Tiger Teams 5th at Rock Port

Both Tiger teams were 5th at Rock Port last Tuesday. The boys finished with 59 points. Winnetonka finished 1st with 98, Rock Port followed with 80, Mound City 75, and Maysville with 70. On the girls side, Winnetonka won with 154 points, followed by Mound City with 85, Polo with 52, Rock Port with 48, and Worth County with 43. Claire Andrews continued her winning ways in the Pole Vault, winning with a vault of 9 feet, beating out Amy Gully of Albany on tiebreaks. There was a lot of competition this time as there were four competitors with 8'6" or better. Tess Andrews had a vault of 6'6". Jared Simmons picked up the boys first points in the Pole Vault, finishing 5th with a vault of 8 feet, tying a personal best. It was a close competition for the Long Jump in the girls as Katie Mullock was second, 1 1/2" off the jump of Sidney Smith of Winnetonka. Mullock had a leap of 14 feet. There were eight contestants within one foot of the winner. Grant Parman placed 6th in the Triple Jump with a leap of 36'2". That was 4' off the jump of Eric Duncan of Rock Port. Kaitlyn Davidson was 5th in the Discus with a throw of 96'7". That was 10 feet off the throw of Haley Craig of North Harrison, who threw a personal best in the event. For the boys, Dallas Greenland won the discus handily. He won with a throw of 129'3", less than two feet off his personal best throw. Josh Warner was third with a throw of 112'9". Kaitlyn Davidson picked up a personal best in the Shot Put and won with a throw of 37'6 1'2", two feet ahead of the second place finisher. That was two feet better than her previous personal best. Taylor Causey did not place for the girls in the event, but she also picked up a personal best in the event with a throw of 28'9", four inches better than her previous personal mark. The boys finished 1-2 in the Shot Put. Both Lane Craven and Josh Warner beat their previous personal bests by four feet in winning the event. Lane Craven won with a throw of 45'1 1/2" while Warner was right behind with a throw of 44'1". Sydney Thummel came close to a personal best in the 100 Hurdles as she was third in the event with a time of 18.25. That was almost one second off the time of Mary Jane Kapp of Maysville. The boys picked up a 3rd place finish in the 110 hurdles as Brevyn Ross got a time of 18.79 in the event. The boys 4x200 of Andrew Mullock, Grant Parman, Cole Parman, and Brevyn Ross was fourth with a time of 1:42.23. The boys 4x100 also placed in the event. The team of Dallas Greenland, Brevyn Ross, Andrew Mullock, and Grant Parman was fourth with a time of 48.58. Haven Schottel placed in the 400, getting 6th with a time of 1:12.59. Brevyn Ross placed once again in the hurdles for the boys with a personal best time of 44.39. He gave Dalton Dreher of Mound City a run for his money before finishing second. Tony Utt of Polo was third with a time of 44.59. All three were within .3 of a second of each other in a close race. Cole Parman did not place, but got a personal best of 48.76. Sydney Thummel finished third in a close three-way race in the 200, finishing with a time of 28.56. Emily Wedlock of Mound City, Markees Mondaine of Winnetonka, and Thummel were within .53 of a second of each other. For Northeast Nodaway, Sage DeLong turned some heads at Stanberry the week before as he nearly beat out Eric Duncan of Rock Port in the 100. In Rock Port, he showed that it was no accident as he finished 3rd in the 100 with a time of 11.94, just .11 of a second behind Duncan. He then finished second in the 200 for Northeast's 15 points of the day. For the girls, Taryn Farnan picked up the girls' first points of the year, getting 5th in the High Jump with a vault of 4'2".