Princeton girls finish third during Jim King

Bears wins 300 hurdles, ties for first in the pole vault. Spencer breaks own meet record in the javelin but finishes second behind Gilman City athlete

PRESTON COLE

Editor, the Post-Telegraph

PRINCETON Princeton’s girls scored in 13 events last Monday (April 17) to finish third in their only home track meet, the 4th Annual Jim King Relays.

The Tigers won one event, tied for first place in another, and had nine other top-3 finishes in scoring 103 points, behind South Harrison (137 points) and Gilman City (107).

Danielle Bears was Princeton’s lone solo first-place finisher as whe won the 300-meter low hurdles in 54.56 seconds. She also tied for first in the pole vault, clearing 6 feet, 6 inches.

Megan Spencer finished second in her two throws, the javelin (113-93/4) and discus (97-3). The senior broke her 2022 meet record of 1074 in the javelin, but Gilman City’s Ava Langfitt won Monday’s event with a throw of 115-51/2

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to take over the top spot on the meet’s record list.

Addy Henke finished second in the 400 metters in 1 minute, 8.88 seconds, and was third in the long jump at 14-71/4

Cheyenne Dinsmore took third in the shot put with a heave of 30-91/4, and Makenzie Dunkin was third in the discus at 83-61/4

Nevaeh Brizendine was third in the 3200 in 16:15.44, Faith Siemer was third in the 100 high hurdles in 18.40, and the 4x100 relay team of Alyvia Enright, Henke, Grace Kelly and Carsey Brown was third in 54.82. Siemer was fourth in the 300 hurdles in 56.98, and Bears was fourth in the 100 hurdles in 18.47.

The 4x200 relay team of Bears, Siemer, Kelly and Henke took fourth in 1:57.06. Gracie Thogmartin finished fourth in the 100 in 14.82, and Kayla Allton was fourth in the 800 in 2:50.65.

Kadence Power was fifth in the 400 in

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County vaulter that sidelined him, and cleared 11 feet to break PC Midget Jake Rouse’s 2022 record of 10 feet, 113/4 inches.

Princeton’s fourth meet record came in the high jump, where reigning Missouri Class 1 state champion Talan Holt cleared 6-23/4, breaking ex-Tiger Zeb Schwartzkopf’s 2021 standard of 6-1.

Rhoades’ school record came in the javelin, as he threw the spear 158-51/4 to break his 11-day school record of 155-3 accomplished during Chillicothe’s Joe Shy Relays.

The throw was good for second place behind Gilman City’s Brody Langfitt, who won the event with a meet record of throw of 169-7, shattering his 2022 toss of 162-2.

In addition to Rhoades’ javelin throw, the Tigers got second-place points from Jaden Finney in the high jump (6-03/4), Kenny Wright in the 3200 meters (12 minutes, 8.20 seconds) and the 4x100 relay (Tyler Coffman, Kelby Thomas, Nicolas Rubio and Ethan Rhoades; 48.61. Holt scored in his other two events, finishing third in the 100 in 12.22 and fourth in the 200 in 24.38.

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PRESTON COLE/Princeton Post-Telegraph Princeton’s Megan Spencer released the javelin while two East Harrison throwers look on.