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STATE TRACK & FIELD MEET COMPLETED; One state champ
From Skip Weaver
The 101st boys and 34th girls annual state track and field meet has just completed.
The girls team champion was Cleveland Heights Beaumont with 62 points. The boys champion was Cleveland Heights with 44 points, just nipping LaSalle which had 41.
The Middletown girls finished 11th with 14 points.
Senior Dierra Riley placed fifth in the 100-meter dash in 12.32 seconds, as did the 400 relay team of Latia McKellar, Ayeshia Kimbrough, Chaniqua Corinealdi and Riley (48.33 seconds). The girls 800 relay team was sixth in 1:41.58.
The biggest news from our general area is that Mason freshman Zach Wills became the first boy in school history to win a state track championship. He won the 3,200 run in 9:15.34.
Word aroud Jesse owens Memorial Stadium was that he was the first freshman ever to win the two-mile race at state, but that is unconfirmed.
We mentioned Middie sophomore Fabia McDonald’s sixth-place finish in the high jump and Mason senior Lindsey Ossim’s fourth-place finish in the discus earlier.
Other area placers in Division I were:
Lebanon’s Bekah Bonny, fifth in the 100 hurdles (14.74)
Lakota West’s 800 relay team of Rashod McClendon, Bakari Bussey, D.J. Brown and Dwight Phillips in fourth place (1:27.51)
Springboro’s Carly Hamilton, second in the 1,600 run (4:57.2)
Lakota West’s 400 relay team (same foursome as 800) in fifth place (42.32)
Lebanon’s 400 relay team of Joe MacCutcheon, Trey Bonny, Logan Norris and Chase Cochran in eighth place (42.48)
Mason’s Rachel Harley, sixth in the 300 hurdles (44.73)
Mason’s girls 1,600 relay team of Chelsea Vanhook, Molly Culbertson, Harley and Rachel Weber in seventh place with the school’s second-fastest time ever (3:55.28)
Well, it’s time to get busy writing stories for the Sunday editions, so have a great summer everybody! See you in football season!
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