TMS Teams Host Home Relays

TMS Boys Finish Second At Home Meet, Girls Third

The Trenton Middle School track and field teams hosted the annual TMS Quad on Thursday at C.F. Russell Stadium. Despite the name, the event drew teams from Hamilton, Gallatin, Princeton, Chillicothe, Laredo, Chula, Pleasant View and Grundy R-5 in addition to the host Bulldogs.
Trenton’s boys grabbed five gold medals on the day, tallying 106.5 team points to place second behind only Hamilton, which won the event with 133.5 points. Chillicothe was third with 101 points.
On the girls side, Trenton won one event and scored 64 points for a third-place finish behind Chillicothe (173) and Princeton (91).
Gold medal winners for the Trenton boys included Cooper Houser, first in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5:46.64; Elijah Miller, first in the high jump with a mark of 5-5; Kiefer Tolson, first in the triple jump with a distance of 29-10.75; Cole Whitham, first in the discus with a throw of 96-11.5; and the 4×200-meter relay team of Tolson, Miller, Aiden Weyer and Mason Rongey, which was first with a time of 1:54.54
The Trenton girls one first-place finisher was Sadie Tobias, who won the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 20.55.
Tobias added a fifth-place finish in the 100-meter dash, making her one of three Trenton girls with multiple individual placewinning performances. Jacey Hudson was third in both the shot put and discus and Kylee Corwin was fourth in the 400-meter dash and sixth in the high jump.
Other placewinners for the Trenton girls included Mirena King, third in the triple jump; Kaegen Croy, fourth in the high jump; Avery Clark, fourth in the long jump; Tymber Cooksey, fifth in the 400-meter dash; Kinsley Otto, fifth in the high jump; Reece Weldon, fifth in the 800-meter run; Sofia Curry, fifth in the 1,600-meter run; and Kambrea Brown, sixth in the 800-meter run. The 4×400-meter relay team of Corwin, Arianna Ortega, Clark and King finished second and the 4×200-meter relay team of Payton Foster, Cooksey, Corwin and King was third.
For the boys, Michael Baker backed up the five gold-medal winning performances with three placewinning finishes. He was second in the 400-meter dash, third in the 200 and fourth in the 100. Kameron Foster, meanwhile, was third in the 100 and sixth in the 400.
Brayden Holtzclaw was second in the discus and Hunter Smith finished third in the discus. Rongey added a fifth-place finish in the triple jump, Weyer finished sixth in the high jump and Tolson was tied for sixth in the long jump.
The 4×400-meter relay team of Foster, Rongey, Weyer and Houser was second and the 4×100-meter relay team of Rongey, Weyer, Tolson and Miller placed third.
Trenton’s middle school teams were back in action on Monday, competing at the South Harrison Middle School Relays in Bethany. The Bulldog teams’ next action comes on Monday, April 19, when they travel to the Brookfield Middle School Relays.