School record falls at last regular-season meet

By Editor | May 16, 2012 |

Another Vandalia boys track record fell, as the 4X200-meter relay team set a new mark at Hillsboro last Thursday.

Senior Quenten Austin, junior Wade Cowger, sophomore Colton Woolsey and junior Ryan Ambuehl teamed up to place second in the race in 1:37.84, beating the previous record, which was set in 2009, by 1.5 seconds.

Austin and Ambuehl now are part of all four relay records at VCHS.

Ambuehl, Austin and Codie Jackson also had individual first-place finishes to help the Vandals place second out of three teams.

Vandalia returns to the track on Friday for the Lawrenceville Sectional meet, where it is hoped that several athletes will qualify for the state meet.

The sectional begins at 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 10
at Hillsboro
First-place finishers
•Austin, 110-meter hurdles, 0:15.5
•Austin, high jump, 6 feet
•Ambuehl, 300-meter hurdles, 0:49.84
•Codie Jackson, triple jump, 21 feet, 7 inches
Second-place finishers
•Ambuehl, 110-meter hurdles, 0:16.31
•Jackson, 300-meter hurdles, 0:51.6
•Robbie Lott, pole vault, 9 feet, 6 inches
•Lott, long jump, 15 feet, 1 ½ inches
•Ben Strobel, 800-meter run, 2:15
•Strobel, 1,600-meter run, 5:29.94
•4X200-meter relay (Austin, Cowger, Woolsey and Ambuehl), 1:37.84
Third-place finishers
•Luke Hollinshead, shot put, 38 feet, 10 inches
•Lott, 400-meter dash, 1:09
•Tom Sutton, 3,200-meter run, 14:17.91
Fourth-place finishers
•Blake Hankins, 200-meter dash, 0:26.46
•Trenton Kinworthy, 800-meter run, 2:25
•Kinworthy, discus, 91 feet, 4 inches
•Lott, high jump, 5 feet, 2 inches
•Woolsey, shot put, 36 feet, 6 inches
Team scores
•Hillsboro, 94
•Vandalia, 69
•Waverly, 48