NMS track team competes in nine-team meet

WEBB CITY, Mo. -- The Nevada Middle School track team participated in the Webb City Invitational on Friday.

NMS's eighth graders placed third in the team standings with 68 1/2 points, while the seventh graders were seventh with 25.

Seneca won the eighth-grade division of the nine-team field, edging Carthage 87 1/2 to 83. Carthage scored a runaway win in the seventh-grade division with 152 points to runner-up Carl Junction's 75.

Nevada eighth-grade placers

100 -- 1. Kerbs, 11.75; 4. Fay, 12.07.

200 -- 1. Kerbs, 24.49.

400 relay -- 2. Nevada (Dade, Heard, Fay, Kerbs), 49.3.

800 relay -- 4. Nevada (Fay, Compton, Query, Dade), 1:47.78.

1600 relay -- 6. Nevada (Hinkle, Heard, Herda, Hughes), 4:16.85.

400 -- 6. Hughes, 62.00.

800 -- 5. Heard, 2:26.9.

1600 -- 6. Hinkle, 5:40.

High jump -- 4. Lovinger, 5-4.

Long jump -- 4. Lovinger, 15-7.

Discus -- 1. Herda, 126-9/

Shot put -- 1. Herda, 42-9.

Nevada seventh-grade placers

100 -- 1. Shepherd, 12.25.

800 relay -- 1. Nevada (Shepherd, Pitts, Cartwright, Board), 1:57.53.

Discus -- 5. Cartwright, 74-4; 6. Board, 73-3.

Triple jump -- 5. Edmunds, 20-3.