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RARE AIR: BHS jumper barely short of record, team shines at Claremore

mike tupa, bartlesville examiner-enterprise
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Jack Wahl took flight Friday and came up just a brush of becoming Bartlesville’s FLOAT — Flying Leader Of All Time.

The 6-foot-4 senior with the powerful leg thrust and dynamic grace gliding through the frozen sky cleared the high jump bar at a career-high 6-foot-8 to win the championship at last weekend’s Claremore meet.

Then, Wahl set his sights of surpassing A.J. Parker (Class of 2016) for the school record (6-10). He set the bar at 6-10.25 — and just barely missed on completely a clean jump, Bruin head coach David Ayres said.

Wahl is the defending Class 6A state champ in the event.

He wasn’t the only Bartlesville that made a powerful record effort at Claremore.

Junior Campbell Barta perforated the air like a lightning bolt to run the girls’ 100m in 12-seconds flat, good for third place.

She shattered her previous personal best (:12.35), and also threatened the school record time of :11.96.

In addition to Wahl’s sky samba in the boys’ high jump, Bartlesville waltzed away with two other championships — in the girls’ 4x800m relay and the girls’ 1600m run.

In the later, Gentry Turner blazed past the rest of the field to win in 5:13.3 —  by a margin of nearly 16 seconds.

The relay team consisted of Turner, Lauren Shoesmith, Reese Savage and Katherine Manley. It burst through the course in 10:06.3 to win by almost 25 seconds.

Bartlesville — which is coached by David Ayres — sparkled in other events.

Barta and Kaydance Barnett nailed down second (17-11) and fourth (17-3), respectively, in the girls long jump.

Barnett also turned in an impressive jump of 4-foot-10 in her first-ever girls’ high jump competition.

For the Bruins, Kade Bostwick soared in the boys’ pole vault to a personal best 14-feet-6-inches to finish second.

Next up, Bartlesville competes this weekend in a meet at the University of Oklahoma.

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BHS TOP 15 FINISHES: GIRLS

  • KAYDANCE BARNETT: 200m, 4th (:26.1); Long jump, 4th (17-3); 100m, 7th (:12.4); High jump, 7th (4-10).

  • CAMPBELL BARTA: Long jump, 2nd (17-11); 100m, 3rd (:12.0); 400m, 4th (1:00.35).

  • JACI DECKER; 200m, 13th (:27.3).

  • RAELEIGH DIXON: 11th (4-6).

  • CASEY EMERSON: Pole vault, 6th (7-6).

  • PARKER FIELDER: 100m hurdles, 5th (:17.79); 300m hurdles, 14th (:54.23).

  • SHARELL JONES; Discus, 15th (83-9).

  • EMILY LECHUGA: 3200m, 3rd (12:47.0).

  • KAILEY MALCOM: 100m hurdles, 15th (19:05).

  • KATHERINE MANLEY: 1600, 6th (5:43.8); High jump, 7th (4-10); 800m, 12th (2:34.3).

  • EMMA PERRY: 3200m, 8th (13:57.1).

  • GENTRY TURNER: 1600, 1st (5:13.3).

  • 4x200m RELAY: 8th (1:52.48) (Decker, Evelynn Pratt, Lacee Jenkins, Fielder).

  • 4x400m RELAY: 4th (4:24.1) (Decker, Pratt, Reese Savage, Lauren Shoesmith).

  • 4x800m RELAY: 1st (10:06.3) (Turner, Shoesmith, Savage, Manley).

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BHS TOP 10 FINISHES: BOYS

  • CONNOR BASTINGS: 200m, 6th (:22.6).

  • KADE BOSTWICK: Pole vault, 2nd (14-6).

  • REED GORMAN: 400m, 9th (:54.23).

  • RUSSELL MILLER: 1600m, 15th (4:59.4).

  • ISAIAH NEWTON: Long jump, 14th (19-5).

  • JACK WAHL: High jump, 1st (6-8).

  • COLTON WALLS: 110m hurdles, 9th (:17.69); 400m, 15th (:55.07).

  • LOGAN YOUNG: Pole vault, 4th (12-6).

  • 4x100m relay: 10th (:45.32) (Walls, Jett Scully, Nathan Gunnell, Isaiah Newton).

  • 4x200m relay: 15th (1:35.2) (Scully, Bastings, Bryce Lee, Newton).

  • 4x400m relay: 5th (3:37.2) (Wahl, Walls, Gorman, Bastings).

  • 4x800m relay: 7th (8:49.9) (Bastings, Tanner John, Gorman, Miller).

This article originally appeared on Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise: Bartlesville High track team jumps and runs to strong meet showing