Jayhawks' run at state track meet stalls under tough competition
- Journal Staff Report
- 2 days ago
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By Roger Sims with reporting by Billy Roudybush
WICHITA – The participants from Jayhawk-Linn High School went into the state track meet with high hopes for success. However, the competition was tough in the Class 3A division of the State Track and Field Championship meet at Wichita on Friday and Saturday, May 30-31, and that caused several setbacks to their dreams.
Senior hurdler Trenton Broyles, after sweeping the competition at regional, managed to out-duel the competition enough to earn third in the 300-meter hurdles and sixth in the 110-meter hurdles.
But Trenton’s medals were the only ones earned by the Jayhawks in the state meet.
In the finals of the 110-meter hurdles, he finished with a time of 15.30 seconds, not quite a second behind the first-place finisher. In the preliminaries he turned in the third best time of 15.12.
His run at gold in the 300-meters was about a second off the winning time, but his time of 39.51 seconds was good for the third-place bronze medal. That was 0.41 seconds faster than his first-place time at regionals of 40.31 seconds.
Senior Ryan Broyles, who also qualified for the 110-meter hurdles finished the race in 13th place with a time of 15.95. That was faster than his state-qualifying time of 16.15 in the regionals, but not fast enough to get him into the finals.
The most heartbreaking were the results of the boys pole vault. Senior Gabe Springer set a school record with a vault of 15 feet in the regionals. Junior Truman Schneider was right behind with a second-place medal in the regionals with a vault of 14-0.
At state seven of the vaulters in the 3A division at state cleared 13-6, with the competitor with the fewest misses taking home the gold. It was bar that both Springer and Schneider had cleared just a week before, but at state it just didn’t happen for them.
Springer had three missed vaults and was out, ending his high school career on a down note. Schneider cleared 13-0, but that was the highest he would go. He took 10th place and will have another shot at state next year.
Senior Cooper Johnson also fell to what seemed to be a team jinx at state. After earning second place in the regionals with a leap of 6-2 the week before, Johnson didn’t make the qualifying height of 5-10. Seven competitors cleared the bar at 6-2 during the state competition with the gold going to a jump of 6-4.
For the girls, junior Brea Dawson was 0.03 seconds away from a trip to the finals round and the podium for her 10th-place performance in the girls 100-meter hurdles. She completed the run with a time of 15.86 seconds, slightly off her state-qualifying time of 15.44 at regionals.
Junior Brenlyn Bogan placed 15th in high jump, clearing the bar at 4-10. Her qualifying jump for state at the regionals a week before was 5-0. The gold went to the athlete with a leap of 5-8.
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