AREA TRACK RESULTS | LC, Overton athletes moving on to regionals; area 3A, 4A meets ongoing today
Two track meets involving high school programs in the ETBlitz.com coverage area were Wednesday, and two more are today – athletes from 12 different high school track teams attempting to qualify for their respective regional meets.
Both Overton High School and Leverett’s Chapel were at area meets on Wednesday: Overton was at the 2A area meet in Hawkins, and LC at the 1A area meet at Miller Grove.
Finishers in the top four in each event move on to regionals. For LC, that will be Friday and Saturday, April 18-19 (next weekend) at the 1A-Region III meet at Waco Midway.
For Overton, the 2A-Region III meet will be those same days at Palestine High School’s Wildcat Stadium.
The ultimate goal, of course, is to advance out of regionals and to the UIL State Track & Field Championships, the state meet, at Mike A. Myers Stadium at the University of Texas in Austin on May 1-3.
On Thursday, the remainder of the programs that ETBlitz.com covers will be at area meets. Athletes from Gilmer, Henderson and Kilgore will compete at Lindale today, planning for a top-four finish to send them on to Commerce next weekend for the Class 4A-Region II meet.
And also today, the area meet in Eustace involves ETBlitz-area programs Arp, Gladewater, Sabine, Tatum, Troup, West Rusk and White Oak. Regionals for them are next weekend at Whitehouse, the 3A-Region II meet.
We hope to have area results as soon as possible from the meets in Lindale and from Eustace.
Who qualified for regionals on Wednesday, from LC and from Overton? Here they are. For LC, we don’t have exact results at this moment, only qualifiers. We’re efforting to get numbers.
LEVERETT’S CHAPEL
For Leverett’s Chapel’s girls, regional qualifiers are:
100 meter hurdles: Lacie Hayes (third at area on Wednesday).
High jump: Lacie Hayes (fourth at area).
1600 (mile) relay: Alyvia Page, Brynleigh Seymore, Layla Neumeister and Maria Contreras).
LC boys qualifying for regionals:
100 meter dash: Jaggar Ward (second at area), Trent Wheat (fourth at area).
200 meter dash: Jaggar Ward (second at area).
Long jump: Jaggar Ward (third at area).
Shot put: Trent Wheat
OVERTON
Overton’s boys who qualified for the regional meet in Palestine:
200 meter dash: Jayden Edwards qualified with a second-place finish, in 22.99 seconds – Mount Enterprise’s Kaegan Ash, the big fullback that gave Overton such a tussle in the Mustangs’ eventual overtime win over the Wildcats, was the only one faster than Edwards. And Ash was, barely: 22.56 seconds.
1600 meter run, 3200 meter run: Vincent (Vini) Herron qualified for regionals for the Mustangs in the two long-distance runs, the mile (1600) and two-mile (3200), winning the mile run in 5 minutes, 1.14 seconds, and winning the two-mile, as well, in 10 minutes, 30 seconds. The next-best finisher in the two-mile was Harleton’s Braedon Glennen Lovvorn, and he was 15 seconds back.
400 meter relay, 800 meter relay: Two of Overton’s three relay teams at the area meet did well enough to move on to regionals. The 800 meter relay team of Kash Holleman, Edwards, Jackson Furlow and Bryson Bobbitt, took second place in 1 minute, 32.02 seconds; the 400 meter was fourth in 45 seconds, flat. That team was Rylan Holleman, Jacob Osburn, Justin Weir and Furlow.
High jump: Christian Hall is headed to regionals as the area champ in this event; Hall won it with a best of 6 feet, 4 inches.
Long jump: It’s Edwards again, this time in the long jump, with a qualifying best of 20 feet, 9 ¼ inches, fourth place at area but headed to regionals.
Shot put: Hey, it’s Elijah Dorsey going to regionals for Overton. Dorsey was fourth at area with a best throw for him of 42 feet, 4 inches.
Doing well but missing out on regionals were Kash Holleman, fifth in the 110 meter hurdles (17.17 seconds); Hall, also in the 110’s (17.58 seconds, seventh); Holleman (43.78 seconds, sixth), Weir (44.35 seconds, seventh) and Furlow (45.08 seconds, eighth) in the 300 hurdles; the boys mile relay team (3 minutes, 45.57 seconds, a fifth-place finish by less than five seconds); Osburn, in the high jump (eighth with 5 feet, 4 inches); Edwards in the triple jump (41 feet, 2 ½ inches; fifth by 2 ½ inches); Still (9 feet, 6 inches, fifth) and Kash Holleman (9 feet, even, sixth) in the pole vault); Furlow (107 feet, 11 inches, fifth) and Klima (105 feet, 2 inches, sixth) in the discus; and Eathen Oates in the shot put (37 feet, 9 inches, eighth).
Overton’s girls who qualified for the regional meet in Palestine:
Triple jump: Kaylee Stevens qualified for this event at regionals, finishing third at area with a best of 33 feet, 4 ¼ inches.
Performances that were good, but missed out on making regionals for the Lady Mustangs: Stevens, in the 100 meter hurdles (ninth in 19.23 seconds); Stevens in the 300 meter hurdles (sixth, in 53.04 seconds); the 800 meter relay team (seventh, in 1 minute, 59.65 seconds); Stevens, in the long jump (seventh, in 15 feet, even); Siann Levoy (seventh in the pole vault at 5 feet, 6 inches); Ashby Croswell (93 feet, 1 inch, fifth) and Makayla Edwards (90 feet, 4 inches, seventh) in the discus; and Croswell (28 feet, ¼ inch), seventh in the shot put.