Rex Kirchenstien runs the 4×100 for Tippecanoe Valley in a meet earlier this season. Kirchenstien had one of Valley’s top finishes at Tuesday’s Three Rivers Conference Championships. (File photo by Mike Deak)

THREE RIVERS CONFERENCE MEET
Tippecanoe Valley’s girls team placed seventh, while the Valley boys finished eighth at the TRC championships at Indiana Wesleyan Tuesday night.

Manchester’s girls won the meet title with a score of 134.66 ahead of Maconaquah’s 101.5 score, while Whitko was ninth with 22 points in the girls meet. Wabash took home the boys title with a 104.5, while Whitko placed fifth with 72 points in the boys’ standings.

Sophie Bussard finished third in the 400 meters (1:02.89) — where Valeria Jimenez was seventh (1:06.83) — and the Lady Vikings’ 4×400 relay team earned runner-up honors (4:30.20). Olivia Smith finished fifth in the high jump (4’6”), Sydney Wagner was sixth both in the pole vault (7’0”) and the long jump (14’ 2 3/4”). Gabby Olson finished seventh in the 100 hurdles (18.88) and eighth in the 300 hurdles (56.05), Maria Henderson finished eighth in the 3200 meters (14:49.85), and Taylor Biddle was eighth in the shot put (29’5”).

For Valley’s boys, Dawson Perkins and Justin Peconga placed second and third, respectively, in the high jump after both cleared 5’10”. Rex Kirkenstien finished second in the 200 meters (23.8), Brant Norris was fourth in the shot put (40’2”), and Alex Mikel finished sixth in the 400 (53.8). Peconga was eighth in the vault (9’0”), and Mitch Smith finished eighth in the 3200 meters (11:40.16).

For the meet-champion Lady Squires, Olivia Auler won the 100 meters (13.21) and was second in the 200 meters (27.57). Katie Barker won the 100 hurdles final (16.92) and placed third in the 300 hurdles (52.63), and Manchester won both the 400-meter relay (53.89) and the 3200-meter relay (10:51.05). Gabby Brewer won the long jump (15’1 1/4”) and tied for second in the high jump alongside teammate Sydney McLauglin (4’6”). Kailea Kerr was second in the 400 (1:02.89) and third in the 100 (13.59).

HOOSIER NORTH ATHLETIC CONFERENCE MEET
Triton’s girls won a trio of individual titles on the way to a fifth-place result at the Hoosier North Athletic Conference meet at LaVille Tuesday.

The Lady Trojans put up 63.5 points, while Winamac won the meet with a score of 124.5 — just half a point ahead of host LaVille.

Abigail Powell collected two of Triton’s three titles in the 100 hurdles (16.45) and the 300 hurdles (49.18). Makenna May won the pole vault (8’03”) for the Trojans’ third title, while Jaela Faulkner (8’03”) placed third in the event. Faulkner was also fifth in the 400 meters (1:07.76), while Annie Hill placed fourth in the high jump (4’08”), Abbey Viers was fourth in the discus (80’02”), and Triton’s 400-meter relay finished fifth in their event (57.89).