Jr. High track athletes break more records
More school records fell as the Vandalia Junior High track teams had two meets in the past week.
Emma Meyer improved her own record in the 100-meter dash, with a time of 13.2 seconds. The seventh-grade 4X100-meter relay team of Meyer, Madeline Cade, Anna Miller and Jensen Hollinshead, also bettered its record, with a time of 56.4 seconds.
For the boys, Curtis Gordon broke his own record in the 110-meter hurdles, with a time of 17.8 seconds.
All three of those records were set last Thursday at Greenville.
At Tuesday's home meet, Meyer broke the seventh-grade pole vault record, with 7 feet, 9 inches, and Karlie Bright broke the eighth-grade mark, with 8 feet, 3 inches.
Gordon set the seventh-grade boys mark, with 9 feet, 3 inches.
Tuesday, April 24
at Vandalia
Eighth-grade girls
First-place finishers
•Bright, pole vault (set school record, with 8 feet, 3 inches)
•Leah Francis, discus
•Jalea Paslay, 800-meter run
•Makayla Tinker, high jump, long jump
•4X200-meter relay (Bright, Francis, Tinker and Paslay)
Second-place finishers
•Bright, shot put
•Francis, 800-meter run
•Paslay, 100-meter hurdles, long jump
•Tinker, 400-meter run
Third-place finisher
•Rylee Wollerman, shot put
Team scores
•Hillsboro, 58
•Vandalia, 46
Seventh-grade girls
First-place finishers
•Hollinshead, 200-meter dash
•Olivia Marquardt, 1,600-meter run
•E. Meyer, 100-meter dash, long jump
•E. Meyer, pole vault (set school record, with 7 feet, 9 inches)
•Anna Miller, 100-meter hurdles
•4X100-meter relay (Meyer, Miller, Cade and Hollinshead)
Second-place finishers
•Kayla Atkinson, 800-meter run
•Miller, 200-meter dash
•Alli Palmer, 400-meter dash
•Mikayla Ruot, discus
•Maddie Wilkerson, 100-meter hurdles
Third-place finishers
•Hollinshead, 100-meter dash
•Katie Tarkington, high jump
•Carley Wilkerson, 800-meter run
•Maddie Wilkerson, long jump
Team scores
•Vandalia, 59
•Hillsboro, 54
Eighth-grade boys
First-place finishers
•Brandon Gelsinger, 800-meter run
•Ethan Meyer, 200-meter dash, shot put
•Shane Murray, 1,600-meter run
•Tucker Willms, discus
•4X200-meter relay (Isaac Daiber, Grant Wells, Kolton Etcheson and Bobby Bradley)
Second-place finishers
•Marcus Durbin, 200-meter dash
•Etcheson, discus
•Meyer, 100-meter dash
•Murray, pole vault
Third-place finishers
•Bradley, 400-meter dash
•Daiber, 110-meter hurdles, long jump
•Etcheson, shot put
Team scores
•Hillsboro, 62
•Vandalia, 46
Seventh-grade boys
First-place finishers
•Billy Crowley, 800-meter run, long jump
•Justin Evans, high jump
•Curtis Gordon, 110-meter hurdles
•Gordon, pole vault (set school record, with 9 feet, 3 inches)
•Nathan Schaub, 1,600-meter run
•Alec Schroeder, discus
•Logan Sullens, 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash
•4X100-meter relay (Gordon, Devin Smith, Crowley and Sullens)
•4X200-meter relay (Carter Towler, Brendon Smith, Richie Well and Evans)
Second-place finishers
•Crowley, 100-meter dash
•Evans, 110-meter hurdles
•Schroeder, high jump
•B. Smith, long jump
•Sullens, 200-meter dash
•Bradley Ulery, 1,600-meter run
Third-place finishers
•Evans, pole vault
•Schaub, long jump
•D. Smith, 200-meter dash
Towler, 400-meter dash, shot put
•Well, 110-meter hurdles
Team scores
•Vandalia, 79
•Hillsboro 35
Thursday, April 19
at Greenville
Eighth-grade girls
First-place finishers
•Karlie Bright, pole vault, shot put
•Jalea Paslay, 800-meter run
•Makayla Tinker, long jump
•4X200-meter relay (Bright, Leah Francis, Tinker and Paslay)
Second-place finishers
•Francis, 800-meter run, discus
•Paslay, 100-meter hurdles, long jump
Third-place finishers
•Bright, 100-meter dash
•Tinker, 400-meter dash
•Rylee Wollerman, shot put
Fourth-place finisher
•Kaylin Black, 200-meter run
Team scores
•Grenville, 63
•Vandalia, 47
•Brownstown, 31
Seventh-grade girls
First-place finishers
•Olivia Marquardt, 1,600-meter run
•Meyer, 100-meter dash (set school record in 13.2 seconds)
•4X100-meter relay (Meyer, Cade, Miller and Hollinshead), new school record in 56.4 seconds
Second-place finishers
•Mykayla Cannon, 800-meter run
•Hollinshead, shot put
•Miller, 100-meter hurdles
•4X200-meter relay (Kacey Elam, Katie Tarkington, Carson Howard and Madison Klanke)
Third-place finishers
•Howard, discus
•Miller, 200-meter dash
•Tarkington, high jump
Fourth-place finishers
•Sydney Austin, discus
•Klanke, 200-meter dash, long jump
•Maddie Wilkerson, 100-meter hurdles
Team scores
•Brownstown, 46
•Greenville, 43
•Vandalia, 42
Eighth-grade boys
First-place finishers
•Marcus Durbin, long jump
•Brandon Gelsinger, 800-meter run
•Ethan Meyer, 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash
•Shane Murray, 1,600-meter run
Second-place finishers
•Bobby Bradley, 400-meter dash, high jump
•Durbin, 200-meter dash
•Gelsinger, long jump
•Meyer, shot put
•Murray, pole vault
•Luke Tessman, 1,600-meter run
•4X100-meter relay (Tucker Willms, Gelsinger, Durbin and Meyer)
•4X200-meter relay (Bradley, Kolton Etcheson, Braden Clark and Grant Wells)
Third-place finishers
•Clark, 400-meter dash, pole vault
•Durbin, 100-meter dash
•Etcheson, shot put
•Willms, discus
•Cody Woolsey, 110-meter hurdles
Fourth-place finishers
•Isaac Daiber, 110-meter hurdles
•Tessman, 800-meter run, long jump
Team scores
•Vandalia, 67
•Greenville, 66
•Brownstown, 9
Seventh-grade boys
First-place finishers
•Billy Crowley, 800-meter run, long jump
•Gordon, 110-meter hurdles (set school record in 17.8 seconds)
•Gordon, pole vault
•Nathan Schaub, 1,600-meter run
•Logan Sullens, 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, shot put
•4X100-meter relay (Gordon, Devin Smith, Crowley and Sullens)
•4X200-meter relay (Carter Towler, Richie Well, Brendon Smith and Justin Evans)
Second-place finishers
•Crowley, 100-meter dash
•Evans, pole vault
•D. Smith, 200-meter dash
•Towler, 400-meter dash
•Bradley Ulery, 1,600-meter run
•4X400-meter relay (B. Smith, James Crawford, Dylan Brooks and Levi Cox)
Third-place finishers
•Chandler Boyd, shot put
•Evans, 110-meter hurdles, high jump
•Ethan Ferguson, 1,600-meter run
•Jarrett Paslay, 800-meter run
•Alec Schroeder, discus
•D. Smith, 100-meter dash
Fourth-place finishers
•Schroeder, high jump
•Ulery, 800-meter run
•Well, discus
Team scores
•Vandalia, 86
•Greenville, 39
•Brownstown, 14
