KHS girls tops at Cashion Relays
ABBIE MYERS soars toward the long jump pit during last Friday’s Cashion Relays. The sophomore won the event to give her one of her four medals at the track and field meet. [KT&FP Staff Photo]
Kennedy Hight got the most golds.
Kingfisher got the most points…by a long shot.
Hight won four gold medals in last Friday’s Cashion Relays, including edging Kingfisher standout Scout Snodgrass in a pair of races down the stretch.
But it was Kingfisher winning the team trophy as the Lady Jackets totaled 129.5 points for the championship.
Led by Hight, Perry was the runner-up with 86 points.
The senior claimed first in the 200 and 400 meter dashes and anchored the Lady Maroons’ gold medal finishes in the 400 and 800 meter dashes.
But Snodgrass was no slouch.
The KHS sophomore was right on Hight’s heels in the 400, taking silver behind the standout Lady Maroon who won the Class 3A state championship as a sophomore in 2022. Hight missed her junior season with a knee injury.
She was able to edge Snodgrass in the final leg of the 800 relay as Perry won in 1:48.14 and KHS finished in 1:48.48.
There was no edging Snodgrass in her two other relays.
She led KHS to gold in both the 3,200 and mile events, running the anchor in both.
Kingfisher won the twomile relay by 30 seconds over runner-up Southwest Covenant. Snodgrass was joined by Lily Lunsford, Mattie Slezickey and Kinley Taylor in the race.
KHS - with Snodgrass, Taylor, Slezickey and Abbie Myers - won the mile relay by nearly 10 full seconds over North Rock Creek.
Myers won another gold in the long jump, setting a PR with a leap of 15 feet, 11 1/4 inches.
That bested North Rock Creek’s Chloe Kasterke by 2.75 inches.
In her first-ever entry into the event, KHS freshman Taitym Walker was fourth with a jump of 14-8.25.
Kingfisher’s other gold Friday came from sophomore Harper Evans, who won the two-mile run in 13:14.61.
She finished two spots ahead of teammate Addison Price, who was third in 13:27.01.
Myers also took second in the 300 hurdles, giving her two golds and two silvers as well.
Talor Mecklenburg was a silver medalist in the 100 hurdles while Lily Lunsford was the runner-up in the mile run.
Emmy Lunsford set a PR in the pole vault as she cleared 8 feet, good for fourth. She was one spot ahead of her sister, Lily, who cleared 7-0.
Kingfisher also got a PR from Rylee Long-Bush in the jump. Her leap of 4-8 tied her for fifth.
••• Cashion was third in the meet with 63 points, one better than Stroud.
There were 20 teams represented at the meet.
Addison McCracken won the team’s lone individual gold as she was first in the open 800 with a time of 2:33.99.
Brooke Shafer earned the team’s only silver with her throw of 30-6.5 in the shot put.
Reese Williams was right behind Kingfisher’s Myers in the 300 hurdles as she collected bronze with a time of 50.90 seconds.
Williams and McCracken also took third in the mile relay as they were joined by Abby Hobgood and Chevy Eubanks.
Cashion also was third in the 400 relay with a team consisting of Hobgood, Eubanks, Williams and Madison Westerhoff.
••• The Dover girls placed 10th with 26.5 points.
Kylee Bell played a big role as she scored in four events, including taking gold in the pole vault.
She cleared a career-best 10 feet to beat the nearest competitor by 1 1/2 feet.
Bell was also a part of the fourth-place 400 relay team along with Katelyn Harviston, Karlee Harviston and Ashley Gamez.
That group also took sixth in the 800 relay while Bell placed sixth in the long jump as well.
Katelyn Harviston was fourth in the 200 and tied for fifth in the high jump.
••• On the boys’ side, Kasen Blair scored in two separate events for KHS.
The sophomore was fourth in both the 300 hurdles and the long jump.
In just his second meet to compete in the long jump, Blair leapt 19-5.5 That was nearly five feet further than his best attempt at Watonga on March 29, when he leapt 14-7.25.
Blair accounted for all of Kingfisher’s points at the meet.
Gage Bedick was fourth in the 800 and fifth in the mile run for the Cashion boys.
They were the highest- scoring of the county teams with 14 points.
Hank Brown was also fourth in the 200 while Luke Baustert took fourth in the pole vault for the Wildcats.