Staff writer
Centre Junior High School track teams performed April 20 at Council Grove in a nine-team track meet hosted by Prairie Heights.
Seventh-grader Brenna Shields was the only Centre athlete to earn a first-place finish. She won the 400-meter dash with a time of 1 minute, 8.68 seconds.
Seventh-grade girls finished in fourth place, and eighth-grade girls finished seventh.
Seventh-grade boys finished seventh, and eighth-grade boys finished fifth.
Results (top three finishers)
Eighth-grade girls
Cacey Simons — 2. high jump, 4-4; 3. 100m dash, 14.07.
Eighth-grade boys
Chad Mueller — 2. 1600m run, 6:09.13; 2. 3200m run, 13:11.03.
Kyle Methvin — 3. 100m dash, 13.27; 3. 200m dash, 27.86.
Relay (Grant Srajer, Ty Simons, Tanner Peterson, Methvin) — 3. 4x100m, 54.54.
Seventh-grade girls
Brenna Shields — 1. 400m dash, 1:08.68; 2. 100m dash, 14.02; 2. 200m dash, 30.69; 2. long jump, 12-5.
Shelby Makovec — 2. 800m run, 2:49.58; 3. 1600m run, 6:12.44.