By Jim Beers, Contributing Writer
CHESTER – The Chester YellowJackets and Lady Jackets hosted their first home meet of the season last Tuesday March 30 at the Charles R. Young Memorial Track and Field Complex on the campus of Chester High School.
The CHS Boys were runners up among eight teams while the Lady Jacket Girls finished 3rd out of seven teams.
The Boys Division was won by the Nashville Hornets who recorded 140 points. They were followed by CHESTER (2nd, 117); Steeleville (3rd, 101); Sparta (4th, Tie, 59); Red Bud, ( 4th, Tie, 59); Waterloo Gibault (6th, 28); Eldorado (7th, 21); and New Athens (8th, 1).
The Girl’s Division was won by Nashville who recorded 203 points, followed by Murphysboro (2nd, 130); CHESTER (3rd, 68); Red Bud (4th, 66); Sparta (5th, 59); Steeleville (6th, 11); and Waterloo Gibault (7th, 6).
Specific results are as follows:
FIELD EVENTS
HIGH JUMP
Boys: Cooper Eggemeyer, Chester (5th, 1.57 meters); Lannin Caron (7th, 1.52 meters)
Girls: Mabry Wingerter, Chester (2nd, 1.42 meters)
POLE VAULT
Boys: Jacob Cowell, Chester (1st, 3.20 meters); Lannin Caron, Chester (3rd, 2.30 meters)
Chester’s Jacob Cowell, a senior, won the pole vault for the second week in-a-row at the first Chester home meet of the year. Cowell vaulted 3.20-meters to win the event and help his team finish in the runner-up position of the CHS home meet.
Girls: Jasmine Merideth, Chester (3rd, Tie, 1.85 meters)
LONG JUMP
Boys: Isaac Jany, Chester (3rd, 5.62 meters); Jacob Cowell, Chester (5th, 5.54 meters); Cooper Eggemeyer, Chester (8th, 5.26 meters); Will Schuwerk, Chester (10th, 4.49 meters)
Girls: Giana Eggemeyer, Chester (3rd, 4.28 meters), Mabry Wingerter, Chester (6th, 3.97 meters)
TRIPLE JUMP
Boys: Jacob Cowell, Chester (1st, 11.25 meters), Lannin Caron, Chester (4th, 9.52 meters)
Girls: Paige Vasquez, Chester (3rd, 8.22 meters)
DISCUS
Boys: Isaac Jany, Chester (5th, 104-07)
Girls: Briley Miles, Chester (6th, 73-11), Alyssa Seymour, Chester (13th, 63-05), Rylie Conley, Chester (18th, 50-02)
SHOT PUT
Boys: Isaac Jany, Chester (1st, 13.44 meters), Jonathan Renfroe, Chester (11th, 9.70 meters), Gavin Cowan, Chester (17th, 8.13 meters)
Girls: Kailyn Absher, Chester (7th, 9.23 meters), Briley Miles, Chester (12th, 7.92 meters), Alyssa Seymour, Chester (15rth, 6.66 meters), Rylie Conley, Chester (20th, 5.94 meters)
RUNNING EVENTS
4 X 800 meter relay
Boys: Chester (2nd, 10:00.3)
Girls: Chester (4th, 13:39.3)
4 X 100 meter relay
Boys: Chester (4th, 48.3)
Girls: Chester (3rd, 56.1)
3200-meter (2-mile) run
(No Chester boys or girls)
BOYS 110 meter hurdles
(No Chester entries)
GIRLS: 100-meter hurdles
Jasemine Merideth, Chester (10th, 22.1), Maleia Absher, Chester (11th, 22.2)
100 METER DASH
Boys: Aiden Jany, Chester (1st, 11.2), Will Schuwerk, Chester (6th, 12.2)
Girls: Camrynn Howie, Chester (6th, 15.2), Mabry Wingerter, Chester (9th, 15.4), Amanda Kennon, Chester (14th, 17.1)
800 METER RUN
Boys: Jacob Handel, Chester (4th, 2:16.4)
Girls: Madi Kribs, Chester (10th, 3:21.0)
Boys: (No Chester entry)
Girls: Chester (2nd, 2:01.6)
400 METER DASH
Boys: Aiden Jany, Chester (1st, 52.2), Garret Hopkins, Chester (6th, 1:02.5)
Girls: Gianna Eggemeyer, Chester (5th, 1”10.2), Josalynn Anaya, Chester (12th, 1:19.7), Bethany Baughman, Chester, (17th, 1:30.9)
300 METER HURDLES
Boys: Jacob Cowell, Chester (4th, 46.6)
Girls: (No Chester entries)
1600 METER (1-Mile) RUN
Blake Farmer, Chester (6th, 5:32.6)
CHS senior Maria Nickle finished 7th in the 1600-meter (1-Mile) run Tuesday March 29 at the first home meet of the 2022 season. Nickle turned in a time of 7:35.6 to help the Lady Jackets finish 3rd out of seven teams. Jim Beers Photo
Girls: Maria Nickle, Chester (7th, 7:35.6)
200 METER DASH
Boys: Aiden Jany, Chester (2nd, 23.5), Will Schuwerk, Chester (4th, 25.2)
Girls: Camrynn Howie, Chester (3rd, 30.2), Gianna Eggemeyer, Chester (5th, 30.6), Paige Vasquez, Chester (6th, 30.8), Alyssa Seymour, Chester (12th, 33.9)
4 X 400 METER RUN
Boys: Chester (2nd, 4:03.0)