Left: Badger Marcus Kehoe attempts to clear 14 feet during Lampasas’ home meet Friday. Above: Following the first leg of the 4x100-meter relay, Edward Hall hands off the baton to Justin Maldonado. They did it again.

For the fourth time in four meets, the varsity Badgers earned gold.

This time, they did it at home.

Lampasas hosted the 2010 Battlin’ Badger Relays Friday, and the varsity boys’ team easily defeated the competition by placing first in seven events en route to earning 156 points.

“I am very proud of our Badgers,” head coach Jimmy Randolph said. “Their hard work and discipline is showing up and paying off.”

While the Badgers were fast on the track, it was their home field where they dominated. Lampasas placed first or second in every field event in which it participated.

In the high jump, Badgers won gold and silver medals, as Secody Howard (5-10) and Zach Adams (5-8) finished consecutively.

PHOTOS BY RICHARD AKRIDGE The duo of Brandon Scott (38-11 1/2) and B.J. Alexander (38-0) almost matched the feat by placing first and third, respectively, in the triple jump.

Senior Aaron Reyna leaped 21-6 to win the long jump, while Marcus Kehoe cleared 13-6 in the pole vault to place second.

Brode DuBose, a senior, won the discus (170-3) and captured second in the shot put (48-1 3/4).

The Badgers’ efforts on the track kept the medals rolling in for Lampasas.

The quartet of Edward Hall, Justin Maldonado, Jeff Arevalo and Tanner Swinford won the 4x100 relay in a time of 43.93, while Scott jointed Hall, Maldonado and Swinford to win the 4x200 relay (1:32.77).

Scott, Maldonado, Arevalo and Swinford teamed up to place second in the 4x400 (3:34.61).

Reyna earned his second gold medal of the day by blasting through the 110-meter hurdles in 15.20. Adams placed fourth in the event with a time of 15.59.

In the 300 hurdles, senior Astin Murray was fourth (44.69) and Alexander claimed fifth (45.24).

Hall finished fourth in the 100 (11.48).

Second-place Lake Travis scored 134 points, followed by Burnet’s 114 points. Marble Falls (92 pts.) placed fourth, while Gatesville and Brownwood tied for fifth with 57 points each.

The Lady Badgers did not win their home meet, but they had a strong showing nonetheless.

The Lampasas varsity girls’ team placed third with a score of 92.33 points.

Hailey Morrison was one of a handful of Lady Badgers to finish second in their events. Morrison cleared 4-10 to earn silver in the high jump, Andrea White threw the shot put 35-9 to place second, and Karalyn Capps was a little over a second shy of winning the 100 hurdles (16.80).

The Lady Badgers had one of their best showings in the discus, where Lauren Barlow (108-1) and White (104-6) finished third and fourth, respectively.

Amber Castle picked up a fourthplace finish in the pole vault, clearing 7-6. Ashely Moore (14-8 3/4) and Brooklyn Dekort (14-5 1/2) were fourth and fifth in the long jump.

Freshman Amy Martinez took fourth in the 3,200 (13:01.89) and the 1,600 (5:58.57). Capps was fourth in the 300 hurdles (52.74).

The Lady Badgers continued their trend of placing fourth in the relay events.

In the 4x100, Capps, Ashley Summers, Ashlyn Henry and Makayla Valles recorded a time of (54.29), while Taylor Brooks, Summers, Morrison and Valles ran the 4x200 relay in 1:54.67. In the 4x400, Henry, Castle, Morrison and Moore ran to a fourth-place finish in 4:27.00.

Ashley Moore earned a bronze medal in the 400 with a time of 1:04.67, missing second place by just 13 hundredths of a second.

Lake Travis (206 pts.) and Burnet (115.33) beat Lampasas in the final standings.

All Lampasas track teams are off this week.

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Lampasas’ junior varsity teams also had solid showings at home. The Badgers placed fourth overall, while the Lady Badgers came in second as a team.

Tatyana Carnes (high jump, 4-8), Julie Mize (triple jump, 30-10), Tealey Farquhar (100 hurdles, 17.65), O’Neisha James (200, 28.65), and the 4x200 relay team of Tyra Cornish, Miranda Maceyra, James and Carnes (1:57.97) won their events to pace Lampasas to 118 points as a team.

Lake Travis won the meet with 206 points.

The junior varsity Badgers’ only gold medal of the day came from Ray Galbraith, who leaped 20-0 1/4 in the long jump.

The JV Badgers finished with three top-three showings and placed in the top five on 15 occasions.

Lake Travis (181.5 pts.), Johnson City (131.5 pts.) and Burnet (90.5 pts.) all beat Lampasas’ total of 82 points.