FREDONIA — Going 1-2-3 in the pole vault and winning six other events helped propel Iola High’s Fillies to a second-place finish at the 2011 Fredonia Relays last Thursday.
Iola High’s Mustangs gathered in 11 medals on a cold and rainy day. The Mustangs ended up third in their division in the meet hosted by Fredonia High School.
Chanute High swept the team championships. There were only five schools competing in the “large” school division.
The Blue Comet girls amassed 143 points and the Fillies scored 101. Girard was third with 42 points.
For the boys, Chanute scored 107 points for the title. Coffeyville scored 76 points while the Mustangs took third with 67 with Girard in fourth with 66 points.
“Ironically, our girls are at their best when we have 12 or so teams so it divides up the points in the events we do not enter. Our boys cannot handle the large number of schools because we have to scratch and claw for those fourth, fifth and sixth-place points,” said Marvin Smith, IHS head track coach.
Only the top five places in each event scored points at Fredonia.
“It was not a good day to have a track meet but the option was to cancel and not make up the meet. Our kids did a good job under the circumstances of cold and intermittent drizzle throughout the meet. We had a little over an hour delay to start the meet,” Smith said.
Kendra Taiclet was a triple gold-medal winner. She won the 100-meter high hurdles in 16.7 seconds and the 300-meter low hurdles in 51.4 seconds.
Taiclet combined with Chanel Coyne, Kelsey Larson and Breanna Stout to win the 4×100-meter relay race. Larson was the gold-medal winner in the 400-meter dash in 62.6 seconds.
Maggie Wilson only competed in one event Thursday. She captured the gold in the pole vault with a height of 10 feet, 6 inches. Stout was second at 6’6” and Coyne was third at 6-foot.
Kirstin McGuffin claimed first place in the javelin with a throw of 104’4”. Larson, who competed in the event for the first time, placed second at 102’7” and Ty Ellis was fifth at 85 feet.
The other gold medal went to Katlyn Cleaver in the discus. She had a winning throw of 102’8”. McGuffin was fifth in the event at 84’1”.
Larson was the silver medalist in the 200-meter dash in 27.8 seconds. Taiclet was second in the 100-meter dash in 13.5 seconds.
The Fillies’ 4×400-meter relay team of Coyne, Stout, Sydney Owens and Abby Works placed second. The foursome ran the race in 5 minutes, 8.8 seconds.
Owens and Works combined with Jamie Spears and Kristen Linn to finished third in the 4×800-meter relay race. Their time was 12:38.
Stout placed third in the high jump, clearing the bar at 4 feet. Ellis was fifth in the 100-meter high hurdles in 21.1 seconds.
THE LONE GOLD medalist for the Mustangs was Roman Yocham. Yocham won the 3200-meter run in 10:56.7. He also took the silver in the 1600-meter run in 5:04. 3.
Charles Apt took the silver medal in the javelin with a throw of 159’11”. Ralph Shafer placed third at 150’9”.
Christian Kauth finished second in the triple jump with a leap of 37’3”. Stephen McDonald claimed a silver medal in the high jump, clearing the bar at 5’4”.
Adam Kauth was the bronze medalist in the 110-meter high hurdles in 18.4 seconds. The 4×800-meter relay team of Apt, C. Kauth, Mikal Bossell and Tyler Powelson finished third in 9:12.
Kyle Heffern captured two bronze medals in throwing events. He was third in the discus at 113’4” and in the shot put at 37’9”.
Drew Shepherd placed third in the pole vault, clearing 11 feet. Dylan Lower was fifth in the event at 8’6”.
Bossell finished fourth in the 400-meter dash in 54.6 seconds and Apt was sixth in 55.6. C. Kauth was fourth in the 800-meter run in 2:13.4 and Powelson was sixth at 2:16.4.
The Mustang 4×100-meter relay team of Marcus Sullivan, McDonald, Tyler McIntosh and Bossell placed fourth in 48.3 seconds. The 4×400-meter relay team of Apt, Bossell, Yocham and C. Kauth was fourth in 3:56.7.
A. Kauth took fifth in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in 47.1 seconds. McDonald was sixth in the 200-meter dash in 25.9. McIntosh was fifth in the long jump with a leap of 17’2”.
Jeremy Spears placed sixth in the 1600-meter run in 5:28.1. Bryan Miller was sixth in the 3200-meter run in 11:59.7.
Next up for the Iola High varsities is the Osawatomie High Invitational on Thursday. There are several junior varsity races contested at the meet also.
The Iola junior varsity athletes are at Fort Scott High’s JV 1 Invitational today.
