Sydney Thummel Wins Three Firsts, Josh Warner Two at Albany Double Quad

Sydney Thummel won three first place finishes at the Warrior Double Quad and Josh Warner two at Albany Saturday. The girls were second behind North Andrew with 105 total points to 121 for North Andrew. Rock Port was third with 96, Albany 4th with 78, and Stanberry with 69.5. On the boys side, Worth County was 6th with 66 team points. Thummel beat out long-time nemesis Jordan Breckenridge twice, once in the 100 and once in the 200. Sydney won the 100 with a time of 13.79, beating out Breckenridge by .11 of a second. Sarah Poppa was third with a time of 14.17. Sydney then beat out Breckenridge much more handily in the 200, winning with a time of 28.36 to Breckenridge's 29.11. Haven Schottel got her best finish since the first race of the year as she was second in the 400 with a time of 1:08.50. That was .5 of a second off her personal best and just under two seconds behind Kaleigh Wilmes of Stanberry. Tess Andrews tried her hand in the 800 for the first time this year and was 6th with a time of 3:25.81. Sydney picked up her third win of the day in the 100 Hurdles, getting a personal best 17.80. She won handily over Megan Poppa of Albany, beating her by almost one second. The 4x100 Relay was 5th with a time of 1:00.79. The 4x200 got a surprising second place finish after two teams that normally finish ahead of them got disqualified. They finished with a time of 2:02.79. Claire Andrews won the Pole Vault with a vault of 9'6", her best of the year. She continued her duel with Shelbie White of Tarkio and Amy Gully of Albany, beating them out by six inches. Andrews had beaten Gully on tiebreaks in Rock Port. Claire then went for her personal best 10 foot mark that she set at state, barely missing it twice. Tess Andrews was fourth with a vault of 7 feet, her best of the year so far. She hit the bar hard twice; but somehow, it stayed on. Sydney Thummel beat her personal best by five inches in placing second in the Long Jump with a jump of 15'8". Also setting a personal best was Rikky Hunt, who was third in the Triple Jump with a jump of 28'10". Kaitlyn Davidson beat out Amber Sleeth of King City for the first time ever in the Shot Put, winning the event with a personal best throw of 37'11". She improved on her personal best throw set at Rock Port by 8". Sleeth was second with a season best 37'3". Taylor Causey was 6th with a throw of 28'5". The girls placed two in the discus. Rebecca Moore was 3rd with a throw of 87'10" and Kaitlyn was 5th with a throw of 84'4". The boys placed two in the 110 Hurdles as Brevyn Ross was second and Cole Parman 4th. Brevyn got a time of 18.63 while Cole got a time of 20.03. Brevyn also placed third in the 300 Hurdles with a time of 45.05. The 4x100 Relay Team was 6th with a time of 50.03. The 4x200 was fourth with a time of 1:45.03. Grant Parman was third in the Long Jump, continuing to get close to the 20 foot mark. He had a jump of 19'7 1/2". The boys got most of their points in the throwing events. Josh Warner continued his form in the Shot Put, winning with a throw of 41'4 1/4". Truman Moore was 4th with a throw of 35'7". Josh Warner also won the Discus with a throw of 126'5". Dallas Greenland was right behind him with a throw of 125'1".