McKenzie Sports Report – April 3

McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week

The McKenzie Varsity Track and Field teams travel to St. Paul on Wednesday, April 2, to participate in the Buckaroo Round-Up. Field events start at 3:30 pm and the track events begin at 4:00 pm. The teams travel to Douglas High School, in Winston, on Saturday, April 5, to participate in the Petersen Memorial Invitational. Field events begin at 11:00 am and track events will start at 12:30 pm.

McKenzie Opens Track Season At Mapleton

Eagle Teams Place Fourth At Johnny Sundstrom Invitational

The McKenzie Boys and Girls Varsity Track and Field teams both placed fourth in their 2025 season opening meet. Mapleton High School hosted the Johnny Sundstrom Invitational on Wednesday, March 19 and welcomed teams from Central, Crow, Monroe, Jefferson, McKenzie and their own Sailor team from Mapleton. Jefferson won the Boys track meet with a score of 114 points, overcoming Monroe in second with 91 pts and Central in third with 78 points. McKenzie earned just one point less that Central, 77 points, to earn fourth place, while host Mapleton took fifth with 39 points and Crow finished sixth with 34 points. Jefferson also took home first place in the girl’s team competition, amassing 134 points to outpoint second place Monroe with 102 points. The Sailors of Mapleton finished with 78 points, good for third place followed by McKenzie in fourth with 63 points and Crow in fifth with 45 points.

Eagles At Johnny Sunstrom Invitational

McKenzie junior Allen Acevedo took first place in the 800 meters race at Mapleton, his first track and field win of the young 2025 season. Acevedo’s winning time was clocked at 2:23.16 minutes. Acevedo also finished second in the 100 meters race, finishing the distance in 12.06 seconds, just behind winner Ryan Perkins of Central, who posted a time of 11.90 second. Eagle freshman Liam Acevedo finished the 100 m. in 13.00 seconds, a seventh place time and he was followed by teammates, sophomore Auden Vailes in eighth place at 14.35 seconds and freshman Owen Young in thirteenth place with a time of 15.66 seconds. Liam Acevedo took second place home in the 200 meters, running a personal record time of 27.60 seconds and sophomore teammate William Valtinson followed in fifth place, running a time of 31.19 seconds. Adrian Hernandez of Jefferson won the 200 meters in 26.85 sec. In the 400-meter race, McKenzie freshman Avery Thoms posted a fourth place time of 1:12.00 minutes. Monroe’s Aiden Koroush won the 400 meters race in 1:03.00 minutes. Eagle junior Will Meister placed second in the 1500 meters with a time of 5:04.10 minutes behind the winning time of 4:10.69 minutes ran by Ty Cirino of Central. Cirino also took first in the 3000 meters race and Meister finished that distance in sixth place with a time of 11:21.00 minutes. The 110 m. Hurdles were won by Jefferson senior Andrew Keena in a posted time of 19.75 seconds. McKenzie sophomore Rhys Hamlow took second in 21.50 seconds, a new personal record. Ryan Burgett of Central won the 300 m. Hurdles in 42.69 seconds and the foursome won the 4×100 Relay race from Jefferson in 49.99 seconds. The Eagles of McKenzie won the 4×400 Relay in a time of 4:16.23 minutes. That foursome consisted of Allen Acevedo, Will Meister, Elijah Walline, and Liam Acevedo. In the shot put, Eagle junior Jacob Peek threw the implement 29 ft. 9 inches, which earned him seventh place. Teammate, sophomore Hayden Kumle finished fifteenth with a throw of 23 ft. 4 in. Gabriel Haines of Central won the shot put with a toss of 51 ft. 3 inches. Haines also won the discus event with a throw 138 ft. 10 inches and Peek took home seventh with a marked throw of 83 ft. 9 inches. Crow’s Cayden Hernandez won the javelin with a throw of 124 ft. 0 in. Peek’s throw of 74 ft. 1 inch placed him tenth. Kumle finished twelfth at 67 ft. 2 in. and Owen Young took thirteenth at 62 ft. 0 in. Hamlow finished third in the high jump, clearing the bar set at 4 ft. 10 in. Jefferson’s Andrew Keena cleared 5 ft. 10 in to win that event. Hamlow also finished third in the long jump, leaping 15 ft. 3 in. Young placed ninth with a jump of 13 ft. 0 in and Vailes was tenth at 12 ft. 4.5 in. Ryan Perkins of Central won the long jump with a mark of 19 ft. 0.5 in. Jefferson’s Angel Romo won the triple jump with a mark measured at 37 ft. 6.25 in. and the Eagle’s Young finished third at 27 ft. 8 in. Over on the Girls side of the track meet, Eagle freshman Claire Weiss brought home a second place finish in the 400 meters race with a time of 1:09.34 minutes. Winning that race was Monroe’s Miley Richardson, who finished in 1:07.69 min. McKenzie sophomore Liliana Jones ran 14.93 seconds in the 100 meters race, which earned her a fourth place finish. Teammate freshman Courtney Garrelts finished fourteenth in 18.66 seconds and Aliya Saad of Jefferson posted the winning 100 m. time of 14.25 seconds. Saad’s teammate, Kyana Kendell won the 200 meters race in a time of 31.66 seconds. And Jefferson’s Gretchen Orton finished first in the 800 meters race. McKenzie freshman, Zyla Drake, finished the 800 meters in third place with a time of 3:17.10 minutes, followed by junior Myra Dion in fourth place at 3:19.09 minutes. Monroe’s Richardson won the 1500 meters and Drake took another third place with a time of 6:31.00 minutes. Mapleton’s Lucie Burruss won the 3000 meters in 13:21.88 minutes. Jefferson’s Saad took a first in the 100 m. Hurdles, posting a time of 20.44 seconds and Mapleton’s Brooklyn Beecher took top honors in the 300 m. Hurdles with a winning time of 1:04.06 minutes. McKenzie in third place at 1:04.12 min followed the 4×100 Relay was won by Jefferson in 56.85 seconds and the foursome. The Eagle foursome in the 4×100 relay was Liliana Jones, Beckah Short, Zyla Drake, and Claire Weiss. The winning foursome from Jefferson won the 4×400 m. relay in a time of 5:23.00 minutes. In the girls field events, the shot put was won by Monroe’s Audrey Young, who threw the shot 29 ft. 8 in. The Eagle’s senior Beckah Short, finished the shot put in tenth place with a throw of 18 ft. 1 in. Feirin McConnell of Crow easily outdistance the field in the discus event, finishing with a winnng throw of 87 ft. 1 in, a personal record and longer than Monroe’s Young, who threw the second place mark of 72 ft. 7 in. McKenzie’s Dion finished fourth in the javelin with a throw of 58 ft. 8 in and that event was won by McConnell of Crow with a personal record mark of 91 ft. 10.5 in. Eagle Weiss jumped 4 ft. 2 in., in the high jump for a second place finish behind winner Kyana Kendell of Jefferson, who cleared 4 ft. 4 in. Richardson of Monroe jumped a personal record 14 ft. 4 inches in the long jump and McKenzie’s Jones took home a second place with a jump of 12 ft. 9 in. Eagles Weiss finished sixth at 10 ft. 8 in., Short finished eighth at 9 ft. 7 in., and Garrelts took tenth at 8 ft. 7.5 in. The triple jump event was won by Mapleton’s Kaylee Lynn Campbell, who hop-skipped-jumped 26 ft. 1 in. Weiss finished third at 23 ft. 7 in., and Short was fourth at 22 ft. 11 in.