Both Reeths-Puffer track teams fell to Caledonia on Tuesday, but several runners and relay teams won their events and posted their best marks of the season.
Caledonia won the boys' meet 90-47 and the girls’ meet 116-21.
“Both our teams are fairly young and are slowly learning that good things will come, but that they are earned through hard work, and consistent efforts — they are not given,” said R-P girls girls ooach Parker Aerts.
“They are learning a lot about the fundamentals and that the small details matter — recovery, nutrition, hydration, and showing up each day with a positive attitude, eager to learn and improve.” 
R-P's London Rankin
On the girls side, the 4x100-meter relay team of Raquel Walker, Addison Mitchelson, Amani Starr and Melana Johnson posted a season-best time of 52.61 seconds to take first place. Mitchelson also ran a personal best time of 27.92 in the 200-meter dash.
For the boys team, Mason Darke once again set the school record in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 38.35 seconds. Darke also had a personal best in the 110-meter hurdles at 14.87 seconds. He took first place in both events.
London Rankin ran a personal best 23.37 seconds in the 200-meter dash to win that event, as did Marvin Moore with a time of 11.68 seconds in the 100-meter dash.
The 4x100-meter relay team of Rankin, Moore, Darke and Cole Piper was a winner Tuesday, as was the 4x200-meter team of Rankin, Piper, London Carpenter and Emcee McLaurin.
Freshman Rodney Walker ran a time of 16.92 in the 110-meter hurdles, scoring his first varsity points and becoming first R-P freshman to break the 17 second barrier in the event since 2018 and the third to do so in modern school history.