Trenton Girls Fifth In Higginsville

Westerhof Wins 100, Grabs Four Medals In Debut

The Trenton High School track and field teams were already getting a bit of a late start not traveling to a meet before the Trenton Early Bird Relays. When that event was cancelled, Trenton was really late getting a meet in.
The Bulldogs finally stepped onto the track for the first time on Tuesday, though, traveling to the Rob Hoefer-Husker Invitational in Higginsville.
Trenton’s girls didn’t show too much rust in their debut, collecting 52 points, good for a fifth-place showing in a field of 20 schools.
Shay Westerhof collected the lone gold medal of the event for a Trenton athlete, winning the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.68. She went on to add a fifth-place finish in the 200-meter dash, doing so with a time of 30.07, and she was a part of two medaling relay teams in her other two events.
In the 4×400-meter relay, Westerhof combined with Astrid Soriano, Tymber Cooksey and Mirena King to place fifth with a time of 4:55.0. Westerhof, Mirena King, Soriano and Avery Clark were seventh in the 4×200-meter relay, finishing with a time of 2:01.05.
Trenton’s 4×800-meter relay team of Mirena King, Cooksey, Courtney Kenyon and Ava Simpson placed fifth with a time of 11:17.16.
Simpson anchored that relay team and added two more medals on the day. She was fourth in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 13:52.0 and sixth in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 6::15.81.
Other placewinners for the Trenton girls included Mirena King, fourth in the triple jump with a mark of 9.38 meters; Emma Roberts, fourth in the discus with a throw of 21.82 meters; Jacey Hudson, sixth in the shot put with a toss of 8.54 meters; Cooksey, seventh in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:49.46 and eighth in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 6:22.29; Morgan King, seventh in the discus with a throw of 21.16 meters; and Soriano, eighth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 20.8 and eighth in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 59.52.
Higginsville won the meet with 114 team points, besting runner-up Richmond’s total of 91.5. Sherwood was third with 70 points and St. Paul Lutheran beat out Trenton for fourth by one and a half points, tallying 53.5 team points.
BOYS
Trenton’s boys netted just 17 points, placing 14th in the boys standings. The Bulldog throwers accounted for all but one of the team’s points on the day.
Dylan Spencer led the charge, placing second in the discus with a throw of 36.44 and sixth in the shot put with a mark of 11.71 meters. Trevor Murphy was right in front of Spencer in the shot put, placing fifth with a throw of 11.84 meters. Gabe Stark added an eighth-place finish in the javelin with a throw of 33.22 meters.
The final Bulldog tally came from a relay team that actually finished ninth. Trenton’s 4×400-meter relay team was ninth with a time of 4:18.66, but Higginsville placed two teams with the Huskers’ A squad winning the event and their B squad coming home sixth. Schools are only allowed one placewinning entry per relay, so Trenton’s ninth-place finish was good for a point. Stark, Cameron Christy, Levi Johnson and Blaine Dunkin made up the team.
The boys team title went to Higginsville with 112 points. Lexington’s total of 102 points was good for second and Richmond came home in third with 66 points. Sweet Springs and Orrick rounded out the top five with 65 and 61 points respectively.
Trenton’s track and field teams will be back in action today (Friday) traveling to Chillicothe for the Joe Shy Relays. Action is scheduled to begin at 2 o’clock.