The West Ottawa boys track & field team didnt win the OK Red Conference meet Friday but turned some heads, nevertheless.

The Panthers stunned East Kentwood by winning the 4x200-meter relay in a photo finish, moving all the way up from the eighth seed.

Austin Vasquez, Cristian Ramirez, Ato Condelee and James Lacy finished in 1 minute, 31,.89 seconds, beating East Kentwood by seven hundredths of a second.

That is the first time we had all of those guys run it together, West Ottawa coach Craig Kingma said. That race was solid guts. They held off everyones anchors.

West Ottawa finished sixth in the boys meet with 49 points. East Kentwood won (190.5).

The West Ottawa girls finished seventh with 31 points. Rockford won (162).

Condelee was the lone individual conference champion for the Panthers, winning both the long jump (22 feet, 7 3/4 inches) and the high jump (6-4).

I feel pretty good, but I know I can go higher, Condelee said.

He teamed with Vasquez, Ramirez and Lacy to take third in the 4x100 relay (44.32). The four earned all-conference honors.

Ramirez took fifth in the 200 meters (23.3).

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West Ottawa boys track & field wins stunning relay at OK Red meet