None of the 10 athletes representing Sumner High School at the Class 2A state track and field meet held at Tacoma’s Mount Tahoma Stadium, was able to stroll to the medals podium.

The Spartans sent their 4×400 girls relay foursome – comprised of Leah DeDominces, Meagan Bodus, Zoe Conrad and Lauren Bulzomi – into state competition by virtue of a fourth-place finish at districts May 21 with a time of 4 minutes, 17.5 seconds.

Sumner’s quadrant of runners did not qualify to move forward from the preliminary round.

Other Spartan female athletes to make the state trek to Star Track were junior qualifier Michaela Trulson in the pole vault, as well as senior participants Veronica Carnahan in the shot put, Samantha Andrada in the pole vault and Leia Fecteau in both the long and triple jump events.

Meanwhile, for the tandem of senior Spartan boys who qualified to make the state journey – Jonoah Lentz in the pole vault and Neil Bateman in the javelin – it was not a memorable swan song at state.

Although Bateman had qualified for state competition the previous weekend at his home stadium, Sunset Chev in Sumner, hurling the javelin 156-7, he did not fare nearly as well at state, where the winning thrust of the spear was 185 feet plus, managed by a W.F. West senior thrower.

Lentz’s trip to Tacoma was likewise unproductive as far as mining for any medal as he didn’t place in the finals, where the winning vault was 14-6, turned in by athletes from Washougal and West Valley high schools. Lentz had reached state participation via his 13-foot vault at districts where he finished fifth.