A trio of school records and a team state title highlighted the Amherst Regional Middle School track & field team’s trip to the state championship over the weekend.

About 80 middle school teams participated in Gardner, where the Amherst girls’ team captured the team title and three new school records were set.

The 4x400-meter relay team of Calvin Miller, RJ Conyers, Peter Nedeau and Wes Dunford set a new school mark en route to a win with a time of 4 minutes, 2.50 seconds. The girls’ 4x800 relay team also set a new school mark, as Minjoo Serhant, Coral Pope, Maeve Cunninham and Ella Austin also captured the state title in 10:51.95.

Rounding out the new school record holders was Ella Austin, who won the 400 meters with a time of 1:01.52.

The school also boasted a strong showing of medalists.

Youth baseball

Amherst Orioles 8, Amherst Royals 2 — Cyrus Arwade recorded seven strikeouts in three innings, giving up only two hits to help the Royals in Sunday’s loss.

Luke Levangie singled twice and was robbed of a third by a leaping catch by O's shortstop Walker Austin. Pitchers Jonah Sommers, Tristan Feeley and Gus Garrett Peltier struck out 12, while the offense was paced by doubles from Feeley and Gus Garrett Peltier.

Amherst 21, Frontier 3 — Greg King showed timely hitting on Saturday, driving in six on three hits to lead Suburban Amherst 13-15U past Frontier, 21-3. King drove in runs on a double in the first, a double in the second, a walk in the fourth, and a single in the fifth.

Brady Klaes led things off on the hill for Suburban Amherst 13-15U. The righthander allowed no hits and no runs over two innings, striking out four.

Amherst tallied 15 hits in the game. King, Graham Van Giessen, Klaes, Owen Eddy, and JJ Scanlon-Dean all had multiple hits.

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