Tiger Girls Easily Win in Junior High Early Bird

Worth County's girls easily won the Junior High Early Bird meet, nearly doubling their second place competition. They lost a lot of key contributors to last year's GRC championship squad, but they showed that they have not skipped a beat from then. Worth County got 122 points during the event with North Andrew scoring 65 and Gallatin scoring 64. Princeton was fourth with 45 points.

Crystal Davis was third in the 100 Meter Dash. she finished with a time of 15.04, 54 hundredths of a second behind the winner, Mollie Holtman of St. Gregory's. Kaitlyn Davidson was second in the 200 with a time of 30.28. That was 56 hundreths of a second behind Sarah Lin of Gallatin. Sydney Thummel won the 400 meter dash with a time of 1:07.97. That was 31 hundredths of a second ahead of Gallatin's Sarah Lin. Thummel also won the 75 Meter Hurdles with a time of 13.74. That was 43 hundreths of a second ahead of South Harrison's Kiana Bennett. Alysa Lyle was fourth with a time of 14.64.

The 4x100 team of Malori Moellenberndt, Kenna LaFollette, Ricky Hunt, and Crystal Davis was second with a time of 1:00.44. That was around 2 1/2 seconds behind the winning North Andrew team. Winning the 4x200 was the team of Malori Moellenberndt, Kenna LaFollette, Ricky Hunt, and Crystal Davis with a time of 2:06.43. That was 1.32 seconds ahead of the second place St. Gregory's team. The 4x400 team was second with a time of 5:05.80.

Alysa Lyle narrowly lost the high jump, getting a jump of 4'6". She lost out on tiebreaks to Jessica Alderson of Princeton. Worth County was 1-2 in the Pole Vault with Alysa Lyle getting a varsity-level leap of 6'6". Tess Andrews, following in the footsteps of her big sister Claire, tried her hand at the Pole Vault and get second with a vault of 5 feet.

Winning the Triple Jump was Sydney Thummel with a jump of 28'7". That was seven inches ahead of the second place finisher, Rebekah Todd of North Andrew. Kaitlyn Davidson won the shot put easily with a throw of 37'5". That was nearly six feet ahead of the second place finisher, Kailey Craig of North Harrison. Taylor Causey was 5th with a throw of 29'6". Kaitlyn Davidson also won the discus throw as she won with a throw of 73'2". That was almost 20 feet ahead of the second place finisher, Baylee Fish of Albany.