The Class 2A State Track Meet was held Wednesday at Byron Bryant Field in Gurdon, and a local team came away with the top prize. Yellville-Summit’s girls were crowned as the state champions.
Yellville-Summit beat out another group of Lady Panthers from Bigelow to take the title. Melbourne finished fourth, Salem was seventh, and Flippin ended up in a three-way tie for 11th.
Yellville-Summit was led by the team of Jacey Davenport, Abby Methvin, K.J. Moore and Kaylee Martin as they won the 4×400-meter relay; and Melbourne’s team of Sarah Hartgraves, Audra Blevins, Kaitlyn McCarn and Kenley McCarn took fourth place. Salem’s team of Jaycie Strong, Marleigh Sellars, Amber Yates and Chloe Taylor won the 4×200-meter relay; and Davenport, Dearmore, Methvin and K.J. Moore finished third. Katy Walling, Sellars, Strong and Taylor won the 4×100-meter relay for Salem; and Yellville-Summit’s Davenport, Moore, Methvin and Kambree Gibson were third.
Individually, Sellars won the 400-meter dash, and Davenport ended up fourth. Kenley McCarn won the 300-meter hurdles, and Moore took third place. Kenley McCarn also won the 100-meter hurdles, and Gibson finished fourth. Kaitlyn McCarn won the 3200-meter run. Blevins won the pole vault, and teammate Kenley McCarn was right behind her in second place. Janet Ridley of Yellville-Summit ended up second in the discus, and Senn took fourth place. Kenley McCarn finished second in the long jump, and Gibson was third. Kenley McCarn also ended up second in the triple jump, and Methvin took fifth place. Flippin’s Madi Hopson finished third in the 800-meter run, and teammate Kiley Johnson was fifth. Ridley was third in the shot put, and Brionna Hamilton of Salem took fifth place. Moore finished third in the high jump. Taylor was third in the 200-meter dash, and Moore ended up fourth. Sellars took third place in the 100-meter dash, and teammate Taylor finished fourth. Kaitlyn McCarn was third in the 1600-meter run, and Johnson ended up fifth.
The team title on the boys’ side went to Acorn. Yellville-Summit took fourth place, Salem finished fifth, Melbourne was eighth, and Flippin ended up 19th. Individually, Yellville-Summit’s Caiden Curtis won the pole vault, teammate Lucas McVay took third place, and Carter Bray of Melbourne finished fifth. Flippin’s Dominic Sellers was second in the 800-meter run. Tyler Siddons of Salem ended up second in the shot put, and Tyler Barrett of Yellville-Summit took fifth place. Barrett also finished third in the discus. Salem’s Luke Keen was third in the 200-meter dash, and Bray ended up fifth. Nathan Woodall of Melbourne took third place in the 300-meter hurdles, and Yellville-Summit’s Holiday Deroshier finished fifth. Lucas McVay was fourth in the 1600-meter run and fifth in the 3200-meter run. Keen ended up fourth in the 100-meter dash. Woodall took fourth place in the 110-meter hurdles, and Deroshier finished fifth. Melbourne’s Eli Harrell was fifth in the long jump.
Yellville-Summit’s team of Jaxton Decker, Logan McVay, Robert Howell and Caleb Mitchell ended up second in the 4×800-meter relay. Salem’s Rathe Banbuskirk, Elijah Romine, Steven Cox and Keen took second place in the 4×200-meter relay; and Howell, Ben Cantrall, Tristen Teel and Kayden Geier finished fourth.
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