Area youngsters wrap up track season

Marmaton Valley, Crest and Yates Center middle-schoolers competed in a league track meet Monday at Uniontown, where they brought home several top finishes.

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May 3, 2022 - 2:43 PM

Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Cooper Scharff runs in a race last week in Uniontown. On Monday, Scharff returned to Uniontown, where he won the Three Rivers League crown in both the seventh-grade boys 200-meter dash and long jump. Photo by Halie Luken / MVHS

UNIONTOWN — The 2022 track and field season came to an end for several area schools Monday, with Marmaton Valley Junior High, Crest Middle School and Yates Center Middle School competing in the Three Rivers League Meet.

Each school produced multiple league champions.

From Crest: Hanna Schmidt in the seventh-grade girls 100- and 200-meter dashes and the long jump; Jaycee Schmidt, first place in the seventh-grade girls high jump;  Kallei Robb in the eighth-grade girls 3200; Josie Walter in the eighth-grade girls 1600- and 800-meter runs; Peyton Schmidt in the eighth-grade girls 3200; Kaelin Nilges in the high jump; Kinley Edgerton in the eighth-grade girls long jump;  Kole Walter in the seventh-grade boys 1600; and Jensen Barker in the eighth-grade boys discus.

From Marmaton Valley: Tucker Sutton in the 3200; Cooper Scharff in the seventh-grade boys 200 and 400; Tyler Lord in the 200 and long jump. 

From Yates Center: Jaylynn Birk in the seventh-grade girls 1600 and 800; and Julian Griffith in the eighth-grade boys 3200.

“It was a great season,” Marmaton Valley head coach Byron Marshall said. “The kids really worked hard. We were very pleased with their gains in all areas.”

Results follow:

Seventh grade girls

Shot put

10. Addisyn Drake, MV, 21’11”; 11. Mirandi Sorenson, YC, 19’10”; 12. McKynzee Burkholder, YC, 19’1”; 15. Devynn Sitler, Crest, 16’6”; 16. Natalie Weber, YC, 14’5”; 17. Madi Moyer, Crest, 12’.5”

100m hurdles

1. Hanna Schmidt, Crest, 18.33; 4. Drake, 21.97; 6. Kamryn Jones, Crest, 22.13

100 meters

2. H. Schmidt, 14.56; 8. Jones, 16.32; 11. Taylen Blevins, MV, 16.81; 14. Kallei Robb, Crest, 17.36; 17. Evva Sander, MV, 17.56

1600 meters

1. Jaylynn Birk, YC, 6:34.27; 2. Chloe Griffith, YC, 6:45.50; 4. Gracyn Ellington, Crest, 7:21.23

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