LHS?shot putter wins again

Overland Park ? Blake Hocking won the shot put to pace Lawrence High’s boys track and field team to a sixth-place finish at the 25-team Shawnee Mission North Relays on Friday.

Hocking won with a toss of 58 feet, 10 inches.

The LHS girls — paced by Krista Costa’s fifth-place finish in the high jump — were 20th.

Shawnee Mission North Relays

Top finishers for LHS

Boys

LHS finished sixth out of 25 teams

4X800 relay — 8. 8:31.73 (Nathan Stringer, Gavin Fischer, Josh Shump, Reid Hildenbrand)

100 — 7. Trent Edwards 11.24

4X100 — 7. 43.79 (Gari Jones, Chris Gaston, Austin Flory, Trent Edwards)

Triple jump — 2. Austin Flory 43-7-1/2, 8. Steven Hill 42-5-1/2

Shot put — 1. Blake Hocking 58-10, 8. Martin Williams 48-4

Discus — 5. Hocking 149-10.

Girls

LHS finished 20th out of 25

100 hurdles — 7. TaMiya Green 16.29

4X400 — 6. 4:12.85 (Alexis Scheibler, Emily Davidson, Kelsey Broadwell, Green).

High jump — 5. Krista Costa 5-1.