For those feats, they were also named the Outstanding Performers of the meet, according to Miners’ girls track coach Vickie Paupore.

Rogers was a winner in three events as Negaunee won the girls meet by almost a full hundred points, scoring 202 to runner-up Marquette’s 103 as Gladstone had 67.

Westwood finished sixth with 23 points and Gwinn was 10th with 2.

Meanwhile, in the boys meet, MacPhee had a hand in four victories as the Sentinels were even more dominant in winning with 213 points.

Marquette's Jacob MacPhee, left, takes off after the handoff from teammate Lucas Ballard to run the anchor leg of the boys’ 1,600-meter relay at the Negaunee Lions Invitational high school track and field meet held at Miners’ Stadium in Negaunee on Friday. This Sentinels quartet, which also included Ford Richardson and Evan Balko, not only won the event by more than 16 seconds in 3:28.01, but broke the meet record of 3:36.67 set by the Sentinels in 2024 by more than 8 1/2 seconds. (Photo courtesy Cara Kamps)

Kingsford was a distant runner-up with 82, while Negaunee came in third with 66. Westwood was eighth with 9 points as Gwinn was 10th with 4.

Paupore reported there were up to nine meet records broken in the boys meet and one on the girls side.

Marquette County teams will be at the aptly named Marquette County Meet at Ishpeming at 3:30 p.m. today, while MHSAA Upper Peninsula regional meets are scheduled for later this week.

Negaunee and Westwood are scheduled for a Division 1 regional at Houghton on Thursday, while Marquette and Manistique will be at a D-1 regional at Escanaba on Friday.

In Division 2, Gwinn and Ishpeming will be at a regional at West Iron County on Wednesday, while Munising’s regional at Pickford isn’t until Friday.

And in Division 3, Superior Central will be at Rapid River on Wednesday, Newberry at St. Ignace also Wednesday, and Republic-Michigamme, Baraga and L’Anse will be at Baraga on Thursday.

Here are details from each Lions Invite meet:

Rogers leads Miners girls

Rogers swept the hurdles events, the 100- and 300-meter, while also running a leg of the Miners’ winning 400 relay.

“I was extremely proud of my team’s effort,” Paupore said in emailed comments. “The girls are really starting to compete with confidence and are making great improvements every day.

“We have had some significant contributions from our sprinters and throwers. They managed to sweep the podium in the 100 dash, the shot put and the discus. Our 400 relay team … has been very dominant this season. They set the school record on Tuesday and broke the Lions meet record (Friday).”

She had some good competition for top girls performer as Marquette’s Ella Fure also had a hand in three victories — the 1,600 and legs of the 1,600 and 3,200 relays. And she was also second by 0.65 of a second to Negaunee’s Keira Waterman in the 800.

However, the depth that the Miners girls always seems to have shone through again. Negaunee pulled off a 1-2-3 sweep of both the discus and shot put, Baylie Bourdeau winning discus and Izzy Niemi taking the shot put. Niemi won her event by one inch over teammate Priya Morey.

In addition to her win in the 800, Waterman also ran a leg of the triumphant 400 relay and lost the long jump by just three inches to teammate Nori Korsman.

Also for Negaunee, Elvera Coyne won the 100 and was in a four-way tie for the top height cleared in the high jump before settling for a tie for third based on tiebreakers.

The Miners’ Macyn DellAngelo ran a leg in the winning 400 relay and lost the 100 by one-hundredth of a second to Coyne, and Korsman not only won the long jump but was second in the pole vault by two inches.

Also for Negaunee, Izzy Francisco ran a leg in the winning 400 relay.

Marquette had a good number of winners as the Sentinels won the three longest relays even while only winning one individual event.

MSHS did have another close call, however, in addition to Fure in the 800 as Maija Maki-Warne was second in the 1,600 by 0.37 of a second.

She and Chloe Miller joined Fure in both of Marquette’s victorious 1,600 and 3,200 relays, as they also had Evelyn Grant in the 3,200 relay and Adeleigh Riutta in the 1,600 relay.

The winning 800 relay was composed of the Sentinels’ Kiera Daugherty, Aubree Blackburn, Grace Filizetti and Taylen Todd.

Westwood’s Lexi Olson won the pole vault, edging out Korsman, and shared the victory with Gladstone’s Kristy Karl in the high jump as that pair won tiebreakers over two other competitors after all four cleared 4 feet, 10 inches.

The Patriots’ Addelyn Hallum was fifth in the 200 and 400, while teammate Elizabeth King was seventh in the discus.

For Gwinn, Lexi Tadgerson was fifth in the shot put and Adeline Derwin eighth in the discus.

MacPhee sprints to victory

MacPhee, a star on the basketball court in the winter, showed how he can get up and down that court quickly with victories in the 200 and 400 dashes, along with running legs on the Sentinels’ winning 800 and 1,600 relays.

Marquette won three of the four relays and had a 1-2-3 sweep in three events — Beepsee Teeple led the sweep in the 800, James Barch in the 1,600 and Lucas Ballard in the 3,200. Ballard also ran with the Sentinels’ victorious 1,600 relay.

In addition, Pierce Pittsley led an MSHS 1-2 sweep of the 100, while he also ran with the 400 and 800 relay winners.

Teammate Ford Richardson also picked up a trio of triumphs, running with the 400, 800 and 1,600 relay winners, while Kyler Sager took the long jump and ran on the 400 relay.

In addition for Marquette, Drew Bradley ran on the winning 400 relay, Oliver Kudej on the 800 relay and Evan Balko on the 3,200 relay.

And teammate Jacob Norman missed victory in the 110 hurdles by 0.03 of a second.

He was beaten out by Negaunee’s lone winner, Brady Mager, who actually swept the hurdles as he also won the 300 hurdles. And Mager was second in the high jump, losing on a tiebreaker to Menominee’s Darrent Butler as both cleared 6-2.

Westwood’s Louis Salmi was fourth in the pole vault and seventh in the long jump, while teammate Trenton Wash was fifth in the high jump — he was actually in a four-way tie for third before tiebreakers were applied — and eighth in the 110 hurdles.

And the Patriots’ Karten Scherer was sixth in the 300 hurdles and eighth in the 100.

From Gwinn, Mason Beauchamp was fourth in the shot put and eighth in the discus, while Rylee Jones was seventh in the pole vault and Eloi Lopez ninth in the 3,200.

Box score:

Negaunee Lions Invitational

Friday at Negaunee

GIRLS

Team scores — 1. Negaunee 202, 2. Marquette 103, 3. Gladstone 67, 4. Houghton 49.5, 5. Kingsford 27, 6. Westwood 23, 7. Menominee 22, 8. Escanaba 21, 9. Iron Mountain 6.5, 10. Gwinn 2

Event winners:

3,200-meter relay — Marquette (Grant, Maki-Warne, Fure, Miller) 9:54.96 (meet record)

100 hurdles — Sadie Rogers (N) 16.38

100 dash — Elvera Coyne (N) 13.15

800 relay — Marquette (Daugherty, Blackburn, Filizetti, Todd) 1:53.65

1,600 run — Ella Fure (MQT) 5:26.46

400 relay — Negaunee (DellAngelo, Rogers, Francisco, Waterman) 52.15

400 dash — Ella Bracket (GLD) 1:02.17

300 low hurdles — Rogers (N) 48.83

800 run — Keira Waterman (N) 2:26.22

200 dash — Bracket (GLD) 27.12

3,200 run — Alisha Mabie (E) 12:06.04

1,600 relay — Marquette (Miller, Maki-Warne, Riutta, Fure) 4:21.36

Discus — Baylie Bourdeau (N) 95-4

Shot put — Izzy Niemi (N) 29-8

Pole vault — Lexi Olson (W) 9-8

High jump — Olson (W) 4-10

Long jump — Nori Korsman (N) 15-9

BOYS

Team scores — 1. Marquette 213, 2. Kingsford 82, 3. Negaunee 66, 4. Menominee 46, 5. Houghton 43, 6. Gladstone 38, 7. Iron Mountain 14, 8. Westwood 9, 9. Escanaba 8, 10. Gwinn 4

Event winners:

3,200-meter relay — Houghton (Hemmer, Seagren, Van Karsen, Hill) 8:34.88

110 hurdles — Brady Mager (N) 15.87

100 dash — Pierce Pittsley (MQT) 11.11

800 relay — Marquette (Pittsley, Richardson, Kudej, MacPhee) 1:31.36

1,600 run — James Barch (MQT) 4:22.53 (meet record)

400 relay — Marquette (Pittsley, Bradley, Richardson, Sager) 43.46 (meet record)

400 dash — Jacob MacPhee (MQT) 50.27

300 low hurdles — Mager (N) 40.65 (meet record)

800 run — Beepsee Teeple (MQT) 2:03.67

200 dash — MacPhee (MQT) 22.71

3,200 run — Lucas Ballard (MQT) 9:51.71

1,600 relay — Marquette (Richardson, Balko, Ballard, MacPhee) 3:28.01 (meet record)

Discus — Michael Solena (H) 130-9

Shot put — Bryce Davis (IM) 44-10

Pole vault — Andrew Karl (GLD) 14-3 (meet record)

High jump — Darrent Butler (MEN) 6-2

Long jump — Kyler Sager (MQT) 22-6.5 (meet record)

Story contents based on email received from Negaunee High School girls head track coach Vickie Paupore and information from Superior Timing at superiortiming.com. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee’s email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.