STAFFORD — Taylor Beard won the long jump, ran a leg on the winning 4×100 team and took second in the 100-meter hurdles to lead the Handley girls track & field team to sixth place out of 27 teams at the Wildcat Invitational on Saturday at Mountain View High School.
The Judges scored 44 points. James Wood was 11th with 30.42 points. Potomac Senior scored 82 points to beat runner-up Woodgrove by 20.5 points.
Leaders — Handley: 100 hurdles: 2. Beard 15.69; 4×100: 1. (Mikayla Balio, Sofia Posadas, Mary McKay, Beard) 51.19; Pole vault: 2. Mary McKay 9-6, T-6. Alexis Grady 7-0; Long jump: 1. Beard 17-3; Shot put: 5. Chloe Putnam 32-0.5. James Wood: 4×800: 6. 11:13.37; 1,600: 5. Kenzie Konyar 5:37.74; 800: 5. Haley Witt 2:37.23; 3,200: 1. Konyar 11:57.72, 5. Lauren Beatty 12:25.79; 6. 4×400 4:30.03.