SECOND-PLACE DRAGONS POST BEST REGION 6 OUTDOOR FINISH EVER

Freshman thrower Xylavene Beale scores a championship-best 28 points in leading the Blue Dragon women's track and field team to its best Region 6 Outdoor Championships finish in team history as 2026 regional runner-up. (Sydney Holzrichter/Blue Dragon Sports Information)

May 2, 2026

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Hutchinson CC Sports Information

ARKANSAS CITY – Led by a championship-high 28 points from Xylavene Beale and 20.5 points from Ashara Frater, the Hutchinson Community College women's track and field team secured its best-ever team finish at the Region 6 Outdoor Championships on Saturday at the Mark A. Phillips Track and Field Complex.

The Blue Dragons scored 140 team points to finish as the 2026 Region 6 Outdoor runner-up. Barton won the regional team championship with 149 points. Cloud County was third with 119 regional points. The same three teams finished 1-2-3 in the Jayhawk West team standings with Barton at 191 points, Hutchinson at 173 points and Cloud County with 170.5 points.

Hutchinson will now take 20 national qualifiers to the 2026 NJCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on May 14-16 at Hobbs, New Mexico. Saturday's regional placing surpassed the previous highest finish of third in both 2024 and 2025.

Already with one regional title to her credit winning the discus on Friday, Beale won the shot put and finished second in the hammer throw on Saturday. Beale won the shot put with a best attempt of 51 feet, 2 1/4 inches (15.60 meters). She won the event by a full 3 feet. Beale was regional runner up in the hammer throw with a top mark of 164-11 (50.27 meters). Beale is a three-event qualifier for the Blue Dragons at nationals.

Frater was part of Hutchinson's winning 4x800-meter relay team on Friday. She scored 18 points on her own Saturday. Frater won the 5,000 meters with a national qualifying time of 18:07.31, the third-best outdoor 5,000-meter time in Blue Dragon history. Frater broke a school record in a regional runner-up finish in the 1,500 meters. Her time was 4:40.02, another national qualifying mark. Frater broke the old record of Taylor Hoskinson, who ran 4:47.99 at the 2024 Friends Spring Invitational.

Three other school records were broken on Saturday.

Anecia Campbell broke the Blue Dragon record in the 200 meters with a fifth-place time of 24.35 seconds, breaking teammate Sidney Holt's 2025 record of 24.44 seconds. Campbell qualified for nationals in the 200 and the 400 meters, where she placed second with a time of 54.95 seconds.

Campbell ran the third leg of the Blue Dragons' school-record-breaking 4x100 relay team, which placed third on Saturday with a time of 46.25 seconds. The relay team of Britany-Ann Powell, Valentine Titren, Campbell and Holt broke their own record of 46.62 set earlier this season.

Sabrina McDonald broke a 22-year-old Hutchinson record in the 800 meters. McDonald placed fourth with a national qualifying and school-record-breaking time of 2:14.14. That mark topped the 2004 record of 2:19.09 by Amy Matthews.

Other Blue Dragon performances on Saturday:
+ Deisheline Mayer Scott closed a 17-point regional with a third-place finish in the shot put and fifth-place finish in the hammer throw. Mayer Scott best shot put attempt was 45-9 1/4 and she threw 155-4 (47.35 meters) in the hammer.

+ Kimberlin Lovell placed third in the 5,000 meters with a time of 18:52.68, a PR time of 18:52.68, the sixth-fastest time in Blue Dragon history.

+ The 4x400-meter relay team of Holt, Campbell, Powell and McDonald posted the second-fastest time in Blue Dragon history with a fourth-place regional time of 3:56.17.

+ Rosa Min Poulsen was fifth in the high jump at 5-2 1/4 (1.58 meters).

+ Sierra Brooks placed fifth, after qualifying eighth in the preliminary round, in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.12 seconds, the 10th-fastest time in Blue Dragon history.

+ Powell finished sixth in the 100 meters with a time of 12.07 seconds.