17-4A TRACK RESULTS | Nelson, Almanza huge for Kilgore; Alejandro, White for Henderson

Braydon Nelson won the boys shot put on day one of the District 17-4A Track & Field Championships at Spring Hill on Thursday. And on day two, he got the bookend.

Specifically, Nelson did what most who are in the know likely figured he would do: he won “his” event, the discus.

And he did it better than before.

Nelson won the district championship in discus with a best of 186 feet, 9 inches – three inches farther than he threw in the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin last week.

The Bulldogs came in second in the meet to Gilmer, and Kilgore’s girls sixth in their division. Henderson’s boys were sixth as a team, and the Lady Lions, seventh. But both KHS and Henderson still had plenty of great finishes.

And several of them will advance to the area round next week.

Kilgore varsity boys results

• Luciano Brizuela won the 800 meter run (2 minutes, 5.6 seconds); Zachery Gutierrez was third (2:07.21) and Samuel Warren, fourth (2:07.98).

On Wednesday, the first day of the meet, Brizuela finished second in the 3,200, or two-mile, run in the time of 10 minutes, 22.80 seconds, and Warren (11:22.20) was sixth.

Brizuela was also second in the 1,600, or mile, run (4:59.74) and Warren (5 minutes , .99 seconds) third; Jose Martinez was sixth (5:04.62).

• Nelson won the shot on day one (55 feet, 11 ½ inches), as reported last night on ETBlitz.com, and Cam Christian was fourth (48 feet, 2 inches).
• Jacory Walton was second in the high jump (six feet) and Jayden Sanders, third (5 feet, 10 inches).
• The team of Carsyn Bynum, Gutierrez, Sanders and Walton was third in the mile relay (3:33.23).
• Bynum, K’Winn Reese, Sage Orange and Takieran White was fifth in the 400 meter relay (43.40 seconds)
• In the 800 meter relay, Reese, Orange, White and La’Keyleon Graves were also fifth (1:34.15).
• Walton was fourth in the triple jump (42 feet, 10 ¾ inches).
• Bynum was fifth in the 100 meter dash (11.14 seconds) and Orange also was in the event (11.77).
• Rylan Chaney was fifth in the 300 meter hurdles (43.87 seconds) and Landin Schmidt also ran in the event (47.64 seconds).

Kilgore varsity girls

• Ruby Almanza was second in the 800 meter run (2 minutes, 32.34 seconds) and Litchenburg, sixth (2:39.47).
• Almanza was also second in the mile run (5:48.16)
• Kassidy Oliver was second in the girls discus (102 feet, 3 inches).
• Kilgore’s Maddison Harris was fourth in the girls shot put (33 feet, even).
• The mile relay team of Litchenburg, Giselle Webster, Elizabeth Walker and Aaliyah Williams finished third (4 minutes, 15.61 seconds).
• Tamia Hill was fourth in the 100 meter dash (13.15 seconds).
• Webster, Hill, Walker and Williams were fifth in the 400 meter relay (50.65 seconds).
• Webster was fifth in the 200 meter dash (26.81 seconds) and Hill was sixth (27.03).
• Williams was fifth in the 400 meter run (1:05.07) and teammate Mia Moore was also in the event (1:03).
• Kyra Spyhalski was fifth in the 300 meter hurdles (50.24) and Walker, also in the event, ran it in 51.04.

Henderson varsity boys

• Henderson’s Ty White finished second in the pole vault (11 feet, 6 inches).
• The Lions’ team of Trey Sanders, Cory Harper, Anthony Newman and Brailon Walker was fourth in the 400 meter relay.
• Lemarion Coleman, Sanders, Newman and Walker finished fourth in the 800 meter relay (1:32.72).
• And in the mile relay, Jamiron Hickman, Malachi Foreman, Newman and Tate were fifth (3:36).
• Walker was sixth in the long jump (21 feet, 1 ½ inches).
• Corey Harper was third for the Lions in the 100 meter dash (11.14 seconds) and teammate Kaleb Tate finished it in 11.85 seconds.
• Coleman was fifth in the triple jump (42 feet, 7 inches) and Walker, sixth (42 feet, 6 ½ inches).
• Foreman took fifth in the 400 meter run (53.91 seconds).
• Walker was sixth in the 200 meter dash (23.10) and Sanders ran it in 23.99.
• Walker was also sixth in the long jump (21 feet, 1 ½ inches).

Henderson varsity girls

• Gissele Alejandro won the mile run (5:32.53) and the two-mile (5:32.53).
• Makayla Sanders was third in the 100 meter hurdles (16.47 seconds).
• The team of Danita Gonzalez, Mariah Coleman, Marvalous Jacobs and Nolyn Norris – Norris fresh off winning a gold medal at the state powerlifting meet – finished fourth in the 400 meter relay (50.34 seconds).
• Hannah Nelson was fourth in the discus (97 feet, even).
• Gonzalez, Khloe Hall, Coleman and Norris were fifth in the 800 relay (1:47.23).
• Jacobs was fourth in the triple jump (35 feet, 3 ½ inches).