STATE TRACK UPDATE 2 | Gladewater’s Sheffield wins gold in triple jump; Sabine’s Black takes silver in discus; more results from Austin
Here’s our second update of the day from the University Interscholastic League (UIL) State Track & Field Championships, the state high school track meet.
Earlier today, we broke the news that White Oak’s Kyler Priest had won gold in the Class 3A boys pole vault, and that Lucas Cano had won, as expected, the Class 4A boys shot put.
We have another state champion: Gladewater’s Kingston Sheffield went nuts, a best of 49 feet, 2 ¾ inches in the boys 3A triple jump, taking the gold!
Second place went to Briggs Jones of Wall (48 feet, 2 ¾ inches), and third went to Ralph Miller of Scurry-Rosser (46 feet, 8 ¼ inches). Arp’s Demarcus Wade finished fifth (45 feet, 6 ½ inches).
There’s a silver medalist in the area, too: Sabine’s Sam Black, who competed twice today. Black finished second – by just one inch – in the 3A boys discus, a best of 180 feet, 10 inches. Ty Domel of East Bernard bested Black by just the inch, 180 feet, 11 inches, or Black would be holding a gold. Sweetwater’s Hassani Myers was third (169 feet, 7 inches), and Troup’s A.J. Dewberry was sixth (155 feet, 11 inches).
Congratulations to Sam for bringing home the silver!
Athletes from all over the state – many from programs in the ETBlitz.com coverage area – in 4A and 3A are continuing the meet throughout the day. It’ll resume on Friday with athletes in Class 2A, the wheelchair division and Class 5A, and on Saturday, the state meet concludes with Classes 1A and 6A.
Again, here’s our complete list of events and times for the athletes from the schools in our coverage area: includes all of their events and the times that they compete: STATE TRACK MEET STARTS TODAY | 3A & 4A events today, 2A tomorrow; here’s a complete schedule in time order of when locals compete. Several of them have now already competed.
The meet is at Mike A. Myers Stadium on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin. Watch it streaming live online here (Live Stream UIL Sports | NFHS Network), although there is a subscription fee.
There will be at least one more update today on ETBlitz.com, as running finals are all about to begin.
Since our last update, some other results:
- Tatum High School’s Cayden Tatum finished tied for eighth in the 3A boys high jump (6 feet, 2 inches), with Terrize Mills of Ponder. Franklin’s Wade Stallones won the event (6 feet, 8 inches). Blas Villarreal of Banquete was second (6 feet, 7 inches), and Vernon’s Tevan Evans was third (6 feet, 6 inches).
- West Rusk’s Gabby Coleman was ninth in the 3A girls shot put. Coleman threw for 32 feet, 6 ¼ inches. Taylor Wiseman of Childress won first (47 feet, 2 inches), Rayaa Brown of Hooks was second (42 feet, 4 inches), and Woodville’s Kristen Betts was third (41 feet, 1 ½ inches).
- Black finished fourth in the 3A boys shot put. He had a best of 56 feet, 9 inches. Aiden Reed of Poth won it (59 feet, 7 ¾ inches), and Domel was second (58 feet, 2 ¼ inches), and Robert Myers of Altair Rice was third (57 feet, ¾ inches).
Here are results from earlier today:
- Priest won the 3A boys pole vault, with a best of 16 feet, 6 inches! His teammate with the Roughnecks, Trevor Sizemore, finished fifth (14 feet, even). Nicholas Estrada of Idalou was second (14 feet, 9 inches) and Eli Garcia of Dalhart was third (14 feet, 9 inches). Congratulations, Kyler!
- Cano, who came into the 4A boys shot put and the 4A boys discus as the state favorite in both, has completed half his mission: gold in the shot. He’ll be back later today for discus. Cano had a best of 60 feet, 2 ¼ inches – and that wasn’t even his personal-best! But it was good enough to win state. Shawn Burdick of Corpus Christi Tuloso Midway was second (58 feet, 10 inches) and Ingleside’s Nathan Edlin was third (58 feet, 8 inches). Congratulations, Lucas! Kilgore’s Cameron Christian checked in with a best of 47 feet, 11 ¾ inches, in ninth.
- In the 3A girls long jump, Gladewater’s Peyton Hunter finished eighth, a best of 17 feet, ¼ inches. Universal City Randolph’s Taylor Nunez, who had the best jump of all the qualifiers in the event coming into the state meet, did go ahead and win it, a best on Thursday in Austin of 20 feet, 9 ½ inches. New Diana’s Starrmia Dixon was second (19 feet, 4 ¾ inches) and Mary Johnson, of El Maton Tidehaven, was third (19 feet, 3 ¼ inches).
- Tatum’s Luke Sigler had a top-five finish in the boys 3A long jump. Sigler’s best was 21 feet, 9 ½ inches. Mason Biehle of Lexington topped out at 24 feet, 1 ¼ inches, winning the event. Briggs Jones of Wall was second (23 feet, 7 ½ inches) and Blas Villarreal of Banquete was third (23 feet, 2 ¼ inches).
- Adelaide Murphy of West Rusk finished sixth in the 3A girls 3,200 meter, or two-mile, run. Murphy’s run was 11 minutes, 43.58 seconds. The winner: Aubrey Milam of UC-Randolph, in 10 minutes, 46.70 seconds. Konnar KcClendon of Canadian was second (11:02.68) and Brynleigh McFarlin of Keene was third (11 minutes, 11.08 seconds).