Hannah Ringel won both the discus and shot put, while fellow junior Xan Hawes pole vaulted over nine feet to a Sedona Red Rock High School girls track and field win at the Bourgade High School Invitational.

Ringel’s shot put traveled 38 feet, 3½ inches — not only a season best and third-best mark in her career, but a throw putting her second in the state among all high school girls this spring.

“I don’t worry about rankings until it matters,” head coach Harry Schneider said. “A month from now, I’ll be worried about it. Right now, I’m just doing the right thing for each kid.”

That approach not only helped sophomore Brittney Medel finish second to Ringel with a career-best discus toss of 86 feet, 1 inch, it helped the Scorpions boys finish third Saturday, March 19, despite both teams missing 20 athletes.

“There’s places we would’ve done better in had we had the whole team,” Schneider said. “We had some key people who were away. Some of them, I haven’t seen in eight to 10 days, but I don’t think I should penalize the kids who don’t go on vacation.

“Some of them will come back dead out of shape, and I imagine a couple of them will end up not returning to the team. The injury problems this year have been incredible.”

Sophomore high jump runner-up Julia Koss and senior Wyatt Stevenson, who helped the Scorpions 4×800 boys relay team place third, are among the afflicted heading into their first home meet of the spring Wednesday, March 23 — the Sedona Friendship Meet.

Instead, Stevenson’s brother Dawson, a junior, won the high jump and was runner-up in the long jump March 19.

“The long jump, he missed winning by half an inch,” Schneider said. “Our relay teams helped us a lot.”

Like the younger 4×400 and 4×800 relay teams, which also both finished third to help the girls defeat Desert Edge High School by nine points.