TRACK SECTIONALS

Max Storms who had already won the State Cross Country Championship in his classification during his junior year, as a senior moved on in the Track Sectionals to the State competition next weekend in both the 3200 meter run and the 1600 meter race. He took first place in the 3200 meters and second place in the 1600 meters. Both races turned out to be a two-runner competition with only Max Storms from O'Hara and Maksim Korlev from Harrisonville well ahead of the rest of the field. At 9:38.17, Storms outdid Korlev in the longer race. Korlev's time was 9:45.32 with the bronze medal going to a Clinton runner whose time was a distant 9:52.72. Settling for the silver medal at 1600 meters, Max had a time of 4:20.97, just a hair short of Korlev's 4:20.5! The bronze medalist from Saint Pius X was in at a distant 4:33.93. Saturday's Sectionals were held at Kearney High School. -----HERE IS ANOTHER REPORT ON THE SAME TOPIC ---- Max Storms competed in the 1600 meter and 3200 meter races at the Class 3 Sectionals in Kearney and qualified for State competition in both. In the 1600 he set a personal record with a 4:20.97 coming in second to Maksim Korlov less than a second. In the 3200 he set a sectional record (which atually wasn't his personal best time) with 9:30.17 and was first. The previous sectional record was set in 1999 by Brock Babcock of Platte County with a time of 9:41.7 Storms will be the sole representative of the Celtic Track team at the State meet in Jefferson City next weekend. Paulina Pengelley came in fifth in the discus with a personal best distance of 108 feet. . Freshman Kayla McDowell competed in 100 meter hurdles taking 7th place and in the Triple Jump with a personal best leap of 17 feet, one inch. It was good enough to place 5th.