Palmyra’s King reigns supreme over discus field at Class 3 girls state track and field championships

Palmyra junior Candra King unleashes a throw during the discus finals at the Class 3 girls state track and field championships at Adkins Stadium in Jefferson City, Mo. | Photo courtesy Will Johnson

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Candra King could see the 40-meter marker and knew her second attempt in the discus finals at the Class 3 girls state track and field championships was close to hitting that distance. It turns out she was just a whisper away. “I was hoping it was going to be a 40,”…

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Chargers’ Deitrich in high jump finals at Illinois boys state track, Eagles’ Gimm to throw in discus

Quincy High School's Boen Brockmiller competes in the 200-meter dash at the Class 3A boys state track and field championships Friday in Charleston, Ill. | Photo courtesy Clark Brooks, PhotoNews Media

CHARLESTON, Ill. — Three Quincy High School runners were unable to advance to the finals in the Class 3A boys state track and field championships during Friday’s preliminaries at O’Brien Stadium on the Eastern Illinois University campus. Boen Brockmiller placed 27th in the 200-meter dash, finishing in 22.90 seconds, while Eric McClelland was 34th in…

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Barry, Neisen each win two sectional titles, lead area athletes to state track meet

RUSHVILLE, Ill. — Unity’s Saylor Barry won two events and finished second in another, Liberty’s Arianna Neisen dominated the distance events and a bevy of area athletes punched their ticket to the state track and field championships during Wednesday’s Class 1A Rushville Sectional. The state championships take place May 18-20 at O’Brien Stadium on the…

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Photo gallery: Hannibal girls take first, boys second at Mark Twain/Becky Thatcher Relays

A pair of Hannibal sprinters race to the finish line during Friday's Mark Twain/Becky Thatcher Relays at Porter Stadium in Hannibal, Mo. | Photo courtesy Hannibal yearbook

HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Hannibal girls track team dominated the field at the Mark Twain/Becky Thatcher Relays at Porter Stadium on Friday, scoring 160 points and nearly doubling the second-place total of 89 points scored by Quincy High School. On the boys side, the deep, record-setting Bowling Green squad won the team title with 129…

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Jetting to a state title: QHS’s Rose wins 200-meter dash at Class 3A state championship

Quincy High School's Jettason Rose stays ahead of Thornton Fractional South's Ryan Coleman in the 200-meter dash finals during the Class 3A boys state track and field championships at O’Brien Stadium in Charleston, Ill. | Photo courtesy Clark Brooks/PhotoNews Media

CHARLESTON, Ill. — Jettason Rose fulfilled the promise of his name. The Quincy High School sprinter became the ninth individual state track and field champion in school history Saturday, jetting past the field to win the 200-meter dash at the Class 3A state championships at Eastern Illinois University’s O’Brien Stadium. Rose finished in 22.04 seconds,…

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Palmyra girls shine at state track meet after moving up in classification

The Palmyra girls finished 2-3 in the pole vault in Class 3 with Abbey Redd taking second place and Alaina Loman finishing third. | Photo courtesy Cody Thorn

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Palmyra’s first year in Class 3 almost resulted in a trophy for the girls track team on Saturday on the final day of the Missouri state track and field championships. The Panthers tied for sixth with 29 points, four points out of a fourth-place trophy thanks to scoring points in four…

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Rose jets way into state track finals, posts top preliminary time in 200-meter dash

Quincy High School's Jettason Rose leads the field to the finish line in his Class 3A 200-meter dash preliminary heat Friday during the Class 3A boys state track and field championships in Charleston, Ill. | Photo courtesy Chris Johns/PhotoNews Media

CHARLESTON, Ill. — Jettason Rose is in prime position to finish his prep track career on top of the podium. The Quincy High School senior sprinter posted the fastest time in the preliminaries of the 200-meter dash during the Class 3A boys state track and field championships Friday at O’Brien Stadium on the Eastern Illinois…

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Central’s Thompson leaps, Eagles’ Girardin sprints into Class 1A state track and field finals

Central's Ezra Thompson finishes his leap during the long jump preliminaries Thursday at the Class 1A state track and field championships at O’Brien Stadium in Charleston, Ill. Photo courtesy Chris Johns/PhotoNews Media

CHARLESTON, Ill. — Ezra Thompson led the brigade of area athletes into the finals of the Class 1A boys state track and field championship. The Central leaper qualified for two events, finishing seventh in the long jump at 6.47 meters and eighth in the triple jump at 12.76 meters. He will compete in the finals…

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Monroe City girls start, finish final day of state track with medal, trophy haul

The Monroe City girls 4x400-meter relay team took second place at the Missouri Class 2 state track and field championships. Photo courtesy Cody Thorn

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The day started with a spot on the podium and ended with a trophy for the Monroe City girls track and field team. The Panthers’ quartet of Audri Youngblood, Meghan Hays, Ella Hays and Emmalee Williams took second in the 4×800-meter relay. They finished in 10:10.52, 10 seconds behind Lawson. That…

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Pittsfield’s Campbell repeats as Class 1A state discus champion

Pittsfield’s Olivia Campbell unleashes a throw in the discus Saturday during the Class 1A girls state track and field championships at O’Brien Stadium in Charleston, Ill. Photo courtesy Chris Johns/PhotoNews Media

CHARLESTON, Ill. — Olivia Campbell discovered twice is nice. The defending Class 1A state discus champion, the Pittsfield senior was the only thrower in the field to break the 42-meter barrier, doing it in both the preliminaries and the finals of the Class 1A girls state track and field championships. Her toss of 42.47 meters…

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Monroe City’s Williams, Highland’s Stark capture titles on first day of state track championships

Monroe City senior Emmalee Williams leads the pack during the 800-meter run Friday in the Missouri Class 2 state track and field championships in Jefferson City, Mo. Photo courtesy Cody Thorn

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Monroe City’s Emmalee Williams had a comfortable margin but she never felt it. The senior won the Class 2 800-meter run during the opening day of the Missouri state track and field championships Friday at Licklider Track at Jefferson City High School. Williams led from the start and won in 2…

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QHS’s Schuering reaches final in 800, will run twice on final day of state track championships

Quincy High School's Anna Schuering competes in the 800-meter run during Friday’s preliminaries at the Class 3A girls state track and field championships in Charleston, Ill. Photo courtesy Clark Brooks/PhotoNews Media

CHARLESTON, Ill. — Anna Schuering’s celebrated cross country and track career will end with two races on the final day of the season. The Quincy High School senior deserves that last hurrah. Schuering qualified for the 800-meter finals at the Class 3A state track and field championships Friday at O’Brien Stadium on the Eastern Illinois…

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Record-setting O’Neil, defending champ Campbell qualify for finals at Class 1A state track meet

Pittsfield's Olivia Campbell had the longest preliminary throw in the discus at the Class 1A girls state track and field championships Thursday at O'Brien Stadium in Charleston, Ill. Photo courtesy Chris Johns/PhotoNews Media

CHARLESTON, Ill. — Shannon O’Neil keeps going faster and faster, while Olivia Campbell keeps throwing farther and farther. Saturday, they will have the chance to make a little history. O’Neil, the Liberty senior hurdler, lowered her school-record time in the 300-meter hurdles yet again Thursday during the preliminaries at the Class 1A girls state track…

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Savage effort by Blue Devils leaves them feeling Rose-y after WB6 championships

From left to right, Quincy High School's Jett Rose, Ethan Reinhart, Drew Tipton-Hicks and Reid Savage won the 4x100-meter relay at the Western Big 6 Conference championships in Sterling, Ill.

STERLING, Ill. — Jett Rose made it a clean sweep yet again. Reid Savage nearly followed his teammate’s lead. They shared in a championship moment, too. Rose, a senior sprinter on the Quincy High School boys track and field team, repeated as the Western Big 6 Conference champion in the 100- and 200-meter dashes during…

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Area track and field athletes ready to run down dreams at Illinois girls state championships

Liberty's Shannon O'Neil, right, won both the 100- and 300-meter hurdles at the Class 1A Beardstown Sectional on Friday, while Unity's Kyra Carothers, left, won the high jump as both advanced to the state championships in Charleston, Ill. Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — West Central Illinois will be well represented at the Illinois girls state track and field championships next weekend at O’Brien Stadium on the Eastern Illinois University campus in Charleston. Quincy High School pushed two athletes through the Class 3A Danville Sectional on Thursday, while Illini West got two through at the Class 1A…

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JWCC Prairie State Profile: Pursuit of bodybuilding career boosts record-setting track efforts for Liberty’s O’Neil

Liberty senior Shannon O'Neil, shown here competing in the 100-meter hurdles during the Mark Twain/Becky Thatcher Relays in Hannibal, Mo., has set three Liberty school records this season. Photo courtesy Mathew Kirby

LIBERTY, Ill. — Jared Schmidt’s excitement is understandable. Despite a spring in which the weather has been “absolutely atrocious,” the Liberty girls track and field team has piled up a number of school records in individual events. Now the weather is ripe for running as the Eagles head to Friday’s Class 1A Beardstown Sectional. “So…

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QHS’s Rose sprints to pair of victories in sectional preview at Collinsville

Quincy High School's Jett Rose won both the 100- and 200-meter dashes at the Collinsville Invitational on Saturday. Photo courtesy Max Bennett

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — Jett Rose showed he’s ready to run with the best. The Quincy High School senior sprinter got a glimpse of what the Class 3A O’Fallon Sectional field will be like during Saturday’s Collinsville Invitational, and he put himself in prime position to be chased. Rose won the 100-meter dash in 10.89 seconds,…

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JWCC Prairie State Profile: Pittsfield’s Cox carries on family tradition with integrity and confidence

Pittsfield's Katie Cox clears a hurdle in the 110-meter hurdles race at the Class 1A state championships last year in Charleston, Ill. Photo courtesy Clark Brooks, PhotoNews Media

PITTSFIELD, Ill. — Steve Smith became known throughout West-Central Illinois as one of the region’s most influential and impartial basketball referees. For Katie Cox, he was simply grandpa. “He truly always wanted me to be the best,” said Cox, a senior three-sport athlete at Pittsfield High School. “With everything I did, he was pushing me.…

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Support system: QHS runners put chemistry, camaraderie on display during Quincy Invitational

Quincy High School's Sadiya Hodges, right, and Unity's Delanee Schulte, left, race in the 100-meter dash during the 71st Quincy Invitational at Flinn Stadium on Wednesday. Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — With each pass of the baton, a sprint ensued. The final two events of the 71st Quincy Invitational, held Wednesday at Flinn Stadium, were the boys and girls 4×400-meter relays, and collectively, the Quincy High School track and field athletes wanted to lend support and encouragement to their teammates. So on each of…

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In midst of record pursuit, Liberty’s Wolf finds future collegiate home at Indiana State

Liberty's Cannen Wolf, left, runs alongside Quincy High School's Fiker Rosen during the 1,600-meter run Wednesday in the 71st Quincy Invitational at Flinn Stadium. Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — Cannen Wolf’s plan didn’t go exactly how either he or Liberty track coach Jared Schmidt envisioned. Luckily, there will be other chances to chase the school record in the 1,600-meter run. Should Wolf chase the record down, it would be the perfect catapult to an NCAA Division I track career. The Eagles senior…

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Central’s Thompson sets new marks, while QHS boys and girls win team titles at invitational

The Quincy High School boys and girls track teams celebrate their team titles at Saturday's Rob Garcia Invitational at Rushville, Ill. Submitted photo

RUSHVILLE, Ill. — Ezra Thompson’s leaping ability, Jettason Rose’s speed and LaMarrio Rodgers’ strength were the highlights of the 19th Rob Garcia Invitational, which featured 17 prep track and field teams. Central’s Thompson shattered his personal best in the triple jump, winning the event with a leap of 12.45 meters. He also set a new…

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Prep scoreboard for Saturday, April 9

Prep track At Soule Bowl, East Moline, Ill. Kiwanis Invitational: Jettason Rose and the Quincy High School boys showcased their speed in an event featuring all of the Western Big 6 Conference teams. Rose set a personal record and broke the school record in the 100-meter dash in 10.74 seconds, which tied the meet record…

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Scoreboard for Saturday, March 19

The Quincy Notre Dame girls soccer team scored three goals in the second half of a 3-0 victory over Jefferson City Helias on Saturday. Matt Schuckman photo

Girls soccer At Advance Physical Therapy Field, Quincy Quincy Notre Dame 3, Jefferson City Helias 0: Scoreless at halftime after the Raiders were whistled for being offsides eight times, they adjusted the attack and picked up their third straight victory. A little less than 10 minutes into the second half, the Raiders’ Sophie Gramke got…

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