EAST JACKSON -- For the first time, there is a five-time champion in girls track in the Cascades Conference. The Grass Lake girls secured their fifth conference title in a row when they put up 107.5 points at Friday’s conference meet at East Jackson. Leslie was second with 99 points. Homer was third with 80. Grass Lake’s run, which began with the state-championship team in 2021, continued through 2022, 2023, 2024 and this season. Napoleon had won four in a row from 2012 to 2015, Addison won four in a row in the mid-90s and Grass Lake won four in a row in the early-80s, but this was the first five-peat in conference history. It is Grass Lake’s 12th Cascades Conference girls track crown overall. “Everyone had to do things they didn’t want to today just because this is a tough conference,” Grace Bullock said. “Everyone did their part. I was just doing mine for the rest of the team.” The Warriors capped off the title with a win in the 4x400, as Elise Bullock, Ava Kruise, Adalyn Jarchow and Grace Bullock finished in 4:18.70. The Warriors were in third when Grace Bullock took the baton for the anchor leg, but she quickly overtook everyone in front of her, then held off Leslie down the stretch. The Blackhawks finished in 4:19.01, with Hanover-Horton third and Jonesville fourth. “I was just thinking that my teammates did as much as they could so I’m just going to run as fast as I can and I wasn’t going to let them pass me again once I’d passed them,” Grace Bullock said. Reese Lape, Kate Starkey, Brooke Starkey and Grace Bullock won the 4x200 for Grass Lake in 1:50.28. Homer was second and Manchester was third. Grace Bullock, Brooke Starkey, Kate Starkey and Kidd won the 4x100 in 51.97. Homer was second and Napoleon third. Grace Bullock also took first in the 200, with a time of 26.32 to finish ahead of Madison Tracy of Homer and Lape. Addison’s Molly Brown entered and won four events. “I’m happy about it,” she said. “It’s hard doing thee jumps for long jump, then a bunch of run-throughs, then three more jumps and then prelims and finals. It’s hard on my legs. I’m happy with the one PR I got today. The 300 hurdle time isn’t necessarily what I was looking for, but I’m still pretty happy with a 45 after the long day I had.” Brown leapt 17’0 to claim first in the long jump. Homer’s Ava Fetterman was second and a pair of Grass Lake athletes, Lape and Leah Starkey, took third and fourth. Brown had little trouble claiming the 100 hurdles title in 14.60, well ahead of Columbia Central’s Melyssa McJennett, who was second in 16.52. Brown ran a 12.53 in the 100 to take the win in that event, with Tracy second and Michigan Center’s Emma McIntyre third. In the 300 hurdles, Brown took first in 45.72, nearly four seconds ahead of McJennett in second place. Manchester’s Siera Jedele was third. Leslie won the 4x800 relay, with Margaret Guerra-Harrison, Leah Flannery, Hailey Creisher and Leila Messner running in 10:15.29. Grass Lake was second and Hanover-Horton third. That was just the start of a strong day for the Blackhawks distance runners. “We did really good,” Guerra-Harrison said. “I’m really excited for the next meet, it’s really exciting.” Creisher won the 1600 in 5:18.62 with Guerra-Harrison third, just behind Hanover-Horton’s Maisy Toteff. Guerra-Harrison went on to win the 3200 in 12:42.33, ahead of teammate Madisyn Hunter and Jonesville’s Keira Knight. “I was looking to PR. I was really trying to work on my pace and listen to what my coach was telling me,” Guerra-Harrison said. “My gameplan was to cut in, get up there, and then try to get a good start and maintain it.” Messner won the 400 in 1:02.47, with Vandercook Lake’s Adisyn Pierce second and Hanover-Horton’s Lila Hamisfar third. East Jackson’s Mariah Kerley tossed a 37’0.5 to win the shot put, beating out Leslie’s Sarah Krupa and Columbia Central’s Molly Sierer and Bella Huston. Kerley then won the discus with a throw of 116′10. Huston was second and Krupa third. Napoleon’s Ayva Reynolds cleared 5’0 to win the high jump, with Payton Nichelson of Jonesville second and Lape third. Homer’s Emma Wildt won the pole vault, clearing 10’6. East Jackson’s Kennedy Goodwin cleared 8’6 to take second. Michigan Center freshman Karsyn Smith continued her winning streak in the 800, taking first in a time of 2:25.48. Since an eighth-place run at the Ralph Rice Invitational at Western on April 17, Smith has run in and won the 800 in five straight meets, including twice on the track at East Jackson, on Friday and at last week’s Dome Classic. Creisher was second at the conference meet, with Jarchow third.