MVJH track team finishes season strong

PLEASANTON — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s track team’s season came to an end at the Tri-Valley League Meet at Pleasanton on Tuesday.
The seventh-grade girls finished second and the eighth-graders finished in third. The seventh-grade boys took fourth overall.
“Overall, I think we had a very successful season. We had a lot of personal records and the kids got better throughout the season,” coach Justin Hurley said. “For this meet, we had a lot of kids who did events that they weren’t used to doing during the season to try and win a league championship. We took a gamble, and to me, it paid off. We weren’t league champions as a team, but we had every one of our athletes place and medal in at least one event.”
Hurley also said the team has come a long way from the first week of practice.
“It’s going to be exciting to get these kids at the high school level,” Hurley said. “It’s going to make us that much better overall.”
Individual results follow:

Seventh grade girls

Bella Duke; 200-meter run, sixth
    Long jump, fourth
    400m run, second
Kennadee Redburn; 75m hurdles, sixth
    Discus, second
Zoi Yoho; shot put, sixth
Haley Plaschka; 1600m run, fourth
Allison Heim; 1600m run, third
Bailey Griffith; 100m dash, first
    200m dash, first
    Long jump, first
4x100m relay (Duke, Yoho, Sprague, Griffith); second
4x200m relay (Heim, Yoho, Plaschka, Sprague); third

Eighth grade girls

Patricia Outlan; 100m dash, fourth
    800m run, second
    High jump, first
Karlie Stephens; 1600m run, third
    Discus, third
Savanna Puckett; 75m hurdles, second
    Long jump, second
    100m dash, first
    200m dash, first
Kaytlin Johnson; 1600m run, second

Seventh grade boys

William Lowder; 100m dash, sixth
    75m hurdles, sixth
    High jump, second
Bo Knavel; shot put, third
    Discus, second
4x100m relay (McAloon, Knavel, Scharff, Lowder); third

Eighth grade boys

Trent Vest; 100m dash, sixth
Gage Griffith; 200m dash, fifth
    100m dash, fourth
    3200m run, third
Isaac Hesket; discus, fourth
    Shot put, first
Caiden Elliot; 1600m run, fourth
    Shot put, second
    3200m run, first
Mathew Puckett; 400m dash, fourth
4x100m relay (Griffith, Elliot, Heskett, Vest); second