Marquette’s Jordyn Anthony, center, crosses the finish line to win just ahead of Negaunee’s Kiera Waterman, left, in the 200-meter dash on April 21 during a Tuesdays in Marquette track exhibition held at the Sentinels track. (Photo courtesy Cara Kamps)

MANISTIQUE — Marquette just missed a sweep of an MSHAA Upper Peninsula Division 1 regional track meet in Manistique on Wednesday.

But that wasn’t so bad as the main purpose of the meet was to qualify athletes for the MHSAA U.P. Finals in Kingsford in all divisions on Saturday, May 30.

Top-four finishers in all events at this meet advance to Kingsford, so a one-point loss wasn’t so terrible for the Sentinels boys, who scored 57 points to winner Sault Ste. Marie’s 58.

Gladstone was third with 31, followed by Escanaba with 17, Menominee 16 and the host Emeralds 8.

It was a bit more clear cut for Marquette in the girls meet, MSHS winning with 64 as runner-up Gladstone had 42. Manistique was a solid third with 37, while the Soo had 31, Escanaba 8 and Menominee 5.

Here are details from these meets:

Girls meet

The Sentinels won eight events, led by Jordyn Anthony, Ella Fure and Taylen Todd each accounting for the most.

Anthony won four events, taking the 100-meter dash in 12.89 seconds and the 200 in 26.34, while Todd had a hand in three, winning the long jump with a leap of 16 feet, 5 inches.

Both Anthony and Todd also ran legs of Marquette’s two winning relays, the 400 in 52.69 and 800 in 1:51.74.

The same four girls were part of both relays, which also included Kiera Daugherty and Eva Nystrom.

Fure, meanwhile, had to spend just about 20 minutes on the track to sweep the three longest runs — she won the 800 in 2:28.76, the 1,600 in 5:36.68 and 3,200 in 11:56.38, the last event by more than 40 seconds.

The Sentinels had a runner-up, too, Daugherty finishing second in the 400, while adding in seven third-place finishes, including the 3,200 relay team of Fure, Alana Figler, Emmalyn Verardi and Ana Cantway.

Thirds were also taken by MSHS’ Emma Ziegler three times, in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200. Then throw in that same place for teammates Lilly Demeuse in the 100 hurdles, Chloe Jackson in the 300 hurdles and Lillian Croley in the discus.

While Manistique only had one athlete win any event — that was Gwen Brewster sweeping the discus with a toss of 85-4 and shot put with a heave of 32-8 — the Emeralds rolled up a whole bunch of second-place finishes.

That included three of the relays. The quartet of Harper Andersen, Kendyl Flodin, Alexandria Scheffer and Aaliyah Sears did that in both the 400 and 800 relays, while a foursome of Leah Joslin, Maya Carlson, Olivia Tiglas and Kyra Carlson turned the trick in the 1,600 relay.

Joslin was also runner-up in the 100 hurdles and 300 hurdles, while Scheffer was second in the long jump and Kyra Carlson second in the pole vault.

Turning in thirds were Sears in the 100 and Kyra Carlson in the 400.

Boys meet

All that stood in the way of the Sentinels’ Ford Richardson being a four-time winner was 0.18 of a second.

That’s because he did chalk up two wins — in the 200 in 22.60 seconds and the 300 hurdles in 43.30 — but he lost two other sprints by nine-hundredths of a second in each one.

He was second with a time of 11.13 seconds in the 100 to Gladstone’s Vince DeAgostino, then clocked in 52.33 in the 400 to lose to the Soo’s Ian Southwell.

Marquette also had Jacob Norman as a double winner, taking the 110 hurdles in 15.82 and running as part of the victorious 400 relay in 45.93, joining James Goodwin, Sam Reissner and Oliver Kudej.

The Sentinels’ fifth victory came in the 800 as Lucas Ballard came in at 2:02.82.

Marquette had three other second places besides Richardson, including the 3,200 relay unit of Garrett Crimmins, Connor Dunn, Carson Wernholm and William Lindsay.

There were also runners-up Ballard in the 1,600 — by just 0.69 of a second to the winner — and teammate Rorik Holmquist in the 3,200.

Taking third was the 800 relay of Reissner, Goodwin, Kudej and Charles Hrodey; Ballard in the 3,200; Holmquist in the 800; Beepsee Teeple in the long jump; and Welly Fillmore in the 1,600.

Manistique gathered up all its points from one athlete. Sam Moose won the shot put by four inches with a heave of 45-9, then placed third in the discus, too.

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