The Macomb High School track and field squads headed to Quincy Friday to take part in the 75th annual Quincy Senior High School Track and Field Invitational at Flinn Stadium.
In the girls division, Macomb High finished third out of eight teams with a score of 110 points.
Quincy High and North Point (Wentzville, Mo.) tied for the top spot with 167 points.
Following the Bombers in the team standings were Camp Point Central (92), Rushville-Industry (58), Liberty (32), Illini West (11) and Mendon Unity (4).
The Bombers brought home four first place finishes.
On the track, senior Jordan Hines won the 200meter dash in a season best time of 26.19 seconds.
MHS athletes also won top honors in three field events.
Senior Dakota Thorman was the winner in the discus with a career-best toss of
35.13-meters (115-feet,
3-inches). Sophomore Clair Thompson won the high jump with a personal best
1.57m (5-1.75) and senior Lucy Platt won the pole vault with a season best 2.44m
(8-0).
Other results for the Bombers included the following.
4x800-meter relay - MHS (Sofia Cardenas-Roman, Leah Gorman, Jackie Rouse and Allexis Gray), fourth,
12:43.78.
4x100 - MHS (Madison Nelson, Thompson, Ava Huston and Hines), third,
54.96.
4x100 (Throwers) - MHS (Adalynne Lawrence, Cadence Hotz, Vanessa Root and Thorman), fourth,
1:06.36.
4x100 (fresh-soph) - MHS (Huston, Carmellya Jones, Baileigh Gray and NaLeigha Mitchell), third, 57.87.
3200 - No entries.
100 high hurdles - Jones, fifth, 19.64; Huston, sixth,
20.89 and Baileigh Gray, seventh, 21.21.
100 - Nelson, 10th, 14.71 and Hines, NP, DQ.
100 (open) - Mitchell,
12th, 14.65; Thorman, 14th,
14.94; Jayla Rodez, 18th,
15.36; Patience Henderson,
22nd, 15.69 and Hotz, 23rd,
15.80.
800 - Platt, 11th, 3:09.37; Gorman, 12th, 3:14.53 and Rouse, 18th, 3:48.00.
4x200 - No entry.
400 - Khloe Diggs, fifth,
1:07.83; Rodez, ninth,
1:19.56 and Henderson,
10th, 1:20.12.
300 low hurdles - Huston, fourth, 1:00.47; Baileigh Gray, fifth, 1:01.36 and Jones, sixth, 1:07.78.
1600 - Allexis Gray, third,
6:04.73 and Cardenas-Roman, eighth, 7:08.37.
200 - Thompson, seventh,
29.30.
4x400 - MHS (Diggs, Allexis Gray, Jones and Hines), third, 4:41.67.
Shot put - Root, ninth,
9.04m (29-8); Thorman,
10th, 8.99m (29-6) and Hotz,
16th, 7.76m (25-5.5).
Shot put (open) - Lawrence, sixth, 6.39m (20-11.5).
Discus - Hotz, sixth,
28.10m (92-2.25) and Lawrence, 18th, 16.76 (54-11.75).
High jump - Diggs, second, 1.57m (5-2).
Long jump - Grace O’Hern, seventh, 4.45m
(14-7.25) and Baileigh Gray,
13th, 3.73m (12-2.75).
Triple jump - Huston, third, 10.14m (33-3.25).
In the boys division, MHS placed fifth out of eight teams with 85 points.
North Point won the team title with 179.5 points. Quincy High was next with 136.5 points, followed by Camp Point Central
(124), Illini West (94) and Macomb.
Following the Bombers in the team standings were Rushville-Industry (32.5), Mendon Unity (15.5) and Liberty (13).
Junior Charlie Bodiford won two events for MHS, capturing top honors in the shot put (15.01m; 49-3) and discus (42.65m; 139-11). His throw in the discus was a personal best In addition, junior Alex Simmons won the 3200 meter run with a personal best time of 10:30.93.
Other results for the Bombers included the following.
4x800 - MHS (Xander Merritt, Eymen Tasdan, Jakob Dawdy and Jackson Petitgout), fourth, 9:31.45.
4x100 - MHS (Jairon Royer, Blaze Howell, Drake May and James Liebsack), fifth, 47.17.
4x100 (fresh-soph) - MHS (Jayden Lindsey, Reed Lytle, Andrew Le and Connor Clauson), NP, NT.
4x100 (Throwers) - No entries.
3200 - Cohen Hunt-Twomey, seventh, 13:22.84.
110 high hurdles - Siddhartha Singh, 10th, 21.15.
100 - Liebsack, fifth,
11.86; Howell, 13th, 12.52 and Royer, 14th, 12.60.
100 (open) - Johnny Powell, 13th, 12.89; Clauson,
20th, 13.16; Lindsey, 26th,
13.70 and Le, 30th, 14.30.
800 - Merritt, ninth,
2:28.75; Grant Potteet, 11th,
2:37.00 and Owen Haley,
13th, 2:44.60.
4x200 - MHS (Jake Anderson, Singh, Howell and Liebsack), fifth, 1:40.80.
400 - Petitgout, fourth,
56.91; Royer, fifth, 56.98 and Powell, 11th, 59.73.
300 low hurdles - No entries.
1600 - Simmons, fourth,
4:53.36; Landon Richards, seventh, 5:05.54 and Tasdan, ninth, 5:27.55.
1600 (open) - Ethan Sherwood, 13th, 6:20.12 and Alaric Gordon, 15th, 6:34.44.
200 - Liebsack, third,
24.24 and Anderson, ninth,
25.32.
4x400 - MHS (Singh, Dawdy, Powell and Royer), fourth, 4:05.28.
Shot put - Jeshua McPheeters, 13th, 10.91m
(35-9.5) and Harold Greene,
18th, 10.13m (33-2.75).
Shot put (open) - No entries.
Discus - McPheeters,
17th, 26.70m (87-7.25) and Greene, 19th, 26.20m (85--
11.5).
High jump - Lindsey, NP, NH.
Pole vault - Lytle, fourth,
3.51m (11-6) and Richards, NP, NH.
Long jump - Singh, 13th,
4.93m (16-2).
Triple jump - McPheeters, fifth, 10.60m (34-9.25).
A complete list of individual results from Friday’s meet can be found at the following link: https://www. athletic.net/TrackAndField/ meet/630783/results/all
