HHS track teams score at huge meet in Bolivar

The Houston High School boys and girls track and field teams produced more fine results Tuesday (April 22) at the SBU High School Invite at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar.

The huge meet featured athletes from 61 schools, ranging from Class 1 to Class 3.

Houston’s girls scored 29 points to place third overall, while the boys had 13 points and finished 22^nd.

The top-5 in each event received a medal and the top-8 earned points.

“Getting any points at a meet this big is an accomplishment,” said HHS head coach Mike Tottingham. 

HHS junior Mason Dodson set another school record in javelin, and school records were set in boys and girls racing in the rarely-run 2,000-meter steeplechase.

GIRLS POINTS SCORERS

• 100-meter dash: Adyson Dailing, 2^nd, 13.24 (92 runners). “Adyson was .07 seconds away from being the fastest in the field,” Tottingham said. “We always knew that she was going to be a special athlete for us, but her performances this season have far exceeded even our wildest expectations.”  
• 200-meter dash: Kayla Wagner, 8^th, 27.88 (76 runners).
• 800-meter run: Kristen Ely, 5^th, 2:30.24 (72 runners).
• 100-meter hurdles: Adyson Dailing, 8^th, 17.61 (38 runners).
• 300-meter hurdles: Adyson Dailing, 2^nd, 49.17 (38 runners).
• 4X100 relay: Houston, 6^th, 53.49 (30 teams).
• Triple jump: Kayla Wagner, 7^th, 9.78m (38 jumpers).
• Javelin: Kynlee Weaver, 7^th, 32.46m (75 throwers).

“Kayla, Adyson, Kristen and Kynlee have earned points at every meet we have attended this year,” Tottingham said, “and considering the size of the meets we’ve attended, that’s pretty cool to be able to say.”

Senior Allie Benoist placed 13^th in the 2,000-meter steeplechase and set a school record at 10:11.12.

“I probably should point out that it hasn’t been run very many times,” Tottingham said, “but a school record is a school record.”

BOYS POINTS SCORERS

• 2,000-meter steeplechase: Jack Sawyer, 5^th, 7:48.83 (school record; 33 runners).
• Triple jump: Bryson Alexander, 5^th, 12.24m (40 jumpers).
• Javelin: Mason Dodson, 4^th, 47.4m (school record; 79 throwers).

Note: An article in last week’s Herald neglected to mention that the HHS girls’ 4X100 relay team Summer Seago, Marie Palmer, Kayla Wagner and Adyson Dailing set a school record of 52.91 on April 17 at the Zizzer Relays in West Plains, beating the former mark set in 2011.