Upper Perkiomen's track and field teams relied on an impressive performance in the field events Tuesday to sweep a Pioneer Athletic Conference meet. The boys and girls teams dominated the throwing and jumping events to remain undefeated.

            The Tribe boys swept all six contested field events to post an 81-69 victory over

Samantha Pedrick competes in the pole vault during the  April 3 meet.  She posted a first place finish at 10-feet, 6  inches.

Upper Merion. The girls finished first in four of seven events to register an 81-68 win.

            Six different male athletes – Darius Reid, Asher Zonis, Caleb Izzi, Gabriel Good, Cooper Schwartz, Cael Martin won the field events. The team's margin of victory came in three throwing events.

            The Indians posted the top seven finishers in the discus. They filled the top six spots in the shot put.

            Good won the discus with a throw of 121 feet, five inches. Martin posted the top distance in the shot put (41 feet, 1 /2 inches). Schwartz won the javelin with a throw of 140 feet, 8 1/2 inches.

           Reid won the long jump (21 feet, 11 inches), while Zonis did the same in the triple jump (37 feet, 9 1/2 inches.)

            Izzi won the pole vault by clearing nine feet. Teammates Justin Maciolek (8 feet) and Brady Brown (7 feet, 6 inches) rounded out the top three finishers.

            On the track, Benjamin Anderson posted first-place finishes in the 110 (18.60 seconds) and 300 hurdles (45.13) events. Asher Zonis won the 100 meter dash (11.65), while John Kuzmission did the same in the 3,200 meter run (10:43.92).

            Morgan O'Hara led her team in the field by winning the javelin (111 feet, 10 inches) and the discus (100 feet, 5 ½ inches). Jeziriah Ianuari finished first in the shot put (24 feet, 11 ½ inches.) Kayleigh Shoop won the triple jump (29 feet, 7 ½ inches).

            On the track, Maren Landis earned two first-place finishes. She won the 800 meter run (2:38.27) and the 1,600 meter run (5:56.95).

            Jade Traynor won the 400 meter dash (1:02.67). Ashlee Shafer posted a similar finish in the 3,200 meter run (13:13.68), as did Sallybeth McClaskey in the 300 meter hurdles (51 seconds).

            Last week, both teams swept Pope John Paul II in the conference. Reid led the Tribe boys team to a 111-35 victory, while McClaskey, Hayley McMaster and Samantha Pedrick paced the girls to a 103-47 win on Thursday, April 3.

            Reid posted three individual first-place finishes. On the track, he won the 200 meter dash in 22.29 seconds. In the field, the sophomore finished first in the high jump (6 feet) and the long jump (22 feet, 2 1/2 inches).

            Kuzmission finished first in the 1,600 meter run (4:43.04). Roman Macedo won the 3,200 meter run (11:01.56).

            In the 110 meter hurdles, Anderson finished first (18.25). The Indians also won the 4x100 meter relay (46.72) and the 4x800 meter relay (9:22.58).

            In the field, the team registered two first-place finishes. Zonis won the triple jump with a leap of 40 feet, 3 inches. Izzi cleared nine feet to win the pole vault.

            McClaskey posted the Tribe girls' top track performance. The junior won both hurdles events. She posted a time of 16.63 seconds in the 100 meter hurdles and finished the 300 meter hurdles in 49.39 seconds.

            McMaster and Pedrick excelled in the field. McMaster, a senior, won the high jump with a leap of 4 feet, 7 inches and the triple jump by posting a distance of 31 feet, 9 inches. Pedrick, a senior, won the pole vault (10 feet, 6 inches) and the long jump (15 feet, 5 inches).

            Landis, Paige Long and Shafer added first-place finishes on the track. Landis won the 800 meter run in 2:43.68.

            Long did the same in the 1,600 meter run (5:48.20). Shafer posted a similar finish in the 3,200 meter run (13:21.46). The Indians also won the 4x400 meter relay (4:29.34) and the 4x800 meter relay (11:07.15).

            O'Hara and Jeziriah Ianuari each added a first-place performance. O'Hara won the discus with a throw of 100 feet. Ianuari threw the shot 100 feet.

            Both teams will resume their schedules this weekend. They are slated to compete in the 4th Annual Coach Ron Livers Viking Invitational, on Saturday, at Perkiomen Valley High School.