YATES CENTER — Kaylee Becker was a force to be reckoned with at Tuesday’s Three Rivers League meet in Yates Center.
The Marmaton Valley eighth grader had a perfect day with four gold medals in her four events.
Becker won the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, long jump and teamed with Haylee Meiwes, Lexis Jones and Kate Morgan to win the medley relay.
Meiwes had a very good day in her own right, adding first-place finishes in the 3200-meter run and the discus to her relay gold.
Tea Smith finished right behind Meiwes in the 3200 meters to take second.
Morgan took fifth in the 75-meter hurdles. Jones was fifth in the 800-meter run and Alyssa Allison was fifth in the 1600-meter run.
The eighth-grade girls took third as a team.
Aly Ard led the seventh-grade girls with a trio of medals.
Ard finished second in the 800-meter run and fourth in the 1600-meter run. She also teamed with Kendall Scharff, Kira Stahl and Becca Reiter to take third in the medley relay.
For the seventh-grade boys, the highlight of the day was the medley relay team of Garrett Henderson, Quincy Adams, Bryce Carman and Zach Thrush, which took second.
Adams added a fifth in the 200 meters and a sixth in the 75-meter hurdles.
Henderson also finished third in the 800 meters, sixth in the 1600 meters and sixth in the long jump.
Carman took fourth in the long jump and sixth in the 400 meters.
CREST
The seventh-grade Lancer girls needed everyone to win the league championship, but were able to do so by edging Jayhawk-Linn by one point and Yates Center by two.
Hailie Fuller was the leader of the Lancer attack and took first in the 100-meter dash and 200-meter dash.
Marissa Lansdown was Fuller’s partner in crime in nearly every event as she took third in the 100 meters and second in the 200 meters. Lansdown also took third in the 400 meters while Fuller was fifth.
Fuller anchored the medley relay team which consisted of Anna Hermreck, Lindsey Godderz and Brinley McGhee that took second.
Lansdown added a third-place medal in the long jump.
McGhee picked up a sixth place medal in the 75-meter hurdles and also was a member of two other relay teams.
The 4×200 team of McGhee, Mckenna Hammond, Godderz and Kamryn Luedke finished second while McGhee, Hermreck, Luedke and Hammond finished third in the 4×100 relay.
Godderz also finished fifth in the discus and third in the shot put — one spot behind Hermreck, who took second.
Shelby Prater was sixth in the 1,600 meters.
For the seventh-grade boys, Karter Miller won the 1,600-meter run and took fourth in the 800-meter run.
Avery Blaufuss was sixth in shot put.
For the eighth-grade girls, Ashton Bain took sixth in both the 400-meter dash and 200-meter dash.
The highlight for the eighth-grade boys was in the 4×100 relay, where Stratton McGhee, Jacquez Coleman, Sol Taylor and Caleb Nolan finished first.
McGhee, Coleman, Taylor and Kobey Miller took second in the 4×200 relay.
Nolan added a pair of third-place finishes in the 200-meter dash and 400-meter dash.
McGhee also took fifth in the 100-meter dash.
YATES CENTER
Kendrick Jones stole the show for Yates Center on Tuesday.
The Yates Center seventh-grader took first in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, 400-meter dash and the high jump.
Ethan Clay was the next highest scoring Wildcat, as he took third in the 100-meter dash, fourth in the 200-meter dash and was a part of two first-place relay teams. Shane Weber, Cash Cummings and Carter Burton joined Clay on the 4×100 relay while Owen Forsyth, Burton, Clay and James Packard made up the 4×200.
Cummings, Weber, Packard and Clay also took fourth in the medley relay.
Burton finished second in the 75-meter hurdles while Caleb Hegwald was fifth.
Colin Randall took sixth in the 800-meter run and Zeno Jimenez was sixth in the discus.
The Wildcats were the second-place seventh-grade boys’ team at the meet.
While Jones starred for the seventh-grade boys, TyAnna Peoples stood out for the seventh-grade girls.
Peoples took first in the 1,600-meter run and 800-meter run. She also joined Callyn Miller, Jacelyn Catron and Molly proper on the first-place 4×200 relay and joined Proper, Morgan Collins and Hannah Jones on the winning medley relay.
Collins also finished third in both the 800-meter run and 1,600-meter run.
Jones was second in the 400-meter dash — Proper was sixth — and second in the 200-meter dash.
Emma Grogg, Catron, Miller and Proper finished second in the 4×100 relay.
Catron was third in the discus and Maci Tadlock was sixth in the long jump.
The Wildcats finished third as a seventh-grade girls’ team.
Austin Moffet’s victory in the 3,200-meter run was the highlight of the day for the eighth-grade boys.
Moffet also took third in the 1,600-meter run.
Alec Berthot was second in the 75-meter hurdles and also finished fifth in the 200-meter dash.
Farron Brown took third in the discus and Bryson Howell was sixth in the shot put.
Brown, Cameron Henry, Hunter Evans and Berthot took second in the 4×100 relay.
Yates Center’s eighth-grade boys were fourth as a team.
For the eighth-grade girls, Maddie Proper had the best finish of the day by taking second in the 1,600-meter run.
Liberty Cavender was third in the 75-meter hurdles.
