Seeing a lot of green Saturday during the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) Class 1, District 2 Track Meet at New Haven High School, David Martin’s Vienna High School track teams were also hunting for gold, silver and bronze medals.

Advancing to sectionals in 11 events next Saturday at Grandview High School in Hillsboro, Vienna’s Eagles topped 16 other scoring teams with 121.5 points to bring a district championship plaque back to Maries County.

Of those 11 events, the Eagles claimed five district titles.

Wasting no time starting the district championship gold rush, Vienna’s Eagle 4x800-meter relay team of Cooper Auten, Troy Wulff, Bryce Ewers and Hunter Schwartze posted a winning time of 8:54.29.

Auten was nowhere near done on his hunt for district gold.

He also won the boys 1600m run in a time of 4:55.36 while clearing 3.65m in the boys pole vault giving him three gold medals for the meet.

Thomas Douglas also competed with Auten for the Eagles in the boys 1600m run posting a 13th-place time of 6:14.92.

Greyson Summerford just missed joining Auten at sectionals this Saturday in Hillsboro at Grandview High School after clearing 2.00m in the boys pole vault to place fifth.

Adding to his leg of the boys 4x800m relay, Schwartze also won an individual district title in the boys 800m run posting a first-place time of 2:06.46. Ewers also placed sixth in the event in a time of 2:20.84.

Rounding out Vienna’s spree of district titles on the boys side was freshman Kevin Russell out leaping the field in the boys long jump with a winning mark of 6.33m.

Seeing their 4x800m relay counterparts win a district title, Vienna’s other three boys relay teams punched their tickets to sectionals with top-four finishes.

Placing fourth in the boys 4x200m relay with a time of 1:43.71 was the Eagle foursome of Mathew Hamill, Zeb Wiles, Talan Reeves and Ethan LeStarge.

Sprinting to a second-place time of 47.90 in the boys 4x100m relay for Vienna was the team of Hunter Schwartze, Russell, Wiles and LeStarge.

Ending the meet on the track with a second-place time of 3:44.57 in the boys 4x400m relay was the Eagle quartet of Hunter Schwartze, Auten, Wulff and Russell.

LeStarge also picked up Eagle team points with a sixth-place time of 12.14 in the boys 100m dash and a fifth-place time of 25.15 in the boys 200m dash.

Russell added eight team points with a second-place time of 52.21 in the boys 400m dash. Pake Matson also posted a 19th-place time of 1:02.79 for the Eagles in the event.

Wiles (7th, 19.06) and Jordan Hatfield (10th, 22.39) placed in the top 10 of the boys 110m hurdles for the Eagles.

Alex Zimmer punched his ticket to sectionals clearing 1.65m in the boys high jump finishing tied for fourth with Silex’s Ryder Hopkins.

Reeves (5th, 10.89m) and Waylon Lenning (8th, 10.59m) scored Eagle team points for Vienna in the boys triple jump.

Eli Crum threw his way to sectionals with a fourth-place mark of 35.01m in the boys discus. He also scored team points with a seventh-place throw of 11.59m in the boys shot put.

Tyler Hallahan picked up a pair of team points for Vienna with a seventh-place time of 13:11.47 in the boys 3200m run.

Lenning (5th, 40.18m) and Zimmer (8th, 36.71m) added team points for the black and gold in the boys javelin.

Placing third as a team with 74 points behind New Haven (144.5) and Silex (89), Vienna’s Lady Eagles advanced to sectionals with top-four finishes in eight events.

Vienna’s lone district title on the girls side came courtesy of senior Ava Kloeppel with a winning throw of 33.97m in the girls javelin.

Aubrey Schwartze will also join Kloeppel in Hillsboro with a fourth-place heave of 29.11m.

Opening the meet on the track, Vienna’s girls 4x800m relay team of Kaylee Bresnahan, Madison Weeks, Jaedyn Schell and Ava Smith punched their sectional ticket with a third-place time of 11:29.80.

Vienna’s three other Lady Eagle relay teams followed suit with third-place times in the 4x100m, 4x200m and 4x400m relays respectively.

Taking third in a time of 1:54.22 in the girls 4x200m relay for Vienna was the foursome of Lainey Magner, Weeks, Schell and Smith.

That same quartet also posted third-place times of 54.36 in the girls 4x100m relay and 4:36.89 in the girls 4x400m relay.

Bresnahan punched an individual ticket to sectionals clearing 2.45m in the girls pole vault good for second place.

Sierra Kilmer also picked up team points for Vienna in the event with a seventh-place clearing height of 1.55m.

Aubrey Schwartze (2nd, 10.94m) and Kloeppel (3rd, 10.29m) will also make up one quarter of the sectional field in the girls shot put.

Kloeppel will add a third throwing event in Hillsboro Saturday after placing fourth in the girls discus with a toss of 32.66m.

Brooke Campbell (12th, 1:26.08) and Kilmer (13th, 1:44.02) took a lap around the track for the Lady Eagles in the girls 400m dash.

Naomi Clark ended her sophomore season in VHS black and gold posting 12th-place times of 3:19.39 and 7:30.16 in the girls 800m and 1600m runs respectively.

Magner added three Lady Eagle team points via her sixth-place time of 18.49 in the girls 100m hurdles.

Bresnahan also contributed three more team points with her sixth-place time of 15:36.60 in the girls 3200m run.