Mansfield junior boys Braxton Bartlett and Dawson Robinson lace up the spikes for the sprint relays. Mansfield took runner-up status in the team standings in Waldron.
The points are starting to come through in quality events for the Mansfield junior high boy’s track team. Building their team through the sprint relays, hurdles, and throwing events, the Tiger prep team is finding its way. This past week that amounted to the Runner-Up plaque at the Waldron Junior Bulldog Relays.
Mansfield’s junior squad accumulated 99.5 points to take the second place team prize. Booneville had too much depth in the jumps categories winning three of the four leaping related events. The Bearcats topped the evening with 128 points for the championship. Waldron closed strong, getting within a point and a half of the second place plaque at 98 points.
Mansfield’s boys won only one event on Wednesday’s rescheduled track meet. Freshman Cadien Ore sailed the discus 122 feet for the victory. From there it was a couple of second place awards and several top five finishes that kept the Tigers in the hunt.
Ethan Martin was second in the shot put. The freshman thrower hit 42’ 4.5” for eight points. Dominic Shores equaled that bounty with a second place finish in the 110m hurdles at 18.34 seconds. He also flew the 300m hurdles in 48.23 seconds for a third place ribbon.
Shores joined Dawson Robinson, Zander Walters, and Braxton Bartlett for a pair of second place finishes in two sprint relays. The boy band went 48.95 in the 4x100m relay and 1:46.97 in the 4x200m relay.
Alex Hecox offered top five points in the 110m hurdles. Joey Williams did so as well in both the 1600m run and 800m run.
Mansfield kept the nickels and dimes coming by scoring in all 17 events for their team total.
Mansfield’s girls kept pace for the majority of the night but failed to place in two events. The zero marks left the Lady Tigers short of a trophy. They finished third overall in the team standings.
Mansfield’s junior girls totaled 107 points with huge help from freshman All-State athlete Daisy Nelson. Waldron squeezed out the team victory in a similar style to what Mansfield’s senior high team did two nights before this contest.
Waldron took the final 4x400m relay win to outscore Booneville by two points for the championship trophy. The Lady Bearcats took Runner-Up with 151 points.
Nelson scored 41 points in her bid for a third consecutive high point plaque. A slip of the blocks slowed her ever so slightly in the 200m dash leaving the freshman third in her final sprint and just short of the award. In her other sprint races, the 100m hurdles and 100mm dash, she finished first.
Nelson did pick up two points as a member of the second place 4x100m relay team. Kayla Bieker, Miley Clopton, and Madison Hearron joined that grouping.
Mansfield kept an average return of fourth place points in eight of the 17 events. Rylan Jones through the distance races and throws contributed. Danille Lowery through the throws and 4x800m relay contributed. Adeline Bray, Miley Clopton, Abby Smith, and Jones scored fourth place points on an all seventh grade 4x400m relay.
Bray had her best night at triple jump. A 28’ 10.5 “ leap landed her into fifth place. That was one place behind Mansfield’s top triple jump mark by Madison Hearron. Hearron went 30’ 2” for fourth place.
Harley Hunkel joined Bray, Lowery, and Smith on the fourth place 4x800m relay. Just over an hour later, Smith ran a terrific 300m hurdles heat for a second place score. Smith’s 56.73 clocking was the fastest of the seventh grader’s budding track career.
Payton Meyers, Hearron, Summer Lyon, and Annabell Martin handed the team a third place finish. They did so in the 4x200m cooperative. The only other MJH girls’ third place finish was from Lowery in the shot put at 32’ 4.5”.
