Hounds, Thunder compete at Northwest

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Dylan Masters cheers on fellow Spoofhound Dylan Meyer in the final leg of the boys 4×400-meter relay on Saturday in the Northwest Missouri High School Invitational at the Hughes Fieldhouse on the campus of Northwest Missouri State University.

MARYVILLE, Mo. — The Maryville Spoofhounds and the Nodaway Valley track and field team took advantage of early jump on the competition to start their respective seasons by competing in the indoor Northwest Missouri High School Invite on Saturday at the Hughes Center on the campus of Northwest Missouri State. In total there were 29 teams hailing from Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska.

The Spoofhound boys finished fourth overall with 47 points and the Maryville girls tied for 10th place with 22 points. Nodaway Valley girls finished in 15th with 10 points and the boys earned eight points for 17th place.

Maryville coach Rodney Bade is excited about the performance from his athletes on Saturday.

“We’re really happy and really excited,” he said. “We saw a lot of good things. A lot of kids got to (compete) in some different events and some unique combinations this meet that we won’t see the rest of the year. It was a good day. We’ve got a lot of kids who are right where they left off last year and that’s really exciting.”

For the Thunder coach Payton Walker was just as pleased.

“I was extremely happy,” she said. “Almost every kid (achieved a personal record) after only three weeks of training. I did a complete 180 with the training this year. So this showed obviously that we’re doing the right things for the kids.”

The only individual champion for the day among area teams was Ava Graham, who dominated the competition with a throw of 12 meters for Nodaway Valley. Rylee Hornbuckle took seventh place with a throw 10.07 meters.

Seniors Wyatt Garner from Maryville and the Thunder’s Riley Blay were the only two individual athletes on the boys side from area schools to earn second place in their respective events. Garner had a second-place mark in the long jump 6.61 meters. Blay finished a close second in the 3200-meter run with a time of 9:21.40.

On the girl’s side, Maryville’s Brylee Acklin finished in second place in the girls 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.78. The sophomore took fourth place in the triple jump with a distance of 10.16 meters.

There were a few second-place relay finishes with the Maryville boys distance medley of Connor Blackford, Dylan Meyer, Dylan Masters and Bradley Deering with a time of 10:53.48. In the 4×400-meter relay the team of Masters, Blackford, Darren Dwight and Meyer finished second with a time of 3:31.12.

The Spoofhound boys 1600-meter sprint medley of Garner, Dwight, Masters and Blackford earned third place with a time of 3:42.51.

Freshman Mace McKim had a fourth-place throw of 14.87 meters and Carson Sterling grabbed seventh at 14.20 meters.

There were also several other point earning finishes for Maryville.

Tuan Jacobson 24.06 took fifth in the boys 200-meter dash with a time of 24.06. Deering took sixth in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:05.22. Colton Berry had a sixth place time of 4:53.58 in the boys 1600-meter run and Katherine Pohren finished in seventh place in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:42.86. The girls 1600-meter sprint medley of Payton McGinness, Jillian Bagley, Acklin and Meah Schommer ran a 4:44.76 for seventh place and the girls distance medley of Audrey Deering, Kami Tobin, Nyah Davis and Pohren came in eighth place with a time of 14:26.12.

Other results for Nodaway Valley were:

Boys 60m dash — Reece Walker 7.93, Tye Hoyt 8.15 and Clayton Davis 8.21

Girls 60m hurdles — Mackenzie Hanig 11.33 and Bella Walker 11.56

Boys 200m dash — John Fuhrman 25.79, Reece Walker 26.41 and Davis 26.79

Girls 200m dash — Madeline Wilmes 29.26 and Ellie Wilmes 30.22

Boys 400m dash — Benjamin Cordell 57.58, Fuhrman 58.21 and Aidan Hughes-Fast 1:00.25

Girls 400m dash — Madeline Wilmes 1:06.66 and Bella Walker 1:10.01

Boys 800m run — Hughes-Fast 2:25.45

Boys long jump — Oren Goff 4.88m

Boys shot put — JD Cronk 9.49m, Walker Thompson 9.31m and Lyric Downing 7.67m

Boys triple jump — Goff 10.85m

Boys 1600m sprint medley — Cordell, Davis, Hughes-Fast and Hoyt 3:59.17

Girls 4x400m relay — Madeline Wilmes, Ellie Wilmes, Bella Walker and Hanig 4:41.48

There were also several notable Spoofhound finishes:

Boys 60m dash — Garner 7.45, Jacobson 7.52 and Brody Shepherd 9.96

Girls 60m dash — Kora Grow 8.51, Bagley 8.56 and McGinness 8.73

Boys 60m hurdles — Kole Zarbano 9.37 and Caden Eighmy 9.84

Girls 60m hurdles — Ella Schulte 10.66

Boys 200m dash — Sadler Viau 25.38 and Noah Bellamy 26.95

Girls 200m dash — Addison Bowe 29.43, Beatrice Diaferio 29.63 and Avery Derr 30.01

Boys 400m dash — Dayn Henderson 1:00.27 and Eighmy 1:02.99

Boys 800m run — Jaren Dombek 2:22.07

Girls 800m run — Avery Berry 3:03.53

Boys 1600m run — Jonah Miller 5:53.17

Boys 3200m run — Raymond Zhao 12:30.24

Boys high jump — Titus McKim 1.65m and Xander Brown 1.60m

Boys long jump — Meyer 5.21m

Girls long jump — Addison Bowe 4.46m and Gwyn Bilke 3.99m

Boys shot put — Phoenix Phillips 12.37m

Girls shot put — Ellie Willnerd 9.33m and Ella Eckley 7.58m

Boys triple jump — Viau 11.66m, Titus McKim 11.57m and Zarbano 11.35m

Boys 1600m sprint medley — Shepherd, Zac Voss, Brown and Anmol Prabhakar 4:13.75

Girls 1600m sprint medley — Schulte, Audrey Deering, Casey Stoll and Ellie Parsons 5:05.69

Boys 4x400m relay — Titus McKim, Miles Poynter, Voss and Dombek 4:00.82

Girls 4x400m relay — Schommer, Pohren, Lindsey Deering and Stoll 4:39.16