The Douglas Bulldog track team posted an impressive win Wednesday beating Salpointe and Amphi in a triangular meet at Douglas High School.

Bulldog high jumper Alex Ames clears 5'6" in his event Wednesday in Douglas' triangular meet with Salpointe and Amphi. The Bulldogs won the meet and will host 13 other teams Friday in the annual Ted James Douglas Invitational set to take place at Douglas High School.

The Bulldogs finished with 77 points while Salpointe was second with 59 and Amphi third with 46.

The Bulldogs opened up the meet taking second in the 4x800 relay as the team of Jesse Moran, Alec Irey, Luis Martinez and Andrew Tapia turned in a time of 10-minutes, 27.8 seconds.

Douglas' 4x400 relay team of Trevor Arvayo, Robert Coronado, Anthony Varela and Jesus Garcia came in first with a time of 3:44.3.

In the pole vault Marco Swanson was third at 10-feet and Ali Andrade fourth at 9'6.

David Melendez and Alex Pedrego placed second and third in the 3200 turning in times of 11:12.6 and 11:20. Melendez was third in the 1600 with a time of 4:57.

Garcia, Varela and Coronado placed first, second and fourth respectively in the 110-meter high hurdles posting times of 15.9 seconds, 17 seconds and 19.3 seconds.

Garcia, Coronado and Varela placed first, second and third in the 300-intermediate hurdles with times of 44.3, 45.3 and 45.4 seconds.

In the 200-meters Jorge Deanda came in third with a time of 24 seconds while in the 400-meters Trevor Arvayo was second and Andrew Demelo fourth with times of 54.3 and 55.5 seconds.

In the high jump Alex Ames took first with a jump of five-feet, seven inches. Cody Ramirez was third at 5'4.

Adrian Leon won the long jump with a jump of 38'7" and Demelo was second at 17'10".

Leon also won the triple jump with a 38'7" and Jose Martinez was second at 38'5".

In the shot put Marco Acedo was second with a 36'9" and Juan Escalante third with a 35'11".

Acedo and Escalante were second and fourth in the discus with throws of 105'11" and 98'9".

Douglas' track coach Ron Ellsworth said afterwards he was pleasantly surprised to see his team beat Salpointe.

The Bulldogs have beaten the Lancers before but it's been a while and with the Salpointe reputation any win over a program from that school is good.

Ellsworth said going into the meet he and Coach David Bond moved some runners around trying to break up Salpointe's numbers in some of the events. That move paid off in the distances, the throws, the pole vault and the hurdlers.

"This was a good win for our program," he would say. "We didn't allow them to pull away from us."

The coach said there were some improved marks in many of the events Wednesday and he hopes that carries over to Friday's Douglas Invitational track meet which begins at 10:30 a.m. at Douglas High School.