Junior high track teams have success in first meet

Two school records were set in the first meet on Vandalia's all-weather track on Monday

The seventh-grade girls 4X100-meter relay team of Emma Meyer, Madeline Cade, Anna Miller and Jensen

Hollinshead placed first in 57.5 seconds to set a new school mark, and seventh-grader Curtis Gordon cleared 8 feet in the pole vault to break a record.

By the end of the day, three of the four Vandalia teams had won, with the seventh-grade boys defeating Litchfield, 79-31; the eighth-grade boys winning, 85-22; and the eighth-grade girls winning, 58-38. The seventh-grade girls lost, 60-40.

Seventh-grader Justin Evans won the first official race on the track, the 110-meter hurdles, and a total of 18 individuals won events for Vandalia.

The Jr. Vandals traveled to St. Anthony on Wednesday, and will host Pana in the next meet on April 17.

Monday, April 2
vs. Litchfield
Seventh-grade boys
Vandalia 79
Litchfield 31
First-place finishers
•Billy Crowley, 800-meter run and long jump
•Justin Evans, 110-meter hurdles and high jump
•Curtis Gordon, pole vault
•Logan Sullens, 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and shot put
•Richie Well, discus
•4X100-meter relay (Carter Towler, Devin Smith, Crowley and Sullens)
•4X400-meter relay (Brendon Smith, Well, Levi Cox and Dylan Brooks)
Second-place finishers
•Alec Schroeder, discus
•D. Smith, 200-meter dash
•Towler, 110-meter hurdles, 400-meter dash and shot put
•Bradley Ulery, 1,600-meter run
Third-place finishers
•Chandler Boyd, shot put
•Crowley, 100-meter dash
•Jarrett Paslay, 400-meter dash
•Tyler Petryshyn, 110-meter hurdles
•Nathan Schaub, 800-meter run and 1,600-meter run

Eighth-grade boys
Vandalia 85
Litchfield 22
First-place finishers
•Eli Bowen, 400-meter dash and long jump
•Brandon Gelsinger, 800-meter run
•Ethan Meyer, 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and shot put
•Shane Murray, 1,600-meter run and pole vault
•Tucker Willms, discus
•4X100-meter relay (Isaac Daiber, Gelsinger, Willms and Meyer)
•4X200-meter relay (Grant Wells, Bowen, Kolton Etcheson, Wells and Bowen)
•4X400-meter relay (Bobby Bradley, Etcheson, Wells and Bowen)
Second-place finishers
•Bradley, high jump
•Etcheson, shot put
•Gelsinger, long jump
•Luke Tessman, 1,600-meter run
•Willms, 100-meter dash
•Cody Woolsey, 110-meter hurdles and discus
Third-place finishers
•Bradley, 400-meter run
•Daiber, 110-meter hurdles
•Etcheson, discus
•Tessman, long jump

Seventh-grade girls
Litchfield 60
Vandalia 40
First-place finishers
•Jensen Hollinshead, shot put
•Madison Klanke, 200-meter dash
•Emma Meyer, 100-meter dash
•Anna Miller, 100-meter hurdles
•4X100-meter relay (Meyer, Madeline Cade, Miller and Hollinshead)
Second-place finishers
•Klanke, high jump
•Miller, 200-meter dash
•Mikayla Ruot, discus
Third-place finishers
•Hollinshead, 100-meter dash and 200-meter dash
•Klanke, long jump
•Olivia Marquardt, 1,600-meter run
•Alli Palmer, 400-meter dash
•Katie Tarkington, 100-meter hurdle and high jump

Eighth-grade girls
Vandalia 58
Litchfield 38
First-place finishers
•Karlie Bright, 100-meter dash, shot put and pole vault
•Leah Francis, discus
•Jalea Paslay, 800-meter run
•Makayla Tinker, 400-meter dash and long jump
•4X200-meter relay (Bright, Francis, Tinker and Paslay)
Second-place finishers
•Francis, 800-meter run
•Paslay, 100-meter hurdles and long jump
•Rylee Wollerman, shot put
Third-place finisher
•Kaylin Black, 200-meter dash