Named after long-time educator and coach in the Harrisburg School District, the Lowell Eaton relays were held on Friday. Eaton began coaching and teaching at Harrisburg in 1974-1975 and was the head boys basketball coach until 1978. He was also a long-time track and field coach at Harrisburg, winning several conference championships. He coached several state champion relay teams and individual champions. The annual Lowell Eaton Relays are held each spring at Harrisburg.

This year became special for the Harrisburg team, both boys and girls, as the teams swept the relays and took first place in both divisions for the first time in the 20 years the event has been held as the Eaton Relays.

“It was truly a team effort,” Harrisburg track coach Blake Logan said. “The boys had one first-place finish and the girls had two, but the boys scored in every event but hurdles, and the girls scored in all but the 1600-meter run. In both of those events, our main runners were injured.

“We really portrayed a team effort,” said Logan. “I’m really pleased with the effort our team is putting forth and how they are all buying into their role to help the team succeed.”

With 21 boys teams and 20 girls teams competing it was not an easy task to win without individuals finishing first. Even so, the Harrisburg boys scored 126 points to take first-place honors. The Fayette boys finished second with 113 points. Glasgow finished seventh with 40 points and New Franklin notched three points to finish 20th. On the girls’ side, Harrisburg won with 132.5 points while Glasgow finished eighth with 35. Fayette had 27 points to garner 11th place, and the New franklin girls finished 16th with 19 points.

Sophomore Kaydence Timbrook of Harrisburg finished third in the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.65 as New Franklin sophomore Faith Painter finished eighth by running the distance in 14.23 seconds.

In the 200-meter dash, Timbrook again paced area runners by finishing third with a time of 28.99 seconds. Her Harrisburg teammate, senior Isabella Mcmahan finished fifth with a time of 29.44. New Franklin’s Painter finished seventh with a time of 29.94.

The 400-meter dash featured four area girls in the top 10. Harrisburg senior Jessica Gardiner took fourth with a time of 1:04.90, followed by Glasgow juniors Malia Carmack and Hadley Sanders in fifth and sixth, with times of 1:05.81 and 1:06.48, respectively. Harrisburg freshman Abigail Rosson finished ninth with a 1:10.22 time.

In the 800-meter dash, senior Olivia Fischer of Harrisburg finished fifth with a time of 2:50.78 while New Franklin sophomore Carly Dorson ran the distance in 2:52.79 for a seventh-place finish. Dorson also finished sixth in the the1600-meter run with a time of 6:36.03. KatiJo Schaefer a senior from Glasgow finished 10th with a time of 6:43.69 in the event.

Harrisburg senior Baylie Combs finished second in the 3200-meter run with a time of 13:29.58 as her teammate freshman Emma Fischer finished fourth with a time of 14:07.22. Rounding out the local finishers in the event was Glasgow senior KatiJo Schaefer finishing sixth with a time of 14:21.48.

Harrisburg junior Elisa Arrighi finished first in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 17.83, while Fayette sophomore Preslee Sunderland finished fifth with a time of 18.99.

In the 300-meter hurdles, Glasgow senior Hadley Sanders placed second with a time of 52.62 seconds. Sunderland finished seventh for Fayette with a time of 56.96, followed in eighth place by Harrisburg’s Elisa Arrighi and New Franklin sophomore Larissa Starke in ninth with a time of 59.32.

Area girls also had a strong showing in the relay races as Harrisburg finished second in the 4x100-meter, 4x200-meter, and 4x800-meter races as well as fourth in the 4x400. The Glasgow girls finished fifth in the 4x800 and sixth in the 4x200. Fayette finished fifth in the 4x100-meter relay.

In the girls' field events, Harrisburg sophomore Carli Ellis took the high jump event with a leap of 1.25 meters followed in second place by New Franklin sophomore Emma Rice. New Franklin junior Dakota Clark finished ninth jumping 1.23 meters.

The long jump finals found Harrisburg’s Arrighi in second with a jump of 4.59 meters while Glasgow’s Malia Carmack had a distance of 4.29 to finish seventh. Carmack also finished second in the triple jump with a distance of 9.77 meters, followed by Harrisburg sophomores Brecca Thornhill in fourth with a distance of 9.48 and Carli Ellis in seventh with a 9.15 mark.

The Fischer sisters, freshman Emma and senior Olivia, each finished with a height of 2.15 meters, in the pole vault. But Emma brought home the second-place finish while Olivia took fourth due to the number of attempts to reach the height. Fayette sophomore Leah Lembke reached a height of 1.85 to finish ninth.

In the discus event, Fayette junior Stephanie Nelson finished third with a total of 26.22 meters followed in fourth place by Harrisburg junior Jessica Gardiner and New Franklin senior Kayce Hundley in ninth and sophomore Kelsi Fair in 10th.

In the javelin throw, New Franklin’s Emma Fischer took second place and Fayette’s Stephanie Nelson finished eighth.

Fayette senior Branna Estes took first place in the shot put with a throw of 10.38. Harrisburg sophomore  Lydia Eaton, finished fifth with a throw of 9.17. New Franklin garnered sixth and 10th-place finishes with sophomore Kelsi Fair’s 9.15 and senior Kayce Hundley’s 7.96, respectively.

On the boys’ side in the 100-meter dash, Fayette and Harrisburg teams took four of the top 10 spots. Fayette sophomore Chase Allen-Jackman took first with a time of 11.49 with Harrisburg senior Wyatt Robinson right behind with a time of 11.88. Fayette senior Dillan Lembke took fifth, running the distance in 11.95 seconds. Harrisburg junior Brayton Stephenson rounded out the top 10 with a time of 12.27. Allen-Jackman also took top honors in the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.83, as again four of the top 10 finishers were from Fayette or Harrisburg. Fayette senior Zach Henderson finished third in 24.21 seconds as Harrisburg senior took fifth with 24.39 and Harrisburg senior Austin Darwent ran the distance in 24.81 seconds to take ninth.

Finishing fourth in the 400-meter dash was Fayette sophomore Benjamin Wells with a time of 55.65. Harrisburg junior Jace Carr finished fifth with a time of 56.10. New Franklin junior Douglas Creason finished sixth in 56.31 seconds while Glasgow sophomore Ethan Martin ran an eighth-place time of 56.95. Rounding out the top 10 with a time of 58.67 was Harrisburg freshman Hunter Cole.

In the 800-meter run, Harrisburg sophomore Brayden Wyatt took third with a time of 2:16.09. New Franklin’s Creason finished ninth at 2:32.32 followed by Glasgow sophomore Edris Hamilton in tenth with a time of 2:33.77.

Hayven Samuels, a freshman from Harrisburg took third in the 1600-meter run with a time of 5:02.15 as his teammate sophomore Harley Whitaker took sixth, clocking in at 5:16.26.

In the 3200-meter run, Samuels again took third with a time of 11:10.98 and Whitaker took seventh with a time of 12:05.02. Glasgow freshman Preston Thies took eighth by finishing at 13:36.11.

Fayette junior Cale Hudson took sixth in the 110-meter hurdles in 19.23 seconds followed by Glasgow junior Christian DeWolfe in seventh with a time of 19.99. Harrisburg sophomore Josh Cochran ran ninth with a time of 20.39.

In the 300-meter hurdles, Glasgow senior Trevor Sanders finished second by a matter of 53 seconds as Cale Hudson finished seventh with a time of 48.40.

The 4x100 and 4x200-meter relays were won by Fayette which also finished fifth in the 4x400 and seventh in the 4x800-meter relays. Harrisburg relay teams finished third in the 4x100, 4x200, 4x800-meter relays as well as fourth in the 4x400. Glasgow finished fourth, sixth, seventh, and ninth in the 4x200, 4x800, 4x400, and 4x100, respectively, while New Franklin finished ninth in the 4x200.

Harrisburg senior Kevin Raines finished seventh in the high jump with a jump of 1.54 meters while junior teammate Jace Carr finished second in the long jump with a distance of 5.80 meters. Fayette’s Allen-Jackman finished sixth with a jump of 5.49 meters. Senior Wyatt Robinson of Harrisburg wound up in seventh place with a leap of 5.48.

Glasgow senior Trevor Sanders took first in the triple jump totaling 11.92 meters. Harrisburg senior Wyatt Robinson jumped 11.61 to take fourth and Fayette junior Garren Vroman put up 11.28 to finish seventh.

In the pole vault, Fayette senior Dillan Lembke cleared 3.67 meters to take first while Harrisburg sophomore Anthony Alicea made it over 2.76 to take fourth. Glasgow senior Mason Gouge finished sixth by also clearing 2.76 meters but had more misses than Alicea.

In the discus, area throwers took first through fourth with two of those finishes belonging to Harrisburg juniors.

Fayette senior Josh Henderson finished first with a toss of 49.09 meters followed by Harrisburg’s Brayton Stephenson with a throw of 36.30, and his classmate Austyn Furlong with 33.83. Glasgow sophomore Alan Westhues rounded out the top four with a throw of 32.65.

Fayette senior Zach Henderson battled slick conditions, as did the rest of the field, to compete in the javelin throw. Henderson was able to overcome as he set a meet record with a throw of 46.65. Harrisburg junior Tanner Fike finished second with a throw of 39.32 while Kevin Raines finished fourth with a throw of 32.32 Fayette senior Logan Wiswall finished fifth, throwing 31.70.

In the shot put, Harrisburg and Fayette again took four of the top ten spots as Harrisburg junior Brayton Stephenson took top honors with a put of 15.26 while his classmate Tanner Fike took fourth place with an effort of 12.83. Fayette’s Josh Henderson took second place with a throw of 14.04 as Fayette sophomore Wesley Miner finished tenth with a toss of 10.37.