BELLEFONTE – Opening their week in style. The Bellefonte track and field team got its week jumpstarted Tuesday as they hosted Central Cambria, Central and Penn Cambria. Both boys and girls had strong showings in the relay events.

The girls took care of the 3,200-meter relay. The team consisting of Althea Helms, Madyson Miller, Natalie Jolley and Addison Fry topped out with a winning time of 9:48.79.

On the boys’ side, the Red Raiders squad consisting of Wesley Barefoot, Jonathan Gasper, Maverick Muchmore and Carson Fritchman finished second with a time of 9:05.90.

The two teams also dominated the 3,200 as both posted wins.

In the boys 110-hurdles, Bellefonte’s Landyn Langille took the top honors with a time of 18.19. He also took the top spot in the 300-meter hurdles finishing with a top time of 43.35.

Teammate Caleb Bartley took the 100-meter run with a time of 11.71.

Jonathan Gasper placed second in the 1600-meter run with a posted time of 4:45.53. Gasper also placed second in the 3200-meter run with a time of 10:18.37.

In the 4×100 meter relay, Bellefonte (Tristan Liadis, Elliott Donmoyer, Kaven Smith-Kirk and Caleb Bartley) took the top spot with a time of 45.49.

In the 400-meter run, the Red Raiders finished 1-and-2 as Elliot Donmoyer finished with a time of 53.78 and teammates Calvin Lovrak finished with a time of 55.31.

In the field events, Smith-Kirk took care of the long jump posting a launch of 20′ 2″.

Sam Witmer added a third place in the discus with a throw of 119′ 9″.

Jack Tyson won the boys javelin with a top throw of 157′.

On the girls side, things rolled as well.

In the 1600-meter run, the Lady Raiders picked up a first and third as Addison Fry finished first and Natalie Jolley finished third with times of 5:39.29 and 5:45.91, respectively.

“The girls did it. It’s a new school record today, so we’re excited about that. New facility record course here, so that was exciting,” said Bellefonte track and field head coach Seth Miller when talking about his winning 4×800 girls team. “And then, yeah, we then to come back at the end of the night and take the 4x4s, it was fun.”

In the 400 meter relay, Bellefonte finished third with a mark of 56.28.

Bellefonte captured the 400 thanks to a Aletha Helms time of 1:00.77.

Helms also took the top spot in the long jump winning with a best leap of 17-0 1/2.

In the triple jump, Miller finished second with a jump of 41-7.

In the girls pole vault, Bellefonte secured a third place finish by Violet Peffer who finished with a leap of 7-9.

Maddison Miller and teammate Emma Harter finished 2-and-3 in discus with throws of 83-1 and 81-0, respectively.

The athletes had to battle through some colder temperatures than the month usually provides. But it seemed to have no effect on his runners.

“It’s A little bit too cool, yeah. A little too cold. I say about 65 is where we want it. So it was a little bit cool yet,” said Miller. “But so that just goes to show how much potential we have, right? We’re running, we had really good performances on a bad day, otherwise. Cold, cold weather day. You know, kids were warming up. They did the right things. There’s a lot of potential. We’re moving the right direction.”

The team will be off until the weekend.

“We go to the Brookville Invitational on Saturday, and then we host senior night, Holidaysburg, and Tyrone next Tuesday,” said Seth Miller.