Lady Tigers race to top-three in Rawlins

With four top-three placings, two young Lady Tigers showed great effort at the Carbon County Track and Field Invite.

Sophomore Alyssa Barkhurst, who earned two first-placements at state last year, proved her power with three top-three earnings from the Friday invite, which took place at Rawlins High School. She received first in the 100 meter dash, second in the long jump and third in the 100 meter hurdles.

Freshman McKenzie Powell came up close with second place in the 300 meter hurdles, and three other top 10 placings for the 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash and triple jump. Powell already pre-qualified for state from her first-place 400-meter-dash time of 1:03.90, recorded at the Wheatland Invite earlier this month.

Next for the Tigers are the South Twilight Invite in Cheyenne, held at 1 p.m. tomorrow, and the Saratoga Invite, held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Saratoga High School.

Encampment's top ten results from the Carbon County Invite are shown below:

Girls Results:

Alyssa Barkhurst- Girls 100 meter dash- 13.66 (first place), girls long jump- 15-11.00 (second place), girls 100 meter hurdles- 18.20 (third place)

McKenzie Powell- Girls 100 meter dash- 14.69 (eighth place), girls 200 meter dash- 29.96 (sixth place), girls 300 meter hurdles- 18.20 (second place), girls triple jump- 29-07.50 (eighth place)

Girls team ranking- Sixth place, 37 points

Boys Results:

KeeGan Johnson- Boys high jump- 5-04.00 (ninth place)

The boys team did not rank inside the top 10.