Mercer Island track and field wrapped up its season at the 3A state championships Saturday, May 31 at Mt. Tahoma High School in Tacoma.

The Mercer Island boys tied for a 10th place finish with Marysville-Pilchuck, while the girls tied for 25th with Bainbridge and Rainier Beach.

In the boys competition, Eric Schulz was edged by Nathan Hale’s Max Leach by 0.27 of a second in the 800 meter race to place second with a time of 1:54.71, while Dylan Lesko placed fifth at 1:56.98.

In the 4×400 relay, the KingCo and district title team of Emerson Schulz, Ethan Vu, Eric Schulz placed fourth with a time of 3:24.24.

On the girls side, Victoria Gersch placed eighth in the 200 meter race with a time of 26.23. Piper Casey took seventh in the 400 at 58.28.

The team of Gersch, Sarah Bjarnason, Casey and Kate Miller placed seventh in the 4×400 relay, finishing at 4:03.25, while the team of Gersch, Tre Saunders, Bjarnason and Miller just missed the 4×200 finals, placing ninth in preliminaries.

Emily Bassett finished seventh in shot put, throwing for 38’11, and tied for 12th in discus with Columbia River’s Reilly Watts with a distance of 103’3. In the high jump, Emily Lightfoot placed 15th with a jump of 4’8.