Tompkins and Snyder place first in meet against St. Joseph

By Fred Kroner

Mahomet-Seymour seventh-graders Jayvon Tompkins and Noah Snyder were double-event individual winners for the Bulldogs in their season-opening boys’ track and field meet at Mahomet against St. Joseph on Thursday (April 6).

Snyder was triumphant in the high jump (4 feet, 10 inches) and the long jump (14 feet, 4 ½ inches).

Tompkins earned victories in the shot put (38 feet, 5 inches) and the discus (97 feet, 8 inches).

According to the web site athletic.net, Tompkins’ toss in the shot ranks as the best in the state thus far this spring for seventh-graders.

Four other M-S seventh-graders secured a win in one individual event against St. Joseph.

They were: Kiptyn Fan (100-meter dash in 13.6 seconds), Jude McWilliams (110-meter hurdles in 21.0 seconds), Grant Morphew (800-meter run in 2:38.6) and Adam Smigielski (1,600 meters in 5:38.40).

Additionally, three seventh-grade Bulldog relays also captured first place.

The 400-meter relay foursome of Lucas Vanderstraeten, Henry Welch, Jake McCoy and Liam Burwell were timed in 59.9 seconds.

In the 800-meter relay, the grouping of McWilliams, Fan, Dylan Heckman and Snyder stopped the clock in 1:56.1.

Sharing the baton in the 1,600-meter relay were Caleb Zulauf, Smigielski, Vanderstraeten and Morphew. Their composite time was 4:43.9.

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Four M-S eighth-graders posted wins in individual events against St. Joseph.

They were: Tate Bode (800-meter run in 2:24), Cash Bryan (110-meter hurdles 23.9 seconds), Pearce Slocum (pole vault at 6 feet) and Bryson Tiefenthaler (high jump at 5 feet, 1 inch).

Also crossing the finish line first was the 400-meter sprint relay unit of Pierce Douglas, Wyatt Belz, Jonathan Franklin and Tiefenthaler. They clocked a time of 56.7 seconds.

M-S will return to action on Thursday (April 13) at home at 4 p.m. in the annual Linda Parnell Bulldog Invitational.