Harrisburg finished 13 points in front of runner-up Westran with a winning score of 111 to win the boys’ competition at the Falcon Relays held Thursday afternoon at Central Methodist University’s Davis Field.

Fayette and Glasgow finished fifth and sixth overall with 58.50 and 52 points, respectively, followed by New Franklin in 10th place with 30, and Higbee 11th with 22.50 points.

The Bulldogs picked up three top finishes, a pair of silver performances, three third-place postings, and a smattering of top-eight results to rack up the points.

Harrisburg’s 4x400-meter relay scored the first gold finish of the day. Trace Combs, Sam Katsaros, Caleb Sager, and Ike DeMuth won the event by more than a second with a time of 3:43.17.

Combs added a top finish in the high jump with a height of 1.87 meters. Jonathan Darwent won the shot put with a score of 14.02 meters to round out the top scorers.

Nash Sublett and Katsaros racked up points in the 110-meter hurdles, finishing second (17.18) and third (17.67), respectively. Katsaros also finished runner-up in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 44 seconds.

Caleb Sager added a third-place finish in the long jump with a distance of 15.51 meters, followed by Rylee Robinson with a third-place throw of 39.19 meters in the javelin competition.

The Bulldogs added seven more sixth through eighth-place finishes to move out of reach in team scoring.

The Fayette boys scored three medal finishes on the day, all by Carter Vroman. The junior won the discus (42.62m) and javelin (46.3m) events and placed second in the shot put (13.24m) for an overall outstanding day.

Following Vroman in the shot put was senior Jacob Wood with a seventh-place heave of 12.25 meters. Zane Spaeder placed fifth in the long jump (11.16m), and Adam Hayes finished sixth in the high jump (1.62m) to round out scoring in the field events.

Fayette scored a handful of points on the track as well. The Falcons’ 4x400-meter relay team placed fourth overall. George Sutton, Ky Cunningham, Landon Cunningham, and D’Andre Kioh posted a time of 3:59.15.

The 4x100-meter relay team (Micah Estes, Landon Ploof, Izak Van Niekirk, and Jan Bureros) placed sixth overall with a time of 52.31 seconds. Also in sixth was the 4x800-meter relay team. George Sutton, Ben Oeth, Jacob Rye, and Landon Cunningham finished the race in 9:49.30.

The boys’ 4x200-meter relay, composed of Ky Cunningham, Landon Ploof, Izak Van Niekirk, and Jan Bureros, placed eighth overall with a time of 1:49.05.

In individual races, Oeth finished fifth in the 300-meter hurdles (47.42), Rye placed sixth in the two-mile run (12:35.05), Landon Cunningham was seventh overall in the 800 meters (2:17.11), and Hampton placed eighth in the 200 meters (25.18).

The Glasgow boys posted four top-three finishes for the afternoon. Leading the way was the 4x800-meter relay team for the Jackets’ only top finish. Kyler Kottman, Seth Monnig, Zach Sayler, and Joshua Sayler won the event in 9:24.95.

Zach and Josh Sayler also finished second and third in the two-mile race with times of 11:17.81 and 11:31.57, respectively. Zach Sayler picked up third-place points in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:03.25 and finished fourth in the 800 meters with a time of 2:13.06.

The team’s final top-three finish came from Jackson Meyer, who posted a score of 39.66 meters in the discus throw.

Also scoring points in the field were Finn Johnson and Jaden DeMint. They finished seventh and eighth overall in the pole vault with heights of 3.34 meters and 3.04 meters, respectively. Johnson also placed fifth in the 100 meters with an overall time of 12.01 seconds.

Rounding out the point scorers was the 4x100-meter relay team. Britton Barringhaus, Finn Johnson, Parker Monnig, and Dillon Johnson finished fifth overall with a time of 50.58 seconds.

The New Franklin boys posted eight finishes in the points but came in no higher than fourth place overall.

“Any time we go to a meet like that, I try to stress to my athletes to focus more on how they perform against other schools our size,” said New Franklin coach Adam Quest. “Based on that measure, we had a good meet. Despite some cooler weather, we had numerous PRs set and had several top-five finishes. Overall, I was very pleased with how well we performed.”

The Bulldogs scored four fourth-place finishes overall. Maddox Thornton led the way in the field. He placed fourth in the discus (38.97m) and the javelin (36.97m).

Freshman Quincy Dorson set a new personal record in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:20.16.

Dorson, Xander McGruder, Cooper McGruder, and Mason McGruder knocked more than 10 seconds off their previous season record to finish fourth overall in the boys’ 4x800-meter relay with a time of 9:41.62.

Rounding out area boys’ teams was Higbee with seven finishes in the points. Aaron Welch scored the only top-three finish with a time of 24.47 seconds in the 200 meters for third. He also finished sixth in the high jump with a score of 1.62 meters.

Danny Janssen finished fourth overall in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 46.74 seconds. He also placed fourth in the 110-meter hurdles (20.59) and eighth in the triple jump (11.8 meters).

Two Tiger relay teams also finished in the points. Celton Crawford, Welch, Brayson Harlan, and Janssen scored a fifth-place finish in the 4x800-meter relay with a time of 9:49.16. Cale Nelson, Aiden Freidin, Xavier Gabing, and Gavin Snell posted a seventh-place time as the 4x100-meter team at 54.54 seconds.

Fayette, Glasgow, and New Franklin will all compete against one another again on Friday at the Lowell Eaton Relays hosted by Harrisburg.