Elizabeth Western, Kellen Lair win 100-meter dashes at meets

Published 5:00 am Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Buffalo’s Elizabeth Western and Fair Grove’s Kellen Lair, won 100-,meter dashes at Dl Dorado Springs and Nixa meets last week. They are the only two local individual athletes to win first place at those meets, but Fair Grove boys’ 4 x 400-meter relay team also took the fop prize at Nixa.

Western won the girls 100-meter race at El Dorado Springs with a time of 13.23 seconds, and Lair placed first in the boys100-meter dash at Nixa with a time of 11.1 seconds.

Lair’s teammate, Canyon Crowley, who has won the 100-meter several times this year, took third place among 36 runners with a time of 11.24 seconds.

Fair Grove’s 4 x 400-meter relay taam won first place with a time of 3:31.06 minutes. Team, members were Lair, Crowley, Luke Buescher and Liam Draper.

Crowley also finished second in the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.33 seconds.

Other Buffalo athletes who placed high included Owen Phillips third in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 43.51 seconds and seventh in the 300-metee hurdles; TJ Waters sixth in the long jump; Logan Hawes sixth in the triple jump; Ben Foree seventh in the javelin;. In the girls events Shelby Samek was second in the javelin;

Other Fair Grove athletes who did well at the Nixa event were Kade Brunkhorst third in the discus; Luke Buescher sixth in the 800-meter run; Mason Kern sixth in the javelin; Seth Harrison eighth in the shot put.

In the girls events, Katrina Cantwell was third in the 3200-meter run with a time of 11:56.57; Reese Wells sixth in the triple jump; Taylor Green eighth in the triple jump and ninth in the long jump; Sofee Garrett fifth in the shot put.