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The area brought home 70 all-state finishes from the Class 1 State Track Meet this weekend including five state championships.
Jasper’s Crystal Smith and Lakeland’s Garrett Strange each won two state titles.
Smith was dominant in her events winning the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 16.02 and the high jump with a leap of 5’3.25. She was runner-up in the 200 with a time of 27.29 to claim a third all-state finish.
Strange had a record-setting meet winning the javelin with a throw of 183’7. It broke the old class record of 177’4 set in 2019. That mark won the event by 21 feet. He then went on to win the discus by almost 20 feet with a throw of 164’5. Humansville’s Juan Alberto Coffman finished runner-up in the event with a throw of 145’10.
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Hermitage’s 3200-meter relay team started off the meet by winning the first event on the track on Friday with a time of 8:28.69. Justin Horn, Bennett Mantooth, DeJuan Chambers and Justus Yates combined for the championship. Those four also were the top four runners on Hermitage’s state championship cross country team last fall.
Thomas Jefferson’s Kip Atteberry brought home three individual all-state finishes placing third in the 3200, fourth in the 1600 and seventh in the 800.
College Heights’ Ethan Ukena earned three all-state finishes taking seventh individually in the triple jump and two more seventh-place finishes running legs on the 4×200 and 4×100.
Jasper and Galena finished 9th and 10th in the girls team competition to lead the area’s girls teams. Lakeland was the top area boys team with a ninth place finish.
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Class 1 Boys All-State Finishers
1st – Hermitage (Justin Horn, Bennett Mantooth, DeJuan Champers, Justus Yates) – 4×800 (8:28.69)
1st – Garrett Strange (Lakeland) – Javelin (183’7) – MEET RECORD
1st – Garrett Strange (Lakeland) – Discus (164’5)
2nd – Juan Alberto Coffman (Humansville) – Discus (145’10)
2nd – Brayden Sartin (Galena) – High Jump (6’2.75)
2nd – Benjamin Ipock (Winona) – 110 Hurdles (15.92)
2nd – Jaidon Crowder (Appleton City) – 400 (50.97)
2nd – College Heights (Zach Beaty, Colsen Dickens, Derrick Mcmillan, Caleb Quade) – 4×400 (3:35.17)
3rd – Gavin Duchsscherer (MCE) – 1600 (4:31.82)
3rd – Kip Atteberry (Thomas Jefferson) – 3200 (10:14.44)
3rd – Clayton Garrison (Chadwick) – High Jump (6’0)
3rd – Caleb Suschnick (Liberal) – Triple Jump (40’6.25)
3rd – Galena (Cameron Sartin, Chase Sartin, Cameron Elder, Colton Ellingsworth) – 4×800 (8:36.92)
3rd – Gavin Duchscherer (MCE) – 800 (2:02.73)
4th – Benjamin Ipock (Winona) – 300 Hurdles (41.86)
4th – Caleb Phillips (Macks Creek) – 3200 (10:17.07)
4th – Noah Neher (Jasper) – Discus (137’6)
4th – Kip Atteberry (Thomas Jefferson) – 1600 (4:33.32)
4th – Appleton City (Hayden Bock, Bailey Carter, Jaidon Crowder, Landon Oehring) – 4×800 (8:40.37)
5th – Justin Horn (Hermitage) – 3200 (10:22.78)
5th – Zachery Ellis (MCE) – 400 (52.71)
5th – Gage Smart (Greenwood) – Shot Put (46’11)
5th – Virgil McGinnis (Humansville) – Javelin (147’1)
5th – Caleb Phillips (Macks Creek) – 1600 (4:34.17)
5th – Appleton City (Hayden Bock, Bailey Carter, Jaidon Crowder, Landon Oehring) – 4×400 (3:36.77)
6th – Cade Nold (Dora) – 800 (2:04.29)
6th – Justin Chadwell (Norwood) – Triple Jump (40’2.75)
6th – Veston Fearon (Richland) High Jump (5’10)
6th – Virgil McGinnis (Humansville) – Shot Put (45’5.75)
6th – Fernando Gonzalez (Wheaton) – 300 hurdles (43.39)
7th – Kip Atteberry (Thomas Jefferson) 800 (2:04.93)
7th – Justus Yates (Hermitage) – 1600 (4:43.12)
7th – Ethan Ukena (College Heights) – Triple Jump (39’10)
7th – College Heights (Zach Beaty, Colsen Dickens, Caleb Quade, Ethan Ukena) – 4×200 (1:35.39)
7th – College Heights (Zach Beaty, Colsen Dickens, Ethan Ukena, Matt Williams) – 4×100 (46.72)
8th – Jaron Malotte (Sarcoxie) – Pole Vault (11’10.75)
8th – Caleb Suschnick (Liberal) – High Jump (5’10)
8th – Wyatt Pryor (Liberal) – Discus (124’2)
8th – Hayden Towne (Lakeland) – 110 Hurdles (17.47)
8th – Bradley Shaw (Stoutland) – 1600 (4:43.69)
8th – Juan Rivera (Jasper) – Pole Vault (11’8.5)
Class 1 Girls All-State Finishers
1st – Crystal Smith (Jasper) – 100 Hurdles (16.02)
1st – Crystal Smith (Jasper) – High Jump (5’3.25)
2nd – Crystal Smith (Jasper) – 200 (27.29)
2nd – Jasmine Temich (Galena) – 100 (12.82)
2nd – Gretchen House (Chadwick) – 3200 (12:15.93)
2nd – Galena (Maci Doak, Averi Foster, Chaley Plottner, Lori-Ann Sharpe) – 4×400 (4:21.72)
4th – Trista Torres (Greenfield) – 100 (12.84)
4th – Autumn Nold (Dora) – 400 (60.48)
4th – Jasmine Temich (Galena) – 200 (27.39)
5th – Kaesha Walter (Galena) – High Jump (5’1)
5th – Trista Torres (Greenfield) – 200 (27.53)
5th – Greenfield (Haley Gossett, Tatum Torres, Marlie Wright, Trista Torres) – 4×100 (53.50)
6th – Brea Morris (Richland) – 100 (12.97)
6th – Abby Barton (Liberal) – 800 (2:25.06)
6th – Gretchen House (Chadwick) – 1600 (5:39.12)
6th – Kaylynn Melton (Liberal) – Pole Vault (8’10.25)
6th – Appleton City (Deziree Hood, Kaylee O’Farrell, Kaydance Litton, Marissa Hearting) – 4×800 (10:52.70)
7th – Marlie Wright (Greenfield) – Triple Jump (33’8)
7th – Marlie Wright (Greenfield) – Long Jump (15’7.5)
7th – Maci Doak (Galena) – 400 (62.60)
7th – Alexis O’Farrell (Appleton City) – Javelin (110’8)
7th – Brea Morris (Richland) – 27.64 (200)
7th – Molly Phillips (Macks Creek) – 3200 (12:35.93)
8th – Kylie Maxwell (MCE) – Javelin (104’8)
8th – Trista Torres (Greenfield) – Long Jumpe (15’6.75)
8th – Kelyn Holman (Lockwood) – 800 (2:26.71)
8th – Marissa Heartin (Appleton City) – High Jump (4’9)
8th – Appleton City (Deziree Hood, Kaylee O’Farrell, Ravin Baumgarden, Marissa Hearting) – 4×400 (4:42.18)
