Mason’s time of 10.96 seconds in the 100m broke the 11.00 mark record for under-17 to open level he set on the La Trobe University Bendigo athletics track earlier this season.

The wind reading for the first heat was 0.9.

A first-year competitor with Eaglehawk AC, Mason has blitzed in the 100m and 200m contests at LUBAC.

Bendigo University’s Andrea Smith showed her versatility by breaking the 40-plus mark in the 2000m steeplechase.

Smith’s time of 9:32 is a new centre record for the 40-plus class and was a week after she won the 1500m walk.

South Bendigo’s Taryn Furletti won the 2000m steeplechase in 7:34 to continue a great season in which she represented Victoria at the Australian All-Schools championships in Cairns.

Three of the region’s best young sprinters – Jake Hilson, Kye Mason and Ben Powell – clashed in the 400m.

Racing in the Harriers colours, Powell was victorious in 50.06 from Hilson, 51.19, and Mason, 51.22.

Fastest in the women’s 100m were Bendigo Harriers’ Jalen Hoskin, 13.16, and Eaglehawk’s Anastazia Robinson, 13.48.

South Bendigo’s Stephanie Pompei put in a great effort to win the first of the 400m heats in 1:02.95 from Eaglehawk’s Gabrielle Rusbridge, 1:03.84.

Other heat winners were South Bendigo’s Keely Trew and Bendigo Harriers’ Yvette Tuohey

It was a Harriers quinella in the first of the 1500m heats as Isaac Everett won in 4:52 from Luke Matthews, 4:56.

Outstanding performers at long jump included Eaglehawk’s Lachlan Start, 6.01m, and Corey Heagney, 5.75m; Harriers’ Brett Gilligan, 5.57m, and Jalen Hoskin, 4.54m.

South Bendigo’s James Woods added to a superb streak in pole vault as he cleared 4.05m this week.

Eaglehawk’s Lachlan Start and Bendigo Harriers’ Louis Schenker hurled the javelin past the 41m mark as Keely Trew capped her return to the track with a best of 32.05m.

Best at shot put were Eaglehawk’s James Bentley, 11.10m, and Poppy Palmer, 9.41m; and Claire McCay from Bendigo Harriers on the 8.39m mark.