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The area brought home 61 all-state finishes from the Class 2 State Track meet this weekend including seven state championships.
New Covenant’s Tanner Talley was the star of the meet. He started things off anchoring the New Covenant 3200-meter relay team to a second-place finish on Friday. Friday afternoon, Talley obliterated the Class 2 3200-meter record running a 9:15.11. It lowered the old record of 9:26.55 set in 2000.
On Saturday, it was more of the same for Talley. He opened up running a 4:12.27 in the 1600-meter run to break the old record of 4:15.07 set by College Heights’ Caleb Hoover in 2009. The University of Kansas signee closed out his high school career by running a 1:54.78 to tie the meet record set in 2013.
New Covenant finished tied for fourth as a team with 38 points. Talley individually accounted for 30 of those points while anchoring the 3200-meter relay team to the other eight.
Plato’s David Held was the runner-up to Talley in both the 800 and 1600 while he finished third in the 3200 to claim three all-state finishes. Plato finished seventh as a team with 29 points.
Osceola’s Uriah Williamson closed out day one of competition on Friday with a state championship in the pole vault with a vault of 13’0.75.
Addison Lawrence had a big meet on the girls’ side. The College Heights star won the open 400 with a time of 58.97. She ran a leg on the Cougars’ state championship 4×400 relay team for a second gold medal. Lawrence made it four all-state finishes running a leg on the state runner-up 4×200 relay and finishing fourth individually in the 200.
Julianna Torbett was the area’s final state champion winning the long jump on Friday. She came into the meet as the No. 5 seed, but her second jump of 17’4.75 proved to be enough to win the Class 2 state title in the long jump. She earned a second all-state honor on Ash Grove’s eighth-place finishing 4×400 relay.
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A pair of Blue Eye seniors in Riley Arnold and Kyla Warren finished out their decorated careers with four more all-state finishes.
Arnold, a four-time state champion on the cross country course, showed off her speed at her final state track meet. She finished state runner-up in the 800 with a time of 2:22.12. Her final three all-state finishes came on relays with Blue Eye finishing sixth in the 4×100 and eighth in both the 4×800 and 4×400.
Warren won two individual all-state honors finishing second in the 200 (26.31) and third in the 100 (12.73). She ran legs on the 4×100 (sixth) and 4×400 (eighth) to claim her other two all-state medals.
Spokane’s Lily Hunsucker found her way to the podium three times over the two days finishing fifth individually in the 1600 while running legs on Spokane’s 3200-meter relay (third) and 1600-meter relay (5th).
College Heights missed making the podium as a team by one point finishing fifth place with 33 total points. Blue Eye was seventh with 27 points.
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Class 2 Boys All-State Finishers
1st – Tanner Talley (New Covenant) – 1600 (4:12.27) – MEET RECORD
1st – Tanner Talley (New Covenant) – 3200 (9:15.11) – MEET RECORD
1st – Tanner Talley (New Covenant) – 800 (1:54.78) – MEET RECORD
1st – Uriah Williamson (Osceola) – Pole Vault (13’0.75)
2nd – David Held (Plato) – 800 (2:00.28)
2nd – David Held (Plato) – 1600 (4:21.33)
2nd – New Covenant (Deric Herndon, Nate Jennings, Jackson Brungart, James Milgie) – 4×800 (8:18.45)
2nd – Tanner Hillenburg (Pleasant Hope) – High Jump (6’3.5)
3rd – Aric Spyres (Crane) – High Jump (6’2.75)
3rd – David Held (Plato) – 3200 (9:52.93)
3rd – Blue Eye (Alex Labrier, Jadon Weaver, Houston Parker, Ryan Cardenzana) – 4×800 (8:26.49)
4th – John Carswell (School of the Ozarks) – Triple Jump (42’7)
4th – Beau Hall (Miller) – 100 (11.21)
4th – Wil Carlton (Marionville) – High Jump (6’0.75)
4th – Southwest (Matteo Lumetta, Robert Humphries, Cade Uthe, Christian Long) – 4×800 (8:26.76)
4th – Kevan Monds (Plato) – 110 Hurdles (15.72)
4th – Brenden Thom (Miller) – 400 (50.85)
5th – Houston Parker (Blue Eye) – 800 (2:00.95)
5th – Aric Spyres (Crane) – Long Jump (20’10)
6th – Ryan Cardenzana (Blue Eye) – 1600 (4:27.48)
6th – Azlen Metscher (Skyline) – Javelin (153’3)
6th – Azlen Metscher (Skyline) – Discus (147’1)
7th – Braden Postlewait (Stockton) – 800 (2:01.34)
7th – Samuel Jones (Osceola) – 100 (11.36)
7th – Maliki Sherry (Gainesville) – High Jump (6’0.75)
7th – Kevan Monds (Plato) – 300 hurdles (41.52)
7th – Stockton (Layne Colvin, Lawson Page, Coleman Simpson, Braden Postlewait) – 4×400 (3:36.70)
8th – Ryan Cardenzana (Blue Eye) – 3200 (10:08.95)
8th – Colton Banks (Cole Camp) – Triple Jump (41’4.25)
8th – Eddie Swisloski (Cabool) – Shot Put (47’6.25)
8th – Sarcoxie (Blake Heckmaster, Antonio Benito, Garrett Smith, Noah Garrison) – 4×100 (45.68)
8th – Samuel Jones (Osceola) – 200 (23.96)
8th – Southwest (Matteo Lumetta, Christian Long, Otis Rainer, Caden Uthe) – 4×400 (3:41.86)
Class 2 Girls All-State Finishers
1st – Julianna Torbett (Ash Grove) – Long Jump (17’4.75)
1st – Addison Lawrence (College Heights) – 400 (58.97)
1st – College Heights (Jayli Johnson, Addison Lawrence, Lauren Ukena, Katie Moss) – 4×400 (4:09.75)
2nd – Riley Arnold (Blue Eye) – 800 (2:22.12)
2nd – Montgomery Keck (Dixon) – 100 Hurdles (15.59)
2nd – College Heights (Jayli Johnson, Addison Lawrence, Lauren Ukena, Emily Winters) – 4×200 (1:48.50)
2nd – Kyla Warren (Blue Eye) – 200 (26.31)
3rd – Kyla Warren (Blue Eye) – 100 (12.73)
3rd – Spokane (Lily Hunsucker, Paige Crabtree, Sigrid Bo, Madison King) – 4×800 (10:12.10)
3rd – Montgomery Keck (Dixon) – Triple Jump (34’11.5)
4th – Justine Barb (Skyline) – 1600 (5:29.82)
4th – Addison Lawrence (College Heights) – 200 (26.67)
5th – Payten Richardson (Miller) – 200 (26.68)
5th – Lily Hunsucker (Spokane) – 1600 (5:31.66)
5th – Spokane (Sydney Bryan, Paige Crabtree, Maggie Czachowski, Lily Hunsucker) – 4×400 (4:18.96)
6th – Kylie Hunter (Stockton) – 400 (61.60)
6th – Skyline (Justine Barb, Riley James, Breanna James, Kadence Wallace) – 4×800 (10:16.89)
6th – Blue Eye (Emmalee Litel, Riley Arnold, Samantha George, Kyla Warren) – 4×100 (52.50)
6th – Maggie Czachowski (Spokane) – 300 Hurdles (48.45)
7th – Allie Hock (Licking) – High Jump (4’8.75)
7th – Logan Jones (Mansfield) – 1600 (5:32.08)
7th – Madison Chrisman (Sarcoxie) – 100 Hurdles (19.43)
8th – Ashlen Garrett (Skyline) – Pole Vault (9’7.25)
8th – Hayden Kramer (Pierce City) – Discus (104’10)
8th – Blue Eye (Avery Arnold, Samantha George, Olivia Cardenzana, Riley Arnold) – 4×800 (10:19.13)
8th – Ash Grove (Bethany Wheeler, Alexis Bryan, Lillian Benton, Julianna Torbett) – 4×200 (1:53.66)
8th – Madison King (Spokane) – 3200 (12:35.19)
8th – Blue Eye (Kyla Warren, Samantha George, Avery Arnold, Riley Arnold) – 4×400 (4:22.21)
