The meets, held in numerous sports, also include Marquette County west-end schools Ishpeming and Westwood, hence the “WIN” abbreviation.

The Negaunee girls were dominant, scoring 125 points to just 31 for Ishpeming and 17 for Westwood, while the Miners won a much closer boys meet with 76 points as the Hematites accumulated 67 and the Patriots had 14.

Negaunee girls coach Vickie Paupore was satisfied with her team’s performance.

“I think the girls did a fantastic job today,” she said. “I was really happy with a lot of the performances, particularly in field events.”

Negaunee’s Weston Yesney, right, crosses the finish line in the boys’ 200-meter dash at the WIN meet in high school track and field held at Miners Stadium in Negaunee on Tuesday. (Journal photo by Caden Sierra)

Paupore highlighted standout performances from Ashley Bell and Nori Korsman, who both were double winners in field events.

“We have some really speedy freshmen,” Paupore said. “Kiera Waterman had another great day in her sprint races.”

Miners boys coach Kyle Bell had similar sentiments in his meet.

“We had a pretty good meet,” he said. “Our sprinters and hurdlers did really well today.”

Including one relay win apiece, Negaunee’s Brady Mager and Kai Lacar accumulated seven wins between them, good for almost half their points — 35 in total.

Negaunee’s Kai Lacar sprints to the finish line in the anchor leg of the boys’ 400-meter relay to a nearly five-second victory at the WIN meet in high school track and field held at Miners Stadium in Negaunee on Tuesday. (Journal photo by Caden Sierra)

“We had a lot of kids step up, showing senior and junior leadership,” Bell said.

All eyes now turn to the highly anticipated Lions Meet hosted by Negaunee at Miners Stadium on Friday starting at 3 p.m.

Kingsford, Escanaba, Gwinn, Ishpeming, Westwood, Marquette, Menominee, Negaunee, Houghton and L’Anse high schools are all expected.

Here are more details from each meet:

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Miners girls nearly sweep

Negaunee chalked up four victories in five field events and three wins in four relays in their dominace of the girls meet. In fact, the Miners won 13 of the meet’s 17 events.

Korsman took the long jump with a leap of 16 feet, 0.5 of an inch in an all-Negaunee sweep of the event, then won the pole vault by clearing 8-feet and added a third victory in the 400-meter dash in 1 minutes, 6.95 seconds.

Bell won the discus by nearly 15 feet with a fling of 95-7.5 and took the shot put by not quite a foot with a heave of 29-8.

Waterman won the 100 in 13.14 seconds, just four-hundredths of a second ahead of Westwood’s Faith Spiroff, while the Negaunee freshman also took the 200 in 27.38, just about 1 3/4 seconds ahead of the rest of the field. Waterman added a third place in the long jump.

The Miners’ Sadie Rogers swept the hurdles, winning the 100 in 16.70 and 300 in 51.95, while teammate Marlee Plaxco won the 1,600 in 6:07.41.

In the relays, Plaxco was joined by Riley Conklin, Seere Helms-Gleason and Olivia Lunseth in taking the 3,200 in 11:07.83, while Rogers was joined by Macyn DellAngelo, Izzie Francisco and Kayleigh Manninen in taking the 400 relay in 54.16.

And Helms-Gleason and Lunseth were joined by Madison Pekrul and Halle Palomaki in winning the 1,600 relay in 4:46.70.

Ishpeming lone winner, Lola Korpi, doubled up with victories in the 800 in 2:28.52 — a 23-second victory — and 3,200 in 12:54.44.

Westwood got its wins from Spiroff in the high jump after she cleared 5-feet and in the 800 relay with Spiroff, Addie Halum, Lexi Olson and Paeton Pole, clocking 1:58.52.

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Negaunee boys edge Hematites

Negaunee won 10 events while Ishpeming won six as the Miners outpointed the Hematites by just nine points. The pole vault was not held.

For Negaunee, Mager won the 110 high hurdles in 15.86 seconds, the 300 hurdles in 42.01 — a more than two-second win — and the high jump after he cleared 5-10. He also joined teammates Derek McEachern, Michael Slawinski and Drew Juchemich in winning the 1,600 relay in 3:57.31.

Lacar sprinted to victories in the 100 in 11.42 seconds, 200 in 23.73 and ran with Miners Baron Heslip, Anthony Gleason and Wes Yesney to win the 400 relay in 47.68, a nearly five-second victory.

In addition, McEachern won the 400 in 58.68 and Simon Jaklin took the 3,200 in 11:41.96, an almost 45-second win.

Negaunee also won the 800 relay in 1:43.16 with Heslip, Gleason, Juchemich and McEachern.

Ishpeming’s Kemper Gearhart won the 800 in 2:21.87 and 1,600 in 5:10.95, while teammate Brayden Martin took the discus in 117-6.5 and shot put in 40-0.5. And the Hematites’ Tramon Gauthier won the long jump with a distance of 19-0.5.

Meanwhile, Ishpeming’s Grady Gauthier, Lou Nichols, Caden Luoma and Gearhart won the 3,200 relay in 9:25.33.

Caden Sierra can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 551. His email address is csierra@nmu.edu.