Lady Royals 13th in KHSAA Class 2A state track and field meet

The Mason County Lady Royals finished in 13th place with 16 points in the KHSAA Class 2A state track and field meet at the University of Kentucky.

Rachel Payne was a triple medalist. She broke a 25-year old school record in the 300 meter hurdles with a fifth place finish in a time of 48.63. Payne was seventh in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 17.44, and she teamed with Abi Dawson, Olivia O'Hearn and Paige Decker in breaking its own school record in the 4x400 meter relay (4:14.18) and finishing fifth.

O'Hearn took fourth place in the pole vault and tied the school record by clearing 10 feet. 

Dawson, who set the school record in the pole vault on May 1, finished in eighth place, clearing nine feet.

Decker took eighth place in the 1600 meter run in a time of 5:33.10.

Complete results

Lady Royals 2nd at Area 7 Championships, two new school records

The Mason County Lady Royals track and field team finished second in the Area 7 Championships Friday night at Rowan County.

The Ashland Kittens won the event with 145 points, three and half points ahead of Mason County.

The Mason County Royals finished in seventh place.

Two Lady Royals set new school records: eighth grader Paige Decker in the 1600 meters (5:26.37) and Elizabeth Lavinder in the 3200 meters (12:17.56). Both finished second.

Decker won the 800 meter run (2:25.81).

Abi Dawson won the pole vault (9-09.00).

Dawson and Decker teamed with Rachel Payne and Olivia O'Hearn to win the 4x400 meter relay (4:20.60)

Here is a link to the complete results.

Abi Dawson is state runner-up in pole vault with a new school record

Mason County senior Abi Dawson is the state runner-up in the indoor pole vault. 

She broke her own school record for the third consecutive weekend by clearing 10-feet, 6-inches today at Kentucky Elite Athletics pole vault facility in Shelbyville.

Mason County senior Olivia O'Hearn took fourth place with a personal record of 9-feet, 6-inches. 

Mason County eighth graders Morgan Carpenter and Alexis Decker tied for seventh place. Another Mason County eighth grader, Layla Henderson, was eighth.

Carpenter, Decker and Henderson have only been vaulting since January.

The state meet for the pole vault was held today ahead of the rest of the indoor state meet which will take place Saturday at Mason County.

Lady Royals win meet, Dawson and King break records

The Mason County Lady Royals track and field team won the Mason County Indoor Meet # 3 and Mason County seniors Abi Dawson and Te'a King set new school records Saturday.

The Lady Royals racked up 90.5 points. Male and Loveland tied for second place with 69 points.

Dawson broke her own school record in the pole vault by clearing 10 feet. That also ties the Mason County boys' indoor record. Dawson won the event. Mason County senior Olivia O'Hearn finished second by tying her personal best of nine feet.

King won the 55 meter dash in a school record time of 7.34.

Louisville Central won the boys' meet. The Mason County Royals finished in 14th place.

There were 19 girls teams and 21 boys teams in the high school meets.

Abigail Dawson sets new school record in pole vault

Mason County senior Abigail Dawson set a new school record in the pole vault at 9-09.00 Saturday at the Mason County Indoor Meet #2.

Dawson and senior Olivia O'Hearn shared the old record at 9-00.00.

Dawson took first place Saturday and O'Hearn was second by matching the old record.

Rockcastle County swept the girls' and boys' team titles.

Here are links to the complete results:

High School Girls

High School Boys

Team Scores

Five new Mason County indoor track and field records

Mason County athletes set five new school records at the University of Kentucky Wildcat Classic indoor track and field meet Saturday.

"The girls team had what I believe is the most productive single day individual performance in program history," Mason County coach Mark Kachler wrote in an email.

Here is a list of the record setters and the new school records:

Te'a King, 60 meter dash, 8.41
Abigail Dawson, 400 meters, 1:04.44
Paige Decker, one mile run, 5:43.86
Paige Decker, 800 meters 2:32.28
Emily Huber, shot put, 30-9.75

It was Huber's first-ever track meet.

Alyssa Bisotti also beat the old school record for the one mile run with a time of 5.49.74.

Dawson and Olivia O'Hearn both tied their indoor meet record of 9-00.00 in the pole vault.

Lady Royals, Royals, Faris and Linville winners at Ripley XC Invitational

The Mason County girls and boys cross country teams swept the team titles and Mason County freshman Hayden Faris and Mason County sophomore Connor Linville won the individual races Saturday at the Ripley Invitational.

The Lady Royals won by 21 points over Georgetown, and the Royals bested Felicity by 18 points.

Faris won the girls' race in a time of 21:52.00. 

Mason County junior Olivia O'Hearn took ninth place (23:46.00)

Connor Linville was the boys' winner with of a time of 17:33.00. 

Another Mason County sophomore- Isaiah Riggs- finished second (17:54.00)

Mason County freshman Carson Adams had a ninth place finish (18:40.00).

Lady Royals 3rd, Royals 7th in Mason County meet

The Mason County Lady Royals took third place and the Royals finished in seventh place in the second meet of the season at the Carmeuse/Mason County Schools Indoor Athletic Complex Saturday.

Rockcastle County won the girls' meet for the second straight week while Covington Catholic won the boys' meet.

First place finishes by Mason County athletes include:

• Dalton Kindt in the shot put (41-2.00)
• Rheagan Sizemore in the pole vault (8-06.00)
• The girls' 4x400 meter relay team of Abigail Dawson, Hadley Faris, Olivia O'Hearn and Rheagan Sizmore (4:37.93)