Madison Messenger - March 1st, 2020

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Open art studio on Tuesdays
Area residents are invited to join the
London Visual Arts Guild (LVAG) for open
studio 4-8 p.m. Tuesdays. Studio 7 is located
at 7 E. High St., London, and is free and
open to the public. Bring your own art project
to work on. Often, teachers are on hand
to help or just talk about art.
The guild’s 6th Annual Community
Show will take place at the new location.
Area residents are invited to exhibit in this
show. For more information, contact Sandy
Fox at 937-207-7400.
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Madison-Plains High School’s indoor track team: (front row, from left) Roger Doughman,
Ken Shafer, Amy Burchett, Joey Grigsby; (back row) Coach Andy Crawford, Evan Fisher,
Tylor Hoover and Titus Wilson. Not pictured: Paul Bryant and Jon Martin.
Best season finish ever
for indoor track team
Bryant sets school
records in high jump
and 200-meter dash
The Madison-Plains High School boys’
indoor track team had its most successful
end to a season ever, finishing as runner-up
in Division 2/3 at the Central District Indoor
Championships, held Feb. 23 at Capital
University in Bexley.
The Golden Eagles finished with 55
points, just behind champion Bishop Hartley
(61) and ahead of third-place Jonathan
Alder (53).
Since the program’s inception in 1995,
the team had never finished higher than
sixth place at the district meet, which traditionally
marks the culmination of the regular
season.
Junior Paul Bryant was the meet’s high
scorer, personally accounting for 27 points.
Bryant won both the high jump—with a new
school record of 6 feet 3 inches—and the
triple jump (38 feet 5.25 inches). He also finished
third in the 200-meter dash with a
time of 24.80 seconds, another school
record, and his 7.12 seconds in the 55-meter
dash was good enough for eighth place.
Jon Martin, another junior, added a
third-place finish in the triple jump (33 feet
11 inches) and finished fifth in the long
jump with a season-best leap of 17 feet 2.25
inches.
The Golden Eagles also placed two athletes
in the top three in the weight throw.
Sophomore Tylor Hoover added over six feet
to his career-best; his toss of 37 feet 3 inches
earned him second place. Senior Titus Wilson
finished third with his effort of 30 feet
5 inches.
Joey Grigsby completed the team’s scoring
with his fifth-place finish in the 800-
meter run with a time of 2 minutes 25.2
seconds. The senior’s race was significant
because of the meet’s time schedule and the
Golden Eagles’ small, eight-man lineup.
Grigsby was the only top-5 finisher who had
also run the 1600-meter just over 30 minutes
before.
Junior Ken Shafer (1600 meters and 800
meters), junior Evan Fisher (pole vault) and
sophomore Roger Doughman (long jump
and pole vault) also competed for Madison-
Plains, with Shafer and Doughman turning
in career-best efforts in the 1600 meters and
the long jump, respectively.
Freshman Amy Burchett scored the only
points for the Eagle girls, finishing seventh
in the 1600-meter run with a 6:22.30.
Burchett also competed in the 800, her
2:49.29 placing her 10th. Junior Rachel
Weis added a pair of ninth-place efforts in
the long jump and 55-meter dash, and
freshman Laura Sampson threw in the shot
put.
The Golden Eagles now await the final
individual event-by-event rankings, with
the top 24 performances in each invited to
attend the State Indoor Championships at
the SPIRE Institute at Geneva-on-the-Lake
on March 7.