, 66.5
7. Clearfield, 36
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