Princeton medals in four events, Grant Foes is fourth in discus

The Princeton Tigers scored 9.3 points, tying for 30th place as a team on the strength of four state-medaling winning efforts in Friday’s Class 2A State Track & Field Finals in Charleston.

Mascoutah was the state champion in field of 60 teams with 51 points

PHS senior Grant Foes earned a fourth-place medal in the discus with a toss of 47.6 meters (156 feet). State champ Barry Evans of Mascoutah had a winning throw of 53.86m.

PHS sophomore Teegan Davis tied for ninth in the high jump at 1.85m, which should warrant a medal. State champ CJ Shoaf of Mahomet-Seymour cleared 2.07m.

Junior Keegan Fogarty, who ran in four events, took part in two medal-winning efforts for the Tigers. He placed ninth in the 200 with a time of 22.67 and anchored the Tigers’ 4x200 relay, which placed eighth with a time of 1:30.98.

Also running in the 4x200 were Logan Glancy, Ethan Thompson and Drew Harp. They also ran in the 4x100 relay, which placed 13th with a time of 43.52.

In other events, Davis was 12th in long jump (6.47m), Foes was 14th in the shot put (13.99m) and Fogarty was 14th in the 100 (11.16).

The running finals were being pushed back to 5 p.m. due to the heat.

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