Stout vault propels Fillies

Sports

March 29, 2013 - 12:00 AM

ALTAMONT — While small in numbers, Iola High’s girls came up big on the track Thursday.
The Fillies entered only a handful of events at the varsity level, but still claimed a number of medals at the Labette County Invitational.
Leading the way was Breanna Stout, who took home the gold medal in the pole vault and third place in the high jump, despite missing substantial amounts of practice this week because of illness.
Stout cleared 7 feet, 6 inches in the pole vault and 4’8” in the high jump.
The only other varsity medalist for the Fillies was Darci Collins, who claimed sixth in the shot with a throw of 31 feet.
“We have some freshmen girls who are varsity capable, but since we have had no good practice sessions, we had them in junior varsity,” FIllies coach Marv Smith said.
Case in point: Abigail Taylor.
Taylor earned three gold medals in JV distance races, winning the 800 meters in 2 minutes 36.0 seconds, the 1600 meters in 6:05.1 and the 3200 at 12:49.
Taylor’s 800 time would have been good for second at the varsity level, Smith said. She would have been fourth in varsity in the 1600 and sixth in the 3200.
In other JV competitions, Cassie Delich earned gold in the 100-meter high hurdles, finishing in 18.6 seconds. The time would have earned her a bronze medal for the varsity competitors.
Delich also claimed the silver in the 100-meter dash at 14.4 seconds.
“Cassie should have been awarded first,” Smith explained. “She won the fast head. In the slow heat, there was a false start and the starter did not have another live shell in the gun and could not recall the race.”
Instead of rerunning the heat and disqualifying the offending runner, meet officials let the results stand.
Delich also took third in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 56.0 seconds, which would have earned her a third-place medal if she had raced against varsity competitors.
“Delich and Taylor could have given us an additional 25 points on the varsity side,” Smith said.
As it was, the Fillies took ninth at the varsity level with 17 points. Chanute won the girls varsity with a score of 121. Coffeyville was second at 85 and Fredonia claimed third with 71.
Jessica Oakley was a two-time JV medalist, earning silver in the discus with a throw of 75’8” and third in the shot at 24’11”.
Valaree Burtnett finished second in the JV high jump, clearing 4’2”.
Also taking third was the JV 4×100-meter relay team of Klair Vogel, Burtnett, Breanne Jett and Shannon Vogel with a time of 1:01.1.
Shannon Vogel took fifth in the 800-meter run with a time of 3:05.
The JV girls took second with 86 points, three points behind first-place finisher Chanute’s 86. Fort Scott was third with 71.

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