KHS fares well against tough conference foes
ABBIE MYERS goes through her warmup routine while Adlee Friesen holds the blocks as Myers prepares to run the first leg of the 4x400 meter relay during last Friday’s conference track meet. Myers and her teammates placed third in the event and overall in
AMONG THE KINGFISHER GIRLS’ best individual finishes was Harper Evans taking second in the two-mile run. [KT&FP Staff Photo]
With regionals lurking this weekend, the Kingfisher girls track team had the opportunity to see where it stacks up against some of the better squads in Class 4A.
Turns out the Lady Jackets stack up fairly well.
KHS finished in third place in the Western Athletic Conference Track & Field Championships, a meet it hosted last Friday.
The Lady Jackets notched 115 points, just five behind runner-up Blanchard.
Tuttle won the conference title with 150 points.
Kingfisher was also 11 points ahead of fourth-place Cache.
Cache was one of the teams anchor leg Scout Snodgrass ran down in the 1,600 meter relay, the final event of the day.
The KHS sophomore ran a punishing final leg to get Kingfisher to third place in the race as well as the meet.
It was one of three medals on the day for Snodgrass as she helped score points for KHS in all four of her events.
Abbie Myers matched her with three medals and points scored in four events, including the 800 and mile relays they ran together.
“I thought they all performed well,” said coach Kerri Lafferty.
“We had quite a few individual PR’s as well as with two of our relays.”
Those included that mile relay as well as the 3,200 meter relay, which took second place.
Snodgrass also ran the anchor leg of that race, nearly catching Tuttle’s Grace Mahan at the finish line.
Tuttle won in 10:08.23 while KHS was timed at 10:08.75.
Joining Snodgrass in the race were Kinley Taylor, Mattie Slezickey and Lily Lunsford.
Myers, Taylor and Slezickey ran the mile relay with Snodgrass. They finished in 4:11.53.
The 800 relay team same as the mile - was fourth in 1:49.26.
Individually, Snodgrass also won gold in the 800. Her time of 2:26.62 was more than five seconds faster than Mahan, the runner-up.
Myers won medals in two individual events.
She was second in the long jump with a leap of 16 feet, 1 inch.
She also placed third in the open 400 with her time of 1:02.47. Taylor was right behind her in fourth.
Other medalists for KHS saw Harper Evans take second in the two-mile run, Talor Mecklenburg get silver in the 100 hurdles and Lunsford third in the mile run.
“We didn’t have everyone in the events they will be running at regionals, so I’m pretty excited with the outcome of conference,”
Western Athletic Conference Girls
Tuttle 150 Blanchard 120 Kingfisher 115 Cache 104 Weatherford 92 Anadarko 60 Newcastle 55 Clinton 46.5 Bethany 28 Woodward 25 Chickasha 3.5 400 - Abbie Myers 3rd, 1:02.47; Kinley Taylor 4th, 1:03.84 800 - Scout Snodgrass 1st, 2:26.62 1,600 - Lily Lunsford 3rd, 5:50.26 3,200 - Harper Evans 2nd, 12:39.71; Addison Price 6th, 13:35.25 100 hurdles - Talor Mecklenburg 2nd, 17.31 300 hurdles - Mecklenburg 5th, 52.44 400 relay - (Ashley Casillas, Taitym Walker, Rylee Long-Bush, Hannah Francis) 5th, 55.30 800 relay - (Myers, Taylor, Mattie Slezickey, Snodgrass) 4th, 1:49.26 1,600 relay - (Myers, Taylor, Slezickey, Snodgrass) 3rd, 4:11.53 3,200 relay - (Taylor, Slezickey, Lunsford, Snodgrass) 2nd, 10:08.75 Discus - Presleigh Phillips 6th, 88-4 Long jump - Myers 2nd, 16-1
Boys
Cache 162 Tuttle 144.5 Blanchard 125 Clinton 73.5 Bethany 69 Chickasha 68 Woodward 57 Weatherford 43 Newcastle 39 Anadarko 29 Kingfisher 4 100 - Kasen Blair 5th, 11.76 Lafferty said.
“I’m looking forward to seeing how we compete at regionals.”
The regional meet is Saturday at Plainview.
Joining KHS will be Anadarko, Bridge Creek, Cache, Chickasha, Clinton, Elk City, McLoud, Plainview, Purcell and Seminole.
The top three placers in each of four regionals will automatically qualify for state.
The next four fastest times or distances from all the regionals combined will also move on.
State is May 3-4 at Catoosa High School.
••• Cache claimed the boys’ conference championship with 162 team points.
Tuttle was the runner-up with 144.5 and Blanchard third with 125. No other team scored more than 75 points.
The KHS boys scored four points, all on Kasen Blair’s fifth-place finish in the 100 meter dash.
He finished with a time of 11.76 seconds.