Siloam Springs head track coaches, Chuck and Sharon Jones, liked what they saw from their varsity squads Thursday in their home track meet.
Both teams had some highlight performers individually and as a group as the annual Senior High Panther Relays were held at Glenn W. Black Stadium.
Owasso, Okla., one of the larger schools in the Sooner State, won both the boys and girls meets, but Siloam Springs finished third in the girls meet and seventh in the boys meet.
"Owasso's a big school and they brought some good athletes, and they won it," said Sharon Jones, head girls coach. "But our kids competed. I felt like they did really well."
Siloam Springs was also able to finish the meet just before a line of thunderstorms moved into the area.
"We had beautiful weather (most of the meet)," said Chuck Jones, head boys coach. "We got ran off by the rain, but we got to get the track meet in. It could have been 20 degrees colder at this time of year too."
Girls
Owasso scored 172 points to win the girls meet, followed by Gravette in second place at 87.5. Siloam Springs scored 71 points in third place, while Decatur had 51, Greenland 47, Rogers Heritage 41, West Fork 34, Shiloh Christian 32, Prairie Grove 31, Farmington 30 and Pea Ridge 29.5.
Highlighting the girls meet were the performances of sophomores Alexis Roach and Chloe Price, who finished second and eighth respectively in the individual rankings.
Roach scored 29.75 points to finish behind Decatur's Desi Meek, who was first at 37. Price scored 17.75 points.
Roach placed first in the long jump at 16 feet, 2 inches and scored 10 points, while Price was second in the event at 14-8.5 and scored eight points. Sidney Henry placed ninth at 13-3.
Roach was second in the triple jump at 32-5 and earned eight points, while Price was 12th at 26-0.
"(Roach) can pretty much do whatever she wants to do," said Sharon Jones. "She's a good sprinter. She's a good jumper. She's just a good kid."
Roach took another second place finish in the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.44 seconds for eight more points, while Henry was 12th at 14.08.
Price landed a third place finish in the 400-meter run at 1 minute, 4.79 seconds, while Caroline Farine was ninth at 1:09.39.
The 4x100-meter relay team of Henry, Chloe McGooden, Roach and Price had a first place finish of 54.92 and scored 10 points collectively.
"Sidney Henry, she hasn't ran since seventh grade I think," Sharon Jones said. "I was so proud of her coming out of basketball and she did really well. Chloe Price, gah-lee, she did really good, coming out of basketball and she's not in track shape yet. Man, she's such a good athlete."
The team of Allika Pearson, Farine, Jasmine Guillen and McGooden placed second in the girls 4x800-meter relay with a time of 11:21.14 and scored eight points.
The Lady Panthers' 4x400-meter relay team of McGooden, Farine, Roach and Price took fourth place with a time of 4:35.77, scoring five points.
Pearson placed fifth in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 6:12.56 and scored four points, while Rachel Thompson was seventh at 6:18.64 with two points.
Pearson placed ninth in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:54.57.
Henry placed 10th in the 200-meter dash at 28.92.
Thompson finished seventh in the 3,200-meter run at 13:37.87 and scored two points.
In the 100-meter hurdles, Emily McClelland finished ninth with a time of 20.84.
McClelland placed 14th in the girls 300-meter hurdles at 1:05.85.
Karla Garcia finished 10th in the shot put at 25-7, while Stephanie Suaste was 17th at 23-5.
Suaste finished in 20th place at the discus with a throw of 60-8, while Garcia was 22nd at 57-4.
Boys
Owasso totaled 174 points to take first place, followed by Farmington 82, Pea Ridge 72, Gentry 60.5, Gravette 58 and Decatur 54. Siloam Springs totaled 51 points, while Shiloh Christian had 33, Greenland 32, Prairie Grove 22 and Haas Hall 10.
Alex Fink of Gravette was the high-point winner with 29.5 points.
Sophomore Kaiden Thrailkill had a pair of third-place finishes to lead the Panthers individually.
Thrailkill was third in the long jump at 18 feet, 8.5 inches to score six points, while J.D. Horn was 10th at 17-10 and Steven Iglesias 18th at 16-8.5.
Thrailkill also placed third in the 200-meter dash at 24 seconds and earned six points, while Iglesias finished 14th at 24.88 and Horn 16th at 25.23.
Kaiden Thrailkill placed seventh in the 100-meter dash at 11.68 and scored two points, while Iglesias placed ninth at 11.82 and Horn finished 19th at 12.04.
Horn placed fifth in the triple jump at 38-6 and scored four points, while Primo Agbehi scored two more points with a seventh-place finish of 37-11.5. Charlie Jones was 18th at 34-10.5.
Ryke Beever finished fourth and scored five points in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 45.70, while Angel Noyela finished 17th at 52.28 and Ian Williams 22nd at 57.38.
Beever placed fourth in the boys 110-meter hurdles at 17.18 and scored five points, while Tristen Cunningham placed 13th at 22.61 and Williams was 15th at 28.38.
Blake Jackson scored five points in the pole vault with a fourth place finish of 11 feet, 6 inches.
The Panthers scored in all three of their relays.
The 4x100-meter relay team of Iglesias, Thrailkill, Agbehi and Horn placed third and scored six points with a time of 45.91 seconds.
The 4x400-meter relay team of Agbehi, Dillon Ferguson, Charlie Jones and Chandler Stewart placed fifth and scored four points at 3:49.47.
The 4x800-meter relay team of Stewart, Charlie Jones, Ferguson and Isaac Leachman placed third at 9:02.11 and scored six points.
"We had some faster times tonight than we had at the end of the season last year in some events," Chuck Jones said. "We've got a lot of young kids. We've got a lot of sophomores and some first-time track kids out there, and so yeah, I was pleased with how we performed."
David Williams placed 11th in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:32.15.
Williams finished ninth in the 3,200-meter run at 12:11.84.
Lee Thompson placed 17th in the 400-meter dash at 1:00.59, while Spenser Pippin placed 27th at 1:05.03 and Seth Hufford 28th at 1:06.32.
Charlie Jones finished 11th in the boys 800-meter run at 2:19.03, while Leachman placed 12th at 2:19.03 and Ferguson 18th at 2:27.91.
Fermin Velis just missed a scoring mark in the boys shot put with a ninth-place finish of 36-9.5. Isaac Knudson was 10th at 35-9, while Kameron Greenlee was 21st at 34-0.5, Dakota LeRoy 27th at 32-4.5 and Wyatt Washington 30th at 31-10.5.
Luke Reicheneker finished 12th in the boys discus at 95-6, while Knudson was 21st at 87-10 and Velis 23rd at 86-4.
Sports on 03/12/2017