Lady Jackets 2nd at Chisholm meet

County athletes excelled in the jumping events at last Friday’s Chisholm High School Invitational Track Meet.

Kingfisher’s Ela Hartman set a new personal best in winning the long jump, Dover’s Kylee Bell needed just one clearance to win the pole vault and the two both won medals in the high jump.

Hartman helped the KHS girls to a runner-up finish in the team standings with 116 points.

Chisholm won the team title with 149.

Coach Stefan Seifried said he used the meet as a gauge for where some of his athletes were as the regional and state meets approach.

“We weren’t going out and trying to win all the relays and rack up all the points, but we were trying to see what some of our athletes can do and where they’re at right now,” he said. “I think we answered some questions.”

Kingfisher didn’t enter the 400 or 800 relays.

However, the team of Mattie Slezickey, Harper Evans, Ryann Farrar and Scout Snodgrass did dominate the 3,200 relay in 10:12.46.

In the first meet of the year at Fairview, KHS ran the race in 10:39 and was bested by Chisholm’s 10:34.

At this meet, Chisholm improved that time by 15 seconds, but still finished seven seconds behind the Lady Jacket quartet.

Seifried then fielded two different teams in the final race of the day, the 1,600 relay.

The group consisting of Farrar, Chloe Richardson, Snodgrass and Taitym Walker was second in 4:16.22.

Abbie Myers, Reese Roof, Mattie Slezickey and Hinsley Brodrick were fifth in 4:24.0.

In individual track events, medalists included Snodgrass, who won the 800 meter run; Myers, who got runner-up in the 300 hurdles; Farrar, who was third in the 400; Walker, who was third in the 200; and Lily Lunsford, who won bronze in the mile.

Hartman soared to a career- best 17 feet, 6 inches to win the long jump.

That won the event by nearly a foot as Timberlake’s Lilly Johnson was the runner-up with 16-8.

That came after Hartman took silver in the high jump.

She cleared 5-0 and Johnson returned the favor by winning gold with a best jump of 5-4.

Bell tied for third when she cleared 4-10, her best jump this season.

Bell needed only to clear one height to win the pole vault, an event in which she’s the defending state champion.

She knocked out 9-0 on her first attempt to win it.

Kingfisher’s Rylee Long-Bush was the silver medalist with a jump of 8-6.

Following are events in which local athletes scored at least one point for their team: Girls

High jump - Ela Hartman 2nd, 5-0; Kylee Bell (Dover) t-3rd, 4-10 Pole vault - Bell (Dover) 1st, 9-0; Rylee Long-Bush 2nd, 8-6; Hinsley Brodrick 4th, 7-0; Sophia Ratchford 6th, 6-6 Long jump - Hartman 1st, 17-6; Maya Haney 6th, 15-3 100 - Adlee Friesen 5th, 14.21; Taitym Walker 6th, 14.39 200 - Walker 3rd, 28.43; Friesen 5th, 28.95; Slezickey 6th, 28.98 100 hurdles - Sofia Dudzinski 5th, 20.18 3,200 relay - Kingfisher A (Mattie Slezickey, Harper Evans, Ryann Farrar, Scout Snodgrass) 1st, 10:12.46 1,600 - Lily Lunsford 3rd, 6:17.89 400 - Farrar 3rd, 1:03.16 300 hurdles - Abbie Myers 2nd, 48.22; Reese Roof 4th, 49.15 800 - Snodgrass 1st, 2:22.14 1,600 relay - (Farrar, Chloe Richardson, Snodgrass, Walker) 2nd, 4:16.22 Boys

800 - Wyatt Long 6th, 2:11.69