The Dock track and field teams may not have finished atop the Bicentennial Athletic League Championships standings, but setting almost 30 bests gave the Pioneers plenty to celebrate.

Dock hosted the BAL Championships on Wednesday and Thursday and ideal conditions made for some great throwing, jumping and running as most of the Dock athletes saw improvement in at least one of their events. There were 17 bests that helped the Dock girls to place fifth with 98 points, one point behind fourth-place Phil-Mont Academy.

Yebeen Lee, Tessa Moyer and Lily Price earned multiple individual medals for top-three finishes on the girls side.

The Pioneers took time to honor their five seniors at the end of the first day’s competition. Dock recognized Sadie Bernd, Lizzie Chalmers-Kennard, Yebeen Lee, Aaron Sensenig and Luke Smeland.

The Dock girls picked up big points on the first day with their throws and pole vault. Lee was second and Karli Godshall was third in the javelin. Lee threw 98-feet-6 and Godshall threw 73-5. Lee also picked up a third in discus with a personal best of 85-7, one inch ahead of fourth place.

Olivia Mozzone cleared a personal best of 7-feet-6 in the girls pole vault. She finished second in after a rare jump off. She is also ranked second in the District 1 AA rankings. Kennard-Chalmers placed fourth with a best of 7-feet.

The girls 4x800 gave the Pioneers a good start on the track. Neva Peterson, Bernd, Lydia Sensenig and Moyer ran 10:37.81, an 11-second drop off their season best, to place second.

There were preliminaries in the 100 and 200 meters, but the only other track event besides the 4x800 to score on the track was the 3,200. In the girls race, Moyer placed third in 12:32.41 as the sophomore took on the most mileage possible in a meet by racing the 1,600 and 800 then next day too. Claire Nyce put together a great effort to knock more than 40 seconds off her personal best in the 3,200 to come in 10th in 13:39.32. Lydia Sensenig was just behind in a personal best of 13:45.63.

Also on the first day, Cianna Thompson set a new PR of 15.28 in the 100-meter preliminaries. Logan Naidoo ran 1:20.04 in the girls 400 and Ella Lee ran 1:27.91 in her first attempt at the distance.

It was busier on the track on the second day of competition and the hurdlers picked up significant points. Price ran a personal best of 53.05 for third in the girls 300 hurdles. She is fourth in the district rankings. Olivia Mozzone hit a season best of 56.54 for fifth place. She is ninth in the district rankings. Kennard-Chalmers ran a PR of 1:00.63 to take ninth.

The same trio came back later to run well in the 100-meter hurdles with all three registered personal records. Price ran 19.19 for third, Mozzone ran 19.24 for fourth and Kennard-Chalmers clocked 21.04 for sixth. In the district ranks, Price is fifth and Mozzone is sixth while Kennard-Chalmers is ninth.

Price jumped a PR of 13-8 to finish third in the girls long jump. Kennard-Chalmers placed ninth. Yebeen Lee was seventh in the girls shot put at 24-6.

Moyer earned her second medal by going a season-best 5:39.43 for third in the 1,600. She is ranked fourth in the district. Sensenig ran 6:06.75 for ninth and Nyce ran 6:10.60 for 10th. Peterson set a personal best of 6:11.08 for 12th place.

Late in the meet, Moyer returned to the track to place fourth in the 800 in 2:34.27, just hundredths off her season best. Bernd hit a season best of 2:41.45 for fifth place. Peterson ran 2:52.19 and Godshall ran 2:53.43.

The girls 4x400 wrapped up the meet with Sensenig, Peterson, Nyce and Bernd ran 4:53.44 for fifth place to earn the Pioneers’ final four points.