Rains cut short Thursday’s Crest Invitational Track Meet at Iola’s Riverside Park, but not before several area athletes made their marks in most impressive fashion.
Crest’s Rene Rodriguez continued his romp through the local sprinting scene by winning the 100-, 200- and 400-meter dashes.
Walker Harred of Southern Coffey County did the same in the discus and in shot put, and SCC’s Aaron True, one of the top Class 1A javelin throwers in the state, won his event by more than 40 feet. Hunter Pankey of SCC had the top mark in the boys high jump.
Misty Storrer earned Marmaton Valley’s only gold of the day in the girls 400.
Iola High’s junior varsity squad — missing several contributors because of the IHS band concert — also competed.
On the girls’ side, Emily Klubek won the 3200-meter run in 13 minutes, 33 seconds.
For the Mustangs, Braden Plumlee took bronze in the pole vault and teamed with Jeremy Spears, Travis Hermstein and Dareece Bell to take third in the 4×800-meter relay. Hermstein and Gage Cleaver took fourth and fifth, respectively, in the pole vault.
The JV boys’ 4×100 relay team was missing Darius Greenawalt and Jonathan Tidd because of the band concert. Greenawalt and Plumlee both competed in field events before leaving for the the concert.
“We ran Mason Ingle with a shot putter (R.J. Holding), a pole vaulter (Cleaver) and a discus thrower (Bell),” Smith noted.
The event was cut short following the 200-meter dashes as rains arrived.
“We didn’t place as well in some of our field events, but we had more athletes place in the top six than in our previous meets,” Marmaton Valley track coach Russell Plaschka said. “Casey Allen ran her personal best at 2:58 in the 800, and Trent Johnson had a personal best in the discus at 103’7”. Even with the meet being cut short due to weather, I was very pleased with the effort our student athletes displayed.”
Results follow:
Crest Invitational
Boys — 1. Southern Coffey Co., 85; 6. Crest, 40; 10. Marmaton Valley, 23; 11. Iola JV, 18
100 meters — 1. Rene Rodriguez, C, 11.27; 5. Codi Vermillion, C, 12.02
110m hurdles — 6. Chance Stevenson, MV, 19.56
1600 meters — 2. Bryson Meats, SCC, 5:17.72
200 meters — 1. Rodriguez, C, 23.81; 4. Hunter Pankey, SCC, 24.13; 5. Josiah Witteman, 24.71
300m hurdles — 2. Stevenson, MV, 46.03
4×100 relay — 6. Southern Coffey Co. (54.61)
4×800 relay — 3. Iola (Braden Plumlee, Jeremy Spears, Travis Hermstein, Gage Cleaver), 9:51
400 meters — 1. Rodriguez, C, 53.97
800 meters — 3. Meats, SCC, 2:15.23; 6. Wyatt Bolinger, MV, 2:27.87
Discus — 1. Walker Harred, SCC, 155’5”; 6. Trent Johnson, MV, 103’7”
High jump — 3. Aaron True, SCC, 5’8”; 4. Witteman, SCC, 5’8”; 5. Brady Newman, MV, 5’6”
Javelin — 1. True, 190’8”; 3. Evan Godderz, C, 138’11”; 4. Michael Hill, SCC, 138’3”; 5. Harred, SCC, 137’4”; 6. Trent Johnson, MV, 134’1”
Long jump — Pankey , SCC193’ 1/4”; 5. Stevenson, MV, 17’1 1/4”; 6. Newman, MV, 17’
Pole vault — 3. Plumlee, I, 10’; 4. Hermstein, 9’6”; Cleaver, 8’
Shot put — 1. Harred, SCC, 46’8 1/2”; 5. Rodriguez, C, 39’11 1/2”
Triple jump — 4. Stevenson, MV, 36’8 1/2”; 5. Newman, 36’6”
Girls — 1. Waverly, 100; 8. Southern Coffey Co., 28; 9. Marmaton Valley, 24; 11. Iola JV, 10; 12. Crest, 7
1600 meters — 4. Chenea Newkirk, SCC, 5:59
3200 meters — 1. Megan Klubek, I, 13’33”
4x100m relay — 5. Southern Coffey Co., 1:00.01
4×800 relay — 3. Southern Coffey Co., 13’11”
400 meters — 1. Misty Storrer, MV, 1:07.55; 5. Skyla Pankey, SCC, 1:17.08
800 meters — 1. Chenae Newkirk, SCC, 2:38.82
Javelin — 3. Laurel Godderz, C, 86’5”; 5. Connie Lyda, SCC, 84’8”
Long jump — 6. Kalyn Deal, SCC, 13’6”
Shot put — 6. Godderz, C, 29’1”
Triple jump — 2. Kyla Drake, MV, 30’5 1/2”; 3. Storrer, MV, 29’11”
Athletes golden
