The Mound City Panthers won the Missouri Class 1 Girls’ State Track Title this past weekend.  The Panthers scored 73 points, second place Midway had 58 points and Salisbury was third with 57 points.  Nodaway-Holt scored 13 points, Tarkio 3 points, and Rock Port two points.

Freshmen led the way for Mound City, with Emily Wedlock winning both the 100 and 300-meter hurdles, and Kendey Eaton winning the 3200-meter run and finishing second in the 1600-meter run.  Senior Alex Phillips won the pole vault, and Mound City got a 6th place finish from Mae Sanders in the 800-meter run.

The Panthers also placed in three relays.  Phillips, Sanders, Eaton, and Haylee Clifton were second in the 4-by-800 Relay.  The team of Phillips, Clifton, Sanders, and Wedlock was 3rd in the 4-by-400 Relay; and Clifton, Phillips, Grace Newcomb, and Carina Metger teamed for a 3rd place finish in the 4-by-200 Relay.

Megan Rosenbohm of Nodaway-Holt placed second in the long jump and 4th in the triple jump.

Rock Port got 8th place finishes from Taya Lewis in the discus and Lacy Kirkland in the 3200-meter run.

Tarkio’s Shelbie White was 6th in the pole vault.

Rock Port junior Eric Duncan had another splendid showing in the Class 1 Boys’ State Track Meet.  He won three events, the high jump (6’8”), long jump (21’1.75”), and triple jump (42’10.5”), and finished second in the 100-meter dash.

Rock Port finished 3rd in the team standings with 41 points.  Wellington-Napoleon was first with 48 points, and Midway was second with 44.  Mound City tied with Stewartsville for 21st place with 14 points.

In addition to Duncan’s 38 points, Rock Port also got points from Gage Lemmon, who placed 6th in the 1600-meter run.

Mound City scored points in a couple relays.  The 4-by-800 team of Spencer Staples, Dayne Messer, Brett Johnson, and Hayden Marrs placed 3rd; and the 4-by-100 meter relay team of Johnson, Messer, Staples, and Thomas Shifflett finished 2nd.  The Panthers qualified for the finals of the 4-by-400 Relay, but they were disqualified due to an illegal exchange.