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Panthers Meet Tough Competition in U City Relays
The Mehlville boys track team brought good team effort to high-caliber competition.
Mehlville head track coach Jay Holtmeyer said his boys team was a bit handicapped by injury and some of his runners taking the ACT as the Panthers went up to the University City Charlie Beck Invitational on Saturday. It would take some good performances and a team effort, he said.
There were plenty of past state champion teams at the meet, including Berkley, SLUH, Hazelwood, Lafayette and Marquette, and Holtmeyer said a medal here would feel pretty good.
“It’s our first real blow-out meet,” he said.
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Sophomore, Patrick Partee took fifth in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 41.04, second in the high jump with a jump of 5-feet 9-inches, fourth in the triple jump with a jump of 41-feet, 9-inches and ran anchor in the 4x400-meter relay, which finished second with a time of 1:31.96.
Holtmeyer said Partee finished last year with a 6-foot 2-inch high jump, and that his height in the jump might have been influenced by all the running he did as well.
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Sophomore Chayse Brown took fifth in the 100-meter dash (11.6 seconds), fourth in the 200 (23.18 seconds), and started off the 4x100 and the 4x200-meter relays who placed sixth and second, respectively, with times of 44.65 and 1:31.96.
Holtmeyer was encouraged by the 4x200-meter relay time of 1:31.96. He said it would take around a 1:28 to get to state. Patrick Partee started it off and Jeff Jackson, Remington Grigsby and Chayse Brown finished it.
The JV team was lead by freshman Trey Pratt, who took third in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:10.4 and fourth in the 1600-meter run with a time of 4:49.6. Sophomore Don Allen ran the 110 and 300-meter hurdles, taking third and fourth, respectively (17.36 and 44.56 seconds).
The JV 4x100-meter relay team of sophomore Ben Earnhart, junior Ijon Howard, sophomore Rodney McGuire and sophomore Demarcus Travis took third, with a 46.53 time. The 4x200-meter relay team of sophomore James Chris, junior Javan Washington, sophomore Rodney McGuire and junior Ijon Howard took fourth, with a 1:38.9.
The Mehlville boys finish 9th out of 16 teams with 38 points, behind Hazelwood Central, Lafayette, Ritenour, McCluer North, SLUH, Marquette, Ladue and McClure South-Berkley. The Mehlville girls finished 13th out of 15 teams.