WILLARD, Mo. — The Joplin Eagles had a record-setting evening at the Jason Pyrah Invitational on Thursday at Willard High School.
Joplin’s Donovyn Fowler set meet records in the jumps, Donovahn Watkins bested the meet record in the shot put, while Jennalee Dunn and Hobbs Campbell surpassed previous school and meet records in their respective distance events.
A senior, Fowler won both the long jump (23-5.5) and the triple jump (48-5.25). An Oklahoma signee, Fowler bested his own meet record in the long jump while topping the previous meet record in the triple jump by two feet.
A junior, Campbell was the runner-up in the 1600-meter run with a school record time of 4:17. New Covenant’s Tanner Talley won the event in 4:12. Both Talley and Campbell bested the previous meet record time of 4:24.
Campbell also placed second in the 800-meter run in 1:57.74. Talley won the race in 1:54. Both runners topped the previous meet record of 1:57.85.
A senior, Watkins won the shot put with a heave of 60-6. The previous meet record was 59-1.
Joplin finished second in both the 4×100 and 4×400 relays, and the Eagles placed third in both the 4×800 and 4×200 relays.
Orion Norris took fourth in the 100-meter dash and was sixth in both the 200 and 400, while Ian Horton finished fifth in the 3200.
Korey Read placed fifth in the 110 hurdles, Avarus Kuhn-Wofford and Gustavo Onate finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 300 hurdles and Evan Matlock finished fifth in the 800 and sixth in the 1600.
Also for the JHS boys, Zaben Barnes took sixth in the 3200, with Grey Edwards seventh, Logan Bever was seventh in the pole vault and Luke Vieselmeyer took seventh in the high jump.
Joplin’s boys finished second in the team standings with 119.5 points. Willard was first with 132.5.
A senior who has signed with Cornell, Dunn won the girls 1600-meter run, breaking her own school record and setting a meet record with a time of 5:03. Dunn, 10 seconds faster than the runner-up in the event, shattered the previous meet record of 5:15.
Brynn Driver placed second in the triple jump (32-9.75) and also finished third in the 400 with a time of 1:01.
Maria Loum and Allie Lawrence finished third and fourth, respectively, in the pole vault, while Abigail Eckert finished fifth in the long jump, Claire Jasper was fifth in the shot put, Lawrence placed sixth in the 200 and Mairi Beranek was eighth in the 3200.
The JHS girls were second in both the 4×100 and 4×200 relays and third in the 4×400.
Joplin’s girls finished fourth in the team standings with 72 points. Nixa (89), Clever (87.5) and Marshfield (74) were the top three teams.
McDonald County’s Mariana Salas won the girls javelin with a meet record toss of 115-10.
For the Mac County boys, Cole Thomas won the javelin (30.25m) and Joshua Pacheco was third in the long jump.
FULL RESULTS: Jason Pyrah Invitational 2022 – Willard Jason Pyrah Invite (Raw) (milesplit.com)
