Benton girls’ track win Carmi-White County Invitational

The Benton girls’ track team won the Carmi-White County Invitational with what coach Andy Sloan called “the very best effort of the year, a great team effort.”

” Any time you can win an invitational track meet you have to be happy,” said Sloan.  “We were without Schutt (Kaitlyn) today who is nursing sore hamstring, and we are just getting Fowler back so some other kids stepped up and really gave us all they had.”

Sloan listed these highlights:

Miller nine second personal record (PR) in 3200
Distance kids (Johnston, Tabor, Miller) combined to score 34 points in 3 events.
We won all 4 relays, bringing our consecutive relay win streak to 10!!
McDaniel 7” PR in triple jump
Biddle stepped up in 4×800 – ran really well and helped her team get a victory.
Fowler looked really good in 200 when the meet was on the line.  We were down two heading into that race and she tied it with her victory.

Sloan said his team is improving heading into the final three weeks of the season.

“Overall great team effort  and very proud of our kids,” said Sloan. “They have worked hard and are getting better.  They were down but kept chipping away and gave us a chance with three events to go.  I hope they enjoy it as much as I will and know that meet championships don’t come around too often.  We’ve had a long, tough week and as we head into Friday’s meet we will take a different approach and try to rest some kids.  With three weeks to go, our focus has to be the conference and sectional and just getting healthy and rested.

BENTON GIRLS TRACK RESULTS FROM CARMI INVITATIONAL
TEAM SCORES: BENTON 125, CHRISTOPHER ZR 115, FLORA 64, HARRISBURG 60, HAMILTON COUNTY 43, CARMI 43, SESSER 28, JOHNSTON CITY 21, FAIRFIELD 21, ELDORADO 19, WEBBER 18, NCOE 1
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
4X800        1ST         11:23.1
TABOR 2:45.1, EUBANKS 2:53.9, BIDDE 2:54.7*PR, JOHNSTON 2:45
4X100        1ST         53.3
REPP 13.3, HAGERMAN 13.2, FOWLER 13.2, MCDANIEL 13.7 *PR
3200 RUN
MILLER        3RD         14:09*PR
100 HH
EUBANKS    2ND         17.8
100 DASH
REPP        2ND        13.9
800 RUN
JOHNSTON    1ST        2:45.8
TABOR        2ND         2:49.9
4X200        1ST         1:53.7
MCDANIEL 28.6, HAGERMAN 28.2, BIDDLE 28.8, FOWLER 28.3
400 DASH
REPP        2ND         66.6
300 LH
NEAL        3RD         51.0 *PR
1600 RUN
JOHNSTON    2ND        5:55.9
TABOR        5TH         6;32.7
200 DASH
FOWLER    1ST         27.5*PR  #7 ALL-TIME BCHS
4X400        1ST         4:30.0
REPP 66.9, JOHNSTON 68.9, NEAL 65.4, EUBANKS 68.7
LONG JUMP
BIDDLE        13’3 ½”
MCDANIEL    12’1”
TRIPLE JUMP
MCDANIEL    5TH         29’1” *PR
NEAL        NP        28’0”
SHOT PUT
HAYDEN    3RD         32’6”
CORN        NP        27’11” *PR
DISCUS
CORN        NP        76’5”
HAYDEN    6TH         82’6”
POLE VAULT
NEAL        2ND         8’0”
HIGH JUMP
HAGERMAN    NP        NH

Benton girls’ track is back in action on Friday at theMarion Invitational. Field events start at 3 p.m. with Running 3:30