Lady Eagles 2nd again
ROSENDALE, Mo. — For the second time in three days the Jefferson/South Nodaway girls’ track team came up just short of bringing home a team title. After finishing four points shy of the crown at Tuesday’s Bulldog Relays in Stanberry, the Lady Eagles fell just two points shy of Polo at Thursday’s Cardinal Relays hosted by North Andrew.
Polo posted 85 points to win the event, while Jefferson/South Nodaway finished with 83. The North-West Nodaway girls finished 10th with 29 points.
On the boys’ side, the Muskets took fifth with 59 points while the Eagles finished 11th. The host Cardinals won their home meet with 99 points, eight better than second-place Polo.
For the Lady Eagles, sophomore Meaghan McConkey won the 400-meter dash and took second in the 200. Her twin sister, Mallory, won the 1,600-meter run and took second in the 800. Senior Kristen Nielson placed second in the shot put.
Jefferson/South Nodaway also won both the 4×400- and 4×800-meter relays., winning the 4×800 by more than 25 seconds. The 4×400 team is made up of freshman Mikayla Mattson, sophomore Marissa Wiederholt, Meaghan McConkey and Mallory McConkey while the 4×800 squad is comprised of Wiederholt, freshman Savannah Bennett, Mallory McConkey and Meaghan McConkey.
Mattson finished second in the 100-meter hurdles while Bennett took fifth in both the 100- and 300-meter hurdles. Mattson also took fifth in the high jump while freshman Elizabeth Turpin came in fifth in both the long and triple jumps.
The North-West Nodaway girls were paced by a quintet of fourth-place finishes.
Freshman Alissa Nelson came in fourth in the 100-meter dash while fellow freshman Alisha Davison took fifth in the same event. Davison also took fourth in the triple jump.
Senior Melody McGinness finished fourth in the 300-meter hurdles, freshman Bailey Tate took fifth in the 3,200-meter run and sophomore Savannah Dilley placed fifth in the shot put.
Both the 4×100-meter (Nelson, sophomore Paige Hagey, junior Breann O’Riley and Davison) and 4×800-meter (Tate, sophomore Madison Thompson, Hagey and Nelson) relay teams took fourth while the 4×400-meter team — Nelson, Melody McGinness, Hagey and O’Riley) placed fifth.
On the boys’ side, North-West Nodaway was led by junior Blake Farnan, who won both the shot put and the discus. Senior Trevor Meyer finished second in both the long and triple jumps and junior Levi Livengood took second in the 300-meter hurdles.
Livengood also finished fifth in the 110-meter hurdles and junior Jakob Cordell placed fourth in the 100-meter dash. Sophomore Weston Carter came in 5th in the 800-meter run and the Muskets’ 4×400-meter relay team also placed fourth.
Jefferson/South Nodaway’s 4×200-meter relay team — sophomore Michael Burch, junior Logan Eckstein, freshman Nicholas Stoll and freshman Logan Harlan — finished fifth, the Eagles’ lone top-five finish on the day.
Jefferson/South Nodaway runs again Monday at the Platte Valley Conference meet at 2 p.m. at North Andrew High School in Rosendale. North-West Nodaway will take part in the Highway 275 Conference Meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 5 in Mound City.
