PHOTO BY RICHARD AKRIDGE The Badgers varsity track team is perfect through three meets and will host the Battlin’ Badger Relays Friday. The Badgers continue to impress.

Lampasas remains unscathed on the 2010 varsity boys’ track season as it picked up its third victory of the year by winning the Billie Relays in Fredericksburg Saturday.

After opening the season with wins at Marble Falls and Gatesville, the Badgers earned gold in Fredericksburg by beating out the host school.

Lampasas scored a total of 122 points to upset Fredericksburg (110 pts.), who finished a dozen points back. Liberty Hill scored 76 points to place third overall.

“I was very proud of the way our kids competed,” Badgers head coach Jimmy Randolph said. “Any time you win the Billie Relays, you have a lot to be proud of.”

Twelve teams competed at the meet, and Randolph believed many of his athletes had their best overall performances thus far.

Lampasas earned five gold medals, three silvers and a bronze in the showing.

Leading the way for the Badgers were the relay teams, which won two of the three relay events.

The quartet of Edward Hall, Justin Maldonado, Jeff Arevalo and Tanner Swinford won the 4x100- meter with a time of 44.47, while Hall, Maldonado and Swinford teamed up with sophomore Brandon Scott to win the 4x200 in 1:33.35.

Scott, Swinford, Arevalo and Aaron Reyna placed third in the 4x400 with a time of 3:37.36.

Reyna also won the 110 hurdles (15.52) and the 300 hurdles (41.53). The senior placed second in the long jump with a leap of 21- 1 1/4.

The Badgers’ other gold medal was won by Brode DuBose, who tossed the discus 170-7. DuBose had a fourth-place showing in the shot put (47-2).

Edward Hall took silver in the 100 with a time of (11.68), while Marcus Kehoe placed second with a 13-0 pole vault.

Other notable performances included B.J. Alexander’s fourthplace finish in the 300 hurdles (44.02), Secody Howard’s fourthplace high jump of 5-10 and Scott’s 38-7 1/2 triple jump to place sixth.

With a number of athletes unavailable to attend the meet, the Lady Badgers struggled in Fredericksburg.

Lampasas’ top showing came in the 400, where two runners finished in the top four. Hailey Morrison (1:04.00) and Ashley Moore (1:04.48) finished third and fourth, respectively.

The Lady Badgers’ only other top-five finish came in the 4x400 relay, where Ashlyn Henry, Julie Mize, Morrison and Moore finished fifth with a time of 4:28.00.

“The girls scored very few points,” Lady Badgers head coach Trent Lancaster said. “We should do considerably better on Friday at our home meet.”

The Lampasas meet will begin at 12:30 p.m.

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The Badgers’ junior varsity team also excelled in Fredericksburg where it finished third overall.

Fredericksburg (175 pts.) and Kerrville Tivy (100 pts.) both beat out Lampasas’ total of 78.

Stephen McKinney won gold in the 110-hurdles (17.74), while Cody Crofoot finished first in the discus with a throw of 132-4.

The 4x200 relay team of Julian DelaCruz, Cody Corbin, Colton Perkins and Joey Burks earned a gold medal by finishing in 1:39.74.

Lampasas also picked up a silver and two bronze medals, and recorded a total of nine top-five finishes.

Sophomore Paige Hensley had the junior varsity Lady Badgers’ top performance, placing fourth in the discus with a throw of 78-2.