June 15, 2024

Panther track out of the blocks at NW Missouri

DATELINE –

MARYVILLE, MISSOURI - Creston High’s boys’ track team placed 14th and the girls’ track team placed 17th Saturday at the Northwest Missouri Indoor High School Kick off. The Panthers’ next meet is 4:30 p.m Thursday at Carroll.

Girls results

Braylee Pokorny finished ninth in the 200 meter dash in a time of :29.31. Kadley Bailey was 31st in :31.77.

400 meter: Bailey, 24th, 1:10:67; Abby Freeman, 37th, 1:23.71; Jordan Rogers, 38th, 1:24.26.

800 meter: Mia Strunk, 35th, 3:13.84.

1600 meter: Sydney Strunk, 16th, 7:01; Mia Strunk, 17th, 7:07.

60 meter hurdles: Kadley Bailey, 5th, 10:55; Doryn Paup, 24th, 11:54.

4x200 relay: Paup, Maylee Riley, Emma Pantini, Nevaeh Chesnut, 24th, 2:03.65

4x400 relay: Paup, Bailey, Pokorny, Pantini, 14th, 4:40; Ella Turner, Chesnut, Karter Clayton, Payton Davis, 23rd, 5:01.

Distance Medley: Pantini, Pokorny, Turner, Davis, 7th, 14:58

High jump: Pokorny, 8th, 1.43 m

Shot put: Brynn Tussey, 26th, 8.2 meter.

Millard South won the girl’s meet with 86.5 points. There were 20 teams that scored.

Boys

60 meter dash: Payton Conley, 32nd, :7.82; Maddix Leppla, 49th, :8.45.

200 meter dash: Conley, 17th, :25.36; Eric Chen, 32nd, :26.89.

400 meter: Ethan Holliday, 35th, 1:03.72.

800 meter: Brandon Briley, 2nd, 2:01.97.

4x200 relay: Tyler Riley, Conley, Jackson Pettegrew, Chris Aragon, 15th, 1:41.60; Leppla, Chen, Milo Staver, Holliday, 27th, 1:48.55

4X400 relay: Briley, Pettegrew, Aragon, Conley, 15th, 3:54.61; Tyler Riley, Staver, Ty Morrison, Holliday, 23rd, 4:09.29.

Distance Medley: Briley, Pettegrew, Riley, Morrison, 10th, 12:22.55.

Long jump: Chen, 24th, 4.95 m.

Shot put: Quinten Fuller, 7th, 13.22; Nolan Ide, 40th, 7.61 m.

Millard South won the boy’s with 75 points. There were 17 teams that scored.

John Van Nostrand

JOHN VAN NOSTRAND

An Iowa native, John's newspaper career has mostly been in small-town weeklies from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River. He first stint in Creston was from 2002 to 2005.