Rebel middle school thinclads fifth in Greybull

By: 
Sam Smith

The Riverside Middle School track and field squad opened up the 2021 season at the Greybull Invitational Saturday.

The Lady Rebels placed fourth with a team score of 120 points, 12.5 points be hind Rocky and 15 points ahead of Greybull.

The Rebel boys placed sixth with a team score of 78.5 points, 9.5 points behind Meeteetse and 10.5 points ahead of Greybull.

The combined team placed fifth with 198.5 points. Burlington won the meet with 385 points. In individual results, Lady Rebel Vinaya Vanderploeg won the eighth- grade girls 100-meter dash, coming in at 13.9 seconds, the eighth-grade girls 200-meter dash, crossing the finish line in 29.46 seconds and the

100-meter hurdles, coming in at 17.74 seconds.

The eighth-grade girls 400-meter relay team won the event with a time of 56.42 seconds.

Lady Rebel seventh-grader Gracie Buck won the seventh-grade girls 100-meter dash, coming in at 14.43 seconds, the 200-meter dash, crossing the finish line in 30.58 seconds, and the long jump, leaping 13-4.

Lady Rebel hurdler won the seventh-grade girls 100-meter hurdles, coming in at 19.58 seconds.

In the boys division, Riverside seventh-grader Loomis Alexander won the high jump, clearing 4-9, and seventh-grader Andrew Sawyer won the shot

put, throwing 26-5.

The Rebel thinclads are scheduled to travel to the Lovell Invitational Saturday with events sched- uled to begin at 9:30 a.m.

HERE ARE THE RIVERSIDE RESULTS FROM SATURDAY’S MEET IN GREYBULL: EIGHTH GRADE GIRLS

100m dash – Vinaya Vanderploeg 1st,

13.9, Guadalupe Jimenez 9th, 15.27;

200m dash – Vanderploeg 1st, 29.46, Jimenez 6th, 31.4; 100m hurdles – Vanderploeg 1st, 17.74; long jump – Jimenez

4th, 11-5; 400m relay – 1st 56.42. Seventh- and sixth grade girls (top ten)

100m dash – Gracie Buck 1st, 14.43, Johnna Clifford 2nd, 14.74, Brooklyn Paxton 7th, 15.27; 200m dash – Buck

1st, 30.58; 100m hurdles – Paxton 1st,

19.58; long jump – Buck 1st 13-4, Clifford 2nd, 12-8; triple jump – Clifford 3rd,

26-11¾, Tatum Tippetts-Wyatt 9th, 22-0; discus – Varissa Olsen 2nd, 53-5.

EIGHTH GRADE BOYS (TOP TEN)

100m dash – Avery Clifford 6th, 13.93;

800m run – Hyson Hill 7th, 2:45.68;

1600m run – Hill 2nd 5:21.78, Wyatt Daly-Patterson 7th, 5:51.46; long jump – Clifford 2nd, 15-0; triple jump – Daly-Patterson 5th, 29-11; high jump – Clifford 4th, 4-10, Daly-Patterson 6th,

4-8; shot put – Levi Olsen 8th, 28-2; discus – Olsen 3rd, 85-2; 400m relay –

2nd 57.08. SEVENTH- AND SIXTH-GRADE BOYS (TOP TEN)

400m dash – Gavyn Cervantes 10th, 1:16.52; 800m run – Connor Hoyt 7th,

2:58.09, Loomis Alexander 8th, 3:03.81;

1600m run – Hoyt 6th, 5:59, Alexander

8th, 6:05.47; 100m hurdles – Kenneth McClure 10th, 22.08; high jump – Alexander 1st, 4-9; shot put – Andrew Sawyer 1st, 26-5; discus – Sawyer 8th,

64-6; 400m relay – 8th 1:11.93.

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