KU Relays - Saturday results

Both Blue Springs track and field teams, as well as Blue Springs South's Samantha Nightingale wrapped up action at the KU Relays Saturday. Scroll down the page to see results from Friday. Below are Saturday's results and comments from all coaches.


Blue Springs boys: 

Erron Holley (100-meter dash finals) - 8th, 11.01 seconds
Simon Belete (1,600-meter run) - 18th, 4:26.76
Stephen Mugeche (1,600) - 30th, 4:29.52
David Johnson (Discus) - 15th, 149 feet, 2 inches
4x880 relay - 10th, 8:12.43 - Jacob Belke, Alex Johnson, Dominic Piccinini and James Barnett

Wildcats head coach Joe Cusack: "I thought it went pretty well. Chris Clark hit a hurdle in the 300, got hurt, and we had to scratch two relays, so we didn’t do a lot but what did, we did well. Simon got a new personal record in the two-mile with a fantastic time (of 9:22). That’s an all-state caliber run. Stephen (Mugeche) ran a nice 3,200 and missed a PR by a second. He just enjoyed the experience. Simon also got a new PR in the mile and Stephen missed his by six-hundredths of a second.
"The distance medley had a nice race. They just missed a school record by under 3 seconds, and the 4x880 relay ran a season best time and they were very competitive. Erron had his best time of the year in the prelims (in the 100). 

"Now we’re geared up for our trip to St. Louis (next weekend) and there are some other areas I want to identify before conference that we’ll figure out and we’ll go from there."

Blue Springs girls: 

4x200 relay - 20th, 1:53.97 - Rey'ven Lawrence, Tyonna Snow, Jessica Lawson and Gabby Hall

4x880 relay - 17th, 9:58.31 - Stephanie Burasco, Shannon Danaher, Elizabeth Reynolds and Elena Chavez

Wildcats head coach Jennifer Reeder: "Probably our highlight of the weekend was Megan (Wright) in the pole vault. She didn’t vault her best but to go out and compete against girls from the four-state area, she did very well. She was the highest Missouri finisher. She competed well.

"Our 4x880 relay was a second or two faster. I think the girls are excited to lower their time even more. Our coaches have a plan for them. We’re taking it piece by piece.

"Gabby (Hall) has been winning all her events in the local meets, so KU is a meet where we see the big dogs from St. Louis and Kansas. It was a good learning experience. She needs to learn from these types of races. Our sprinters, we know we have talent. What we need to do now, what was shown to us this weekend, was that talent only gets you so far. We have to work out the kinks in those relays heading into the postseason. 

"The Kirkwood meet (next weekend) gets us out of our routine of seeing the local teams and seeing some teams we’ll see at the state meet on the other side of the state."

Blue Springs South girls: 

Samantha Nightingale (1,600) - 5th, 4:57.63 (One of five meet-record times)

South head coach Ryan Unruh: "She set her PR by 11 seconds (in the two-mile Friday). That should put her up pretty high in the nation. The girls she beat from Arkansas is a seven-time state champion. She ran an 11-flat last year, so to improve by 27 seconds shows where she’s at right now."