PARKERSBURG — Parkersburg’s boys beat out rival Parkersburg South here on a cold Friday night to capture the annual Kim Nutter Classic crown at Stadium Field and Patriot Chris Elschlager won the high-point award. “Seeing him healthy definitely makes a big difference. It’s a confidence builder,” said South boys head coach Erwin DeGraef, whose team scored 103 points as PHS finished with 121. Elschlager went 20 feet, 2 inches in the long jump to best Big Red Parker Miller. Elschlager also defeated fellow Patriot Haden McConnell in the 100 hurdles (16.78 to 17.12) while running the anchor leg on the victorious shuttles squad with teammates Corey Beverage, Dominic Collins and Cameron Gill. “We had a few dings, but it was a good effort and South improved over the last week and they were much better,” admitted Big Red boys head coach Rod O’Donnell, who was more than pleased to have Kim Nutter’s son, Chris, on hand to present the awards and take in the meet. “It was wonderful having him here. It was great and that’s why we have the meet, to honor Kim. I had him for two or three years at Marshall and he qualified for the nationals down there and he was a heckuva runner for us. We had a good balanced effort considering the weather.” The PHS boys didn’t have a double-winner, but Tyler Moler just nipped Ripley’s Steven Carte (23.33 to 23.48) in the 200 after falling to the Viking by a photo finish in the 100 (11.68 to 11.69). Coach O’Donnell’s squad got a 1-2 finish in the 400 thanks to DeShaun Akers and Ethan Rutherford. Ian Domenick’s lone event produced a victory thanks to his clocking of 9:58.64 in the 3200. The Big Reds’ only other triumph came in the 4×400 where Benjamin Lake, Kiran Patel, Keegan Barnette and DeShawn Akers finished in 3:44.46. Wheeling Park’s girls, who had the high-point winner thanks to Aubrey Wiethe (22 points with wins in the 110 and 300 hurdles), won the Nutter title with 99 points as Ripley finished runner-up with 87. PHS was close behind with 75 and the Patriots had 69. Aside from Wiethe, a trio of other females also posted two wins apiece — Park teammate Abby Snedeker (100, 13:10; 200, 27.13); Ripley’s Tori Starcher (400, 1:01.22; 800, 2:19.67) and Big Red Madison Trippett, who went 5:10.13 in the 1600 and 11:08.22 in the 2-mile. Parkersburg South’s Madi Gersper had to settle for a runner-up finish to Ripley’s Olivia Miller in the high jump, but the Patriot went 15-3.25 in the long jump to nip teammate Samantha Williams’ 15-2.25 runner-up effort. Wheeling Park’s Michael Harriman topped the field in both the 800 (2:04.53) and the mile (4:30.95). Coach DeGraef also received first-place efforts from Gill in the 300 hurdles (43.54), Mason Cheuvront in the high jump (5-6) and Nathan Rockhold in the discus (121-8). South’s Nate Santiago tied Ripley’s Evan King in the high jump at 11 feet for the top spot. Park’s Jermain Snodgrass’ throw of 46 feet, 10 inches was good enough to win the shot put as Big Red Shane Miller finished runner-up in that event as well as the discus. The other individual winners for the girls were Wheeling Park teammates Brady Browning (pole vault, 8-0) and Cheyenne Nash (shot, 32-8.5); John Marshall’s Meghan Byrd topped Ripley’s Parker Anderson (95-2 to 90-7) in the discus. Ripley registered a pair of relay wins in the 4×200 and the 4×800. Grace Bumpus, Aurora Huffman, Cassidy Miller and Allison Fields went 1:54.44 in the 4×200 while Aubrey Stephens, Olivia Gandee, Allison Knox and Jadyn Casto clocked in at 10:36.55 in the 4×800. The host Big Reds won the 4×400 with a time of 4:27.34 thanks to Erin Cunningham, Emily Cunningham, Jordan Balog and anchor Lexi Dugan. Wheeling Park topped the field in the 4×100 and the South girls posted a victorious time of 1:14.08 in the shuttles thanks to Allie Perkins, Emily Yanok, Kailey Goldsmith and Sierra Hays. Parkersburg South’s ‘B’ team for the boys finished second in the shuttles, but the foursome of Santiago, Haden McConnell, Levi Rice and Cheuvront weren’t allowed to officially score. “The shuttle teams were excellent,” DeGraef added. “Most people are fortunate enough to have one shuttle team. We actually have six, seven, eight kids that are competitive and fighting for a spot. Coming in second (as a team) is a good morale booster for the kids.” PSHS also had the best 4×800 team thanks to Brandon Hardman, Seven Parr, Gill and the anchor Max Habeb finishing in 9:17.92. Park’s 4×100 defeated South by a quarter of a second while the Viking quartet of Noah Kelly, Noah Carson, Carte and Samuel Pierson went 1:33.83 to capture the 4×200.