Area athletes excel at state track meet

ALBANY— None of the area Class A teams earned top honors at the state track meet at Hugh Mills Stadium over the weekend, but there were a number of outstanding individual performances from Pelham, Terrell County, Mitchell County and Baconton Charter that earned medals on the awards stand.

Pelham’s Kenjanai Brown won the state title in the girls’ Class A shot put with a throw of more than 42 feet, five feet longer than her nearest competitor. Teammate Krystian Jones took third place in the same event for the Hornets.

In the boy’s Class A Shot Put, Pelham senior Malik Mango took third place after a foul on his final attempt. Kobil Ferguson from Lincoln County won the shot put with a throw of 50 feet and 7.75 inches — three feet further than Mango’s best. The Hornets also earned points in the shot put when Gary Ervin took eighth place for the Hornets.

Pelham’s Cameron Bailey ran the 800 meter race four seconds faster than he did in the preliminaries on Thursday and finished second behind Hancock Central’s Darius Battle by just over a second.

Pelham speedster Kentravious Mixon raced to a sixth-place finish in the 100 meter and a fifth-place finish in the 200 meter.

Two other Pelham athletes, Cynthia Stokes and Aleena Fuller, each earned a sixth place finish — Stokes in the pole vault and Fuller in the discus.

Mitchell County’s Jamie Lewis took second in the boys’ 100 meter and the 4×100 relay team of Lewis, Marcus Collier, Earl Waters, and Jadakiss Harvey also raced to a second place finish.

For the girls, Mitchell County’s Gabby White placed seventh in the long jump.

Terrell County’s Keiondre Davis finished second in the boys’ 400 meter, one second behind Macon County’s Daikyvius Phillips. The Greenwave also picked up points when Eshaun Harvey placed fourth in the 110 meter hurdles and sixth in the 300 meter hurdles. Greenwace teammate Demarion Latimore edged Harvey for fifth place. Latimore also jumped into fifth place in the high jump.

The 4×400 relay team of Davis, Latimore Harvey and Darion Davis raced to a third-place finish behind Turner County and Hancock Central,

For the Greenwave girls, Allycia Hill took third place in the discus throw, while Adrianna Huckaby earned points for the Greenwave by racing to a second-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles and eighth in the triple jump. Huckaby’s teammate Kniyah Watson took sixth place in the 300-meter hurdles.

Baconton Charter’s Darien Williams jumped to fourth place in the pole vault.

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