Brown, Bowers advance to Girls State Track Meet
Vandalia’s Sophie Bowers and Hannah Brown have qualified for the IHSA State Girls Track Meet this week.
Bowers qualified in the 400-meter run by finishing second with a time of 59.71 seconds at the Newton Sectional.

Brown qualified in the shot put by finishing second with a toss of 11.29 meters and in the discus by finishing fourth with a throw of 33.81 meters.
IHSA Sectional
100m – Sophie Bowers, third, 13.20; Destinee Rine, 20th, 14.27.
200m – Bowers, fifth, 28.28.
400m – Bowers, second, 59.71; Rine 1:07.72.
800m – Joselyn Murray, 8th, 2:48.93.
1600m – Murray 6:20.91.
4×100 relay – Nevaeh Sachan, Payton Malone, Rine & Cheyann Flowers, 12th, 1:00.05.
4×200 relay – Sachan, Malone, Kaydence Carroll & Flowers, 12th, 2:03.69.
Shot put – Hannah Brown, second, 11.29m; Violet Gray, 27th, 7:05m.
Discus – Brown, 4th, 33.81m; Flowers, 16th, 22.28m.
High jump – Rine, 3rd, 1.47m; Malone, 16th, 1.32m.
Long jump – Sachan, 7th, 4.66m.
Triple jump – Sachan, 6th, 9.62m; Carroll, 12th, 8.65m.
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GIRLS
100m – Sophie Bowers, 4th, 13.63; Destinee Rin, 13th, 14.36.
200m – Bowers, first, 27.44; Kaydence Carroll.
400m – Bowers, 1st, 1:01.47; Rine, 1:05.60.
800m – Joselyn Murray, 8th, 2:52.96; Violet Gray, 20th, 3:53.33.
1600m – Murray, 6th, 6:28.07.
100m hurdles – Nevaeh Sachan, 8th, 19.47; Cheyann Flowers, 13th, 20.61.
300m hurdles – McKinley Murfee, 11th, 1:03.55.
4×100 relay – Payton Malone, Rine, Sachan & Flowers, 7th, 55.63.
4×200 relay – Malone, Carroll, Sachan & Flowers, 8th, 2:06.27.
Shot put – Hannah Brown, 1st, 11.57m; Carlie Graumenz, 10th, 8.42m.
Discus – Brown, 3rd, 30.53m; Graumenz, 19.69m.
High jump – Rine, 4th, 1.42m; Malone, 15th, 1.27m.
Pole vault – Faith DuPlayee, 4th, 2.29m.
Long jump – Sachan, 11th, 4.24m; Flowers, 3.63m.
Triple jump – Carroll, 7th, 8.78m.
BOYS
Vandalia 94
Altamont 88
Cumberland 65
Effingham St. Anthony 61
Christ Our Rock Lutheran 51
Teutopolis 42
Neoga 35
Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City 34
Oblong/Palestine/Hudsonville 23
Brownstown/St. Elmo 21
Dieterich 18
Louisville 17
Nokomis 7
Newton 1
100m – Ian Whitehead, 4th, 11.69; Paddy McDowell, 5th, 11.86.
200m – P McDowell, 4th, 24.20.
400m – Whitehead, 1st, 51.14.
800m – Nic Jackson, 1st, 2:07.46; Khaden Litaker, 12th, 2:22.82.
1600m – Cole Durbin, 14th, 5:52.71; Jon Jackson, 17th, 6:22.08.
3200m – Matthew McDowell, 9th, 12:11.67; J Jackson, 12th, 14:01.71.
110m hurdles – Sam Bowers, 4th, 16.15.
300m hurdles – S Bowers, 45.92.

4×100 relay – S Bowers, P McDowell, Jordan Colburn & Whitehead, 2nd, 45.83.
4×200 relay – Jayden Hubler-Rench, Colburn, P McDowell & Alex Burnam, 1st, 1:37.30.
4×400 relay – N Jackson, M McDowell, Dade Kleinik & Khaden Litaker, 4th, 3:57.36.
4×800 relay – Durbin, Kleinik, Litaker & N Jackson, 2nd, 8:59.12.
Shot put – Artan Mustafa, 5th, 12.06m; Garret Flowers, 12th, 11.04m.
Discus – Burnam, 12th, 31.72; Mustafa, 17th, 27.45m.
High jump – Lucas Bowers, 4th, 1.73m.
Pole vault – Jackson Wimberly, 3rd, 3.57m; Elijah Mabry, 4th, 3.35m.
Long jump – Hubler-Rench, 3rd, 5.82m; L Bowers, 6th, 5.51m.
Triple jump – Whitehead, 3rd, 10.91m; Sachan.
