Time To Shine / Athletes set for girls track sectional action

The girls track postseason begins on Tuesday with sectional action at 32 sites.

Columbus East, Columbus North, Hauser and Edinburgh will compete in the Franklin Sectional. Jennings County and Trinity Lutheran are at the Seymour Sectional, Brown County is at the Bloomington North Sectional and South Decatur is at the Franklin County Sectional.

Admission for all sites is $6. Here is a look at the sectionals involving area schools:

Franklin Sectional

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When: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday

Teams: Columbus East, Columbus North, Hauser, Edinburgh, Center Grove, Franklin Community, Greenwood Christian, Greenwood Community, Indian Creek, Southwestern (Shelby), Waldron, Whiteland

Seymour Sectional

When: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday

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

Bloomington North Sectional

When: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday

Teams: Brown County, Bloomfield, Bloomington North, Bloomington South, Eastern Greene, Edgewood, Linton-Stockton, Martinsville, Owen Valley, Shakamak, White River Valley

Franklin County Sectional

When: 5 p.m. Tuesday

Teams: South Decatur, Batesville, East Central, Franklin County, Greensburg, Jac-Cen-Del, Lawrenceburg, Milan, North Decatur, Oldenburg Academy, Rising Sun, South Dearborn, South Ripley

Regional competition

The top three finishers in each event from each sectional advance to regional competition on May 21. Beyond that, the next-best four times or distances from the four feeder sectionals into each regional earn call-backs to bring the number of entrants in each event at the regional to 16.

The Franklin and Franklin County sectionals, along with the Connersville and Shelbyville sectionals, feed into the Shelbyville Regional. The Seymour and Bloomington North sectionals, along with the Jeffersonville and Terre Haute North sectionals, feed into the Bloomington North Regional.

Here are the top seeds for the Franklin Sectional:

Pole vault: 1. Taylor Jarosinski (CG) 12-6; 2. Adrienne Salemme (CN) 11-3; 3. Teagan Bixler (CG) 10-6; 4. Sami Heathcote (CN) 9-6.

High jump: 1. Isabella Jackson (Whiteland) 5-7; 2. (tie) Elena Stoughton (CE) and Brooke Lee (CG) 5-3; 4. (tie) Lia Vawter (F) and Hannah Sullivan (Waldron) 5-2.

Long jump: 1. Julia Riley (CG) 18-0; 2. Riko Williams (CG) 17-5; 3. Cameron Kelsay (F) 16-11; 4. Kylah Lawson (CN) 16-1 1/2.

Shot put: 1. Emily Bonser (G) 42-5; 2. Reagan Emberton (Whiteland) 41-7; 3. Emily Herndon (CN) 40-0; 4. Ella Rasche (CG) 39-4.

Discus: 1. Beyoncey Coleman-Turner (CE) 149-4; Emberton (Whiteland) 135-5; 3. Bonser (G) 130-6; 4. Emma Wetherald (CN) 120-0.

4×800 relay: 1. Columbus North 9:57.67; 2. Center Grove 10:10.00; 3. Columbus East 10:10.38; 4. Whiteland 10:11.23.

100 hurdles: 1. Julia Riley (CG) 15.10; 2. Gabrielle Allen (Whiteland) 15.25; 3. Makensie Kramer (CG) 15.30) 3. Jackson (Whiteland) 15.32.

100: 1. Kiyah Yeast (CG) 11.76; 2. Myana Pace (CG) 12.54; 3. Allen (Whiteland) 12.58; 4. La’Monica Smith (CN) 12.74.

1,600: 1. Lillian Lacy (F) 5:27.93; 2. Mackenzie Barnett (CN) 5:28.62; 3. Stephanie Embree (CG) 5:35.00; 4. Kennedy Kerber (CN) 5:40.03.

4×100 relay: 1. Center Grove 48.84; 2. Columbus North 51.29; 3. Indian Creek 51.70; 4. Columbus East 52.18.

400: 1. Margaret Auger (F) 1:02.81; 2. Alyssa Henderson (F) 1:02.99; 3. Erin Rawlins (CN) 1:03.00; 4. Alainey Kovacs (CG) 1:03.99.

300 hurdles: 1. Jackson (Whiteland) 45.37; 2. Kramer (CG) 47.50; 3. Mel Hasler (H) 48.50; 4. Skyler Sichting (CG) 50.40.

800: 1. Shaelyn Biddle (IC) 2:24.00; 2. Aric Tong (CN) 2:28.56; 3. Taylor Leytham (Whiteland) 2:28.84; 4. Hudson Gilstorf (CG) 2:29.00.

200: 1. Yeast (CG) 24.23; 2. Allen (Whiteland) 26.02; 3. Pace (CG) 26.06; 4. Lawson (CN) 26.54.

3,200: 1. Olivia Morlok (CN) 11:30.06; 2. Lacy (F) 11:35.60; 3. Sydney Geckler (CN) 11:58.35; 4. Erika Walling (Whiteland) 12:16.19.

4×400 relay: 1. Center Grove 4:07.00; 2. Whiteland 4:20.31; 3. Columbus North 4:20.53; 4. Franklin 4:21.52.