T&F: Claremore boys dominate regional while Lady Zebras pile up state qualifiers

By the end of the day Saturday in Owasso, Claremore had rewritten school records and overwhelmed the rest of the field.

Powered by dominant sprint relays, standout individual performances and depth across nearly every event, Claremore’s boys captured the Class 5A East Regional championship by 28 points at Owasso High School, while the Lady Zebras added a third-place team finish and a long list of state qualifiers of their own.

The Zebra boys scored 135 points to easily outdistance the field, while the girls finished with 94 points behind only champion Tahlequah [128] and runner-up Bishop Kelley.

Regional champions, runners-up and third-place finishers automatically qualified for the state meet, while select fourth- through seventh-place finishers advanced based on statewide qualifying marks.

Mason Fraley led the way for the boys, winning the 400 meters in dominant fashion with a time of 48.54 seconds, more than two seconds faster than the runner-up. He also helped power Claremore’s sprint relays to historic performances.

The 4x200 relay team of Fraley, Graham Williams, Furious Poole and Brandon Shaw broke the school record with a time of 1 minute, 29.14 seconds while finishing second. Later, the same quartet captured the regional title in the 4x400 with another school-record performance of 3:20.99.

The Zebras' 4x100 team of Jace Hogan, Fraley, Poole and Shaw also qualified for state with a runner-up finish in 42.86.

Individually, Shaw added a third-place finish in the 400 [51.36] to qualify for state, while Carter Gibson qualified in three distance events. Gibson finished third in both the 800 [2:01.36] and 1600 [4:37.14] before placing second in the 3200 with a time of 10:00.55.

Gabriel Rodriguez also advanced in the 3200 with a fifth-place finish in 10:10.92 and qualified as part of the 4x800 relay alongside Alexander Malos, Patrick Mitchell and Gibson, which placed fourth in 8:39.48

Bryson Hall qualified in both hurdle events, finishing second in the 110 hurdles [15.54] and fourth in the 300 hurdles [41.68]

In the field events, Landon King captured a regional title in the discus with a throw of 147 feet, 11 inches and also qualified in the shot put with a third-place finish of 47-11.5. Williams added a state berth in the high jump by clearing 6-2.

On the girls side, Addison Doyle continued her record-breaking season.

The junior finished second in the 200 with a school-record time of 24.51, the fourth time she has broken the record this season.

Doyle also ran on Claremore’s regional championship 4x400 relay team alongside Lyric Hansen, Bella Hoisington and Addison Reavis. Their winning time of 4:05.31 also set a new school record.

The Lady Zebras' other sprint relays also shined.

They qualified in the 4x100 [48.30] with a third-place finish and took second in the 4x200 [1:42.68]. Both teams consisted of Ava Jestes, Reavis, Hoisington and Doyle.