Junior High Track Teams Compete in Oberlin
Brunk Improves School Record
On Thursday, April 19th, the junior high track teams traveled to Oberlin to compete in a triangular meet with Quinter and Decatur Community. The tracksters showed marked improvement in many events during the day. The meet was ran in two divisions - boys and girls - with four places scoring.
The St. Francis girls won the track meet scoring 72 team points. Decatur Community placed 2nd with 56 points and Quinter 3rd with 42.
Lady Indians placing in the top five positions in the meet were:
McKenzie Taylor: 1st 100 meter dash 13.70; 1st 100 meter hurdles 17.15; 2nd 200 meter dash 29.58
CarolEve Harris: 3rd 100 meter dash 14.80; 4th 200 meter dash 31.70
Katie Schmid: 4th 100 meter dash 15.11; 5th discus 63' 5.5"
Kylie Sherlock: 1st triple jump 26' 0.5"; 4th 400 meter dash 1:14.41
Journey Lee: 1st pole vault 6' 6"; 3rd 800 meters 3:13.76;
Hannah Wolff: 4th 800 meters 3:35.36
Jenna Confer: 4th 1600 meters 8:30.44
Emily Elfers: 1st 200 meter hurdles 33.37; 2nd 100 meter hurdles 18.22
Kayla Reed: 3rd triple jump 23' 3"; 5th 100 meters 15.28
Sydney Sundstrom: 1st shot put 29' 5.5"; 1st 3200 meters 25:18.00; 4th discus 66' 5.5"
Kattie Jenik: 1st discus 77' 5"; 4th shot put 26' 9.75"
Sophie White: 5th 200 meter hurdles 38.41
4 X 100 meter relay: (Kylie Sherlock, Emily Elfers, CarolEve Harris, McKenzie Taylor) 1st 58.52
4X 200 meter relay: (Journey Lee, Katie Schmid, CarolEve Harris, Kayla Reed) 1st 2:09.97
4 X 400 meter relay: (Emily Elfers, Hannah Wolff, Journey Lee, Kayla Reed) 2nd 5:17.48
In the boys division, St. Francis placed 2nd with 71 points. Decatur Community won the meet with 78 points. Quinter was a distant third with 29 points. Garrett Brunk set an new school record in the 200 meter hurdles running 30.13 in the event. The run clipped one-tenth of a second off his own record set last week.
Boys placing in the top five positions for St. Francis in the meet were:
Carl Fabre: 2nd 100 meters 13.06; 2nd 200 meters 27.53; 2nd long jump 15' 4.5"; 5th high jump 4' 8"
Lane Hobrock: 2nd triple jump 31' 6.5"; 3rd 100 meters 13.24; 3rd 200 meter hurdles 31.04
Clay Cassaw: 2nd 100 meter hurdles 17.73; 3rd pole vault 8' 0"; 4th 100 meters 13.30
J.R. Landenberger: 3rd 200 meters 28.92; 5th 100 meters 13.41
Joel Hill: 1st long jump 15' 7.5"; 4th 800 meters 2:46.28; 4th triple jump 31' 4"
Phillip White: 4th 3200 meters 15:11.79
Garrett Brunk: 1st 100 meter hurdles 16.24; 1st pole vault 9' 0"; 2nd 200 meter hurdles 30.13 (NEW SCHOOL RECORD FOR 8TH GRADE BOYS);
Quinton Cravens: 4th 100 meter hurdles 19.41
Taylor Rogers: 2nd high jump 4' 10"; 5th 200 meter hurdles 32.91
Francisco Fernandez: 3rd high jump 4' 10"; 4th long jump 14' 3"
Chris Hoard: 3rd shot put 34' 1.5"; 3rd discus 100' 8"; 5th 1600 meters 6:21.29
Jude Faulkender: 4th shot put 32' 3"; 4th discus 96' 11"
Travis Rogers: 5th pole vault 7' 6"; 5th triple jump 30' 3.5"
Jakob Church: 5th shot put 31' 6.5"
Payton Beims: 5th discus 96' 0.5"
4 X 100 meter relay: (Quinton Cravens, J.R. Landenberger, Joel Hill, Taylor Rogers) 1st 55.22
4 X 200 meter relay: (Travis Rogers, Quinton Cravens, Francisco Fernandez, J.R. Landenberger) 1st 1:55.63
4 X 400 meter relay: (Francisco Fernandez, Lane Hobrock, Travis Rogers, Clay Cassaw) 2nd 4:19.94
The junior high track teams will be competing in Oakley on Thursday, April 26, and in Quinter on Friday, April 27th.
