HUMBOLDT — A cool day on the track didn’t slow Iola Middle School’s India Barney, who broke a 19-year-old school record Thursday at the Humboldt Invitational.
The IMS eighth grader, who also won the 100-meter dash and long jump while taking silver in the 200-meter dash, ran her 75-meter hurdles race in 12.85 seconds, more than a full second faster than Molly Stanley’s time of 14.24 seconds from 2003.
The day was highly successful for several IMS athletes. Iola’s eighth-grade and seventh-grade boys teams both won their team competitions in easy fashion, as did the IMS seventh-grade girls.
Barney’s eighth-grade girls classmates came up one point shy of matching the feat. Iola’s 104 team points were an eyelash short of Anderson County’s 105.
Organizers were uncertain whether they were going to have a meet at all, after cold, snowy and rainy weather filled the Humboldt skies through the morning.
But the precipitation stopped and the clouds (eventually) cleared for a cool, yet comfortable environment for the athletes to thrive.
Full results follow.
Eighth grade boys
Team scores:
1. Iola, 145; 3. Humboldt, 63; 5. Yates Center, 10
High jump
1. Tre Wilson, Iola, 5’0’ 3. Mason Sterling, Humboldt, 4’10”; 6. Nick Bauer, Iola, 4’4”; 10 (tie). Julian Griffith, YC, 3’10”
Long jump
1. Karson Lampe, Humboldt, 16’4”; 2. Wilson, 15’11”; 5. Sterling, 15’2”; 6. Henry White, Iola, 14’7”; 7. Maddox Riley, Iola, 14’2”; 11. Trapper Boren, Iola, 13’; 13. Ricky Rowe, Iola, 12’5”; 16. Brody Thompson, Iola, 12’1.5”; 18. Clayton Culver, YC, 11’8.5”
Discus
5. Taner King, Humboldt, 76’1.5”; 6. Carson Peters, Humboldt, 76’1”; 8. Carson Russell, Humboldt, 74’11.5”; 13. Mathew Drago, Iola, 61’9.5”; 16. Avion Seamster, Humboldt, 54’11.5”; 17. Steven Shepard, YC, 52’5.5”; 19. Logan Huff, Iola, 51’1”; 20. Zachary Scott, Humboldt, 45’10.5”; 21. Mason Lampe, Iola, 43’6”; 22. Eli Hess, YC, 43’2”
