Columbia High's boys track and field team flashed its speed and flexed its muscles on its way to winning its first meet of the 2002 season last Thursday at CHS Stadium.
And the Bruins needed a lot of both to edge the La Center Wildcats, 128 to 123, on a biting-cold spring afternoon.
CHS sewed up the win in the last event of the meet: the 4x400-meter relay.
The team of sophomore Brett Schutt, freshman Matt Lovrin, junior Adam Neff and senior Keith McMillen posted a winning time of 3 minutes, 38 seconds -- five seconds ahead of La Center's quartet.
All told, Neff, McMillen, Schutt, Lovrin and senior Tedÿdy Davis furnished all of the speed to help the Bruins record victories in six of 10 running events.
Neff blazed first-place trails in the 100-meter dash (11.5 seconds) and in the 800 (in a personal-best time of 2:10.42). Schutt finished third in the 800 (2:14.57).
McMillen, competing in his first race of the year, showed no signs of the sore hamstring that kept him out of the season's first meet. He logged a time of 51.63 to win the 400.
Lovrin held off a La Center runner in the last 100 meters to win his first varsity 1600 race by two-hundredths of a second, in a time of 4:54.26.
In the 110 high hurdles, Davis ran his record to 2-0, posting a winning time of 16.59. He also won his second high jump competition, clearing 5-6.
Senior Mike Wild and freshman Wes Blankenship provided the bulk of the muscle and accounted for 40 of the Bruins' meet-winning total.
Wild took first in the discus (144 feet, 7 inches) and the shot put (46-5), while Blankenship placed second in the shot and javelin and fourth in the discus.
Sophomore Chris Davis paced the Bruins in the jumps, coming in third in the triple jump (33-8) and fifth in the long jump (16-41/2).
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