Track and Field

Seth Schenck is the number one seed in Saturday's 800m final after winning his heat and running the fastest time in Friday’s prelims.

Jefferson City, Mo. - New Haven’s girls 4x800m (Hannah Pruessner, Hannah Kruse, Taylor Covington, and Kayla Borcherding) relay team came in third place, grabbing the first state medals for New Haven.

Chamois’s Alison Mehmert won the State Championship in Class 1 High Jump. (5-03)

Seth Schenck ran a career best time in the 1600m finals, finishing in second place with a time of 4:30.49 and Chamois's Clay Nolte won his first state medal, taking fifth place, running his career best time of 4:36.62.

Schenck and Clay will head into the 800m finals on Saturday seeded first and second after today's prelims.

Schenck will also run the anchor leg in Saturday's 4x800m relay.

Pictured are 11 of 12 New Haven runners headed to state.

Special thank you once again to Principia High School for their wonderful hospitality.  Also make sure to thank New Haven High School Students, Fey Chavez and Clara Roth, for all the photos from today's meet.  They were a huge help, making it a little easier to keep track of each event and posting results.

UPDATED: All results posted.
Quick rundown on today's State Sectionals

Principia High School - Take away the wind and it could not have been a better day for runners.  Coming into today’s State Sectionals the goal for both New Haven and Chamois was simple; finish in the top four and move on.

In today’s first race, New Haven’s girls 4x800m relay team (Kayla Borcherding, Taylor Covington, Hannah Kruse, and Hannah Pruessner) finished second, running a season best 10:17, breaking their previous time of 10:32, and nearly a minute faster than last week at districts.

Seth Schenck laps the a runner as he cruises to an easy win in the 1600m by 10 seconds.

Principia High School - Seth Schenck is a beast who his hungry for state medals after feasting on two first place finishes in the 800m and 1600m in last Saturday’s district meet.  Once a runner gets the taste of victory they always come back for seconds and thirds, which Schenck plans to get a second helping on Saturday in the Class 1 State Sectionals.

Along with Schenck, Dominick Pataky and Zach Grater finished third and fourth and the opportunity of advancing to next week’s state meet.  Keven McDowell will join Schenck, Grater, and Pataky in the 4x800m relay after finishing in second place behind Chamois.

Principia High School - Saturday’s district meet ended with New Haven holding the schools first ever girls district championship while taking their victory lap around the track.  New Haven’s final team score of 137 toped Oran’s 101 points.

New Haven's Hannah Pruessner, who runs the first leg in the 4x400 for New Haven hands it off to Taylor Covington.

St. Clair, Mo. –   “That’s what I’m talking about, that is what we needed to do…excellent everybody” are the first words Coach John Tucker said to his girl’s 4x400m relay team, Hannah Pruessner, Kierstin Monzyk, Taylor Covington, and Molly Munsinger, after setting a new Four Rivers Conference record with a time of 4:12.93.  Just as impressive, all four’s splits were 63 seconds.

Helping to put in perspective of Monday’s record time, based on last year’s times at state, they would have won in Class 1, took second in Class 2, and qualified for state in Class 3.