Off and running (and jumping and throwing)

Today’s girls track sectional meets involving local teams:

Franklin (5:30 p.m.): Columbus East, Columbus North, Hauser, Edinburgh, Center Grove, Franklin, Greenwood, Greenwood Christian Academy, Indian Creek, Southwestern (Shelbyville), Waldron, Whiteland

Bloomington North (5:30 p.m.): Brown County, Bloomfield, Bloomington North, Bloomington South, Eastern Greene, Edgewood, Linton-Stockton, Martinsville, Owen Valley, Shakamak, White River Valley

Seymour (5:45 p.m.): Jennings County, Trinity Lutheran, Bedford North Lawrence, Brownstown Central, Crothersville, Eastern (Pekin), Mitchell, Orleans, Paoli, Salem, Seymour, Springs Valley, West Washington

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Franklin County (5 p.m.): South Decatur, Batesville, East Central, Franklin County, Greensburg, Jac-Cen-Del, Lawrenceburg, Milan, North Decatur, Oldenburg Academy, Rising Sun, South Dearborn, South Ripley

Admission: $6

Advancement: Top three in each event and anyone else meeting the state standard qualify for regional. If that number for a specific regional does not reach 16 in an event, the next-best performances from the four feeder sectionals are added until 16 is reached.

Qualifiers from Franklin, Franklin County, Connersville and Shelbyville advance to the Franklin Regional. Qualifiers from Bloomington North, Seymour, Jeffersonville and Terre Haute North advance to the Bloomington North Regional. The regional round is May 23.

Here are the top three seeds in each event for the Franklin Sectional:

Pole vault: 1. Kylie Falcone (CG) 11-3; 2. Chloe Sanders (Wh) 10-0; 3. Haydn Driver (F) 9-6.

High jump: 1. (tie) Elena Stoughton (CE); Haley Goines (CG), Olivia Weston (G) 5-4.

Long jump: 1. Goines (CG) 17-4; 2. Kloie Doublin (F) 16-11 1/2; 3. Julia Riley (CG) 16-8.

Shot put: 1. Reagan Emberton (Wh) 37-6; 2. Emily Bonser (G) 37-2; 3. Micheala Adams (Wh) 36-11.

Discus: 1. Beyoncey Coleman-Turner (CE) 127-6; 2. Seena Greiwe (CE) 118-10; 3. Emberton (Wh) 116-7.

4×800 relay: 1. Center Grove 10:03.00; 2. Columbus North 10:07.24; 3. Columbus Eat 10:40.28.

100 hurdles: 1. Goines (CG) 14.95; 2. Grace Hasler (H) 15.90; 3. Alexandra Parramore (F) 16.00.

100: 1. Kiyah Yeast (CG) 12.18; 2. Doublin (F) 12.45; 3. McKenzie McClarney (G) 12.90.

1,600: 1. Arig Tong (CN) 5:22.37; 2. Valerie Clark (CG) 5:28.00; 3. Emma Treibic (F) 5:33.01.

4×100 relay: 1. Center Grove 48.67; 2. Columbus North 51.63; 3. Columbus East 52.30.

400: 1. Hanna Anderson (G) 59.10; 2. Doublin (F) 1:00.19; 3. Cortney VanLiew (CE) 1:00.83.

300 hurdles: 1. Parramore (F) 47.58; 2. Hasler (H) 47.70; 3. Maura VanDeventer (CN) 49.14.

800: 1. Krista Robinson (G) 2:28.88; 2. Julia Falcone (CG) 2:28.90; 3. Nina Fujii (CG) 2:30.00.

200: 1. Yeast (CG) 25.59; 2. McClarney (G) 27.01; 3. Dakota Gates (CN) 27.14.

3,200: 1. Olivia Morlok (CN) 11:19.61; 2. Clark (CG) 11:42.00; 3. Rachel Chan (CG) 11:44.00.

4×400 relay: 1. Franklin 4:12.22; 2. Center Grove 4:16.00; 3. Columbus North 4:22.18.