Catching Up With the Track Season

Easton Elrod

Fellow FHS students, If you’re like me and have a bunch of work backed up for school, then you might find it hard to keep up with the fast paced track season. Luckily, I’m here to catch you up on how they’ve been doing.

At the Tiger Town Invitational Top 5 finishers  Blaine Fingers was 2nd in the 400 Meter Dash,the 4×200 Meter Relay Team of Blaine Fingers,Skylar Holland,Logan Yancy and Mike Parrish finished 2nd, Patrick Sikes was 4th in the 110 High Hurdles, Dawson Sutton was 4th in Javelin and Blaine Fingers was 5th in the 200 Meter Dash. The team finished 9th out of 21 teams.

The results from the “Simpson Relays” Medal winner where Blaine Fingers 1st in the 400 Meter Dash and 2nd in the 200 Meter Dash, 4×400 Meter Relay team of Blaine Fingers, Skylar Holland,Logan Yancy and Peyton Francis took 3rd, Skylar Holland was 4th in the 400 Meter Dash and Brayden Mullins was 4th in the 3200 Meter Run.

While competing at the Potosi Invitational  Blaine Fingers was 1st in the 200 Meter Dash and 400 Meter Dash with and All Conference time 50.77, the 4×200 Meter Relay Team of Blaine Fingers, Skylar Holland,Logan Yancey and Mike Parrish where 1st with a school record run of 1:33.48, Mike Parrish was 3rd in Long Jump, the 4×100 Relay Team of Malachi Kyle, Logan Yancy, Peyton Francis and Mike Parrish where 3rd and Patrick Sikes was 5th in the 110 Meter High Hurdles. The team finished 6th out of 12 teams with 64 points.

Some medal winners from the Hillsboro Invitational: Skylar Holland with 3rd the 400 Meter Dash and the 4×200 Relay team of Blaine Fingers, Skylar Holland, Logan Yancey and Mike Parrish where 3rd.

And finally at Districts the top four winners and advancing to the Sectional Meet include girls Ariahna Green was 3rd in Discus and 4th in Shot Put and Elie Fisher was 4th in Long Jump. Boys Blaine Fingers was 1st in 400 and 200 Meter Dash, the 4×200 Meter Relay team of Blaine Fingers Skyler 0r Holland, Logan Yancey Mike Parrish where 1st with a new school record time of 1:32.11,the 4×400 Meter Relay team of Blaine Fingers, Skyler Holland, Logan Yancey and David Frazier took 1st, Patrick Sikes was 2nd in the 110 High Hurdles, Skyler was 2nd with and All Conference time of 51.45, Evan Burrows was 2nd in Javelin,the 4×800 Meter Relay team of Dylan St. Clair, Ralph Patterson, David Frazier and Peyton Francis where 2nd, Dawson Sutton was 3rd in Javelin, Mike Parrish was 3rd in Triple Jump with an All Conference jump of 41ft. Ralph Patterson was 3rd in the 800 Meter Run and Dylan St. Clair was 4th in the 800 Meter Run. The team placed 2nd scoring 118 points.