NELSON IN TEXAS RELAYS TODAY | KHS boys, JV boys win Walter Derrick Relays; girls shine, too

Kilgore senior Braydon Nelson is headed to the big stage.

Nelson will compete at the Texas Relays at the University of Texas in Austin on Friday, taking part in the discus competition around 4:15 p.m., KHS track coach T.J. Gillen-Hall told ETBlitz.com on Thursday.

Nelson’s performance at UT – just a couple of seasons after former teammate Matthew Tyeskie, now at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, won gold in hurdles there.

But before Nelson took off to Austin, he and the Bulldogs’ track team did a little business in Gladewater. Kilgore’s varsity boys and junior varsity boys both won team titles at the Gladewater High-hosted Walter Derrick Relays on Thursday, the last meet before Kilgore will travel to Spring Hill in Longview for their most important one of the year.

Spring Hill is the site of this year’s District 17-4A Meet, and performances there decide who continues their season. Kilgore almost always sends competitors to the UIL State Track & Field Championships in Austin – back at UT – and who knows? This year might be no exception.

On Thursday, the ‘Dogs had a lot of top finishes.

In the mile relay (4X400), for example, Kilgore took first, the team of Carsyn Bynum, Jacory Walton, Zachery Gutierrez and Rylan Chaney, running the event in 3 minutes, 3.34 seconds, 20 points for Kilgore.

The Bulldogs got another win when Nelson took first in the discus with a best of 180 feet, even.

In other results from the varsity boys division:

• Chaney was second in the 300 meter hurdles (42.33 seconds) and ran the 110 hurdles in 17.03 seconds.
• Jacory Walton was second in the high jump (six feet). Mikel Dennis was fourth (5 feet, 8 inches).
• Gutierrez took third (2 minutes, 4.95 seconds) in the 800 meter run, and teammate Samuel Warren was fifth (2:07.76).
• Bynum took third (10.96 seconds) and Sage Orange, fourth (11.08) in the 100 meter dash; Takieran White ran it in 11.28 seconds.
• And White took third in the 200 meter dash (22.78 seconds).
• Jamarian Duncan was fifth (55.39 seconds) in the 400 meter run.
• Luciano Brizuela was third in the 1,600 meter (or mile) run, and fourth in the 3,200 meter, or two-mile run (10 minutes, 39.90 seconds). Jose Martinez of KHS was sixth in the two-mile (11:01.05).
• The 400 meter relay of Bynum, Walton, Orange and White were fourth (43.32 seconds).
• Bynum was fourth in the long jump (20 feet, 4 inches).
• Cameron Christian (47 feet, 7 ½ inches) was third in the shot put; teammates Wylie Mitchell (45 feet, 1 ½ inches) and Rashaud Brown (43 feet, ½ inch) were fifth and sixth, respectively.
• BiSyn Williams and Aubrey Saylor joined Nelson in the discus. Saylor was fifth (131 feet, 3 inches) and Williams, sixth (123 feet, 9 inches).

Kilgore’s varsity girls finished fourth as a team in Gladewater on Thursday. Some notable performances:

• Giselle Webster won the 200 meter dash (26.40 seconds). Teammate Mia Moore ran it in 28.45 seconds and Sage Scudday in 29.32 seconds.
• Kassidy Oliver won the discus, with a best of 96 feet, 3 inches. Hayden Colgrove threw a best of 82 feet, 1 ½ inches.
• Elizabeth Walker won the 300 meter hurdles (47.56 seconds). Kyra Spyhalski finished fifth (50.09) and Sheba Meyer ran them in 53.37 seconds.
• Tamia Hill was second in the 100 meter dash (12.81 seconds) and Scudday finished them in 13.95 seconds.
• Williams was sixth in the 400 meter run (1 minute, 4.31 seconds), and Kylee Hunter finished it in 1:12.69.
• Cheyenne Jones was third (31 feet, 4 ½ inches) and Meyer, fourth (31 feet, 3 inches) in the triple jump.
• The team of Aaliyah Williams, Meyer, Tamia Hill and Webster finished third in the 400 meter relay (50.94 seconds).
• The 800 meter relay team finished third, as well (1 minute, 53.89 seconds), an incomplete list of team members on the results, however.
• Walker, Williams, Elle Litchenburg, and Webster finished fourth in the mile relay: 4 minutes, 20 seconds.
• Walker was sixth in the high jump (4 feet, 8 inches).
• She was fourth in the 100 meter hurdles (17.94 seconds), and Meyer ran them in 19.56 seconds.

And in JV boys, here are the results:

• LaKeyleon Graves won the 200 meter dash (23 seconds, flat) and Isaiah Watters finished second (23.69 seconds), Dre Sanders, fifth (24.31).
• Landin Schmidt won the 110 meter hurdles (17.16 seconds) and won the 300 meter hurdles (44.78 seconds).
• The 800 meter relay team of Travis Holmes, Isaiah Watters, Graves and Rayshaun Williams won that event (1:34.46).
• The mile relay team of Graves, Dylan Mitchell, Isaac Jamaica and Dre Sanders finished second (3:52).
• The 400 meter relay team of Holmes, Jeremiah Freeman, Javon Towns and Williams was third (45.21).
• Donovan Rider won the high jump (5 feet, 6 inches(, with Towns finishing fourth (5 feet) and Mitchell, fifth (5 feet as well).
• Jeremiah Freeman was second in the 100 meter dash (11.15 seconds). Holmes was sixth (11.52) and Javon Towns ran them in 11.57 seconds.
• David Fierros was second in the 800 meter run (2:17.22) and Carson Palmer, third (2:18.84).
• Holmes was fourth in the triple jump (36 feet, 7 ½ inches).
• Mitchell finished sixth in the 400 meter run (58.57), with Isaac Jamaica (58.70) and Kemuel Odinyo (1:00.90) also running in that event.
• Fierros was sixth in the mile run (5:28).
• Zerek Hall was fifth (37 feet, 5 inches) and Collin Burrows, sixth (37 feet, 3 ½ inches) in the shot put.
• Freeman jumped 15 feet, 4 inches in the long jump; Rider, 16 feet, even.