Amanda Schmidt finished first in both hurdle events last Tuesday in Gillespie.
The Gillespie High School girls’ track team had a great week last week in their second full week of the season finishing second behind Pana in their first home meet of season on Tuesday and then winning a six-team meet in Piasa on Thursday. The boys track team came in last on Tuesday and fifth on Thursday.
This week the boys and girls have a combined meet in Carlinville on Tuesday and another combined meet in Litchfield on Thursday, then the girls are competing on Saturday in the annual Carlinville Invitational.
SOUTHWESTERN MEET
The girls team won the Southwestern meet by more than 60 points after winning half of the events. Gillespie finished with 163 team points over Waverly (102), Southwestern (93), Bunker Hill (61), North Green (38) and Charter (17).
Amanda Schmidt scored 30 team points by winning three individual events – 100m high hurdles (16.1 seconds), 300m low hurdles (49.5 seconds) and the 200m dash (27.23 seconds). Abby Eccles, Jaiden Braundmeier and Bette Hamann each scored 10 team points by winning pole vault (8’), triple jump (28’ 8”) and 100m dash (13.46), respected.
Helping the team out by finishing in second place was Abbie Barber in pole vault (7’), Maya Marcacci in high jump (4’ 6”) and triple jump (27’) and Braundmeier in long jump (13’ 7”).
The Gillespie boys didn’t finish in the top spot of any of the 16 events, but did finish have two second place finishes – Mason Barber in pole vault (8’ 6”) and the 4×800 team with a time of 10:54.
GILLESPIE MEET
Mason Barber finished second in pole vault in both the Gillespie and Southwestern meets last week.
Earlier last week on Tuesday, the girls’ team barely missed a first place finish by six points ending the meet with 82 points behind Pana High School’s first place finish with 88 points. The boys finished the meet with 33 points behind the other three schools: Roxana (86), Pana (80) and North Mac (46).
Schmidt and Lynsey Gibson led the girls team with a combined 22 points. Schmidt had two individual wins scoring 12 team points with top finishes in both hurdle events – 100m hurdles (15.75 seconds) and 300m hurdles (48.53 seconds) while Gibson had 10 points with a first place finish in discus (93’ 7”) and a second place finish in shot put (30’ 8”).
Kendra Cherry also recorded an uncontested first place finish in the 3200m run with a time of 16:17.81.
Other top finishers was Lindsay Stoecker finishing in second in the 400m dash (1:17.09), Abbie Barber finishing second in pole vault (8’), Mia Willis finishing third in the 200m dash (31.17 seconds) and Regan Goldasich finishing third in shot put (29’ 11.5”).
Four of the girls team’s relays reeled in 28 team points with a first place finish in the 4×800 (12:59.51 minutes) and three second place finishes in the 4×100 (56.07 seconds), 4×200 (2:06.97 minutes) and 4×400 (4:54.99 minutes).
The Carr brothers scored nearly a third of the boys team’s 33 points after Bobby finished in second by two hundredths of a second in the 100m dash (11.91 seconds) scoring six team points and Zach finishing in second in the 800m run with a time of 2:22.08 minutes, also contributing six team points.
Other top performers were Mason Barber who finished in second in pole vault (8’ 6”), Keagan West who finished in second in high jump (5’ 8”) and Brandon Slone who place third in both the 1600m run and 3200m run.
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