State Track Meet Results

By Editor | May 23, 2024

by: David Sharp

Photos by: Will Johnson, Gasconade County Republican for NEMOnews Media Group

The MSHSAA Class 1 Track Championships, held May 17-18, 2024 are in the books.

Newtown Harris captured the second place team championship.

Knox County freshman Adison Strong won the seventh place medal in the girls long jump.

Mound City won the Class 1 boys Team championship with 45 points. Newtown Harris took second overall with 40 boys points. Green City finished 11th with 21 boys points.

Rock Port won the girls Class 1 team championship with 73 points. Knox County finished tied for 46 th place with two points.

Wichita State University Track and Field signee Asher Buggs-Tipton brought home two state medals in the boys 100 and 200m dash.

Preliminary races and some Field event finals were held on the first day. Events that held preliminaries qualified the top eight participants for the finals. Where

participants from Knox County, Brashear, Newtown Harris or Green City did not qualify for the finals, they will be listed as ninth in the state and so on.

Any competitor finishing eighth in their respective enrollment Classification and Gender received a State Track and Field Medal.

Brunswick junior Colby Jenkins won the boys triple Jump at 43’1.5”. Green City junior Preston Balfany placed ninth with a distance of 39’ 8 ¾”. Tarkio senior Tommi Martin won the girls Javelin at 136’ 7”. Brashear senior Aubrey Borgmeyer placed 16th with a distance of 93” 4”.

McAuley Catholic won the boys 4x800m relay in 8:21.66 seconds. Payton Miller,

Hunter Miller, Gauge MacGregor and Zackary Cross won fifth place medals in 8:30.35 seconds.

Newtown Harris senior Zachary Cross qualified in sixth place for the boys 110m hurdles in 16.07 seconds. Asher Buggs- Tipton of Green City qualified second for the

boys 100m dash in 10.95 seconds.

Knox County sophomore Cooper Clair placed tenth in Class 1 with a time of 11.53 seconds. Green City’s 4x200m relay team of Orion Navis, Asher Buggs-Tipton, Preston

Balfany and Elliott York qualified eighth in 1:35.30 seconds.

Knox County’s girls 4x200m relay team of Brynn Schweiter, Melanya Miller, Lillie Penn and Adison Strong placed 16th in Class 1 with a time of 1:58.02 seconds.

Adison Strong won the Girls Class 1 Long Jump seventh place medal with a distance of 16’ 1 ¾”. Pattonsburg HS junior Katelyn Jones set a new meet record with a gold

medal leap of 18’ 4.5”.

Newtown Harris senior Molly Milazzo placed 15 th in the girls 1600m run in 6:05.55 seconds.

The Green City boys 4x100m relay team of Aiden Campbell, Asher Buggs-Tipton, Orion Navis and Elliott York qualified fourth in 45.38 seconds.

Newtown Harris senior Payton Miller placed 14th in the boys 400m dash in 53.83 seconds. Tiger senior Zackary Cross won his preliminary round, qualifying for the boys

300m hurdles in 39.80 seconds. Tiger Junior Hunter Miller placed tenth in the 300m

hurdles in 43.38 seconds.

Liberal HS freshman Ally Barton won the girls 800m dash in 2:19.76 seconds. Molly Milazzo won a Newtown Harris eighth place medal in the 800m in 2:29.04 seconds.

Asher Buggs-Tipton qualified third for the boys 200m dash finals in 22.35 seconds.

Cooper Clair placed ninth in Class 1 for Knox County in 23.17 seconds.

West Nodaway County senior Riley Blay won the boys Class 1 3200m run in 9:32.56 seconds. Newtown Harris senior Gauge MacGregor claimed the silver medal in 10:10.63 seconds. Brashear junior Jacob Snyder placed 12th in 11:10.06 seconds.

Payton Miller, Preston Tovrea, Hunter Miller and Zackary Cross qualified sixth for Newtown Harris in the boys 4x400m relay in 3:35.21 seconds.

Saturday, May 18, 2024 results were as follows. All listed results from this point on are final.

Newtown Harris placed 11 th overall in the girls 4x800m relay with a time of 10:48.91 seconds. Lexa Stonger, Kinsley Allnutt, Remington Miller and Molly Milazzo ran the girls 3200m relay for the Lady Tigers. Zackary Cross won the fourth place medal in the boys 110m hurdles for Newtown Harris in 15.89 seconds.

Asher Buggs-Tipton took the boys 100m dash silver medal for Green City in 10.98 seconds. Kyle Emerson of Albany set a new meet record in 10.93 seconds.

Rylee Jenkins won the girls Class 1 discus throw for Rock Port at 146’ 3”. Knox County senior Abby Becker closed out her Lady Eagle track and field career with a tenth place finish at 104’ 7”.

Zackary Cross won the fourth place medal in the boys 110m hurdles in 15.89 seconds.

Orion Navis, Asher Buggs-Tipton, Preston Balfany and Elliott York won seventh place medals in the boys 4x200m relay with a time of 1:35.66 seconds.

Colby Jenkins won his third Brunswick HS gold medal in the boys long jump at 22’3”.

Hunter Miller was second for Newtown Harris at 21’ 5 ½”. Gauge MacGregor was fourth in the boys Class 1 metric mile run at 4:35.59 seconds.

Aiden Campbell, Asher Buggs-Tipton, Orion Navis and Elliott York won Gopher boys 4x100m bronze medals in 4:54.39 seconds. Mound City junior August Meadows set a meet record of 38.91 seconds, winning the boys 300m hurdles.

Zackary Cross won the silver medal in 38.97seconds.

Gauge MacGregor was ninth in the boys 800m run for Newtown Harris in 2:03.49 seconds.

Asher Buggs-Tipton closed out a brilliant Green City track and field career with a fourth place medal finish in the 200m dash in 22.56 seconds.

Asher Buggs-Tipton won nine state gold medals and a total of 16 state track medals.

“It was simply a goal of mine to go to the elite college level in track and field,” Asher said.

“I have learned a lot of things from freshman year until now. Track is not an easy sport,” Asher said. “It comes down to who wants it more and who is going to put in the work and build the muscle.”

“Who will keep their body healthy. I have learned how to win and I have also learned how to lose.” After setting a record at the 2024 Kansas Relays, Asher suffered a knee injury warming up for the hurdles competition. He could run straight away races such as the 100 and 200m sprints. “I got blessed to being pain free and was able to make my way here.”

Tina-Avalon senior Tucker Singer won the boys shot put at 58’ 5 ¼”. Brashear senior Nate Triplett won a seventh place shot put medal with a distance of 46’ 7 1/2”.

Newtown Harris medaled seventh in the boys 4x400m relay. Payton Miller, Preston

Tovrea, Hunter Miller, and Zackary Cross finished in 3:34.83 seconds.