Hornets star breaks Jackie Street’s 46-year old record

The Hillcrest Hornets are once again the kings of Mining City track and field.

But only by a nose.

Hillcrest captured the team title at the annual Grade School Track Meet Wednesday on the Charlie Merrifield Track inside the sun-soaked Gene Fogarty Complex. The Hornets scored 366.25 team points, beating second-place West Elementary by a quarter of a point. (Results; Team scores; MVP report; Records)

Whittier placed third at 246.25. The Wildcats were followed by Margaret Leary at 150.5, Butte Central at 114, Emerson at 84, Ramsy at 69 and Kennedy at 12.

A record-breaking performance by sixth grader Tenley Osborne led the Hornets to the team title. She broke a record in the girls’ 400-meter race that was set before her parents were even born.

Osborne won the race in 1 minute, 6.5 seconds. That eclipsed the mark of 1:07 set by Jackie Street of Hillcrest in 1979. That 46-year-old record was the meet’s longest-standing record. (Note: Street ran when the race was calculated in yards, not meters. The officials records, though, do not note the difference.)

The performance for the ages by Osborne saw her win the 100-meter dash in 14.28 seconds, the 200 in 29.87 seconds, the standing long jump with a mark of seven feet, 9 inches and the running long jump in 13-3 ¾.

She tied the meet record set by Hillcrest’s Jennifer Stolarz set in 1989 in the standing jump.

Osborne also won the pentathlon with a perfect score of 50 points, tying the girls’ meet record shared by Elsa Janney of Hillcrest in 2005 and Abbey Mellott of Margaret Leary in 2017. That, of course, is a record that cannot be broken.

Brayton Burleson of West took second in the pentathlon with 42 points. Anna Yates of Hillcrest took third with 30.

Ramsay’s Bentley DeTonacour won the boys’ pentathlon with 40 points. West’s JJ Hardy was second at 34, and Whittier’s Kale Alexander took third at 32.

Jace Graham of Hillcrest took home the Track MVP award, and Alexander won the boys’ field MVP honor. Osborne won those awards on the girls’ side, as well as the overall MVP.