NEODESHA — Mindi Holloway captured the gold medal in the girls’ 800-meter run at Thursday’s Neodesha High Invitational track meet.
The Yates Center High sophomore ran the race in 2 minutes, 48 seconds. Teammate Macey Heger ran a season’s-best time of 2:59 for fifth.
Yates Center High’s Wildcats and the Uniontown High Eagles competed in the meet. The Yates Center girls scored 62 points to finish fourth as a team.
“Both girls’ and boys’ teams had good days at this meet,” said Dan Berg, Yates Center head track coach. “We had quite a few personal bests and season’s best with our relays and all five relays medaled.”
The Wildcat girls’ 4×100-meter relay team of Holloway, Paige Steinforth, Katelyn Hatch and Lindsay Francis won the silver medal in 54.8 seconds.
The girls’ 4×800-meter relay team of Haley Bedell, Heger, Mazie Wilson and Marlana Buchanan posted a season’s best time of 12 minutes, 18 seconds for third. Also running a season’s best was the 4×400-meter relay team of Bedell, Steinforth, Holloway and Hatch for third in 4:39.
Holloway took second in the 100-meter high hurdles in 17.67 seconds. In the 300-meter intermediate hurdles, Hatch finished third in 53.54 seconds and Bedell was fifth in 57.1 seconds.
Steinforth was the silver medalist in the high jump, clearing 4 feet, 10 inches. Francis was third in the long jump with a leap of 14’8”.
Yates Center’s Sam Aguirre continued his run in the 110-meter high hurdles. Aguirre posted a personal-best time of 15.2 seconds to take the gold Thursday.
Aguirre also ran a personal best in placing second in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in 41.3 seconds. Cooper was third in the 800-meter run in 2:19 and third in the 1600-meter run in 5:06.
Cooper and Aguirre combined with Bryce Leon and Myles Dice to take second in the 4×400-meter relay race. The Wildcat foursome ran the distance in 3:50.
Dice placed third in the high jump, clearing 5’6”.
“In the 800-meter run, Mindi caught the St. Paul girl who led the race in the last 80 meters to win. She also anchors two relays for us,” Berg said.
“Sam runs well in the highs (hurdles) but needs work on the intermediates. Ceaton has some tough doubles with the two distance races and the two relay races.”
Berg said the Yates Center field event competitors are doing well and making improvements as they head toward the league meet. For the girls, Buchanan had a personal-best throw in the shot put Thursday at 67’9” and competed in the discus. Bedell and Wilson are throwing the javelin.
