No Saturday medals for Tiger thinclads

WICHITA -- In Fort Scott's only event at the Kansas State Track and Field Championships here Saturday, Fort Scott High School's Mallory Shelton cleared 5 feet even in Class 4A high jump, missing out on a medal when tie-breakers were used. Seventh-place medals went to Morgan Bell of Colby and Morgan Boore of Girard as each needed fewer attempts to clear the same height. Shelton was placed 10th officially.

Colleen O'Brien of Louisburg was the winner at 5' 6".

Griffin Knopp won Class 4A high jump and finished seventh in triple jump Friday while Colt Bartlett was 14th in shot put. Their events were covered in Saturday's edition of the Weekend Herald-Tribune.

The top seven finishers in each event earned medals.

NOTES -- Two other athletes from Southeast Kansas League schools won five State titles among them over the weekend.

Pittsburg's Keenan Soles picked up three golds in Class 5A, all in very close finishes. He won Class 5A triple jump on Friday with a mark of 46' 6 1/4", beating out Brad Pruter of Hays by 1/4 of an inch. He also took the 100-meter title in 10.96 seconds, just 1/10th of a second faster than Rashawn Baker of Topeka-Highland Park. He beat Baker again in the 200 finals by just 0.02 seconds after finishing in 22.34.

Ethan Fulton of Iola won Class 4A long jump with a mark of 22' 4 1/2", Like Soles, Fulton was a winner by jut 1/4 of an inch. Skylar Hawkins of Paola was second. He also took the 110-meter hurdles in 14.95, winning by a comfortable margin in comparison to the other events mentioned. Sean Covalcine of Haven was second in 15.27....

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Girls

Team scores

1. Baldwin 53, 2. Kansas City-Sumner Academy 51, 3. Kansas City-Piper 44, 4. El Dorado 41 1/2, 5. Andale 35 1/2, 6. Colby 29 1/2, 7. Holton 21, 8. Girard 20 1/2, 9. Ottawa 20, 10. (tie) Russell and DeSoto 18,

12 (tie). Tonganoxie and Louisburg 17, 14 (tie). Chapman 16 and Pratt 16, 15. Cheney 14, 16 (tie). Hesston and Clay Center 13, 18 (tie). Maize South 12 and Valley Center 12, 20 (tie). Clearwater and Anderson County 11,

22 (tie). Hugoton, Paola and Lindsborg-Smoky Valley 10, 25 (tie). Lenexa St. James and Basehor-Linwood 8, 27 (tie). Wellington, Chanute and Iola 7, 30. Circle 6,

31 (tie). Concordia, Eudora and Wamego 5, 34 (tie). Spring Hill and Perry-Lecompton 4, 36 (tie). Meriden-Jefferson West, Ulysses and Parsons 3, 39. Kansas City Bishop Ward 2, 40. Haven 1.

Boys

Team scores

1. Paola 63, 2. Wichita Trinity 40, 3. Osawatomie 35 1/2, 4. Hoyt-Royal Valley 34, 5. Abilene 29, 6. Andale 28, 7. Tonganoxie 26 1/2, 8 (tie). Iola and DeSoto 24, 10. Louisburg 23,

11. Mulvane 21, 12. Wamego 20, 13. Valley Center 18, 14. Baldwin 14, 15 (tie). Kansas City-Piper and Chanute 13, 17. Towanda-Circle 12, 18 (tie). Fort Scott, Hesston, Easton-Pleasant Ridge, Eudora, Haven and Lenexa St. James 11,

24. El Dorado 10, 25 (tie). Carbondale-Santa Fe Trail and Cheney 8, 27. Buhler 7, 28 (tie). Lindsborg-Smoky Valley, Labette County, Kingman, Holton, Russell, Topeka Hayden and Ulysses 6,

35 (tie). Nickerson and Independence 5, 37 (tie). Perry-Lecompton, Clearwater and Coffeyville 4, 40 (tie). Hiawatha and Hugoton 3,

42 (tie). Pratt and Kansas City Bishop Ward 2, 44 (tie). Colby and Scott City 1.

Event results

High jump: 1. Knopp, Fort Scott, 6' 6"; 2. Bahner, Carbondale-Santa Fe Trail, 6' 4"; 3. Deterding, Lindsborg-Smoky Valley, 6' 4"; 4. Baumgartner, Hesston, 6' 4"; 5. Miller, Hoyt-Royal Valley, 6' 4"; 6 (tie). Soucie, Osawatomie, and Jacobs, Tonganoxie, 6' 0".

Triple jump: 1. Miller, Hoyt-Royal Valley, 44' 3"; 2. Robinson, Easton-Pleasant Ridge, 43' 3 1/2"; 3. Veith, Cheney, 42' 10 1/2"; 4. Gardinier, Towanda-Circle, 44' 11 1/2"; 5. West, Paola, 41' 11"; 6. Scates, Tonganoxie, 41' 11"; 7. Knopp, Fort Scott, 41' 4 1/2".