The Crane Mustangs hosted their first track meet in several years, thanks to the completion of the new all-weather track. The Ranchers’ Invitational meet  on Friday, April 18, gave the Mustangs the opportunity to perform in front of their home fans.
Both the boys and girls won the meet, competing in fields of 11 teams. Final team scores were not available at press time.
Individually, the Mustangs boys picked up first place finishes from Chris Brower in the 100-meter, Levi Harris in both the high and intermediate hurdles, Dallen Davies in the long jump, Blake Steeves in the triple jump and the 4×100 relay team of Brower, Davies, Raymond Thompson and Levi Crisp.
The Mustang girls had first places from September O’Crowley in the 400-meter and the pole vault, Natalie Bentz in the high jump, and  the 4×100 relay team of Alex Borelli, Lindy Steeves, Emilee O’Toole and Caity DeBoer and 4×400 relay team of Bentz, O’Crowley, Steeves and Borelli.
Boys individual results:
100-meters
1 Chris Brower 11.64
2 Levi Crisp 11.73
6 Matt Stevens 12.2
8 Lance Moser 12.53
13 Colten Ketscher 13.28
200-meters
2 Dallen Davies 23.17
3 Chris Brower 24.32
11 Blake Steeves 27.30
13 Ty Harris 29.34
400-meters
3 Milton Merritt 56.53
8 Matt Stevens 1:00.01
800-meters
11 Lewis Whiting 2:40.28
1,500-meters
9 Gus Titus 4:59.08
14 Ty Harris 5:35.70
15 Kyle Borelli 5:42.77
16 Michael Rothgeb 6:05.32
3,000-meters
3 Garrett DeGraw 10:28.05
4 Gus Titus 11:11.74
5 Lewis Whiting 11:57.06
7 Daniel Rothgeb 13:23.79
110-hurdles
1 Levi Harris 17.15
2 TJ Potter 19.72
300-hurdles
1 Levi Harris 44.33
2 Jeran Conaway 46.59
4 TJ Potter 48.99
Shot put
3 Raymond Thompson 43’06
4 Carl Neumann 42’11.
15 Milton Merritt 35’02.50
18 Colton Ketscher 33’06.75
23 Willy Hurt 30’02.00
27 Jeff Warburton 28’06
4×100 relay
1 Chris Brower, Dallen Davies, Raymond Thompson, Levi Crisp 45.71
4×400 relay
2 Levi Crisp, Milton Merritt, Chris Brower, Dallen Davies 3:45.32
Discus
6 Raymond Thompson 111’07
20 Alan Robertson 73’02
23 Jeff Warburton 68’06
25 Colton Ketscher 64’10
27 Willy Hurt 60’02
Javelin
2 Raymond Thompson 154’00
6 Jeran Conaway 131’06
15 Alan Robertson 111’01
22 Garrett DeGraw 92’05
24 Colton Ketscher 90’05
Pole vault
2 Jeran Conaway 10’00.25
3 Kyle Borelli 10’00.00
6 TJ Potter 8’00.00
Long jump
1 Dallen Davies 18’08.50
3 Levi Crisp 17’02.25
4 Blake Steeves 16’11.00
15 Gus Titus 12’08.50
Triple jump
1 Blake Steeves 39′00.00
4 Lance Moser 36′00.00
8 Milton Merritt 33′11.00
10 Daniel Rothgeb 29′01.50
High jump
3 Jeran Conaway 5’10.00
4 Kyle Borelli 5’06.00
5 Alan Robertson 5’02.00
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Girls individual results:
100-meters
3 Emilee O’Toole 13.30
4 Caity DeBoer 13.35
5 Alex Borelli 13.64
200-meters
3 Lindy Steeves 27.47
4 Caity DeBoer 27.65
5 Natalie Bentz 29.30
11 Taylor Campbell 31.34
13 Brenda Otley 32.34
400-meters
1 September O’Crowley 1:01.31
7 Bethany Milburn 1:12.32
800-meters
4 Emilee O’Toole 2:51.98
1,500-meters
2 Delilas Korth 5:58.60
3,000-meters
2 Delilas Korth 12:56.66
100-hurdles
4 Savannah Duff 19.00
5 September O’Crowley 19.21
6 Brianna Brown 19.88
13 Anna Land 27.26
300-hurdles
3 Bethany Milburn 55.04
5 Brianna Brown 1:00.48
7 Anna Land 1:20.36
4×100 relay
1 Alex Borelli, Lindy Steeves, Emilee O’Toole, Caity DeBoer 52.72
4×400 relay
1 Natalie Bentz, September O’Crowley, Lindy Steeves, Alex Borelli 4:26.37
Shot put
6 Taylor Campbell 26’09.00
Discus
4 Rachael Pelroy 80’00
13 Taylor Campbell 66’03
17 Lily Valentine 63’10
19 Brenda Otley 52’11
21 Shannon Norris 50’01
Javelin
10 Lindy Steeves 75’07
14 Lily Valentine 65’05
16 Shannon Norris 53’01
17 Anna Land 49’09
18 Brenda Otley 49’05
High jump
1 Natalie Bentz 5’03.00
Pole vault
1 September O’Crowley 7’10
2 Natalie Bentz 7’06.00
Long jump
7 Emilee O’Toole 13’10.00
11 Savannah Duff 13’02.75
13 Brianna Brown 12’07
20 Bethany Milburn 11’01
Triple jump
9 Savannah Duff 25’01.75