{"id":39310,"date":"2013-06-03T05:57:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T10:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=39310"},"modified":"2013-06-03T05:57:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T10:57:21","slug":"several-area-runners-headed-to-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/06\/03\/several-area-runners-headed-to-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Several area runners headed to state"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n

Senior Jared Fleming won both the 800- and 1600-meter runs at the Lexington Division II regional track and field meet, and helped both the 4×400-meter and 4×800-meter relay teams to qualify for the state track meet over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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Van Wert's Jared Fleming beats Eastwood's Tim Hoodlebrink to the finish line to win the 800-meter run at the Division II regional track meet in Lexington over the weekend. (Monica Campbell\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Cougar boys\u2019 track team finished third at regionals, a point behind runner-up Sandusky Perkins. Eastwood won the boys\u2019 meet with 55 points.<\/p>\n

On the girls\u2019 side, Van Wert\u2019s Amanda Clay finished second in the 400-meter dash to qualify for state, but missed an opportunity to qualify in the 100-meter dash, coming in eighth.<\/p>\n

Fleming set a new school record in the 800-meter run, clocking a time of 1:53.88 and will defend his state title in that race next weekend in Columbus. He also won the 1600-meter run in a time of 4:24.97, slightly slower than his district time in that event, but fast enough to win at Piqua and advance to state.<\/p>\n

The 4×400-meter relay team of Fleming, Seth Kopp, Quincey Salcido and Nick Krugh was fourth in 3:22.34, while the 4×800-meter relay team (Fleming, Kase Schalois, Kopp and Connor Holliday) finished in second place in a time of 8:00.56.<\/p>\n

The boys\u2019 4×200-meter relay team (Kevon Pierce, Krugh, Terrance Branson and Kopp) also qualified for state competition with a fourth-place finish in 1:30.93.<\/p>\n

Schalois came close to an individual berth at state with a fifth-place finish in the 3200-meter run in 10:01.21, while Kopp finished eighth in the 400-meter dash in a time of 52.12 seconds.<\/p>\n

Clay ran a time of 58.15 in the 400 to finish second in that race and earn a berth to Columbus next weekend. She was a disappointing eighth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.75 seconds to finish out of the running in that race.<\/p>\n

At the District III track and field meet in Piqua, Crestview\u2019s Mycah Grandstaff was second in the 3200-meter run in a time of 9:50.97 to qualify for a state berth, while teammate Isaiah Kline finished fourth in the 400-meter dash in a time of 50.64 seconds.<\/p>\n

Lincolnview\u2019s Bayley Tow also earned a berth in the Division III state track and field meet this coming weekend with a fourth-place finish in the 1600-meter run this past weekend. His time was 4:28.82.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent sports Senior Jared Fleming won both the 800- and 1600-meter runs at the Lexington Division II regional track and field meet, and helped both the 4×400-meter and 4×800-meter relay teams to qualify for the state track meet over the weekend. The Cougar boys\u2019 track team finished third at regionals, a point behind runner-up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 15:51:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}