MMS hosts first track meet
Team finishes fourth
Marion Middle School hosted a nine-team track meet Thursday at Marion Stadium.
MMS finished fourth overall. The seventh grade girls won their division, scoring 90 points.
Ben Leppke set a school triple jump record of 33 feet, 6 1/2 inches.
Seventh grade girls
100 — 2. Erin Carr.
400 — 5. Jessica Becker.
800 — 4. Naomi Coe.
1,600 — 1. Coe. 4. Katie Hett.
Hurdles — 3. Erin Richmond. 6. Kari Tajchman.
4x100 — 4. Tedra Eis, Emily Svoboda, Danielle Cope, Tajchman.
4x200 — 2. Eis, Svoboda, Jandee Sharp, Morgan Cady.
4x400 — 3. Svoboda, Laura Holt, Cope, Tajchman.
Shot — 5. Stephanie Collier.
Discus — 6. Collier.
Triple jump — 1. Carr.
High jump — 4. Sharp.
Long jump — 5. Carr.
Pole vault — 1. Richmond. 3. Hett. 5. Sharp.
Eighth grade girls
400 — 6. Allison Maddox.
Hurdles — 4. Maddox.
4x100 — 6. Randi McCarty, Adrienne Chamberland, Jena Parli, Alysha O'Dell.
4x200 — 6. McCarty, O'Dell, Katie Baird, Jessica Bernhardt.
Triple jump — 1. Toni Gordon. 6. McCarty.
Discus — 3. Emalee Versch.
Shot — 3. Versch.
Eighth Grade boys
400 — 4. David DeForest.
Hurdles — 5. Jeremy Vondenkamp.
4x100 — 6. Josh Kelsey, Preston Williams, Joe Goering, Clinton Jeffrey.
4x200 — 2. Brandon Watson, Kelsey, Vondenkamp, Mike Brookens.
Pole vault — 1. Casey Nelson. 5. Brookens.
Shot — 2. Adam Depler.
Discus — 3. Williams.
Triple jump — 2. Depler. 4. Jeffrey Richmond.
Long jump — 6. Richmond.
Seventh grade boys
800 — 5. Luke Bowers.
1,600 — 3. Jason Hett.
4x100 — 6. John Barr, Riley Ross, T.O. Speaks, Josh Shanklin.
4x200 — 5. Antonio Pusateri, Dan Goentzel, Barr, Joel Zeiner.
Hurdles — 6. Thad Nichols.
Triple jump — 1. Ben Leppke.
Pole vault — 3. Pusateri. 6. Ross.
Discus — 3. Casey Baker.
High jump — 1. Travis Hett. 4. J. Hett. 5. Pusateri.
Long jump — 6. Goentzel.