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PREP TRACK & FIELD: College Heights, Seneca athletes fare well at Lamar 

 

College Heights Christian and Seneca were among the area schools competing at the Lamar Rotary Relays track and field invitational on Thursday. 

College Heights, Lamar, East Newton, Mount Vernon, Monett, Nevada and Jasper were among the schools that had individual event winners.

 

GIRLS MEET HIGHLIGHTS

The College Heights girls won two events.

Addie Lawrence won the 200-meter dash in 26.54, while CHC’s 4×400 relay took first with a time of 4:23. 

Also for CHC’s girls, Allie Fiscus was seventh in the 100 hurdles and eighth in the 300 hurdles, Katie Moss took ninth in the 800 and Riley Peterson was ninth in the long jump. The Cougars were competing one day after winning the Ozark 7 Conference Meet.

Mount Vernon’s Sadie Heisner won four events—the 100 hurdles (15.94), the long jump (16-7.5), triple jump (35-0) and the pole vault (10-6).

Other individual event winners were Lamar’s Kiersten Potter (1600, 3200), Marcy Miller (high jump) and Phajjia Gordon (discus), Monett’s Mary Jane Fernandez (100) and Gabby Zengotita (300 H), Nevada’s Jerica Collins (javelin) and Claire Pritchett (shot put), Stockton’s Jenna Rickman (400) and Lockwood’s Kelyn Holman (800). 

Mount Vernon won the 4×100, Monett took first in the 4×200 and El Dorado Springs was first in the 4×800. 

 

SENECA GIRLS HIGHLIGHTS

Seneca’s girls were second in the 4×100 relay and third in the 4×200.

Kamryn Fox took second in the 400, Makenzie French finished fifth in the 100, while Samarah Mittag took sixth in the 200. 

Rylee Darnell and Mallorie King finished third and fourth, respectively, in the high jump. 

Danessa Macy finished sixth in the 110 hurdles, while Darnell finished seventh in the triple jump and eighth in the pole vault. Katelyn Fyock was eighth in the long jump and Isabella Renfro took eighth in the shot put.  

 

BOYS MEET HIGHLIGHTS

The host Lamar Tigers won eight events in the boys meet. Winning individual events for Lamar were Logan Crockett (100), Cade Griffith (200), Joe Kremp (1600), Trace Willhite (discus, javelin) and Rylan Wooldridge (shot put).

Lamar’s boys won the 4×100 and the 4×200 relays, while East Newton took first in both the 4×400 and 4×800.

Winning individual events were Monett’s Eduardo Trujillo (400, 110 H) and Konner Poynter (triple jump), East Newton’s Kelton Sorrell (800) and Michael Crowe (high jump), Jasper’s Aiden Hartgrave (300 H), Nevada’s Drew Beachler (long jump) and El Dorado Springs’ Daelen Ackley (3200) and Collin Hunter (pole vault). 

 

COLLEGE HEIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS

College Heights Christian’s Colsen Dickens finished third in the 400-meter run, while Derrick McMillan placed seventh in the 1600 and also took eighth in the 800. 

CHC’s Jace Edwards finished eighth in the 3200 and Steven Calandro was eighth in the 110 hurdles. 

The CHC boys were fourth in the 4×200 relay, fifth in the 4×800 relay, sixth in the 4×400 and eighth in the 4×100.

 

SENECA HIGHLIGHTS

Seneca’s Jaxson Graham was the runner-up in the boys 100-meter dash and also finished seventh in the 200. 

Trevor Cargile was fifth in the 400, while Max Golden took fifth in the 110 hurdles and Morgan Bryan was fifth in the discus and eighth in the shot put. 

The Indians were sixth in the 4×200 and seventh in the 4×100. 

PREP BASEBALL: Carthage wins River City Festival tournament opener

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Carthage opened the River City Festival tournament with an 8-4 win over Shawnee Mission West on Friday.

After both teams traded runs in the first inning, Shawnee Mission West took a brief lead with a run in the top of the third before Carthage answered right back with a four-run bottom of the third. The Vikings cut the lead to two with a run in the fifth before the Tigers put the game out of reach with a three spot in the last of the sixth.

After Kanen Vogt tied the game in the third inning with an RBI single to right, Grant Collier reached on a bunt single that also scored Kaden Kralicek to give Carthage a 3-2 lead. In the next at-bat, Micah Lindsey came through with a two-run triple to center field to push the lead to 5-2.

The Tigers scored their first run in the sixth on a Viking error. Two batters later, Vogt doubled through the left side to score Caden Kabance and Sylas Browning to push the lead to 8-3.

Vogt also earned the win on the mound after allowing four runs, three earned, on six hits, two walks and two strikeouts in a complete-game effort.

Brandon Stone took the loss after allowing eight runs, four earned, on nine hits, two walks and four strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings.

Browning led Carthage with three hits, including a double, and a team-high three runs scored. Vogt doubled on the way to two hits and a team-high three RBI. Lindsey had two hits and an RBI, while Collier had one hit, scored once and drove in one. 

PREP BASEBALL: Neosho splits two games in Lebanon Wood Bat Tournament

NEOSHO, Mo. — Neosho split a pair of games on Friday, earning a 1-0 walk-off win over Ava before falling 4-1 to Lebanon in Game 2 as part of the Lebanon Wood Bat Tournament at Roy B. Shaver Field.

The tournament games were moved to Neosho because of field conditions in Lebanon.

 

NEOSHO 1, AVA 0

The Wildcats (3-17) and Bears were in a pitcher’s duel in the opener, as neither team pushed across a run through the first six innings of play. It wasn’t until the bottom of the seventh with two outs when Neosho found some life with the bats.

Still in need of their first hit, the Wildcats got it in a big way when Wyatt Keplar smacked a line drive into center field for a double. In the next at-bat, Ryan Cargile promptly ended the game in walk-off fashion with an RBI single through the left side 

Lane Yost earned the win for the Wildcats after pitching a scoreless 1/3 of an inning. Keplar started and took a no-decision after pitching 6 2/3 scoreless innings, scattering four hits, walking four and striking out 11 on 105 pitches.

Zach Richards took the loss for Ava after allowing one run on two hits, a walk and nine strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings.

Keplar went 1-for-3 with a double at the plate with a run scored, while Cargile went 1-for-3 with an RBI.

 

LEBANON 4, NEOSHO 1

Lebanon scored single tallies in the second, third and fourth innings to build a lead over Neosho. The Wildcats broke through for a run in the sixth, but the Yellowjackets responded with a run in the seventh and kept Neosho at bay in the last half of the frame.

Keaton Miser earned the win after allowing one unearned run on three hits and two strikeouts. 

Lane Yost took the loss after allowing three runs, two earned, on four hits and seven walks in three innings.

Wyatt Keplar went 1-for-3 with an RBI, while River Brill had one hit and a run scored. Lane Yost added a base hit.

Drew McBride led Lebanon with two hits and two runs scored, while John Greenwood added a hit and an RBI. Gavin Smith had a hit and scored a run.

UP NEXT

Neosho is at Carthage at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Central Ozark Conference action.