Western 97, Peru 26

In a battle of Mid-Indiana Conference supremacy, the Panthers won handily.

Jerel Hall, Patrick Lennon, Austin Young and Kyle Young were triple winners as Western on the Bengal Tigers after they dethroned the Panthers in last season's MIC meet.

"That was mentioned and I think the guys who have gone up against Peru in the past wanted to go out and make a statement," Panthers coach Marvin Boswell said. -Peru is still a quality team and a good team to beat. Our kids were looking forward to this meet."

Hall won the 100 (11.6) and the 200 (22.9) while teaming with Kyle Young, Alex Sigler and Kyle Brown to win the 4x400 relay in 3:32.1.

"Jerel Hall came out and had a phenomenal night," said Boswell. "Kyle Brown was right with him in the 200 but Jerel stepped it up a notch."

Lennon captured both hurdles, winning the 110 (15.7) and the 300 (43.4). He teamed with Ryan Elmore, Indy Mathew and Christoffer Kun to win the 4x100 in 45.9 seconds. Austin Young swept the distance events, winning the 1,600 (4:52.8) and the 3,200 (10:55), and shared first place in the 4x800 relay (9:12.4) with Kyle Young, Kody Harmon and Chris Love.

Kyle Young (51.8) won the 400 meters, Love (2:11.4) won the 800, Sigler (6-1) claimed high jump with a personal-best leap, and Brown (19-0 1/2) won long jump.

Bart Shepherd (128-4) took discus.

Western is at the Kokomo Relays on Saturday.

Western 107.5, Peru 15.5

The Panthers made it look easy again at home with another convincing win.

Sprinter Cara Earlywine continues to shine, taking four wins. She captured the 100 (13.3) and the 200 (27.6) and ran legs on both the winning 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams. They included Danae Rittmann, Jennifer Dale, Alleca Kerker and Earlywine in the 4x100 relay (51.5) and Maggie Talbert, Sable Staller, Dale and Earlywine in the 4x400 relay (4:24.2).

The 4x100 team nearly broke the school record of 51.36 seconds set last year at the Bremen Regional. Kerker added a win in the 300-meter low hurdles (51.7) while Staller won both the high jump (5-2) and the long jump (14-6).

"It was a real exciting race for the 4x100 relay," said Western coach Marvin Boswell. Those girls have worked really hard to get their times down.

"All of our sprinters and jumpers have been doing a good job. Overall I'm just very pleased the way the girls are coming along."

Jenn Elliott was busy being a triple winner. She captured the 1,600 meters in 6:04.1, the 800 in 2:49.5 and helped Lacey Myer, Ashley Gaskins and Breana Nicholas win the 4x800 relay in 11:27.0. Gaskins (13:08.9) won the 3,200, Nikki McCracken (15.9) won the 100-meter hurdles and Lizi Chandler swept the shot put (35-1 1/2) and the discus (90-10 1/2).

The Panthers are at the Kokomo Relays on Saturday.