Lions, Pioneers and Bulldogs fare well in Gravette meet

GRAVETTE -- With district and state track meets looming around the corner in less than two weeks, track teams from Northwest Arkansas gathered at Lion Stadium in Gravette April 11 for the 2019 Gravette Lions Invitational track meet.

Since the stadium light incident which forced Gravette officials to remove all four light poles for damage inspection, the meet started two hours earlier in order to use available daylight. Because of the time constraint, the meet was limited to 16 teams, eight boys' and eight girls' teams. Besides the host Gravette Lions and Lady Lions, Decatur, Gentry, Pea Ridge, West Fork, Prairie Grove, Elkins and Lincoln participated in the event.

Pea Ridge girls won this year's event with 190 points, Gravette took second place with 175 points and Decatur took third with 65. Gentry Lady Pioneers finished the girls' event with 16.

On the boys' side, Gravette took first with 157 points, followed by Pea Ridge with 151.50, and Gentry took third with 124.50.

Halfway through the event, news filtered down to the Decatur track team that one of their classmates, Haley Shaffer, had passed away from injuries received in an accident three days earlier. Many of the Decatur athletes were unable to continue the meet while others chose to stay and compete in her honor.

Meet Results Girls

Gravette

100m: 2 Brook Deihl 13.33, 3 Tia Berger 13.48, 5 Gracie Berger 13.67.

200m: 2 Tia Berger 27.81, 3 Deihl 28.30, 4 Sally Bird 28.51.

400m: 1 Bird 1:04.46, 2 G. Berger 1:04.76, 3 Mikey Larson 1:05.83, 5 Reese Hamilton 1:07.49.

800m: 3 Kaylan Chilton 2:48.66, 4 Larson 2:49.73.

1600m: 7 Jacqueline Maberry 6:52.67, 10 Kristine Irwin 7:33.86.

3200m: 5 Maberry 15:20.76.

100m Hurdles: 4 Kerri Rollo 17.95.

300m Hurdles: 6 Rollo 56.07.

4x100m Relay: 2 Gravette 53.33.

4x400m Relay: 1 Gravette 4:29.53.

High Jump: 5 Lauren Irwin 4-06.

Long Jump: 4 Lauren Irwin 13-06, 7 Bird 13-02, 8 Holly Robinson 13-00.

Triple Jump: 3 Bird 31-07, 5 Robinson 30-00.25, 7 L Irwin 29-07.75, 8 T Berger 29-04.50.

Pole Vaught: 2 Robinson 9-06.

Discus: 4 Abby Olvera 82-09, 5 Abigail Beranek 81-00, 6 Allison Callahan 79-06.

Shot Put: 1 Shelbye Varner 29-04, 4 Olvera 27-04, 5 Beranek 27-02.

Decatur

100m Hurdles: 1 Desi Meek 16.17, 6 Destiny Mejia 19.06.

300m Hurdles: 2 Meek 49.99.

4x400m Relay: 3 Decatur 4:49.

High Jump: 2 Mejia 4-09, 3 Meek 4-08.

Triple Jump: 1 Meek 33-00.

Discus: 3 Bronwyn Berry 84-00, 8 Olivia Verser 72-10.

Shot Put: 3 Berry 28-00, 8 Verser 25-07.25.

Gentry

100m: 10 Josie Newsom 14.83.

200m: 11 Newsom 31.57.

800m: 10 Shelyn Roa 3:12.41.

1600m: 8 Roa 7:00.53.

3200m: 7 Roa 16:30.72.

100m Hurdles: 5 Heidi Vinson 18.30.

300m Hurdles: 5 Vinson 52.98.

Long Jump: 10 Newsom 12-10.

Triple Jump: 4 Vinson 30-06, 11 Newsom 23-07.

Discus: 9 Vinson 72-06.

Meet Results Boys

Gravette

100m: 7 Isaac Dann 11.76, 8 Ian Drake 11.95, 10 Cy Hilger 12.06.

200m: 6 Kyle Rachel 23.82, 10 Dann 24.98.

400m: 7 Johnny Dunfee 57.01, 8 Roberto Barrios 57.24.

800m: 4 Joshus Hortsmann 2:17.13, 5 Leo Busby 2:18.09.

1600m: 4 Adam Bradford 5:29.53.

3200m: 2 Bradford 12:44.20.

110m Hurdles: 3 Rachel 16.60, 4 Caleb Brown 17.29.

300m Hurdles: 1 Brown 43.19, 2 Rachel 43.21, 3 Tajae White 43.67.

4x400m Relay: 1 Gravette 3:43.32.

4x800m Relay: 1 Gravette 9:07.16.

High Jump: 12 Dunfee 5-02.

Long Jump: 1 Hilger 19-10, 2 White 19-02, 7 Drake 17-07.

Triple Jump: 2 Hilger 40-00.25, 4 White 39-07.75, 12 Rex Bird 33-04.25, 14 Josh Dodge 32-09.50.

Discus: 2 Aidan Patton 129-00, 3 Jarrod Barker 123-07, 13 Ty Verble 82-06.

Shot Put: 1 Patton 51-09.25, 4 Barker 36-02, 6 Verble 34-10.50.

Decatur

400m: 11 Seth Rich 58.71.

Shot Put: 11 Javier Perez 31-11.

Gentry

100m: 4 Zac Jarnagan 11.63, 9 Mateo Cain 12.03.

200m: 7 Sam Santiago 23.86, 8 Jarnagan 23.99.

400m: 4 Santiago 53.67, 6 Blake Wilkinson 55.92.

800m: 1 Jacob Truman 2:12.78.

1600m: 1 Truman 4:58.92.

110m Hurdles: 2 Brandon Atwood 16.32.

300m Hurdles: 4 Atwood 45.41.

4x100m Relays: 1 Gentry 45.98.

4x400m Relays: 2 Gentry 3:45.75.

High Jump: 4 Wilkinson 5-06, 7 Jamon Mathis 5-04, 8 Beau Tomblin 5-04.

Long Jump: 6 Atwood 17-08, 8 Jarnagan 17-06.

Triple Jump: 1 Jarnagan 41-07, 3 Wilkinson 39-11.50, 6 Atwood 39-04, 9 Santiago 36-70.50.

Discus: 1 Kerlose Ruzek 132-06, 4 Jammon Mathis 110-11, 5 Jose Barrios 103-04.

Shot Put: 2 Ruzek 41-06, 15 Mathis 30-05.

Sports on 04/17/2019