Class 1 track and field: Kielhofner caps track career with new best at state meet

Oran senior Addie Kielhofner skipped the first few track practices during her freshman year but eventually decided to join the team.

"People tell me I'm fast," she recalled thinking at the time. "Maybe I should just try it."

She did and advanced to the sectional meet that season before making the state meet each of her final three years of high school. Kielhofner concluded her high school track and field career with a third-place time of 48.04 seconds in the 300 hurdles to lead the Eagles at Saturday's Class 1 state meet in Jefferson City, Missouri.

It was the highest individual finish ever for Kielhofner, who finished fifth in the event last year. She was happy to achieve a personal best finish but was seeded second and thought she might go higher.

"Yes and no at the same time," said Kielhofner when asked if she was pleased with her race. "Third place is better than all my other years. At the same time I still feel like I could have done better, but, you know, at the end of the day you're always trying to look for more improvement."

Kielhofner joined teammates Aubrianna Jones, Ashlynn McIntosh and Kaylen Glastetter and posted a seventh-place finish in the 800 relay with a time of 1 minute, 54.19 seconds.

Oran took second in that event last year, but Kielhofner and her teammates were happy to make the final against tough competition this year.

"We couldn't hardly compete as well as we could last year," she said in a phone interview. "We still made it through and we got a higher place than what we were seeded, which is awesome, we just couldn't push through it. ... In the sprinting the competition is so high."

Oran's Ashhlyn McIntosh hands the baton off to Kaylen Glastetter during the 800- meter relay. The Eagles finished seventh in 1:54.19.

Oran junior Toni Hency placed 12th in the shot put with a distance of 30 feet, 11 3/4 inches to round out the list of local athletes who competed at Dwight Reed Stadium on the campus of Lincoln University.

Kielhofner has seen significant change in the Eagles' team since she reluctantly joined more than four years ago.

"Our track team has become much larger," she said. "We've actually attracted more athletes. More people are wanting to get involved with it because we have shown them that it actually can be worth your time, so more people get interested. Before it was really look down upon.

"It still isn't the best sport considered at Oran, but it was really looked down [on] my freshman year. But as the years went on more and more people started joining and everybody wanted to do it. And we just started doing better and better. Coach [Max] Wieser really helped, I feel like, build the program, too, because he just knew what he was talking about and he just knew track so well. And that just made people better and made us better as a team."

Kielhorner said she was proud of being apart of the evolution.

"From the beginning when it wasn't so hot to the end -- I'm very proud," she said. "And I'm glad I did it because I almost didn't."

On the boys' side, Scott County Central senior Cameron Blissett tied Salisbury freshman Garrett Francis for eighth place in the high jump with a height of 5 feet, 10 inches. Delta senior Alex Lashley finished 13th in the discus with a distance of 113 feet, 10 inches in his last throw as a Bobcat.

BOYS

Team Scores -- 1. Greenfield 57.5; 2. Salisbury 50.5; 3. Hardin-Central 38; 4. La Plata 35; 5. Missouri School for the Deaf 34; 6. New Haven 28; 7. (tie) McAuley Catholic, Midway, Worth County 25; 10. (tie) Rock Port, Stewartsville 24; 53. Scott County Central 0.5

Top four state finishers

100 -- 1. Nick Jones (Missouri School for the Deaf) 11.24; 2. Brendan Black (Greenfield) 11.26; 3. Dominick Fleeks (Stewartsville) 11.48; 4. Johnathon Swymeler (Tri-County) 11.52

200 -- 1. Brendan Black (Greenfield) 22.85; 2. Nick Jones (Missouri School for the Deaf) 22.89; 3. Dayne Messer (Mound City) 23.02; 4. Dominick Fleeks (Stewartsville) 23.28

400 -- 1. Dominick Fleeks (Stewartsville) 50.08; 2. Nick Jones (Missouri School for the Deaf) 50.73; 3. Jack Hicks (Clopton) 51.45; 4. Kyle Hinkle (Salisbury) 51.51

800 -- 1. Seth Schenck (New Haven) 1:57.46; 2. Seth Brown (La Plata) 2:00.78; 3. Jalen Roby (Greenfield) 2:02.57; 4. Rhyler Estenbaum (Hardin-Central) 2:03.47

1,600 -- 1. Seth Brown (La Plata) 4:24.02; 2. Seth Schenck (New Haven) 4:26.37; 3. Darius Williamson (McKinley Classical Leadership Academy) 4:33.34; 4. Jacob Brown (Humansville) 4:35.79

3,200 -- 1. Seth Brown (La Plata) 9:39.30; 2. Derek Wilson (Linn County) 9:58.22; 3. Darius Williamson (McKinley Classical Leadership Academy) 10:10.95; 4. Dustin Shoemaker (Humansville) 10:16.98

110 hurdles -- 1. Micheal Riddle (Green City) 15.63; 2. Seth Shurvington (Bevier) 16.14; 3. Duncan Owens (DeKalb) 16.36; 4. Keaton Tillack (School of the Ozarks) 16.76

300 hurdles -- 1. Seth Shurvington (Bevier) 41.23; 2. Brevyn Ross (Worth County) 41.60; 3. Noah Leimkuehler (Slater) 41.83; 4. Keaton Tillack (School of the Ozarks) 42.40

400 relay -- 1. Osceola (Josh Keene, Driston Self, Thane Sommer, Zack Colby) 44.68; 2. McAuley Catholic (Anthony Bertincino, Andrew Castilo, Greg Carney, Cole Lowry) 44.86; 3. Greenfield (Brendan Black, Austin Marshall, Jake Tullock, Anthony Schwindler) 45.69; 4. Midway (Jake Lambertz, Clay Dahman, Conor Hayes, Shane White) 46.18

800 relay -- 1. McAuley Catholic (Anthony Bertincino, Lathan Vlasin, Greg Carney, Cole Lowry) 1:34.11; 2. Salisbury (Garrett Francis, Brady Francis, Clay Stefankiewicz, Kyle Hinkle) 1:34.53; 3. Clopton (Danny Thompson, Jack Hicks, Daniel Reading, Travis Kuykendall) 1:34.84; 4. Hardin-Central (Rhyler Estenbaum, Spencer Wheeler, Nicholas Periman, Wyatt Craven) 1:35.57

1,600 relay -- 1. Hardin-Central (Spencer Wheeler, Rhyler Estenbaum, Riley Gorham, Wyatt Craven) 3:31.40; 2. Greenfield (Austin Marshall, Jalen Roby, Lane Hankins, Coleman Whitaker) 3:33.29; 3. North Shelby (Josiah Linberger, Dalton Mettes, Jared Trenhaile, Houston Bichsel) 3:33.68; 4. Glasgow (Austin Speiser, Landon Brand, Hayden Hackman, Blake Hackman) 3:36.53

3,200 relay -- 1. New Haven (Zach Grater, Keven McDowell, Jon Stone, Seth Schenck) 8:20.76; 2. Greenfield (Kelby Davis, Lane Hankins, Jalen Roby, Zach Tullock) 8:24.85; 3. Hardin-Central (Gage Marshall, Rhyler Estenbaum, Riley Gorham, Sean Utley) 8:25.90; 4. Appleton City (Truman Burchett, Cole Heiserman, Evan Mitts, Carter Mitchell) 8:27.42

High jump -- 1. John Spiking (King City) 6-4; 2. Eric Duncan (Rock Port) 6-4; 3. Brady Francis (Salisbury) 6-2; 4. Brant Faulkner (Princeton) 6-0

Pole vault -- 1. Jake Jungman (Liberal) 13-0; 2. Kylon Bales (Newburg) 12-6; 3. Matt Stump (Jasper) 12-3; 4. Landon Brand (Glasgow) 12-0

Long jump -- 1. Brady Francis (Salisbury) 22-3; 2. Nick Jones (Missouri School for the Deaf) 22-0 1/2; 3. Eric Duncan (Rock Port) 20-10 1/2; 4. Zack Colby (Osceola) 20-0 3/4

Triple jump -- 1. Bryant Courter (Rich Hill) 45-1 3/4; 2. Brady Francis (Salisbury) 44-7 1/2; 3. Eric Duncan (Rock Port) 43-1 3/4; 4. Anthony Schwindler (Greenfield) 41-10

Shot put -- 1. Joey Beller (Midway) 47-3; 2. Max Carrillo (St. Joseph Christian) 47-2 3/4; 3. Keagan Wyatt (Salisbury) 45-0; 4. Dillan Hall (Braymer) 44-2

Discus -- 1. Max Carrillo (St. Joseph Christian) 156-2; 2. Josh Warner (Worth County) 144-10; 3. Ethan Crowe (Southwest Livingston County) 140-9; 4. Keagan Wyatt (Salisbury) 137-6

GIRLS

Team Scores -- 1. Mound City 55; 2. Polo 39; 3. Salisbury 34; 4. New Covenant Academy 33; 5. Midway 32; 6. (tie) Orrick, St. Elizabeth 31; 8. New Haven 25; 9. (tie) McKinley Classical Leadership Academy, Worth County 22; 29. (tie) Oran, Southwest Livingston County, School of the Ozarks 8

Top four state finishers

100 -- 1. Julia Galloway (Sturgeon) 12.94; 2. Maria Rains (Polo) 13.11; 3. Lisa Stellansdottir (Hardin-Central) 13.13; 4. Jordan Breckenridge (King City) 13.24

200 -- 1. Julia Galloway (Sturgeon) 26.17; 2. Sky Parker (McKinley Classical Leadership Academy) 26.87; 3. Maria Rains (Polo) 26.98; 4. Lisa Stellansdottir (Hardin-Central) 27.29

400 -- 1. Allie Heckemeyer (St. Elizabeth) 58.76; 2. Megan Rosenbohm (Nodaway-Holt) 59.56; 3. Maria Rains (Polo) 1:00.87; 4. Emily Cordell (West Nodaway) 1:01.60

800 -- 1. Claire Workman (New Covenant Academy) 2:18.98; 2. Mallory Hughson (Braymer) 2:19.96; 3. Taylor Covington (New Haven) 2:21.61; 4. Allie Heckemeyer (St. Elizabeth) 2:24.56

1,600 -- 1. Claire Workman (New Covenant Academy) 5:22.11; 2. Alexys Barton (Liberal) 5:23.19; 3. Meaghan McConkey (Jefferson [Conception Junction]) 5:24.33; 4. Autumn Baker (Chamois) 5:24.53

3,200 -- 1. Claire Workman (New Covenant Academy) 11:47.74; 2. Autumn Baker (Chamois) 11:47.79; 3. Kendey Eaton (Mound City) 11:53.91; 4. Madison McCabe (Knox County) 11:59.29

100 hurdles -- 1. Emily Wedlock (Mound City) 15.77; 2. Samantha Fulte (Orrick) 15.96; 3. Elly Boothe (Silex) 17.13; 4. Lexie Royster (Jasper) 17.13

300 hurdles -- 1. Emily Wedlock (Mound City) 46.48; 2. Rachel Snyder (School of the Ozarks) 47.61; 3. Addie Kielhofner (Oran) 48.04; 4. Maritzka Chavez (Southwest Livingston County) 48.71

400 relay -- 1. McKinley Classical Leadership Academy (India Abernathy, Sky Parker, Jamila Ricketts, Lindsey Griffin) 51.78; 2. Lutheran-Kansas City (Kaitlyn Bickel, Emma Bearden, Desirae Hunt, Mickie Klatt) 52.95; 3. Jasper (Karrington Garvin, Keylee McCutcheon, Haley Bennett, Audra Etcheson) 53.11; 4. Worth County (Ally Buffington, Katie Mullock, Sydney Thummel, Payton Adwell) 53.62

800 relay -- 1. Midway (Laine Mills, Dee Stark, Taylor Pierce, Jessica Owens) 1:51.23; 2. Worth County (Ally Buffington, Katie Mullock, Payton Adwell, Sydney Thummel) 1:51.51; 3. Salisbury (Sydney Ratliff, Ellen Weimer, Brooke Summerville, Hannah Nicolay) 1:51.91; 4. Lutheran-Kansas City (Mickie Klatt, Emma Bearden, Desirae Hunt, Kaitlyn Bickel) 1:52.56

1,600 relay -- 1. New Haven (Hannah Pruessner, Rachel Steinhoff, Molly Munsinger, Taylor Covington) 4:09.31; 2. Polo (Adriana Segar, Cati Boruch, Jennifer Farmer, Maria Rains) 4:15.59; 3. Wellington-Napoleon (Kelsey Gray, Abbie Thompson, Jaime Ruskey, Jennifer Rodgers) 4:18.70; 4. Mound City (Janine Bludau, Mae Sanders, Adrienne Messer, Carley Baker) 4:18.89

3,200 relay -- 1. Salisbury (Sydney Ratliff, Caitlin Hammons, Kelsey Marek, Savannah Ratliff) 10:12.21; 2. Liberal (Brittany Ayers, Alexys Barton, Kaitlyn Wentland, Alexa Long) 10:12.89; 3. New Haven (Taylor Covington, Hannah Kruse, Hannah Pruessner, Kayla Borcherding) 10:23.38; 4. Glasgow (Julia Kramm, Caitlin Yung, Erin Reynolds, Abby Thompson) 10:23.91

High jump -- 1. Adia Eberle (Midway) 5-2; 2. Tabitha Jackson (Appleton City) 5-0; 3. Madison Reagan (DeKalb) 5-0; 4. (tie) Alison Mehmert (Chamois), Olivia Finley (Lockwood) 4-10

Pole vault -- 1. Amy Gully (Albany) 10-0; 2. Claire Andrews (Worth County) 9-9; 3. Jordann Wheatley (Rich Hill) 9-9; 4. Megan O'Brien (Midway) 9-0

Long jump -- 1. Samantha Fulte (Orrick) 17-1; 2. Emily Wedlock (Mound City) 16-11 1/2; 3. Allie Heckemeyer (St. Elizabeth) 16-7 1/2; 4. Jordan Breckenridge (King City) 16-1 3/4

Triple jump -- 1. Allie Heckemeyer (St. Elizabeth) 37-0 1/2; 2. Samantha Fulte (Orrick) 36-10 1/2; 3. Megan Rosenbohm (Nodaway-Holt) 35-1; 4. Sarah Willhite (Salisbury) 34-8 1/2

Shot put -- 1. Haley Craig (North Harrison) 37-4; 2. Madison Thornburg (Wellington-Napoleon) 36-0 1/4; 3. Amber Sleeth (King City) 35-0 1/2; 4. Lexi Smith (Santa Fe) 34-9

Discus -- 1. Haley Craig (North Harrison) 123-0; 2. Hunter Henderson (DeKalb) 108-4; 3. Mallory Gardner (Northwestern [Mendon]) 107-5; 4. Sidney Copeland (Polo) 106-10