By TODD MOORE
Barton Sports Info
The 10th ranked Barton Community College men's track and field team won a trio of events over the weekend in placing fourth overall at the KJCCC/Region 6 Indoor Championships.
The Cougars compiled 77 points, twelve shy of hardware as thirty points came from the three gold medal performances within their eleven top eight placings over two days at Pittsburg State University's Robert W. Plaster Center, twelve shy of hardware. Hutchinson won the title with 109 points bettering Coffeyville's 93 and Butler's 89 points.
Barton concludes the indoor season in a couple of weeks competing at the 2025 NJCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships held March 7-8 at Texas Tech University's Sports Performance Center in Lubbock, Texas.
Barton track and field Trevon Hamer accepting his Male Field Athlete of the Meet award from Commissioner Mike Saddler at the 2025 KJCCC/Region 6 Indoor Championships. Photo by Ed Bailey PhotographyFor the second consecutive region indoor championships, Trevon Hamer was named the Field Athlete of the Meet in scoring 18 points including a record breaking performance on Sunday. A day prior, Hamer was locked in a long jump battle and despite soaring well past 22-feet in five of his six jumps, had to settle for second place for the second straight year, this time just 1.25 inches out of gold on a mark of 7.59m (24-10.75).
On Sunday, Hamer led the triple jump throughout, bettering his first round mark on a second attempt 16.25m (53-3.75) to tie the Plaster Center facility best and break the meet record set by former Olympian and NJCAA Track Hall of Famer Melvin Lister. The nation's top mark would also move the two-time region champion up a spot to 5th best in program history.
In addition to Hamer's title, Simeon Adams' helped compile the Cougars' other pair of golds including capping Barton's 400m sweep by following the Lady Cougars' Keliza Smith's record breaking performance by clocking a personal best 47.57 to better the men's 34-man field.
Earlier in the day, Adams got the already nationally qualified 4x800m relay squad off to a good start passing the baton through the line of Jasiah Clapp, Keandro Gordon, and Gabriel Carty for an event winning 7:52.69 time.
Three hours later Adams was back on the track anchoring the 4x400m relay squad of Devonric Mack, Joshua Mascall, and Wanyae Belle to their heat's fastest time to place 3rd overall with a national qualifying time of 3:13.30.