10th ranked Cougars finish 4th at region track and field championships; Hamer's record breaking performance earns consecutive Field Athlete of Meet Award #GoBarton
10th ranked Cougars finish 4th at region track and field championships; Hamer’s record breaking performance earns consecutive Field Athlete of Meet Award.
<Photos courtesy of Ed Bailey Photography>
The 10th ranked Barton Community College men's track and field team won a trio of events over the weekend in placing fourth overall at the KJCCC/Region 6 Indoor Championships.
The Cougars compiled 77 points, twelve shy of hardware as thirty points came from the three gold medal performances within their eleven top eight placings over two days at Pittsburg State University's Robert W. Plaster Center, twelve shy of hardware. Hutchinson won the title with 109 points bettering Coffeyville's 93 and Butler's 89 points.
Barton concludes the indoor season in a couple of weeks competing at the 2025 NJCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships held March 7-8 at Texas Tech University's Sports Performance Center in Lubbock, Texas.
For the second consecutive region indoor championships, Trevon Hamer was named the Field Athlete of the Meet in scoring 18 points including a record breaking performance on Sunday. A day prior, Hamer was locked in a long jump battle and despite soaring well past 22-feet in five of his six jumps, had to settle for second place for the second straight year, this time just 1.25 inches out of gold on a mark of 7.59m (24-10.75).
On Sunday, Hamer led the triple jump throughout, bettering his first round mark on a second attempt 16.25m (53-3.75) to tie the Plaster Center facility best and break the meet record set by former Olympian and NJCAA Track Hall of Famer Melvin Lister. The nation's top mark would also move the two-time region champion up a spot to 5th best in program history.
In addition to Hamer's title, Simeon Adams' helped compile the Cougars' other pair of golds including capping Barton's 400m sweep by following the Lady Cougars' Keliza Smith's record breaking performance by clocking a personal best 47.57 to better the men's 34-man field.
Earlier in the day, Adams got the already nationally qualified 4x800m relay squad off to a good start passing the baton through the line of Jasiah Clapp, Keandro Gordon, and Gabriel Carty for an event winning 7:52.69 time.
Three hours later Adams was back on the track anchoring the 4x400m relay squad of Devonric Mack, Joshua Mascall, and Wanyae Belle to their heat's fastest time to place 3rd overall with a national qualifying time of 3:13.30.
Among the ten other season and/or personal best efforts, Mascall also punched his individual national entry by clocking a 6.80 in the 60m prelims before placing 6th in finals on a slightly slower 6.86 time.
Barton's Region 6 Indoor Championship Results (Complete Results) (PR/PB = Personal record/best; NQ = Nationally Qualified; ANQ = Already Nationally Qualified)
60m: 6th Joshua Mascall (6.86 *PB NQ 6.80 in prelims), DNS Aragorn Straker (PB ANQ 6.75 4th in prelims), 9th Wanyae Belle (ANQ 6.81)
200m: Runner-Up Wanyae Belle (ANQ 21.37), 29th Brandon Pemberton (22.68)
400m: CHAMPION Simeon Adams (PB ANQ 47.57), 20th Devonric Mack (50.34)
800m: 6th Keandro Gordon (PB 1:56.35), 22nd Gabriel Carty (2:09.04)
1000m: 19th Jack Cole (PB 2:48.51), 21st Korbin Woods (2:48.74)
Mile Run: DNF Korbin Woods
Long Jump: Runner-Up Trevon Hamer (PB ANQ 7.59m, 24-10.75)
Triple Jump: 2-Time CHAMPION Trevon Hamer (PB ANQ 16.25m, 53-3.75 *Moves up from 6th to 5th Program Best)
Shot Put: Runner-Up Ricardo Hayles (ANQ 16.59m, 54-5.25), 3rd Jaylon Calder (PB 16.33m, 53-7.00), 18th DeAndre Bristol (12.49m, 40-11.75)
Weight Throw: 5th Boris Peranovic (PB 15.32m, 50-03.00), 8th DeAndre Bristol (PB 14.77m, 48-05.00), 12th Jaylon Calder (14.19m, 46-07.00)
4x800m Relay: CHAMPION 7:52.69 (Simeon Adams, Jasiah Clapp, Keandro Gordon, Gabriel Carty)
4x400m Relay: 3rd SB NQ 3:13.30 (Devonric Mack, Joshua Mascall, Wanyae Belle, Simeon Adams)