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GIRLS TRACK & FIELD: CJ’s Montez sets meet records at PSU invite; Webb City’s Hawkins, Joplin’s Dunn also shine

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SoMo Sports staff reports

 

PITTSBURG, Kan. — Competing at the stadium she’ll eventually call home, Carl Junction senior Ally Montez won two events in record-setting fashion at the 33rd annual Jock’s Nitch/PSU Gorilla Relays on Friday at Prentice Gudgen Track on the campus of Pittsburg State University.

Carl Junction senior Ally Montez won two events in record-setting fashion at the 33rd annual Jock’s Nitch/PSU Gorilla Relays on Friday. Photo by Shawn Fowler. 

A Pittsburg State signee, Montez won the 100-meter hurdles in 14.7 seconds and also crossed the line first in the 300 hurdles in 44.76 seconds. Both times are meet records. 

Montez’s performance led the Carl Junction girls to a fifth place finish in the team standings. 

Fayetteville (Ark.) was the team champion with 149 points, while Owasso (Okla.) took second with 110 points and Nixa was third with 96.

Raymore-Peculiar (75), Carl Junction (60.5) and Webb City (50) rounded out the top six teams. 

There were 25 full teams competing. 

Also for Carl Junction, freshman Sydney Ward took second in two events, the 100-meter dash (12.5) and the 200-meter dash (26.42), while senior Olivia Vediz was the runner-up in the long jump (16-9).

The Bulldogs finished fourth in the 4×100 relay, with Ward, Montez, Vediz and Hannah Cantrell competing. Montez placed fourth in the 200, while Emerson Lundien was seventh in the pole vault. 

Webb City’s Riley Hawkins won two events at Pittsburg State University on Friday. Photos by Shawn Fowler.

Like Montez, Webb City senior Riley Hawkins crossed the line first in two events.

A Missouri Southern recruit, Hawkins won the 2000-meter steeplechase in 7:48 and also took first in the 800-meter run in 2:25.

Taking third in their respective events for the Cardinals were Dawsyn Decker (javelin) and Alanna Bundy (steeplechase). Webb City’s Ripley Shanks took fifth in the pole vault, while Abi Street placed sixth in the 3200 and seventh in the 1600 and Sami Mancini finished sixth in the shot put.

The Cardinals were seventh in the 4×800 relay, with  Bundy, Izzy Lopez, Sophia Crane and Elliett Capron competing. Webb City’s 4×400 relay team of Hally Philpot, Lopez, Hawkins and Bundy finished eighth.

Leading the way for the Joplin girls was senior distance runner Jennalee Dunn.

A Cornell recruit, Dunn won the 1600-meter run in 5:13.

Other top finishers for the Eagles were Brynn Driver, who took fifth in the 400, and Claire Jasper, who placed eighth in the shot put. 

Joplin’s Phia Vogel, Tatiana Potter, Bailey Owens and Abigayle Lowery finished seventh in the 4×400 relay.

Neosho’s 4×800 relay team of Riley Kemna, Heaven Kivett, Lakyn Prough and Chloe Wood finished fourth in 10:49.

Kemna placed fourth in the 3200 and Wood finished eighth in the 1600.

Carthage’s Joey Hettinger finished sixth in the high jump by clearing 5-1.

The Tigers were eighth in the 4×800 relay, with Morelia Reyes, Jenna Calhoon, Grace Brown and Maggie Boyd competing.

Thomas Jefferson’s Nico Carlson and Samantha Seto finished 10th and 11th in the steeplechase.

 

FULL RESULTS: 33rd Annual Jock’s Nitch/PSU Gorilla Relays 2022 – Complete (Raw) (milesplit.com)

 

Carl Junction’s Olivia Vediz was the runner-up in the long jump (16-9) at Friday’s meet at Pittsburg State University. All photos by Shawn Fowler/SoMo Sports.

 

Joplin High School was one of nearly 30 teams from four states competing at Pittsburg State University on Friday.

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