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Trenton Trio Competes At State Meet

Jun 3, 2014 | Sports & Recreation, Track

R-T Photo/Kris Ockenfels Trenton’s Charlie Hoffman, the boys track team’s only representative at the state track meet, brought home the school’s lone medal, placing eighth in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:57.69.

R-T Photo/Kris Ockenfels
Trenton’s Charlie Hoffman, the boys track team’s only representative at the state track meet, brought home the school’s lone medal, placing eighth in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:57.69.


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The Trenton  High School track and field season came to a close at the Class 3 MSHSAA Track and Field Championships at Dwight T. Reed Stadium in Jefferson City. All three of Trenton’s representatives at the meet, Charlie Hoffman, Ayron Osborn and Ally Ockenfels, were in action on Saturday.
Trenton was led at the meet by Hoffman, who turned in a time of 1:57.69, good for eighth place in the boys’ 800-meter run. The finish earned Hoffman Trenton’s lone medal at the meet.
Hoffman’s time was just 1.01 seconds off Seth Acton’s school record of 1:56.68 set in the semifinals of the 800-meter run at last year’s Class 3 state meet. Hoffman’s time was, however, the fastest state finals time in school history, just ahead of Acton and Brett Lawson (2008). Acton ran a 2:00.32 in the finals last season and Lawson ran a 1:59.80 in the finals in 2008.
As Hoffman’s competition level went up down the stretch of the season, Hoffman stepped up. After turning in a time of 2:03.26 in the 800-meter run at the Benton Relays, Hoffman consistently cut down his time in the final three meets of his career. Hoffman ran a 2:01.65 at districts and a 1:59.47 at sectionals before turning in the 1:57.69 at state.
R-T Photo/Kris Ockenfels Ally Ockenfels throws the shot put during the Class 3 MSHSAA Track and Field Championships in Jefferson City. Ockenfels placed 11th with a throw of 36-5.5.

R-T Photo/Kris Ockenfels
Ally Ockenfels throws the shot put during the Class 3 MSHSAA Track and Field Championships in Jefferson City. Ockenfels placed 11th with a throw of 36-5.5.


Ockenfels finished 11th in the girls’ shot put after recording a throw of 36-5.5 and Osborn placed 13th in the girls’ triple jump with a mark of 34-0.
Ockenfels, a sophomore, and Osborn, a junior, will both return next season for the Lady Bulldogs, looking to build off this year’s state showing. The duo will give the Lady Bulldogs a solid base for points on a meet-to-meet basis.
Trenton’s track and field teams will be honored along with the boys’ tennis and boys’ golf teams at the Spring Sports Banquet tonight in the THS commons at 6:30.