While Bonney Lake and Sumner high school each finished in the top third of the statewide pack in team scores, there was one exceptional boys performance by a Spartan and one blue chip show put on by a female Panther at this year’s Class 3A state track and field championships.

The state meet was staged at Tacoma’s Mount Tahoma High Thursday through Saturday.

Sumner’s Alex Griffith launched the discus 163 feet, 9 inches for first place and five points toward his school’s total of 16, which tied Seattle Prep for 12th place in the boys standings.

The top female participant from either school was Bonney Lake sophomore Adara Winder, who had a best of 40 feet, one-quarter inch to emerge from the rest of the field as the elite Class 3A shot putter in the state.

Winder’s win contributed five points toward the Bonney Lake girls’ bottom line and helped the Panthers tie the girls from Bishop Blanchet. Each team had 17 points, which represented the 17th spot in the state standings.

Also tacking on points toward Bonney Lake’s final tally was senior distance runner Veronica Stinnett. Stinnett claimed third place in the 800-meter run with a time of 2 minutes, 16.2 seconds, finishing four seconds behind the pacesetter.

In the 1,600-meter run, Stinnett found the going a bit tougher as she wound up crossing the finish line in eighth place with a clocking of 5:09.4.

Sumner’s girls finished in a tie with 27 other 3A teams statewide – with nine points – including Renton, Ferndale and Enumclaw.

Sumner’s speedy 1,600-meter relay team, comprised of Leah DeDominces, Tessa Hansen, Lauren Bulzomi and Ashlee Sincraugh, finished fourth with a time of 3:59.98. The winning time was turned in by West Valley-Yakima which won in 3:51.45.

Ashlee Sincraugh, Sumner’s senior sprinter, did not qualify for the finals of the 100- or 200-meter races, but did represent the the purple and gold Spartans in the 400-meter dash. One of Sumner’s all-time spikers, who will be running for Lewis-Clark State College next year, crossed the stripe in fifth place with a time of 57.88.

Bonney Lake’s Brandon Baumchen finished fifth in the 800-meter run with a clocking of 1:56.72, while senior Panther Jordin Andrade was fifth in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles with an accounting of 39.71.

The BLHS 1,600-meter relay squad of Baumchen, Andrade, Reed Hawkins and Brandon Barnett, shaved a few hundredths of a second off their district time, finishing third with a time of 3:21.62 or only .22 of a second off White River’s blue-ribbon state pace.