Six Western Buckeye League schools took advantage of the spring like afternoon on Saturday as participants in the annual Celina Invitational.  The excellent conditions and stiff competition provided the impetus for outstanding early season performances.  Led by it's veterans, the Celina Runnin' Dogs placed 2nd in the Women's event and 3rd in the Men's standings.  Defiance swept the top spots with its Women and Men taking first.  Julie Snyder, Kelby Rosengarten and Eryn Langenkamp highlighted the day for the Dogs as all three scored in 4 events each.  Julie shattered her own 'school record' in winning the 100-meter intermediate hurdles.  She also took first in the long jump and high jump, to go with a fourth place in the 400-meter dash.  Kelby crossed the line as the fastest hurdler in both the 110 high hurdles and the 300 intermediate hurdles.  He placed second in both the long jump and 200-meter dash.  Eryn won the 200-meter dash and placed 2nd in the 100 intermediate hurdles, the long jump, and the 300 low hurdles.  Jacob Archer and Luke Bonvillian both collected invitational titles.  Jacob won the shot put in a career best toss while Luke took the pole vault championship.  Melissa Roth and Andrew Goodwin scored in a pair of distance races.  Mel took 2nd in the 3200-meter run and 4th in the 1600.  Andrew finished 3rd at the same two distances.  LeAnn Ward scored in the discus (second) and the shot put (sixth).  Blake Moran had a nice day, taking third in the HH, fifth in the IH and fifth in the LJ.  Cayla Hellwarth was third in the pole vault, Lindsey Watercutter was fourth in the discus, LaRae Dorsten fourth in the 800, Kelsey Mastin fifth in the 800, Katie Hague fifth and sixth in the 100 and 300 hurdles respectively.  Aaron Snyder placed fifth in both the shot put and discus.  Tom Burden vaulted well as he finished in a tie for 2nd.  Isaac Niekamp (3200), Spencer Foulkes (400), Peter Starnes (1600) all placed fifth.  Sixth place efforts were produced by Isaiah Schmackers (800) and Andy Sutter (100 dash).

Next up for the Bulldogs Tracksters...@ Kenton on Thursday and @ the Kenton Relays on Saturday.

TEAM SCORES
WOMEN
1 DEFIANCE - 140
2 CELINA - 130
3 OTTAWA-GLANDORF - 129
4 WAPAKONETA - 66
5 ELIDA - 43
6 BATH - 15

MEN
1 DEFIANCE - 142.5
2 WAPAKONETA - 130
3 CELINA - 111
4 OTTAWA-GLANDORF - 64
5 ELIDA - 55.5
6 BATH - 20