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Rockets medal at meet

Slippery Rock High School's Angela Shaffer's effort of five feet gave her first place in the high jump Saturday at the Center Invitational.

The Rockets' best effort on the boys' side was Paul McConnell's second place finish in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 41.91 seconds.

Boys3200-meter relay: 3-Slippery Rock (Nathan King, Dan Hartzell, Owen Bowser, Nathan Eilenfeldt) 8:41;

300-meter hurdles: 2-Paul McConnell 41.91

Shot put: 6-Dan Dillman 44-5;

Discus: 4-Doug Orloski 126-0; 6-Dan Dillman 124-0

Javelin: 4-Doug Orloski 147-6

Girls400-meter dash: 2-Elissa McCune 1:02.4;

300-meter hurdles: 4-Samantha Amyx 51.01;

200-meter dash: 4-Elissa McCune 27.76;

3,200-meter run: 6-Brittany Lyons 12:16;

1,600-meter relay: 4-Slippery Rock (Samantha Amyx, Chelsea Stanley, Shanea Raabe, Elissa McCune) 4:26.5

High jump: 1-Angela Shaffer 5-0;

Javelin: 3-Mel Prelec 106-5n Moniteau's Amy Gladd brought home three first-place finishes from the Union (New Castle) Invitational on Friday.She won the 1,600 run (5:42), the 800 run (2:33) and the triple jump (30-11¾).Amanda Gladd won the 100 hurdles at 16.3 seconds.Kendra Hall, who placed second in both the shot put and discus at the Union Invite, turned around and duplicated that performance at the Brookville Invitational on Saturday.

GirlsUnion (New Castle) Invitational100-meter hurdles: 1-Amanda Gladd 16.3; 5-Kathleen Harding 18.1;

1,600-meter run: 1-Amy Gladd 5:42;

400 meter relay: 4-Moniteau (Jenna McCorry, Samantha Kristufek, Nikki Stiner, Kathleen Harding) 56.5;

300-meter hurdles: 2-Amanda Gladd 52.0;

800-meter run: 1-Amy Gladd 2:33;

1,600-meter relay: 5-Moniteau (Kathleen Harding, Mimi Haney, Jenna McCorry, Amy Gladd) 4:47

Long jump: 4-Samantha Kristufek 14-1¾;

Triple jump: 1-Amy Gladd 30-11¾;

Shot put: 2-Kendra Hall 34-4½;

Discus: 2-Kendra Hall 100-0

Brookville InvitationalShot put: 2-Kendra Hall 34-4½;

Discus: 2-Kendra Hall 100-0

Cody Moffatt managed 31 aces, Walter Santa had 15 kills and Bill Roberts 12 kills as the Butler boys volleyball team went 7-1 in the Hempfield Tournament on Saturday. The Tornado finished third out of 14 teams.Butler's junior varsity team finished first in an eight-team field.

Martina Burk's fourth-inning single was Moniteau's lone hit, as the Warriors (3-3) dropped a 1-0 final to Fern Creek (Md.) in Florida on Friday.The game was Moniteau's third in three days in the Sunshine State. The Warriors also suffered losses to Central (Ky.) 6-1 and Reynoldsburg (Oh.) 9-1.Burk started all three games inside the circle and tallied a combined 21 strikeouts and seven walks.<B>Fern Creek 100 000 0—1 4 0Moniteau 000 000 0—0 1 5WP:</B> Sheffler (7 IP) 8 strikeouts, 1 walk. <B>LP:</B> Martina Burk (7 IP) 7 strikeouts, 1 walk<B>Moniteau (3-3):</B> Martina Burk 1B<B>Today:</B> Moniteau @ Redbank Valley

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