The Enumclaw track and field boys and girls team came out smoking at the West Central District meet Friday and Saturday at the Sunset Chev Stadium.

The girls team took second with 81 points in the 3A bracket and the boys were 15th with 16 points.

A group of Hornet girls made impressive showings in both running and field event and the next stop is the state tournament Thursday through Saturday at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma.

Maria Blad stood on the top step twice taking two first-place medals home from the district games.

She won the 100-meter hurdles in 14.94 seconds and the 300 hurdles in 45.60 and will next be running at state.

“It’s really humbling to go to state,” Blad said, who is a senior. “There are so many great athletes and I love going against those girls.”

Blad said her whole family has been active in sports and she has  participated in athletics since she was very young.

“My uncle was a state champion wrestler and my grandpa played four sports in college,” Blad said.

Blad is a gymnast, cheerleader and she has been to the state meet every year since she was a freshman. She took a silver medal last year in the 100 hurdles.

Aleea Gwerder will be running the 400 at state after she took second at districts with a time of 58.35.

Gwerder ran with the 1,600 relay team of Katie Christensen, Taylor Tandecki and Olivia Bannerot winning the event in 4:01.40. Next stop state.

Gwerder, a sophomore, took second in the long jump with 16 feet, 7.5 inches and will be competing in that event at state.

Samantha Engebretsen will be running in two distance events at state. She took fourth in the 1,600 in 5:15.22 and fifth in the 3,200 in 11:41.45.

Junior KC Moulden took the first-place medal in the shot put reaching 43-11 and third in the discus hitting 125-00.

Moulden took a gold medal home at the state wrestling tournament this year and may well be bring home more medals from the state track and field meet.

For the boys team  Markus Fornelius took second in the javelin reaching 167-09 and he will be heading to state next week for the Hornets.