The Buckeye girls track and field team finished second at the 12-team Buckeye Relays on Thursday at Buckeye High School, totaling 92 points and coming up just three points short of topping Fairview for the team title. The Lady Bucks were paced by a school-record performance in the 100-meter shuttle hurdles relay and a series of strong finishes across the field events and relays.

Buckeye’s top finish came in the 100-meter shuttle hurdles relay, where Kaylee Limbert, Aubrey Keenan, Leah Bengough and Blakely Herman placed first in 1:09.98. The time lowered the school record by two seconds and gave the host team one of its biggest moments of the meet. The Bucks also picked up a first-place result in the pole vault relay behind Ellen Steppenbacker, who cleared 10 feet, 6 inches, and Leah Bengough, who went 9-6.

The high jump relay added another runner-up finish for Buckeye. Maddie Gillin cleared 4-10, Julia King went 4-4 and Aubrey Keenan added 4-2 as the trio placed second. In the discus relay, Kerrigan Graves threw 77-5, Maddy Velick reached 77-2 and Juju Lawrence posted a mark of 72-2.5 to help the Bucks finish third. The shot put relay, made up of Lawrence at 26-10, Graves at 25-8 and Maddie Mercer at 25-0.5, took fourth. Buckeye’s long jump relay team of Emma Bostic, Avery Lewandowski and Hailey McDaniel also finished fourth.

On the track, the 4×800 relay team of Sophia Regiec, Maycie Bodak, Lily Regiec and Hayleigh Kreeger turned in a second-place finish in 10:54.71. The 4×100 team of Kylee Kash, Avery Lewandowski, Emma Bostic and Herman took third in 54.19, while the 4×100 ironwomen relay of Bengough, Paige Pedmo, Natalie Edenfield and Graves also placed third in 1:03.56. The 4×200 relay team of Kash, King, Bostic and Herman added a fourth-place finish in 1:53.34, and the 4×400 group of Brooke Posatiere, Lewandowski, King and Sophia Regiec was fifth in 4:35.97.

Buckeye also got scoring performances from several distance and specialty relays. The 4×1600 team of Hayleigh Kreeger, Lila Hoover, Shelby Skilskyj and Lily Regiec placed fourth in 25:52.20. The sprint medley relay of Bengough, Grace Pronik, Nico Anzevino and Brooke Posatiere finished fifth in 2:06.91. The distance medley team of Skilskyj, Bodak, Emily Goelz and Hoover came in sixth in 16:05.03, and the mid medley relay of Limbert, Pronik, McDaniel and Ruby Joy was sixth in 5:14.06. Individually, Emma Bostic placed fifth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.60.

Taken together, those performances kept Buckeye in the team race throughout the evening, even as Fairview narrowly held the top spot. The final margin was only three points, and the Lady Bucks left the home meet with a runner-up trophy, two event victories and a new school record that stood as the clearest highlight of the night.