BURLINGTON — Vergennes Union High School indoor track team athletes won two events and placed well in several others at a Saturday meet hosted by the University of Vermont.
Commodore runner Ben Huston won the Division II boys’ 1,000-meter race, and he joined Erich Reitz, Gabe Praamsma and Wade Mullin to win the four-by-800-meter boys’ relay.
Mullin also finished second in the boys’ 600, while Reitz was third at 1,500 meters and fourth at 1,000. The Commodore 4×400 relay team of Ezekiel Palmer, Spencer Hurlburt, Xander DeBlois and Mullin also finished second.
The best result posted by the smaller VUHS girls’ contingent came from Marin Howell, who was fifth at 600 meters.
The full results of local athletes, including some members of the Middlebury Union club team, were:
•  Boys’ 4×800: 1.VUHS, 9:00.08 (Huston, Reitz, Praamsma, Mullin).
•  Girls’ 55: 9. Cedar Winslow, VUHS, 8.35; 14. Trinity Bryant, MUHS, 8.51; 17. Emily Pottinger, MUHS, 8.59.
•  Boys’ 55: 9. Palmer, VUHS, 7.29; 24. DeBlois, VUHS, 7.69; 32. Andrew Woods, VUHS, 8.03.
•  Boys’ 1,500: 3. Reitz, VUHS, 4:51.36; 7. Praamsma, VUHS, 5:01.53; 10. Chris Therrien, VUHS, 5:12.63.
•  Girls’ 600: 5. Howell, VUHS, 2:06.75.
•  Boys’ 600: 2. Mullin, VUHS, 1:32.16.
•  Girls’ 1,000: 7. Ashley Cray, VUHS, 3:57.84.
•  Boys’ 1,000: 1. Huston, VUHS, 2:57.51; 4. Reitz, 3:03.19; 6. Praamsma, VUHS, 3:14.13; 10. Therrien, VUHS, 3:22.22.
•  Girls’ 300: 7. Winslow, VUHS, 49.48; 8. Bryant, MUHS, 49.59; 10. Pottinger, MUHS, 50.42; 23. Howell, VUHS, 55.85; 26. Cray, VUHS, 57.04.
•  Boys’ 300: 4. Palmer, VUHS, 40.68; 9. DeBlois, VUHS, 44.17; 14. Woods, VUHS, 47.50.
•  Boys’ 4×400: 2. VUHS, 3:59.33 (Palmer, Hurlburt, DeBlois, Mullin).