Records fall at IMS Invitational

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April 14, 2010 - 12:00 AM

Six records were set during competition at Tuesday’s 2010 Iola Middle School Invitational track and field meet. Five of them were in the seventh-grade boys’ division.
Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade boys finished second with 73 points behind Parsons with 79 and just in front of Independence with 72 points.
Iola’s eighth-grade girls scored eight points finishing 14th in the 16-team track meet. Chanute dominated this division with 162.5 points.
Independence won the seventh-grade boys’ division with 90 points. Iola was sixth with 32.5 points.
Chanute won the seventh-grade girls’ team title with 92.5 points. Iola finished seventh with 43 points.
Iola set one school record. Trilby Bannister won the seventh-grade girls’ 75-meter hurdle in 14.17 seconds. The old record was 14.36, set by Molly Stanley in 2002.
Independence Middle School’s Tyrique Young established new meet marks in the seventh-grade boys’ 200-meter dash and 400-meter dash. Young won the 200 in 25.42 seconds, which bettered the 2007 time of 26.21 set by Hunter Seibert of Meadow View. Young’s winning time in the 400 was 58.53 seconds which eclipsed Siebert’s 2007 mark of 59.43.
The Independence seventh-grade boys also posted a new meet record, 52.23 seconds, in the 4×100-meter relay race. Relay members were Marquise Johnson, Blake Kyzer, Kyle Rinck and Young. The old mark of 53.58 was by Chanute in 2008.
Independence’s eighth-grade boys lowered the winning meet time for the 4×100-meter relay race to 48.81 seconds. Members of the Independence squad were: Kyle Carter, Dominque Thornton, Cortlan Hayse and Oshey Armstrong. Coffeyville had the old mark of 49.02 seconds, set in 2009.
Also in the seventh-grade boys’ competition, Taran Smith of Meadow View won the 75-meter hurdle in 11.72 seconds. That was slightly better than the 2005 time of Weil of Bartlett, which was 11.8 seconds.
Isiah Taylor of Parsons won the seventh-grade boys’ high jump at a new meet record of 5 feet, 6 inches. The old mark was 5 feet 4 inches, co-owned by Ohare of Yates Center (2000) and Boyd of Uniontown (2004).

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