11 area athletes compete at MEC track championships

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Mountain East Conference (MEC) track and field championships concluded on Monday and featured 11 athletes from area high schools.

Frankfort graduate Cohen Arbogast placed top 10 in three events for Frostburg State.

He set a personal best in the 400m, finishing sixth at 49.35.

Arbogast, Felix Annan, Jack Hynes and Mason Worley placed third in the 4x400 (3:21:57), which was a season best.

Arbogast, Annan, Jason Pantaleon and Justin Dowell were seventh in the 4x100 (42.71).

Three other area athletes represented the Bobcats.

Allegany graduate Aubrey Russ placed sixth in the hammer throw (49.27).

Fort Hill's Jaxon Jones finished seventh in the 800m (1:55:81).

Tyler McGraw from Paw Paw was 12th in the shot put (12.97) and 14th in the hammer throw (43.38).

West Virginia Wesleyan had three athletes hail from Frankfort.

Anthony Sanders finished second in the 3000 steeplechase (9:26:36) and 14th in the 1500 (4:12:04).

Kent Niland placed ninth in the 10,000 (32:33:32) and 10th in the 5,000 (15:29:17).

Peyton Slider finished 12th in the javelin throw (42.88).

In the women's competition, Mountain Ridge's Reghan Sivic placed fifth in the pole vault (2.85) for Frostburg.

Brooke Jacobs of Frankfort set a personal best in the 10,000, finishing sixth at 39:10:41 and was 13th in the 5,000 (19:08:65) for Davis & Elkins.

West Liberty's Kiara Kesner finished sixth in the heptathlon.

The Keyser graduate set personal bests in the 200 (29.00), 800 (3:07:14) and high jump (1.29m).

Kesner finished sixth in all three events, along with the javelin throw (20.56).

Kesner was fourth in the long jump (4.62), fifth in the 100 hurdles (17:32), seventh in the shot put (5.17) and 11th in pole vault (2.40).

Autumn Kerchner from Keyser finished top 10 in three events for Wheeling.

Kerchner placed third in the discus (41:09), fifth in high jump (1.60) and sixth in the javelin throw (34.42).

The discus and javelin results were personal bests.

Charleston swept the men's and women's team championships.

Frostburg was fifth in the men's and sixth in the women's team results.