Worth County qualified several athletes from both the boys and the girls side at sectionals Saturday. The highlight was the girls 4x100 breaking the school record and winning to make it to state.
For the girls, Emma Spencer got second in the 100 with a personal best 12.96. She has improved from 14.20 at Rock Port to 12.96 Saturday. Brooklyn Richardson was fifth with a time of 13.33. She took almost a second off her time and will return as well. Emma Spencer had trailed Kayley Hauber (Platte Valley) all year, but finally finished past her and Claire Staley (King City).
The 4x100 team of Hailey Adwell, Brooklyn Richardson, Rayleigh Smith, and Emma Spencer beat Drexel in a photo finish with Worth County getting a school record time of 51.22 while Drexel got a time of 51.28.
Riley Ridge qualified in the High Jump with a height of 4’11”. That was good enough for third place. Eva Engel qualified for state in the Pole Vault with a height of 10’6¼”. Ali Brown qualified in the Javelin with a throw of 115’9”, good enough for second.
For the boys, Levi Cassavaugh did all he could in the 400, taking a second off his time, but finished second to Trotter Hughes (Wellington-Napoleon) with a time of 51.83. John Galanakis narrowly missed out in the 110 Hurdles, finishing fifth with a time of 16.88. He took over two seconds off his time over the course of the year. Lucas Frisch also got edged out and took fifth; however, he got a personal best in the 300 Hurdles with a time of 44.13. He improved by five seconds from the start of the year. He will return; he is only a freshman.
The 4x100 team of Levi Cassavaugh, Brayden Stevens, John Galanakis, and Lucas Frisch was fifth with a time of 46.02. They got their best time all year, but got edged out by two tenths of a second. They improved by two seconds over the course of the year.
The 4x200 team of Tyler New, John Galanakis, Landon Moser, and Levi Cassavaugh made it, getting third with a personal best time of 1:34.81. That was two seconds better than their previous best time and 12+ seconds better than at the start of the year.
The 4x400 team of Lucas Frisch, Ethan Frese, Tyler New, and Levi Cassavaugh did all they could, knocking almost six seconds off their time. But it wasn’t enough as they finished fifth and did not qualify; they were .14 of a second short. They got a time of 3:38.85, which was 31 seconds better than their time at the start of the year.
Landon Moser did all he could, getting a personal best jump of 39’8½” in the Triple Jump, but it was just under two feet short of qualifying as he got sixth place.
The Tigers qualified two in the Shot Put. Jase Latham won the Shot Put with a throw of 45’11¼”. And Elias Alarcon got a personal best and fourth place with a throw of 42’7½”.
Elias Alarcon came up short in the Discus, finishing fifth with a throw of 106’9”. Tyler New was seventh in the Javelin with a throw of 121’3”.
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Baylie Busby qualified for state with a fourth place finish of 4’10¼”. With that, she broke the school record held jointly by herself and Michelle Schulte.
North Nodaway
Mason Richardson got a personal best in the Long Jump and qualified for state, getting a third place jump of 19’10¾”.
North Harrison
Competing at South Shelby, Tyson Gibson missed out on the High Jump, finishing seventh with a height of 5’7¾”. But he won outright in the Triple Jump with a jump of 43’3¾” to qualify for state.
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