Keep the flag in Maries County.

That was the goal last Monday for Bland, Belle and Vienna’s track teams during the annual Maries-Osage Challenge track meet at Linn High School.

Between the three schools, they racked up 650 points compared to 268.5 points between Chamois and Linn representing Osage County.

Vienna freshman Lainey Magner sprinted her way to first place in the varsity girls 100-meter dash in a time of 14.20.

Belle’s trio of Nevaeh Kinsey (3rd, 15.49), Saylor Kent (7th, 18.01) and Chloey Bray (8th, 19.30) also represented Maries County in the girls 100m dash.

Vienna’s trio of Magner (2nd, 29.77), Jaedyn Schell (3rd, 30.87) and Aubrey Reeves (4th, 31.37) took three of the top four spots in the girls 200m dash.

Reeves also won the 400m dash for Maries County in 1:13.72 while Lady Eagle teammate Madison Weeks posted a second-place time of 1:14.27.

Belle freshman Nolie Finnegan won the 800m run for Maries County in a time of 2:43.05 while teammate Tajel McDaniel took sixth in 2:58.10.

Vienna’s Payton Martin also placed seventh in the event in 3:19.86.

McDaniel also took second for Belle in the 1600m run with a time of 6:18.70 while Martin took fourth for Vienna in 7:43.76.

Maries County took the top three spots in the girls 3200m run with McDaniel (1st, 15:29.81), Finnegan (2nd, 15:27.21) and Vienna’s Kaylee Bresnahan taking third in 16:10.00.

Winning the girls 100m hurdles for Maries County was Vienna’s Julianna Davis in a time of 20.17 while Belle’s Brooklyn Maddox placed third in 21.39.

Maddox went on to win the girls 300m hurdles in a time of 1:04.94.

Vienna’s foursome of Ava Kloeppel, Rebecca Miller, Aubrey Schwartze and Bresnahan sprinted to a first-place time of 1:03.42 in the girls 4x100m relay.

Belle’s girls 4x100m relay quartet of Aubrey Rehmert, Finnegan, Maddox and Kinsey took second in 1:11.03.

Vienna’s girls 4x200m relay team of Reeves, Schell, Weeks and Magner took first in 1:57.13 while the same quartet that ran the girls 4x100m relay for Belle also placed third in the girls 4x200m relay in a time of 2:09.82.

Racing to a second-place time of 5:01.99 in the girls 4x400m relay was Vienna’s team of Claudia Wieberg, Martin, Schell and Weeks.

Also taking second in 11:35.84 during the girls 4x800m relay was the Lady Eagle foursome of Wieberg, Weeks, Schell and Reeves.

Maries County took the top three spots in the girls high jump led by Davis (1.47m) and followed by Wieberg (1:37m) and Kinsey (1.27m).

Bresnahan won the girls pole vault for Vienna with a clearing height of 2.13m.

Davis (1st, 4.47m) and Magner (2nd, 4.27m) took the top two spots in the girls long jump while Belle’s Bailey Schilling took fifth with a leap of 2.98m.

Davis (1st, 9.18m) and Wieberg (2nd, 9.13m) took the top two spots for Vienna in the girls triple jump.

Kloeppel threw her way to first place in the shot put with a mark of 10.41m followed closely in second by Schwartze with 10.39m.

Miller (7th, 5.37m), McDaniel (8th, 5.31m) and Vienna’s Evelyn Rollins (9th, 4.64m) also threw for Maries County in the girl shot put.

Also winning the discus, Kloeppel posted a winning distance of 27.33m followed by Schwartze with a second-place throw of 26.78m.

Leading Maries County in the girls javelin, Miller took fourth with a throw of 14.70m while Rollins also took eighth for Vienna with a mark of 8.77m.

In middle school action, Bland and Vienna took all five scoring spots in the girls 100m dash led by Bland’s Natalie Lansford with a first-place time of 14.77.

Rounding out the top five were Vienna’s Ava Smith (2nd, 14.95), Bland’s Chloe Jones (3rd, 15.34), Vienna’s Macie Rowden (4th, 15.41) and Bland’s Lorraine Smith (5th, 15.83).

Vienna’s Kenna Roberds (9th, 17.00), Bland’s Allania Moore (11th, 18.51) and Vienna’s Brittany Ware (12th, 19.72) also ran for Maries County in the middle school girls 100m dash.

Maries County also dominated the girls 200m dash with Ava Smith placing first in a time of 30.96.

Also placing in the top nine were Bland’s Zoe Camden (2nd, 31.31), Bland’s Ellie Gray (3rd, 32.30), Jones (4th, 32.57), Lorraine Smith (6th, 34.13), Vienna’s Alexis Curtis (7th, 34.54), Vienna’s Liberty Rowden (8th, 34.79) and Vienna’s Raleigh Walker (9th, 35.29).

Camden led the county in the girls 400m dash with a second-place time of 1:09.42.

Rounding out the top seven in the event were Macie Rowden (3rd, 1:12.02), Lansford (4th, 1:13.02), Gray (5th, 1:14.75), Vienna’s Grace Barnhart (6th, 1:19.37) and Vienna’s Delaney Schwartze (7th, 1:19.61).

Bland’s Ava Prater led the county in the girls 800m run with a second-place time of 3:07.80.

Vienna’s Sophia Neubert took third in 3:15.85 while Bland’s Temperance Bray placed sixth in 3:29.55 during the girls 800m run.

Rounding out the top 10 in the girls 800m run were Bland’s Skylar Stevens (7th, 3:34.26), Vienna’s Kaitlyn Carpenter (8th, 3:35.40), Bland’s Maddy Rhoads (9th, 3:46.85) and Vienna’s Lilly Williams (10th, 3:47.37).

Prater won the girls mile in a time of 6:36.61 while Neubert also took third in 7:31.90.

Stevens (4th, 7:44.51), Vienna’s Zoe Hawk (6th, 7:59.83) and Bland’s Marianne Francis (7th, 8:04.31) also ran for Maries County in the middle school girls 1600m run.

Prater (22.22) and Bland’s Faith Gromowski (23.29) placed second and third respectively in the girls 100m hurdles.

Vienna placed second in the girls 4x100m, 4x200m and 4x800m relays while also winning the girls 4x800m relay.

Bland won the girls 4x200m and 4x800m relays while also placing second in the girls 4x400m relay and third in the 4x100m relay.

Rhoads, Macie Rowden and Lansford all cleared 1.21m in the girls high jump to finish in a three-way tie for first place.

Barnhart won the girls pole vault for Vienna with a clearing height of 1.83m.

Gray won the girls long jump for Bland with a leap of 3.63m.

Vienna’s Aspyn Gorman placed second in the event with a mark of 3.56m while Camden also placed fourth with a jump of 3.35m.

Vienna’s quartet of Ava Smith (8th, 3.17m), Walker, (9th, 3.00m), Schwartze (9th, 3.00m) and Williams (11th, 2.41m) also competed in the girls long jump.

Gorman won the girls triple jump with a leap of 8.00m while Curtis (2nd, 7.45m) and Walker (3rd, 7.38m) made a clean sweep of the top three for Vienna.

Williams also took fifth with a leap of 6.61m while Bland’s duo of Lorraine Smith (6th, 6.37m) and Bray (7th, 6.28m) also competed for Maries County in the girls triple jump.

Vienna’s Kenna Roberds led several Maries County athletes in the girls shot put with a winning throw of 9.38m.

Also throwing for Maries County in the girls shot put were Liberty Rowden (3rd, 8.81m), Jones (4th, 8.32m), Bland’s Kaylee Hazelwood (5th, 7.63m), Bland’s Hayden Fann (6th, 7.52m), Moore (8th, 6.53m) Ware (9th, 6.26m), Vienna’s Riley McKinnon (10th, 5.43m) and Carpenter (11th, 4.89m).

Liberty Rowden and (19.92m) and Roberds (19.40m) placed second and third respectively for Vienna in the girls discus.

In the high school boys portion of the meet, Vienna’s Gabe Kleffner sprinted his way to a first-place time of 11.93 in the boys 100m dash.

Maries County boys also in the top nine of the 100m dash were Vienna’s Eli Hayes (3rd, 12.22), Vienna’s Dalton Breeding (5th, 12.80), Belle’s Timothy Schmid (6th, 13.37), Vienna’s Mathew Hamill (7th, 13.62) and Belle’s Weston Doss (8th, 14.11).

Hayes took the 200m dash in a first-place time of 24.26 followed from Maries County by Breeding (3rd, 26.14), Vienna’s Gavin Schwartze (4th, 26.89), Schmid (5th, 27.27) and Hamill (6th, 29.46).

Vienna’s Duncan Wilkinson kept the Eagle run of wins going with a first-place time of 54.02 in the boys 400m dash.

Belle’s Baylar Smith took second in 54.88 while the county trio of Vienna’s Troy Wulff (4th, 1:00.15), Vienna’s Iven Rollins (5th, 1:11.30) and Belle’s Adrien Hoehne (6th, 1:16.98) rounded out the top six of the boys 400m dash.

Another Eagle win came via Hunter Schwartze in the boys 800m run in a time of 2:12.26.

Vienna teammates Jackson Kilmer (3rd, 2:27.30) and Thomas Douglas (7th, 2:36.99) also ran for the Eagles.

Belle’s Barrett Finnegan kept the county streak going with a winning time of 5:29.40 in the boys 1600m run.

He was joined in the top six by Kilmer (2nd, 5:36.36), Douglas (3rd, 5:37.17), Belle’s Miles Frey (4th, 5:44.80) and Hoehne (6th, 6:14.73).

Cooper Auten won the boys 3200m run for Vienna in a time of 12:39.86 followed by the Belle duo of Smith (3rd, 12:42.12) and Karsin Siefert (4th, 14:30.73).

Hamill led the county with a second-place time of 20.23 in the boys 110m hurdles while Siefert also placed fourth in 26.76.

Brayden Ewers chalked up another Vienna win with a first-place time of 47.63 in the boys 300m hurdles.

Sprinting to first place in the boys 4x100m relay with a time of 47.33 was the Eagle foursome of Gavin Schwartze, Kleffner, Hayes and Breeding.

Taking third for Belle in the boys 4x100m relay in a time of 57.75 was the Tiger team of Brayden Barzee, Callen Taylor, Doss and Schmid.

Also winning the boys 4x200m relay for Vienna in 1:37.71 was the team of Wilkinson, Ewers, Hayes and Kleffner.

Belle took second in 2:01.11 with the team of Hudson Kent, Taylor, Doss and Siefert.

Continuing their domination of the relays, Vienna won the boys 4x400m relay in a time of 3:51.78 with the team of Hunter Schwartze, Wilkinson, Hayes and Kleffner.

Belle’s team of Hudson Kent, Frey, Schmid and Finnegan placed fourth in 4:22.55.

Completing a clean sweep of all four relay races, Vienna’s boys 4x800m relay team of Hunter Schwartze, Auten, Ewers and Wilkinson posted a first-place time of 9:00.97.

Taking third in 9:49.74 was the Tiger team of Hudson Kent, Frey, Finnegan and Smith.

Vienna’s Troy Wulff won the boys high jump clearing 1.67m while Vienna’s Alex Zimmer and Kent tied for second clearing 1.57m.

Gavin Schwartze claimed the boys pole vault clearing 3.81m while Auten also took second clearing 3.66m.

Adding to his win in the high jump, Wulff also won the long jump and triple jump with leaps of 5.83m and 11.63m respectively.

Rounding out a Maries County sweep of the top five in the boys triple jump were Gavin Schwartze (2nd, 11.60m), Hunter Schwartze (3rd, 11.42m), Frey (4th, 10.25m) and Zimmer (5th, 9.51m).

Vienna’s Timothy Shockley led four county athletes in the boys shot put with a second-place throw of 10.83m.

He was followed by Belle’s Myles Butler, (3rd, 10.79m), Barzee (4th, 10.16m) and Zimmer (5th, 9.27m).

Eli Crum won the boys discus for the Eagles with a throw of 31.89m.

Butler claimed the boys javelin with a mark of 40.74m.

Middle school boys action saw Vienna’s Kevin Russell sprinted to gold in the boys 100m dash in a time of 12.38.

Also running for Maries County in the boys 100m dash were Bland’s Malachi Fredendall (2nd, 12.79), Vienna’s Ethan LeStarge (3rd, 13.04), Bland’s Gauge Workman (4th, 13.14), Bland’s Isaiah Spurgeon (8th, 14.99), Vienna’s Weston Schwartze (9th, 15.10), Vienna’s Jack Stratman (10th, 15.41), Vienna’s Dreygen Messersmith (11th, 15.56), Bland’s Trevor Frey (12th, 15.57), Bland’s Landon Storz (13th, 16.04), Vienna’s Drew Crum (16th, 17.17), Bland’s Ryder Huebner (18th, 18.20), Clay Curler (19th, 18.51) and Jason Hoelscher (20th, 18.53).

Russell also won the boys 200m dash in 24.93 followed by county athletes Hoelscher (2nd, 26.96), Workman (4th, 27.87), Vienna’s Zeb Wiles (5th, 28.16), Bland’s Diego Lansford (6th, 28.57), Schwartze (8th, 31.00), Bland’s Alden Zabel (9th, 31.36), Frey (10th, 32.03), Dreygen Messersmith (11th, 32.05), Stratman (12th, 33.11), Chaz Gromowski (13th, 33.62), Bland’s Weston Sadler (14th, 33.65), Crum (17th, 35.68), Vienna’s Jaxon Gorman (18th, 36.38) and Bland’s Ryker Huebner (19th, 39.85).

Fredendall won the boys 400m dash in 58.70 followed by Wiles (2nd, 59.86), Workman (3rd, 1:00.04), Vienna’s Gage Curler (6th, 1:06.47), Vienna’s Jake Rowden (7th, 1:06.51), Bland’s Connor LeRoux (8th, 1:08.82), Stratman, 10th, 1:15.71), Vienna’s Paul Welschmeyer (11th, 1:17.29) and Ryker Huebner (12th, 1:29.33).

Bland’s David Skaggs won the boys 800m run in 2:19.61 followed by Vienna’s Bryce Ewers (2nd, 2:36.73), Vienna’s Paxten Jeremy (3rd, 2:38.75), Bland’s Peyton Valley (5th, 2:40.36), Bland’s Jackson Prater (7th, 2:44.36), Vienna’s Eli Messersmith (8th, 2:48.80), Vienna’s Pake Matson (9th, 2:50.29), Vienna’s Alex Wieberg (11th, 3:00.90), Vienna’s Tanner Hallahan (12th, 3:01.60), Bland’s Dakota Stockton (13th, 3:09.30) and Vienna’s Ben Murray (15th, 3:42.12).

Ewers claimed the boys 1600m run for Vienna with a winning time of 5:37.15.

He was followed by Maries County runners Jeremy (2nd, 5:38.21), Bland’s Coltin Hazelwood (3rd, 5:45.38), Prater (4th, 5:51.07), Eli Messersmith (6th, 5:55.56), Vienna’s Tyler Hallahan (7th, 6:16.31), Matson (8th, 6:29.27), Vienna’s Dalton Timm (9th, 6:40.65), Tanner Hallahan (10th, 6:47.01), Wieberg (11th, 6:49.92), Stockton (12th, 7:01.29) and Murray (13th, 7:18.56).

Rowden placed second for Vienna in the boys 100m hurdles with a time of 19.70.

Vienna’s boys won the 4x200m relay while placing second in 4x800m relay and third in the 4x100m and 4x400m relays.

Bland won the boys 4x400m and 4x800m relays while placing second in the boys 4x100m and 4x200m relays.

Russell added to his earlier wins on the track with a victory in the boys high jump clearing 1.67m.

Also in the top six of the boys high jump were LeStarge (2nd, 1.47m), Gage Curler (4th, 1.42m), Vienna’s Talan Reeves (6th, 1.37m) and Zabel (6th, 1.37m).

Gage Curler cleared 2.59m in the boys pole vault leading three Eagles in the top four.

Reeves won the boys triple jump for Vienna with a leap of 10.35m.

Vienna’s Jordan Hatfield led county throwers in the boys shot put with a second-place throw of 9.80m.

Also throwing for Maries County in the boys shot put were Bland’s Brayden Gibson (3rd, 9.60m), Gromowski (7th, 7.00m), Bland’s Jacob Penserum (9th, 6.61m), Bland’s Michael Spurgeon (10th, 6.14m), Vienna’s Raylan Templin (11th, 5.91m) Vienna’s Nolan Baker (12th, 5.35m) and Gorman (13th, 4.16m).

Hatfield also placed second in the boy discus for Vienna with a throw of 29.70m.