SC girls T&F wins two relay events, takes third as team at home invite

MOKANE, Mo. -- Winning two relay events, South Callaway girls track and field finished third out of 21 teams with 52 points in the South Callaway MS Invitational Wednesday at South Callaway High School.

The Lady Bulldogs scored 52 points to earn a top-three place. Eldon's "A" team won the invite with 118 points, and Blair Oaks placed second with 74.

On top of getting gold, South Callaway's 4x200-meter relay team of Laira Stuart, Brantley Henry, Ashlyn Jenkins and Destiny Mealy set a personal record time of 1 minute and 58.59 seconds.

Henry, Jenkins and Mealy earned another gold in a relay, winning the 4x100 at 55.43 with teammate Hayden House.

Mealy took home her third medal and second PR, placing second in the pole vault at 7 feet and 7.73 inches.

Henry made it a two-relay, two-individual medal Wednesday, taking third in the long jump at 13-2.27 and fourth in the 200 dash at 30.15.

Jenkins earned her third medal, finishing fifth in the long jump at 12-11.91.

Jaedyn Patterson became the sixth Lady Bulldog to medal, taking sixth in the discus at 71-7.45.

"WOW!" South Callaway track and field coach Stephen Wisch said. "Thank you to everyone who helped make tonight possible. We had over 500 kids come down to SC and compete, and our community ran off an amazing meet. This type of thing can only happen due to the village that is SC track. Now let's do it again tomorrow night for the high school!"

South Callaway will hope to keep it up in the Callaway County Relays at 2 p.m. Tuesday at New Bloomfield High School.