Emerging this spring as a force with which to be reckoned, senior Gabriel Archuleta launched the discus an outstanding 147 feet, five inches to place first and pace Bayfield’s boys to a sixth-place showing Saturday at the 43rd annual Glenwood Springs Demon Invitational.
Archuleta winged the winner on his sixth and last attempt as he bettered Rifle senior Troy Mataia’s 145-foot best.
Known for his sprinting in soccer, sophomore Ayden Casillas finished second in the 100-meter dash with his time of 11.27 seconds – faster than his 11.60 in the event’s heat stage – trailing only GSHS senior Joaquin Sandoval’s 10.88, and freshman Tanner Neeley also earned a runner-up result with his 5-11 (Steamboat Springs junior Brandon Kolb cleared 6-1) high jump.
All told, the Wolverines earned 34 team points and trailed only Cedaredge (46), GSHS (58), Rifle (73), SSHS (97) and Gypsum Eagle Valley (136.5) when all was said and done at Stubler Memorial Field.
Senior Tristan Sager placed third for Bayfield in the 1600, clocking 5:05.53, and senior Sean Zimmerman ran a sixth-place 54.82 in the 400. Casillas (56.07) finished ninth in the same race, and Archuleta placed ninth in the shot put (39-11.5).
He’d placed fifth (43-3) in Grand Junction the previous morning at the Fruita Monument-hosted Phil Wertman Invitational. In the discus competition his 143-foot maximum was good enough for third place as BHS, aided by Neeley’s third-place 6-1 high jump and Casillas’ third-place 23.21 in the 200, tallied 30 points and placed tenth out of 17.
GJHS piled up 127 points and easily outdistanced second-place Moffat County (76) and third-place FMHS (74).
Eagle Valley also captured the title on the girls’ side of things in Glenwood Springs, racking up 117 points and bettering second-place Cedaredge’s 90. Bayfield scored 13 points and ended up 15th out of 16 scoring squads.
Freshman Vivien Clance led the way for the Lady Wolverines, finishing third in the 100 (13.69) and fourth in the 400 (1:05.48). She and sophomore Wrenalee Moore ended up 5-6 in the long jump, flying 14-4.5 and 14-1.25 respectively in registering the squad’s only other top-ten results.
At the Wertman, Bayfield’s girls managed just eight points – thanks to a fifth-place 1:56.96 in the 800 relay, a seventh-place 4:37.57 in the 1600 relay, and Clance’s seventh-place 13.39 in the 100 and finished 15th out of 17 teams. The hosting Lady Wildcats tallied a meet-winning 103 points in edging Cedaredge (97) and Grand Junction (91).
HISTORY MADE: Breaking an all-classification record on CHSAA’s books since 1991, De Beque senior Scottie Vines cleared the bar set 7 feet, 4.25 inches above the ground – bettering former Buena Vista star and 2004 Olympian Matt Hemingway’s 7-4 by a quarter-inch. Vines is listed on Dragon Basketball’s MaxPreps webpage as standing 6’3,” meaning the University of Colorado recruit (four inches shorter in stature than Hemingway) actually scaled himself by more than a foot.
