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TRACK & FIELD: Athletes from McAuley Catholic, Seneca fare well at Diamond 

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SoMo Sports staff reports

DIAMOND, Mo. — The McAuley Catholic Warriors and Seneca Indians were among the teams competing at the Diamond Invitational on Tuesday.

McAuley’s boys finished fourth in the team standings with 70 points and Seneca was fifth with 66.5 points. The top three teams were Jasper (113), Sarcoxie (77) and Galena (73).

McAuley’s girls finished eighth in the standings with 31 points. The top three girls teams were Sarcoxie (160.5), Seneca (88) and Jasper (82.5). There were 12 teams in attendance.

 

BOYS HIGHLIGHTS

McAuley’s boys fared well in the relays.

The Warriors took second in the 4×800 relay in 9:30, with Michael Parrigon, Connor Taffner, Drew Zeb and Alex Bohachick competing.

The team of Parrigon, Dylan Taffner, Jack Jones and Bohachick took second in the 4×400 with a time of 3:53.

McAuley finished fourth in the 4×100, with Ethan Stabb, Jack Jones, Dylan Taffner and Roscoe Miller competing. McAuley’s 4×200 relay finished sixth and featured Stabb, Jones, Dylan Taffner and Miller.

Also for the Warriors, Parrigon took second in the 1600 and Trae Veer was the runner-up in the triple jump, third in the 3200 and fourth in the 1600. 

McAuley’s Jones took third in the high jump, Joe Staton finished fifth in the pole vault and sixth in the 800, Taffner was seventh in the 800 and Bohachick placed eighth in the 300 hurdles.

Seneca’s Blake Hurn won the 100-meter dash in 11.79 seconds, while teammates Brodie Probert and Ethan Altic finished second and third, respectively, in the 400. Altic took second in the 800. 

Seneca’s Jackson Marrs was fourth in the triple jump and Brock Pendergraft was fourth in the discus.

Diamond’s Zachary Roughton won the 300 hurdles and took second in the 110 hurdles, while teammate Nicholas Meza was the runner-up in the long jump.

Winning events for Sarcoxie were Jaron Malotte (pole vault, 110 hurdles) and Noah Garrison (long jump).

Other event winners were Liberal’s Kale Marti (high jump) and Wyatt Pryor (shot put), Jasper’s Noah Neher (discus) and Mitchel Avalos (200), Southwest’s Robert Humphries (800) and Marionville’s Cash Pomeroy (triple jump).

 

GIRLS HIGHLIGHTS

McAuley Catholic junior Kendall Ramsey won two events — the 1600 with a time of 6:06 and the 3200 in 13:35.

The Warriors were fourth in the 4×400 relay, with Ramsey, Brooke Righter, Samantha Perrin and Vanessa Diaz-Hernandez competing. Righter, Perrin and Diaz-Hernandez are all freshmen.

McAuley’s Righter finished sixth in the 100 hurdles and ninth in the 300 hurdles. McAuley’s Perrin finished eighth in three events—the high jump, the 100 hurdles and the 300 hurdles.

Jasper’s Crystal Smith won four events—the high jump, the 100 hurdles, the 300 hurdles and the 200-meter dash.

Winning events for the Seneca girls were Harley Lankford (discus) and Isabella Renfro (shot put). 

Seneca’s Cambry Long finished second in the 400 and took third in both the 100 and the triple jump and was fourth in the 200. 

Seneca’s Amber Garrison was the runner-up in the shot put, Dalisia Reed finished third in the 800 and fifth in the 1600 and Anna Adkins was fourth in the high jump and Parker Long was fifth in the long jump.

Sarcoxie’s girls won all four relays.

Sarcoxie’s Ariel Wilson won both the long jump and the 400, while Liberal’s Abby Barton took first in the 800 and Marionville’s Jeslyn Coker won the pole vault.

Diamond’s Arissa McLaughlin was the runner-up in the discus and teammate Jernie DeWitt took second in the 100, third in the 200 and fourth in the triple jump.

 

Note: Results for the boys and girls javelin were unavailable at time of publication. 

 

Diamond Invitational

Boys team scores: Jasper 113, Sarcoxie 77, Galena 73, McAuley Catholic 70, Seneca 66.5, Marionville 52, Diamond 51, Southwest 49.5, Liberal 46, Lockwood 39, Wheaton 26, Verona 11, Purdy 11.

Girls team scores: Sarcoxie 160.5, Seneca 88, Jasper 82.5, Galena 74, Diamond 60, Lockwood 47, Marionville 43, McAuley 31, Southwest 30, Liberal 24, Wheaton 13, Bronaugh 11.

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