Comfort sending 5 to regional track and field meet

Comfort High had five track and field athletes advance past the Area meet held in Llano and they will participate in the upcoming Region 1-3A track and field meet scheduled for May 1-2 in Abilene at ACU.

Jackson Dear, Carter Pape, Mason Bohnert and Aidan Weyel qualified for regionals on the boys side, while Molly Gowan advanced for the Deer.

Varsity Boys

The Comfort boys were third in the final Area standings with 50 points.

Jackson Dear competed in all the distance events – 800, 1600 and 3200 and advanced in the 3200 after he broke the school record with a time of 10:06.29 to finish third.

Dear also came in fifth in the 1600 at 4:50 and was eighth in the 800 at 2:11.

Carter Pape broke his own school record in the long jump that he set earlier this year after he went 23-5 to win the Area title, while Pape also qualified in the triple jump with a leap of 42-0 to place third.

Pape ended up sixth in the 400 after posting a 51.77.

Mason Bohnert placed second in the pole vault by clearing 13-0 to qualify for regionals, while Aidan Weyel placed third in the shot put with a toss of 48-7 for third to advance.

Also for the Comfort boys, Tyler Barteau finished fifth in the long jump with a leap of 20-3.75 and Josiah Rucker placed fifth in the 800 with a time of 2:08 to earn team points.

Omar Rivera was sixth in the 110 hurdles in 16.71, while the 4x100 relay of Gunner Carpenter, Pape, Omar Rivera and Tyler Barteau placed sixth in 44.15.

Comfort’s 4x400 relay of Daniel Sorola, Barteau, Mason Almendarez and Pape finished fifth in 3:36.48.

Varsity Girls

Comfort scored 20 points to tie for 10th in the final standings.

Molly Gowan qualified in two events after placing fourth in the 100 hurdles with a time of 16.42 and Gown also took second in the high jump by clearing 5-0, while Harper Cole came in fifth in the pole vault with a height of 8-6.

Ashley Padilla finished fifth in the 400 with a time of 1:02, while Padilla teamed up with Emily Padilla, Jordan Judkins and Bliss Neal in the 4x400 for fifth place after posting a 4:16.