Indians take first at Du Quoin Classic

The Du Quoin boys track team took home its second first-place finish of the week Friday afternoon, finishing the Du Quoin classic with 116.5 points to edge out madison (102) and Pinckneyville (100).
The Indians took first in four different events among the 15 teams competing.
Devin Jones dominated the field in the discus throw, finishing more than thirty feet ahead of the second-place finisher with a throw of 167-06. Teammate Howard Clark took fourth with a throw of 120-09.
Zayne Fornear edged out a win in the long jump with a jump of 20-09.50, two inches ahead of Chester's Savion Smith. Teammate Caleb Vogel took fourth with a jump of 19-08.50.
Harly Gassel took first in the pole vault, setting a new PR of 12'6", while teammate Keenan Johnston took third with a height of 9'06".
Caleb Vogel took the other first-place finish, winning the high jump by four inches with a jump of 6'04".
The Indians 4x100-meter relay team (Westly Milam, Fornear, Gassel and Sam Zettler) finished second with a time of 44.84 seconds, .31 seconds behind first-place Madison and less than half a second ahead of Pinckneyville (Brady Louis, Grayson Buza, Stetson Lappin and Caleb Logan).
Shamar Adams had an impressive day for Du Quoin, setting a new PR in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.73 seconds to finish second, ahead of teammate Kyle Robinson who finished fourth with a time of 16.09. Adams also took fifth in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 45.16 seconds, while teammate Gassel took sixth.
Sam Zettler scored in a tiro of events, taking fourth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.77 seconds and sixth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.72 seconds and sixth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 55.12 seconds.
Leading the way in Pinckneyville's third-place finish was senior Caleb Logan.
Logan took first in the 100-meter dash (11.11 seconds), 200-meter dash (23.08 seconds) and 400-meter dash (50.18 seconds).
Dalton Kitchen and Nick Cannon scored in the shot put for the Panthers with a a third and fourth-place finish, respectively.
Lappin and Louis took second and third, respectively, in the 300-meter hurdles. Grant Batteau took second in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:04.84, while teammate Garrett Johnson took fourth in the 1600-meter run with a time of 4:55.40.
Du Quoin and Pinckneyville will resume action at the SIRR Mississippi Division conference championship at Pinckneyville High School on Thursday. Field events are scheduled to start at 3 p.m.