Buckeye Trail's Alloway punches state tickets, while several D-III runners made the finals

HEATH — Buckeye Trail's Janson Alloway will get to pole vault one more week after Wednesday's Division III meet at Heath High School.

Alloway cleared 13-feet-8 inches to place second in the boys pole vault, as the top four placers advanced to next week's state meet.

The Warriors also had several finalists in the running events. The 4x200 relay of Mason Todd, Charlie Parry, Koen Eagon and Donovan Geiger posted the fastest time of 1:30.39, as the top eight teams will compete in Friday's finals. They were also third in the 4x100 (44.61), while Geiger had the second-fastest times in the 100 (11.32) and 200 (22.71) and Eagon had the third-fastest time in the 300 hurdles (41.47).

Crooksville's 4x200 of Brayson Hill, Riley Waggoner, Hunter Hurst and Grayson Houk posted the sixth-fastest time (1:33.74) to reach the finals, while the 4x100 just missed the finals in ninth (45.21).

Rosecrans' Brody Zemba has the third fastest time in the 200 (22.96) and the sixth fastest time in the 100 (11.47), while the 4x100 of Evan Backus, Conner Wells, Tizian Schmelzer and Zemba was seventh (45.04) to also reach the finals. Stephen Sagan also finished 10th in the boys long jump (20-2 1/4).

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There were no state qualifiers from the Division I meet at Pickerington North on Wednesday. Zanesville's Camron Willett was 12th in the 110 hurdles (15.78), as the top eight made the finals.

Tri-Valley's Chris Gargasz finished ninth in the boys discus (134-4), and teammate Micah Shupert was 13th (129-11), as the top qualified for state.

This article originally appeared on Zanesville Times Recorder: Buckeye Trail's Alloway headed to Dayton