LAWRENCE — A select group of Humboldt High School track athletes competed Friday and Saturday in one of the most prestigious competitions in the Midwest.
Humboldt’s Tanner McNutt gathered a sixth-place finish in the boys long jump with a distance of 21 feet, 8 inches; a ninth-place finish in the 400-meter dash at 50.56 seconds; and 11th in the 800-meter run at 1 minute, 59.18 seconds.
Sam Aguirre, meanwhile, finished 28th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 16.35 seconds and 31st in the 300-meter hurdles, finishing in 43.32 seconds.
Humboldt’s 4×400-meter relay team of McNutt, Aguirre, Ethan Bartlett and Hayden Boring combined to finish 30th in the preliminaries with a time of 3:37.57.
The 4×100-meter relay team of Bryce Isaac, Bartlett, Boring and Aguirre was disqualified because of an exchange violation.
Boring, Isaac, Aguirre and Bartlett ran in the Sunflower Showdown 4×400, a competition among the top eight teams in the state that did not qualify for the finals of the regular relay race. Their time of 3:46.18 was good for eighth.
Humboldt track team competes at KU
