PLEASANTON — Area athletes continued to shine Tuesday in the 2024 track and field season, racking up medals aplenty at the Pleasanton Invitational.
Marmaton Valley, Crest, Southern Coffey County and Yates Center thinclads were among the participants.
Highlighting the day were gold-medal finishes by Marmaton Valley’s Piper Barney in the 300-meter hurdles and triple jump, and Janae Granere in the 400-meter dash and long jump; Southern Coffey County’s Emily Ludolph in the discus and shot put; Crest’s Josie Walter in the 800-meter run and Peyton Schmidt in the 3200-meter run.
On the boys’ side, Southern Coffey County’s Reeston Cox was tops in both the javelin and shot put. He narrowly missed out on a throwing hat trick, with a silver medal in the discus.
Results follow.
Pleasanton invitational
Boys
Team scores: 1. Jayhawk-Linn, 120; 3. Marmaton Valley, 61.5; 6. Crest, 53; 8. Southern Coffey County, 33
100 meters — 2. Jaedon Granere, MV, 11.63; 3. Cooper Scharff, MV, 11.77; 5. Brenton Edgerton, Crest, 12.02; 7. Gentry McGhee, Crest, 12.21; 9. Xander Fuller, Crest, 12.53;
200 meters — 3. Scharff, 24.91; 5. McGhee, 24.89; 8. Fuller, 28.15; 18. Emilio Peon, MV, 31.84; 19. Hunter Doolittle, MV, 33.14
400 meters — 3. Edgerton, 55.61; 16. Peon, 1:15.07; 17. Chris Ferguson, MV, 1:34.26
800 meters — 9. Elijah Taylor, Crest, 2:27.86; 12. Asher Arnold, YC, 2:34.16; 13. Clayton Culver, YC, 2:40.60
1600 meters — 2. Gunner Ellington, Crest, 5:01.15; 8. Taylor, 5:43.85; 9. Arnold, 5:50.92; 12. Culver, 6:13.44; 13. Blaine King, YC, 6:19.87
3200 meters — 3. Ellington, 10:55.60; 9. Taylor, 13:19.80; 11. King, 13:41.06
110m hurdles — 5. Jacob Zimmerman, Crest, 19.41; 6. Ryan West, Crest, 20.22
