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By Jim Wieners

The battle between the last two Class Four Girls Track & Field State Champions aiming to be the first to win in Class Five, in the first year as a Five-Class sport, has begun April 11 in Wentzville at Timberland High School.

Hazelwood Central, 2013 Class Four Girls Track & Field Champions, won the Timberland Invite, originally not on the schedule, by scoring 125 points. McCluer North, 2014 and defending state champions, finished a distant second with 87, about 28 behind Central and five ahead of third-place Cahokia. Among the other Girls teams at Timberland McCluer was eighth (34) and Hazelwood West was ninth (29).

This was the first of a number of multi-team Track & Field meets for both Hazelwood Central and McCluer North which will end with the Class Five State Championsips May 29-30 at Dwight T. Reed Stadium, Lincoln University, Jefferson City. They will begin a string of six meets in six weeks starting next at Ladue-Horton Watkins High May 25 for the Brusca/Strobach Ladue Invite, followed April 30-May 1 at Eureka High for the Kimball/Wintermeyer Invite, May 9 at Kirkwood High for the Suburban XII Girls Championships, May 16 in Class Five, District

HAZELWOOD CENTRAL won three events in the Wolfpack Invite including the 4×200-Meter Relay, which was ran in 1:45.55. Hazelwood Central had a one-two finish in the 100-Meter dash as Ariana Phillips won the meet running in 12.4 seconds while Marcya Spivey was second in 12.48 seconds. Hazelwood Central also had a one-two finish in Javelin, a sport that is not competed in the State Championships but is competed in the Collegiate level, as Taylor Ramsey won the event with a throw of 75 feet, seven inches while Krsitian Marble was second with a 68’2″ throw.

Hazelwood Central was second in the 4×100-Meter Relay (49.65 seconds) Phillips was third in the 200-Meter Dash (25.98 seconds), Ramsey finished third in the Discus (110 feet), Jhaere Mitchell finished second in the Long Jump (17’1.5″) and third in the 100-Meter Hurdles (15.6 seconds), Destney Nash finished second in the 400-Meter Dash (1:01.2) and Raven Williams was third in the Triple Jump (33’6.75″).

McCLUER NORTH won three events including the 4×100-Meter Relay (48.98 seconds) and had a one-two finish from Jasmine Barge and Demetria Anderson in the 100-Meter High Hurdles and the 300-Meter Low Hurldles. Barge won the 100-Meter High Hurdles running the event in 14.06 seconds and ran the winning 300-Meter Hurdles in 43.06 seconds. In finishing second in these two Hurdles events Anderson ran the 100 Highs in 14.97 seconds and ran the 300 Lows in 47.08 seconds.

McCluer North took second in the 4×800-Meter Relay (10.30.56) and the 4×400-Meter Relay (4:13.15) and Barge took second in the 200-Meter Dash (25.47 seconds).

McCLUER had a one-two finish in the Triple Jump as Kenyah Smith won with a 36’10.25″ effort while Micah Jenkins was second (33’9.5). HAZELWOOD WEST had a top-three finisher as Rachel Hutchcraft ran the 3,200 Meters to a third-place finish in 12:36.32.

BOYS WOLFPACK INVITE — While host Timberland scored 119 points to win their own meet, McCluer finished second with 114, McCluer North was a distant third with 76, McCluer South-Berkeley was fifth (52), Riverview Gardens was 13th (10) and Hazelwood West was 14th (five).

McCluer had two winners as Marcus Thomas won the High Jump with a leap of 6’4″ and Kevin Spraggins ran the 200-Meter Dash to a winning time of 22.42 seconds. McCluer was second in the 4×400-Meter Relay (3:29.24) and third in the 4×200-Meter Relay (1:32.83). In the 100-Meter Dash Raequan Stallings was second (11.18 seconds) while Sharvon Gunn was third (11.2 seconds), Spraggins was second in the 400-Meter Dash (50.17 seconds), Josh Haskin was second in the High Jump (6’2″), Asa McFadden was second to Spriggins at 200 Meters (22.6 seconds

McCluer North won two relay events, the 4×200 Meters in 1:32.43 and the 4×100 Meters in 44.37 seconds, and had two field event winners Deonte Bobo won the Triple Jump with a 42’7.25″ effort and Jordan Hewitt won the shot put with a 49’5″ heave

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