By Rick Peterson
TopSports.news
Seaman's Ryin Miller and Aaron Merritt and Washburn Rural's Josh Sulzen-Watson combined for four individual victories in the 101st Kansas Relays track and field championships, which wrapped up Saturday in Lawrence.
Seaman sophomore Ryin Miller won the girls 1,600 and 3,200 meters in the 101st Kansas Relays. [File photo/TSN]
Miller, a sophomore, was a double champion, winning the girls 3,200 in 10 minutes, 13.97 seconds and taking the 1,600 in 4:53.74.
Salina Central's Katelyn Rupe finished second to Miller in the 3,200 in 10:17.40 while Gwyn Meyers of Bishop Kelley was the runnerup in the 1,600 in 4:56.62.
Seaman senior Aaron Merritt (middle) won the boys 100-meter dash Saturday in the Kansas Relays. [File photo/TopSports.news]
Merritt, a senior, won the championship in the boys 100-meter dash in 10.52 seconds, while Robert Collins of Staley, Mo. finished second in 10.56.
Merritt also posted a third-place finish in the 110 high hurdles in 14.35.
Sulzen-Watson, a senior, won the boys javelin event with a top toss of 195 feet, 7 inches on his fifth of six throws in the competition.
Joe Loughman of St. Thomas Aquinas finished second to Sulzen-Watson at 189-11.
Other area highlights:
• Topeka West junior Alesecio Batson placed third in the boys triple jump with a top jump of 45-103/4. Reece Grosserode of Lincoln Pius X won the event at 47-13/4.
• Washburn Rural's foursome of Payton Fink, Emily Graf, Rylee Ismert and Kenzie Maddox placed fourth in the girls distance medley relay in 12:37.72.
• Shawnee Heights senior distance star Jackson Esquibel finished fifth in the boys 3,200 in a time of 9 minutes, 13.85.
• Former Hayden multi-time state champion Jake Muller, now a freshman at Washburn University, teamed with Tyler Mooney, Jeremy Garcia and Jacob Herr to win the men's 4x400m relay team in a time of 3:18.45.
Washburn freshman Ta'Mijha Nichols finished second at the Kansas Relays in the women's 100-meter dash, clocking a time of 11.78 seconds. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
• Former Shawnee Heights star Ta'Mijha Nichols, a Washburn University freshman, finished second in the women's 100-meter dash with a personal-best and an NCAA provisional mark of 11.78.
• Silver Lake product Wyatt Heiman took fifth for Washburn in the men's 200 in a time of 21.70.
• Former Highland Park state champion Tre Richardson, competing unattached, finished fifth in the men's triple jump with a best jump of 47 feet, 5.50 inches on Friday and came back to finish third in the long jump on Saturday with a jump of 23-10.50.
