Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Page 16

Record misses sectionals by six feet in the discusBY WILL JOHNSONRepublican Sports Editor

WASHINGTON — While eight Owensville Track and Field athletes are moving on to sectionals this Saturday in Marshfield, several younger OHS athletes gained valu-able experience in their first district track meet.

“With several athletes competing in their first district meet, I’m very pleased with how we competed,” OHS head track coach Matt Candrl said. “I look forward to a very bright future for our track program.”

Coming into the girls discus with the second-farthest throw at 115-04, sophomore Haley Record was look-ing for her first trip to sectionals.

Recording a best mark of 100-07, Record settled for fifth place in the event seeing her sophomore season come to an end.

Fellow sophomore Jaelyn Gauer also competed in the shot put and discus for the Dutchgirls.

Making the finals of the shot put, Gauer’s best throw of 34-00 put her in sixth place in the event and two feet out of fourth place.

Going into a stacked girls triple jump, freshman Breanna Baker and senior Michelle Wehmeyer knew a herculean effort would be needed to advance to Marshfield.

Giving it their best, Baker settled

Record-breaking 4x800 Dutchgirl freshmen quartetPreviously set back in 2001 by the Dutchgirl 4x800-relay team of Leah Hempelmann, Miranda Knight, Christa Sperling and Brandi Penberthy, they saw their over decade old record broken Saturday during the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) Class 3 District 5 Track Meet at St. Francis Borgia Regional High School. Setting a new school record 4x800 time of 10:09.18 was the Owensville High School freshmen foursome (above, from left) of Kristen Charboneau, Emily Ellis, Hannah Baehr and Emily Koepke. These four girls, along with Mandie Robertson and Megan Dunlap serving as alternates, will look to earn a trip to state with a top-four finish in Marshfield during sectionals Saturday.

8th Grade Dutchmen track takes fourth place at Pacific

sports briefsDUTCHMEN BAS-

KETBALL will hold their high school and middle school camps will take place from Tuesday, May 29 until Friday, June 2 in the OHS main gym. OMS students going into 6th through 8th grade will have camp from 4-5:45 p.m., while campers entering high school next year will go from 6-8 p.m., all four days. For more details, contact Josh Vinyard at 417-839-9165 (cell).

OHS BASEBALL will hold camps for hitting and defense along with a camp for pitchers and catchers from May 21-23 on the upper baseball field at Memorial Park/. The hitting and defense camp will run from 8:30 a.m. until noon all three days with registration at 8 a.m., the first day. Pitchers and catchers will have their camp from 12:30-2:30 p.m. Cost for either camp is $30 or $50 for both camps. One camp T-shirt is included with the cost. Both camps are open to players of all ages and abili-ties. For more information, contact Tim Nagel by email at tnagel@dutchmen.us or by phone (437-2174).

Spending the last Saturday in April at Pacific High School, Matt Candrl’s 8th grade Dutchmen track-sters came away with a fourth-place finish in the team standings.

Recording the high finish of the day for the OMS 8th graders was Matt Amptman taking third in the shot put with a throw of 34-10. Anthony Soest (10th at 30-08) and Tanner Landolt (11th at 30-05) also hovered around the top 10.

Bouncing back in the discus, Landolt (4th at 98-00) and Soest (5th at 91-01) recorded top-five marks to end their throwing day. Xander Bunton also took eighth in the discus with a distance of 85-05.

Dyllan McClure added to the Dutchmen team total clearing 4-08 in the high jump to place eighth.

Clearing 6-06 in the pole vault, Logan Decker tied for 13th place.

Leaping to a distance of 16-03, Blake Bohl and Austin Brocato finished within the top six of the long jump. Bohl also recorded a mark of 31-06 good for seventh in the triple jump.

Nathan Keeney picked up a pair of sixth-place time in the 100 (12.38) and 200-meter dashes (26.19).

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ners Danny Herrera and Wyatt Harrell continued to improve on their times at the Pacific Middle School Relays.

In the 800-meter run, Herrera was fifth with a time of 2:22.00 and Harrell took ninth in 2:29.00.

In the 1600-meter run, Carter Brocato placed fifth in 5:15.00 and Harrell was right behind him in sixth in a time of 5:54.00.

Bohl added a sixth-place time of 17.09 in the 100-meter hurdles to his earlier finish in the long jump.

Finishing no worse than sixth, all three Dutchmen relay teams scored points towards their team total.

Taking sixth in a time of 51.15 was the 4x100-meter relay team of Devon Ridenhour, Christian Tripoli, Austin Brocato and Tripoli.

Recording a fifth-place time of 1:47.21 in the 4x200-meter relay was the Dutchmen foursome of Bailey Flathers, Clayton Howard, Herrera and Tripoli. Also taking fifth in the 4x400-meter relay in a time of 4:04.00 was the team of Carter Brocato, Harrell, Herrera and Howard.

More OMS track results will be included in future issues of The Republican as space allows.

for 12th with a distance of 29-07.5.Bouncing back in the long jump,

Wehmeyer made the finals and took sixth with a leap of 15-03 putting her within an inch of fourth place and a spot at sectionals.

“It was tough to see it end the way it did for Michelle (Wehm-eyer), Candrl said. “I’m proud of

JAELYN GAUER AND HALEY RECORD (above, from left) collect their thoughts before competing in the girls discus Saturday during the district track meet at Borgia.

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