girls 7th, earn state medal

Henke sets PR in long jump but couldn’t qualify for the finals PRESTON COLE

Princeton Post-Telegraph

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Princeton High School’s girls 4x400-meter relay team medaled Saturday afternoon (May 20) during the 50th MSHSAA Girls Track & Field Championships.

The foursome of Alyvia Enright, Addy Henke, Grace Kelly and Carsey Brown finished seventh wirh a time of 53.46 seconds. That gave the Tigers two team points.

They qualified third in their preliminary heat Friday afternoon (May 19) in 52.69.

Other results

• The track and field gods ganged up on Henke on Friday morning in the lomg jump. She posted a PR (personal record) on her third and final attempt in the prelims - 15 feet, 91/2 inches. That was nearly 5 inches better than her state-qualifying leap at sectionals.

In 2022, 15-91/2 would have earned Henke a medal and three points. In 2023, it wasn’t good enough to get her into the final round of nine competitors.

• Megan Spencer ended her Tiger career by reaching the finals of the discus Saturday afternoon. She threw 100-9 on her last throw in the prelims, but couldn’t better that in the finals and finished ninth.

• Danielle Bears tried for a thirdstraight medal (top-8 finish) in the pole vault Saturday afternoon, but fell short of her goal and finished 11th with a leap of 7-83/4. She easily cleared the first two heights, but missed all three attempts at the third height, 8-23/4

Bears finished fifth in her preliminary heat of the 100-meter high hurdles, in 18.11 seconds. That gave her 12th place overall.

• The 4x200 relay team of Bears, Faith Siemer, Kelly and Henke finished sixth it its heat and 12th overall, in 1 minute, 54.81 seconds.

PRESTON COLE/Princeton Post-Telegraph

Landon Krohn delivered a pitch during Princeton’s 1-0 loss to Green City last Tuesday (May 16) in the Class 1, District 14 baseball tournament’s championship game. The Tigers have appeared in a district championship game in all three seasons of the program’s existence.

Princeton track From Page 2 next height, 12-61/4, which Rhoades cleared on his second attempt. Both vaulters cleared 12-9 and 12-11, and the bar was raised to 13-21/2. Again, Wright passed while Rhoades made it on his second try.

The competition ended on the next height, 13-53/4 Both boys missed on their first two vaults, before Wright cleared the bar on his third and last attempt. Rhoades, who was the No. 1 seed and vaulted last at each height, then missed his final attempt to finish second.

Rhoades, who set and/or broke four school records during his senior season (pole vault, javelin, 200 and 400), medaled in all of them Saturday afternoon. He was fourth in the 400 in 50.73, sixth in the 200 in 22.94, and seventh in the javelin with a toss of 150-7. He hit that level on his second throw in the preliminaries to qualify for the finals, but could only make one legal throw in the finals.

The Tigers’ two competitors combined for 28 team points, tying them with Nodaway Valley - the North Nodaway/Nodaway co-op) for fifth place in the Class 1 team standings. Nodaway Valley got its points from one boy, Riley Blay, who won the 1600- and 3200-meter runs and took second in the 800.

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