WICHITA — Iola High’s Ashley Campbell and Emery Driskel showed their mettle against some of the best athletes in the state Friday. Tyler Powelson waited a day to see what he can do.
The trio represent Iola at the state track meet.
Powelson dropped out of the Class 4A boys 3200-meter run because of illness, and to focus on today’s 1600-meter run.
Campbell, meanwhile, narrowly missed qualifying for the finals in the 400-meter dash. She finished ninth in the preliminaries. Her time of 60.98 seconds was .13 behind the final qualifying time.
Campbell rebounded to qualify in the 200-meter dash finals. She finished seventh in the preliminary round with a time of 26.94 seconds.
In addition to today’s 200, Campbell will compete in the 100-meter dash.
Driskel ran in both the 100- and 300-meter hurdle preliminaries, but failed to qualify for today’s finals.
Driskel finished 13th in the 100 hurdles in 16.87 seconds and 16th in the 300 hurdles in 51.12 seconds.
Iola’s Breanna Stout will join the Iola contingent this morning in the girls pole vault.
AREA SMALL school throwers took center stage Friday, as the state meet started in fine fashion for Crest High’s Kurston Gilliland and Jordan Morton.
Gilliland brought home a bronze medal in the girls 1A shot put with a distance of 39 feet, 8 1/2 inches.
Morton, meanwhile was fourth in the boys javelin, with a distance of 176’6”. His distance was a shade farther than Southern Coffey County’s Aaron True’s mark of 171’5”. True brought home seventh.
Gilliland added another top-10 finish. She finished 10th in the discus with a distance of 101’8”.
Marmaton Valley High’s Daylen Houk qualified for the finals in the boys 200-meter dash, while narrowly missing a qualifying mark in the 400. His time of 53.25 seconds was a fraction of a second behind the eighth-place — and final — qualifier.
IN OTHER classes, Humboldt High’s Tanner McNutt qualified in three events in Class 3A.
He had the top qualifying mark in the boys 400 preliminaries with a time of 49.24 seconds. He also qualified for today’s finals in the 200-meter dash and as the anchor of Humboldt’s 4×400-meter relay team. Other relay team members are Ethan Bartlett, Nick Keazer and Samuel Aguirre.
Aguirre, too, qualified in the boys’ 110-meter hurdles for today’s final heat.
McNutt still must compete in the boys 800-meter run, where he is the defending 3A state champion.
In Class 2A, Yates Center High’s Paige Steinforth brought home a top-10 finish in the girls high jump.
Steinforth cleared 4’10”.
THE STATE meet concludes today at Wichita State University’s Cessna Stadium.
Friday’s results follow.
4A
Girls
100-meter hurdle prelims
13. Emery Driskel, I, 16.87 (DNQ)
400-meter dash prelims
9. Ashley Campbell, I, 1:00.98 (DNQ)
300-meter hurdle prelims
16. Driskel, I, 51.12 (DNQ)
Boys
3200-meter run
??. Tyler Powelson, I, ?????????
3A
Girls
400-meter dash prelims
15. Sheri Middleton, H, 1:06.15 (DNQ)
Boys
300-meter hurdles prelims
8. Samuel Aguirre, H, 16.17 (Q)
400-meter dash prelims
1. Tanner McNutt, H, 49.24 (Q)
15. Ethan Bartlett, H, 54.44 (DNQ)
200-meter dash prelims
5. McNutt, H, 23.05 (Q)
Triple jump
14. Bryce Isaac, H, 39’8”
4×400-meter relay prelims
2. Humboldt (Bartlett, Nick Keazer, Aguirre, McNutt), 3:27.98 (Q)
2A
Girls
4×100 relay prelims
10. YC (Riley Albert, Paige Steinforth, Ashley Pringle, Mindi Holloway), 53.5 (DNQ)
300-meter hurdle prelims
15. Katelyn Hatch, YC, 53.07 (DNQ)
High jump
10. Steinforth, YC, 4’10”
200-meter dash prelims
15. Ashley Pringle, YC, 28.95 (DNQ)
4×400-meter relay
11. YC (Steinforth, Pringle, Hatch, Holloway), 4:24.28 (DNQ)
Discus
15. MaKayla Jones, YC, 82’1”
Boys
4×100 relay prelims
14. YC (Bryce Leon, Myles Dice, Caleb DeNoon, Ceaton Cooper), 47.60
400-meter run prelims
14. Ceaton Cooper, YC, 54.11 (DNQ)
Javelin
11. Austin McNett, YC, 142’4”
300-meter hurdle prelims
15. Tyler Keenan, YC, 48.60 (DNQ)
4×400-meter relay prelims
16. YC (McNett, Dice, DeNoon, Cooper), 3:45.88 (DNQ)
1A
Girls
Discus
10. Kurston Gilliland, C, 101’8”
Shot put
3. Gilliland, C, 39’8 1/2”
Boys
Javelin
4. Jordan Morton, C, 176’6”
7. Aaron True, SCC, 171’5”
4×100 relay prelims
14. MV (Garrett Booth, Carlos Gonzales, Chance Stevenson, Daylen Houk), 46.67, DNQ
400-meter dash prelims
9. Houk, MV, 53.25 (DNQ)
16. Lucas Hamlin, MV, 57.65 (DNQ)
400-meter dash prelims
8. Houk, MV, 23.47 (Q)
