OXFORD >> For the second year in a row, Walled Lake Central’s excellence in field events sealed first place at the Oakland County Meet.

The Vikings took first place with 63 points at Friday’s 65th edition of the county championships, with 52 of those coming in some combination of pole vault, discus and shot put.

When asked what makes his team so dominant, Vikings head coach Nebojsa Stojkovic joked, “I can’t give all those secrets away.”

“No, it’s year-round training, a lot of time and dedication that they invest. They buy into the technique. We’ve always been that was as a track program. We don’t have the speed that walks into the 100 meter. Even look at the 4×100 (relay team) that broke our school record today. None of those kids are in the 100-meter dash today. But it’s the technique, the hand-offs, the attention to detail.”

Led by Brycen Anderson (188-6), fellow seniors Tyler Marrogy and Nathan Cody allowed the Vikings to go 1-2-3 in discus. Central senior Ray Weatherington led the pack in pole vault (14-6).

Anderson, who has the best Division 1 seed mark in shot put for state, finished third Friday, with three more teammates picking up points behind him, and another, Marrogy, placed second (55-6).

Stojkovic spoke about how loaded the LVC is in shot and discus this season, a testament to the area, and that’s a sentiment Marrogy echoed.

“It’s really just whoever lands one,” Stojkovic said. “Kind of everyone here (can do it). You’ve got (Walled Lake Western’s Liam Vaughn), (Lakeland’s) Andre (Neumann) — big boy — we’ve all got potential to drop 60s. I think one of us is going to do it at the state meet.”

Neumann, the only freshman to compete in discus at last year’s D1 state meet, took sixth in that event Friday, but it was his work in shot put that really shined. He won the event with a throw of 57 feet, eight inches, breaking a 42-year school record in the process.

“I feel good, but I definitely think there’s a lot more in me, and I’m looking forward to breaking my newly-set school record even more at the state meet,” said Neumann, who fouled on one throw that looked to go roughly 60 feet. “I feel I can get low-60s. That’s the goal.”

Central was only bested by its neighbors in the relays where it also pulled points. Walled Lake Western (42.51) won a 4×100 relay in which Central took third, and Western (1:27.47) took the 4×200, with the Vikings finishing fourth.

Troy Athens (49 points) beat out rival Troy (46.75) for second place with the final event of the night, the 4×400 relay, which the Red Hawks won (3:22.15). Athens beat out the Colts in the 4×800 relay (7:51.11) by just two-hundredths of a second.

Both Troy schools scored plenty of points in the 3,200-meter race won by Bloomfield Hills junior Taye Levenson, with Athens senior Jacob Esser and Troy senior Vishvaa Ravishankar taking second and third, respectively. Athens senior Evan Watson, who pulled away as the anchor in the 4×400, finished just six-hundredths behind Oak Park’s Rondre Austion (21.87) in the 200-meter dash.

Detroit Catholic Central’s Zacchaeus Brocks was another star of the boys’ events. The sophomore won the 110 hurdles in a time of 13.9 seconds, the fastest at the event since Southfield’s Rudy Redmond was clocked at 13.8 in 1987.

Adams junior MIchael Wilkerson, who came runner-up to Brocks in the 110m, captured first in the 300 hurdles (38.64).

Orchard Lake St. Mary’s junior Chris Coates (11.13) edged out Pontiac Notre Dame Prep’s Zachary Mylenek in the 100 dash by three-hundredths of a second. Mylenek was just two-hundredths behind Austion (48.88) in the 400.

Walled Lake Northern’s Ty Parker took first in the 800 with a time of 1:54.04, while Royal Oak senior Sebastian Ramirez won the 1,600 in a time of 4:16.28.

In other field event action, Lake Orion senior Donovan Scott won the high jump with a mark of six feet, two inches, and North Farmington senior Prentice Gardner was best in long jump (22-7.5), beating out Notre Dame Prep’s Joseph DeCasas by just an inch-and-a-half.