GWINN — Gwinn picked up solid finishes of second and fourth places at an MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 2 high school track and field regional meet held at the Modeltowners’ track on Thursday.

Gwinn’s boys were a close runner-up, while the girls were fourth in the six-team field.

But this is the rare meet where team results weren’t as important as the individuals and relays who qualified for the MHSAA U.P. Finals in all divisions at Kingsford on Saturday, May 30.

In Divisions 1 and 2, the top four finishers in every event, both individual and relays, advance to Kingsford.

The Modeltowners scored 54 points in the boys meet to 58 for regional champion West Iron County. Ironwood was third with 32, Hancock had 25, Ewen-Trout Creek 10 and Jeffers 3.

In the girls meet, Gwinn scored 25 1/2 points as champion WIC also won that title, scoring 55 1/2. E-TC was second with 46 1/2 and Hancock had 33. Ironwood was fifth with 18 1/2 while Jeffers finished with 7.

Here are details from the meet:

Boys meet

Peyton Bell and Kingston Reynolds were triple winners as Gwinn won five events.

Bell took the 300-meter hurdles in 50.42 seconds, a win by 0.24 of a second, while Reynolds won the long jump with a leap of 18 feet, 10 inches.

The long jump had to be the closest event of the meet, with Reynolds and teammate Ean Prahm measuring out to the same distance, and a third Modeltowner, Gage Jones, measuring in just one inch less at 18-9.

Both Bell and Reynolds also ran with Gwinn’s victorious 400 relay in 47.52 seconds and 800 relay in 1:39.86.

Both relays had the same four runners — Bell and Reynolds were joined by Jones and Andrew Soules.

In addition, Rylee Jones won the pole vault by clearing 10-feet even.

The Modeltowners had another half-dozen runners-up, including in the other two relays. The 1,600 relay included Prahm, Rylee Jones, Kaden Weiland and John Green, while the 3,200 relay had Green, Quade Weiland, Kaden Weiland and Drake Sharkey.

Bell was second in the 110 hurdles, Reynolds runner-up in the 200, Quade Weiland second in the pole vault and Ashton Ketola runner-up in the discus.

Gage Jones finished third in the 100, the same as Quade Weiland in the 300 hurdles.

And Gwinn also got a fourth-place qualifier out of Green in both the 800 and 1,600.

Girls meet

The Modeltowners’ lone victory in this meet came in the 800 relay in 1:58.27 with Kadence Ruggerio, Paula Cadina Padilla, Makayla Delmont and Alayna Soyring.

Cadina Padilla, Delmont and Soyring joined Adeline Derwin as part of Gwinn’s runner-up 400 relay that clocked 55.67 seconds.

Also finishing second for Gwinn was Delmont in the 100, Derwin in the long jump and Alex Jakubowski in the 100 hurdles.

The Modeltowners had another handful of U.P. Finals qualifiers — Derwin was third in the discus and fourth in the shot put, Soyring was third in the 400, Delmont fourth in the 200 and Ruggerio fourth in the pole vault.

Ruggerio actually tied for second in her event, but a tiebreaker dropped her to fourth.

Story contents based on an examination of the Superior Timing website, www.superiortiming.com. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee’s email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.