Centralia sweeps district titles again on home track
Centralia took home both district track and field championships again this year.
They were already home, however, as the Lady Panthers and Panthers won the district titles for the second straight year on their home track on Saturday in the Class 3 District 4 meet. The girls won four events while the boys won six events and scored 156 points while the girls won four events and scored 127.5 points.
The boys 4x400 relay team of Cody Prater, Wesley Robertson, Ethan Ross, and Peyson Bryson won the event and set a school-record time of 3:28.20. Ross won the 400 with a time of 50.57 and was the javelin champion with a throw of 56.72 meters, Nolan Spickert was the 1600 and 3200 champion with respective times of 4:27.79 and 9:52.25, and Carson Hill won the triple jump with a distance of 12.61 meters.
The boys 4x800 relay team of Bryson, Robertson, Spickert and Lane Chancellor finished second to fall within the top four to qualify for sectionals this Saturday in Centralia and also set a school record-time of 8:04.84. Ross was second in the 200, Chancellor was third in the 800, Robertson was second in the 1600 and 3200, Prater was third in the 300 hurdles, Bryson was second in the high jump and triple jump, and Tilmon Sontheimer was second in the shot put and fourth in the discus to all advance to sectionals.
For the girls, Kenedee Moss was the 3200 champion with a time of 12:18.70, Claire Page won the pole vault with a height of 3.2 meters, Kassena Ridgel was the discus champion with a throw of 38.41 meters, and the 4x800 relay team of Moss, Katelynn Asbury, Ealynne Bostick and Becca Erisman won with a time of 10:00.80.
Erisman was second in the 200, 300 hurdles, and long jump to qualify in all three events. Asbury was second in the 800, Moss was second in the 1600, Alyssa Bodine was second in the pole vault, and Cora King was fourth in the discus and third in the shot put to advance to sectionals.
Siegel, Craighead advance to sectionals for North Callaway
A couple of North Callaway girls will be in Centralia this Saturday, too.
Jocelyn Siegel and Alex Craighead each finished in the top four of events in Saturday’s Class 3 District 4 meet in Centralia to earn the right to compete in sectionals Saturday in Centralia. Siegel finished second in the triple jump with a distance of 10.51 meters, and Craighead was fourth in the high jump with a height of 1.4 meters.
Song going to sectionals in two events for Missouri Military Academy
Christopher Song will be running two races again in Centralia this Saturday in sectionals.
The Missouri Military Academy senior competed in the Class 3 District 4 meet on Saturday in Centralia and finished second in the 800 with a time of 2:06.08 and fourth in the 1600 with a time of 4:40.55. The top four in each event qualified for sectionals.
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