With high individual finishes in many events, the Washington-Liberty Generals came within two points of repeating as the girls team champion of the Bobcat Blizzard Invitational track and field meet.
The Generals finished second with 86.5 points. Colgan won the girls title of a kickoff event to winter indoor high-school competition with 88 in a meet hosted by Battlefield High School in Prince William County.
“The girls had a lot of fun and almost pulled off the repeat,” Washington-Liberty Generals coach John Bacon said.
The coach explained the outcome of the meet was determined with the 4x400 relay. If the third-place W-L team had run two seconds faster, the Generals would have placed second in the race and won the meet.
“The kids were fine with it. It was a polar-bear meet, so we spent a long day outside. But the weather was pretty good and it was a great way to kick off the indoor-track season,” Bacon said.
Washington-Liberty’s two individual champions were shot putter Amela Male with a throw of 33-91/2 and triple jumper Alena Topchy with a leap of 34-6.
Placing second was Alba Edall in the 1,600 meters and the 4x800 relay team.
In addition to the 4x400 relay, also third for W-L were Elizabeth Rupert in the shot, Ella Kaplan in the high jump and Therese Johansson in the 1,000.
Fourth were Male in the triple jump, Alexis Morley-Lascano in the pole vault and Morgan Brown in the 55 hurdles.
Sixth for the Generals were Kaplan in the 55 hurdles, Brown in the 300 dash and Thalia Lynch in the 55 dash.
Eighth were Male in the high jump, Topchy in the 55 hurdles and Sienna Williams in the 1,600.
Maya Kent was ninth in the 1,600, Male was ninth in the long jump, as was the 4x200 relay. Topchy was 11th in the long jump.
For the sixth-place Yorktown High girls team in the meet, Olivia Stafford won the 300 in 41.46, Sofia Sheldon was first in the 3,200 (11:17.56), Eleanor Whitehouse was second in the 3,200 and Ellen Malloy was fourth in the 3,200.
For the eighth-place Washington-Liberty boys in that meet, Caleb Toth was second in the high jump, Ian Crowley was third in the 55 hurdles and eighth in the triple jump, Michael Rupert was sixth in the 55 dash and Nico Docena was sixth in the 55 hurdles.
