Capital City High School earned three event titles and the only meet record of the day. The quartet of Colin Voss, Sincere Davis, Brock Schofield, and Keion Grieve won the 4x800 with a Missouri #1 and US #27 fastest time on the season, a 7:56.45 clocking. Grieve, the junior and reigning Class 5 champ who ran 1:51.26 to take 3rd at the 2022 AAU Jr. Olympic Games age 17-18 800m final, anchored the Cavs from a couple of seconds lead to a nearly a full 8-second final margin with a 1:53.5 leg. The final time bested West Plains meet record of 7:56.95 (hand-timed) from 2003.
Capital City's Sincere Davis, Keion Grieve, Brock Schofield, and Colin Voss (left to right).
The race produced the state's top-3 performances of the season after the weekend. Waynesville finished 2nd in 8:04.31 while hometown Kickapoo was 3rd in 8:08.30, which was bumped to 3rd on the state performance list after Festus' 8:08.23 Tuesday night.
Grieve added a runner-up finish in the 400 in 50.19 behind the state's 2nd fastest returner from 2022, Blue Springs' Keith Griffin, who won in 49.68. Grieve and Capital City also were second in the 4x400 in 3:29.65.
Capital City got its other two wins from senior throws standout Sam Albert. Albert earned All-America honors with his 6th-place shot put finish at the New Balance Nationals Indoor meet last month with a personal record (PR) of 18.68-meters/61-3.5'' with the indoor implement.
In Springfield, Albert waited most of the day to get his chance to compete on the gorgeous new throws field. When he finally did, he captured the discus and the shot titles. He finished with a new discus PR of 50.21 meters/164-8''. The mark moved Albert to 9th on the Missouri performance list after the weekend and 10th after Tuesday.
In the shot, Albert had a best toss of 18.10m/59-04'', to win by nearly seven feet. Albert's dad Steve Albert competed at Jefferson City High School and eventually became a top-10-ranked U.S. shot putter for multiple years.
