MARQUETTE — The Marquette track and field teams definitely made use of their home advantage Tuesday at the Marquette Invitational.

Both the Redmen and Redettes won their five-team meets as each finished with 124 points. Gladstone was just 12 points behind the Redmen in second place, while Houghton (94 points) and Negaunee (91.5) took second and third, respectively, on the girls side.

In the boys meet, Marquette won three of the four relays with Iron Mountain taking the 400.

Raffy Millado and Mathurin Gagnon led the Redmen as each won two events. Millado took first in the high jump and long jump, while Gagnon won the 800- and 1,600-meter runs. Julien Malherbe (400) and Hogan Nemetz (3,200) also won for the Redmen.

Gladstone won four events, three of them coming from Calvin Thibault (110 hurdles, 300 hurdles, 200) and the other from Blake Servant (discus).

Negaunee earned three victories with two of them being in the field events with Michael Dellangelo (shot put) and Tanner Cain (pole vault) coming out on top and Drew DuShane winning the 100.

In the girls meet, the Redettes swept all four relays and both Delaney Sall and Spenser Waite won two individual events. Sall finished first in the 400 and 800, while Waite earned wins in the 100 and 200.

The Miners had a big day individually with Chloe Norman shining both on the track and in the field. She won the 100 hurdles and 300 hurdles as well as the high jump and long jump. Other Negaunee champions included Emily Paupore (3,200), Abbie Tollefson (discus) and Leah McCracken (shot put).

Houghton won two individual events as Anabel Needham took first in the 1,600 and Lilly Baker won the pole vault.

Information compiled by Journal Sports Writer Ryan Stieg. His email address is rstieg@miningjournal.net.