The Bridgeport track and field teams earned runner-up finishes competing at the Morrill Early Bird on Saturday in Morrill. Both the Bulldog girls and boys finished second behind meet champion Mitchell.
The Bridgeport boys picked up wins in three events. Placing first were Jake Sparks in the 400-meter dash, Ron Varner in the 3,200 and Logan Levick in the 300 hurdles. Sparks won the 400 with a time of 54.7 seconds.Varner placed first in the 3,200 with a time of 10 minutes, 49.07 seconds. Levick claimed the 300 hurdles in a winning time of 44.29.
The Bulldog boys also earned second-place finishes in five other events. Levick was second in the 110 hurdles in a time of 15.61,Varner was second in the 1,600 in 5:02.09, and Sebastian Quigley finished second in the 800 in 2:15.29. Finishing second in the 4x100 relay with a time of 47.26 was the team of Sparks, Jonah Conley, Jose Castellanos, and Frank Lopez. In the 4x400 relay, the team of Castellanos, Levick, Conley, and Logan Freiberger placed second with a time of 3:46.82.The 4x800 relay team of Varner, Freiberger, Quigley, and Cooper Abbott placed third with a time of 9:34.96.
