Photo by Kim North St. Clairsville’s Ava Borkoski sails through the air during the long jump on Friday during the Dave Porterfield Memorial Invitational Track and Field meet at Red Devils Stadium in St. Clairsville. She placed second with a leap of 15-feet, 5-inches.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Sometimes it’s not how many events you win, it’s how many you place in during a track and field meet.

St. Clairsville proved that theory correct Friday in winning the boys portion of the Dave Porterfield Memorial Invitational track and field meet at cloud-covered and chilly Red Devils Stadium.

The Red Devils collected 97 points to easily outdistance runner up Steubenville by 17. However, they only had two champions compared to six for Big Red.

Winning titles for the hosts were sophomore Camden Judge who toured the oval eight times in a time of 10-minute, 9.8-seconds. Freshman Chase Crum leaped 12-foot to win the pole vault.

Taking gold for Steubenville were its 4×100, 4×200 and 4×400 relay teams. The 4×100 foursome of Colten Henderson, Jalen Minniefield, Jemier Faulks and Cajuan Brryant ran a 45.18. St. Clairsville clocked in at 45.43.

Henderson, Minniefield, Faulks and Ziarre Scurry teamed to win the 4×200 in 1:33.56, while Faulks, Josiah Rea, Landon Bowers and Scurry ran a 3:31.64 to win the 4×400.

Scurry set a meet and stadium record in the 400 when he timed out in 48.97. The old meet mark was set in 2014 by Sterubenville’s Ja’Quan Lavender and the stadium record of 49.46 was set by Steubenville’sd Brenton “Inky” Jones in 2022.

Minniefield also took first in the 200 with a time of 22.9 and Rea leaped 6-2 to win the high jump.

Wheeling Central’s Braden McWreath continued his fine start to the season by winning the 100 in 11.27. Teammate Dom Gianangeli was second in 11.40.

Linsly’s Jakob Schmidt-Weigand ran a 1:58.19 to win the 800. He broke the meet record of 2:00.12 by St. Clairsville’s Ben Shields in 2024.

St. Clairsville’s Brady Blacker was the only other runner under 2-minutes as he clocked out in 1:59.92.

John Marshall’s 4×800 relay team circled the track in 8:54.03 to nip Bellaire which ran 8:55.43. The Monarchs included Atreyu Dudley, Braxten Ullom, Hadden Garvin and Brodie Baker.

Caldwell’s Ethan Crock took the two throwing events with a toss of 150-11 in the discus and 50-11 in the shot.

Shenandoah had four first-place finishes as Braxton Barnett won the 110 high hurdles in 15.15 and the 300 lows in a meet and stadium record time of 37.92. He broke his own stadium mark of 39.02 set a year ago and the meet record of 39.96 set in 2023 by Steubenville’s Micah Mitchell. Jarrett Wentworth ran a 4:43.11 to win the 1600 and Barnett leaped 19-9.5 to take the long jump.

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Steubenville edged past John Marshall 91-84 for the team title as Big Red claimed five titles.

Freshman Kaycee King and sophomore Adriannas Crabtree each won two individual golds as King ran 13.04 to win the 100 and 26.71 to take the 200. Crabtree swept the hurdles with a time of 17.29 in the 100 highs and 300 lows in 47.51.

King also anchored the first-place 4×100 relay foursome of Za’Harryah Herring, Laila Reed and Teroinah Bickerstaff which ran a 52.90.

The Monarchs had a pair of titles in the 4×400 and 4×800 relays. The 4×400 team of Sarah Hess, Kalyn Reese, Lauren Whetzel and Zoe Zervos ran 4:18.01 and the 4×800 of Reese, Lily Williams, Brooke Cole and Zervos timed out in 10:25.84.

Wheeling Central’s Alexa Loy jumped 5-2 to win the high jump and Shadyside’s Chloe Meholovitch ran 11:46.86 to win the 3200.

St. Clairsville’s Ava Crum leaped 10-6 to win the pole vault and Oak Glen’s Kensington McConnachie won the long jump with a leap of 15-7.5.

Caldwell state champion Gwyn Lori doubled up in the weights. The University of Kentucky recruit heaved the discus 142-feet to break the meet and stadium marks of 141-10 set by Tri-Valley’s Kaylee Antill in 2014. Lori also won the shot with a put of 44-10.

Shenandoah won the 4×200 relay in 1:53.45 while Ira Estadt won the 1600 in 5:21.38. Al;yssa Crum ran a 2:24.31 to win the 800.

John Glenn’s Jessica Church won the 400 in 1:01.0.