Middle school athletes score big in Uniontown

With the 2025-2024 school year nearing an end, area athletes continue improving their personal best times and distances.

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May 7, 2025 - 5:32 PM

Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Brayden Endicott competes in the 800-meter run in a track meet earlier this season. Photo by Halie Luken

UNIONTOWN — Athletes from Marmaton Valley Junior High and Crest, Yates Center and Southern Coffey County middle schools wrapped up the 2025 track and field season in style Monday, with several top finishes.

On top of multiple first-place finishes from each of the schools, Crest’s seventh-grade girls and boys teams were crowned league champions, while Yates Center’s eighth-grade girls also came out on top.

Full results follow.

Seventh-grade boys

Team scores: 1. Crest, 70; 2. Yates Center, 67; 7. Marmaton Valley, 45; 10. Southern Coffey County, 4.5

100 meters — 7. Tucker Weston, YC, 14.44; 8. Bektin Tidd, YC, 14.66; 11. Douglas Dix, MV, 14.91; 16. Anthony Sander, 16.05; 17. Emmitt McVey, YC, 16.11; 19. Kasen Brand, Crest, 17.19; 20. Jesse Cole, SCC, 18.33; 21. Thomas Austin, SCC, 18.57; 22. Eli Brand, Crest, 23.50

Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Emily Heskett throws the discus in a track meet earlier this season.Photo by Halie Luken

200 meters — 2. Terry Beckmon, Crest, 27.79; 4. Petit, 29.32; 5. Tidd, 29.90; 11. Ryler Stone, MV, 33.10; 13. Jeremiah Smelser, Crest, 33.70; 16. Duane Raker, SCC, 38.18; 17. Aiden Peer, SCC, 38.33; 18. Isaac Francis, Crest, 39.65

400 meters — 2. Beckmon, 1:02.92; 4. Petit, 1:05.70; 6. Conner Plegge, YC, 1:13.27; 9. Smelser, Crest, 1:18.38

800 meters — 1. Kroy Walter, Crest, 2:32.06; 2. Gauge Murray, YC, 2:36.21; 5. Lukas Taylor, Crest, 2:59.91; 9. K. Brand, 3:03.89

1600 meters — 1. Walter, 5:29.36; 2. Gauge Murray, YC, 5:36.16; 3. Jaren Curl, MV, 6:03.56

3200 meters — 2. Taylor, 13:40.27; 3. Case Drake, MV, 14:18.20; 4. Isaac Francis, Crest, 15:27.46

100m hurdles — 1. Curl, 17.95; 2. Beckmon, 18.00; 7. Drake, 20.50

4x100m relay — 3. Marmaton Valley, 1:00.83; 5. Southern Coffey Co., 1:08.99

4x200m relay — 5. Crest, 2:13.02; 6. Marmaton Valley, 2:13.13

Medley relay — 1. Crest, 2:07.05; 5. Southern Coffey Co., 2:45.26

High jump — 3. Daniel Allee, MV, 4’10”:; 6. Bentley Hatch, SCC, 4’2”; 9. Curl, 3’10”; 11. Oscar Keltner, MV, 3’8”

Long jump — 7. Allee, 13’2”; 10. Tidd, 12’1’; 12. McVey, 11’8”; 13. Dix, 11’8”; 15. Plegge, 11’.5”; 18. Peer, 10’5.5”; 20. E. Brand, 4’11”

Discus — 1. Karter Westerman, YC, 97’5”; 6. Derek Jones, YC, 72’6”; 7. Sander, 72’3.5”; 9. Jaxon Palmer, Crest, 60’6.5”; 10. Bentley Ashburn, SCC, 60’1.5”; 13. Austin, 53’.75”; 14. Cole, 50’3.5”

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