Terrell County Greenwave sweeps region track titles

ALBANY — The Terrell County Greenwave track teams swept the Region 1-A championships Monday at Hugh Mills Stadium in Albany with the girls taking a huge win over second place Baconton and the boys edging out second place Pelham. The Greenwave girls racked up 132 points over the second place Blazers with 84 and the boys picked up 152 points over Pelham’s 144.

Adriana Huckaby led the Greenwave girls by winning the region championship in the 400 meter run, the triple jump and as part of the 4×400 relay team that took first place. She finished second in the region in the 100 meter and 300 meter hurdles behind Terrell County teammate Kniyah Watson, giving the Greenwave a 1-2 finish in both events.

Terrell County’s Allycia Hill also won the region championship in the discus throw, winning with a throw of 110 feet, 4 inches — more than 11 feet longer than second place finisher Aleens Fuller of Pelham.

While Mitchell County’s Kanijah Gardner won the girl’s high jump, Terrell County earned the most points in the high jump when Queen Khairiya Watson took second place and teammate Ny’Asya Wiggins finished third.

Baconton Charter’s Tabitha Boyer won the region title in the 1,600 meter run and finished second in the 3,200 meter run. Pelham’s Cynthia Stokes finished second in the 1600 meter run behind Boyer, then edged Boyer for the win in the 3200 meter run.

The Blazers also claimed region championships in the girl’s pole vault and the long jump. Gracie Coker won the pole vault — beating Cynthia Stokes of Pelham who finished second. Lenzie Vickers claimed the top spot in the long jump for Baconton Charter, jumping one inch further than Gabby White of Mitchell County. Terrell’s Kniyah Watson finished third.

Miller County’s Jazlin Bush took the title as the fastest woman on the track, sweeping the 100 and 200 dashes. Curnesha Davis of Mitchell County took second place in the 100 and Bush’s teammate Jale George of Miller County took second in the 200.

Miller County also claimed the region title in the 800 meter run as LaCorsica Johnson edged out Pelham’s Diana Carter. The Pirates also took first in the 4×100 relay.

Pelham took region titles by Stokes in the 3,200 and then Pelham got a 1-2 finish in the shot put. Krystian Jones won the title over teammate Kenjanai Brown.

The Terrell County boys won the region by taking first place in eight different events and having four of those events with the top two finishers. In the 400 meter race, Demarion Latimore took first place, a half second faster than teammate Keiondre Davis. In the 300 meter hurdles, Latimore crossed the finish line one second ahead of teammate Eshaun Harvey. In the 110 meter hurdles, Harvey beat teammate Nehemiah Shanks by a half second. The triple jump was the other event where Greenwave teammates finished first and second. Daron Davis jumped to first place, 6 inches farther than Keiondre.

The other region winners for the Greenwave were Trimyrn Williams in the 3,200, the 4×400 relay team, Demarion Latimore again in the high jump and Malcolm Hand in the long jump.

Jamie Lewis of Mitchell County took top honors in the 100 meter dash, seven hundreths of a second faster than Baconton Charter’s Marquez Freeman. Mitchell County’s Jadakiss Harvey won the 200 meter dash, edging Pelham’s Kentravious Mixon by five hundreths of a second. Mitchell County’s speedsters, Lewis, Harvey, Marcus Collier and Earl Waters also took the top spot in the 4×100 relay running the race one second faster than Pelham’s quartet of Mixon, Cameron Bailey, Kendrick Patterson and Jeremiah Stewart.

In the 1600 meter run, Chattahoochee County’s Larry Scott crossed the line first, beating Pelham’s Ladis Ross and Pataula Charter’s Byron Thornton.

Baconton Charter pole vaulter Darien Williams won the region title ahead of Chattahoochee County’s Trevor Erickson. Baconton’s AJ Finney finished third.

Pelham earned region championships in the shot put and discus with senior Malik Mango in first. Calhoun County’s Edwin Wims finished second in the discus with Pelham’s Gary Ervin earning points in third place. David Williams of Baconton took second in the shot put and Dequarius Gilbert of Mitchell County took third place.

By Joe Whitfield