What may have made a difference for the Lady Eagles was the event listed as No. 1, the 400-meter relay. After posting the best time among 16 participants in the preliminaries, the Northside ‘A’ team was disqualified in the finals.
In the field events, Mekhaela Witherspoon and Sunshine Walton were first and third respectively in both the discus throw and shot put. To win, Witherspoon threw the discus more than 96 feet and pushed the large iron ball 32 feet and 2.5 inches.
In other 2-AAAAA girls track and field highlights, Lakeside-Evans distance runner Sarah Bowles defeated her cross country rival, Houston County High’s Megan Asadian, in both the one-mile and two-mile runs. She beat Asadian by seven seconds in the 1,600-meter event.
Warner Robins High’s Asha Stegall, a 2012 state champion in track as a junior, won the region 400-meters against Williams 56.35 to 59.92. Houston County High’s Kiaira Jackson gave her school a championship performance in the triple jump (35-8) while taking second in the long jump (Hall placed third).
Hunt was also runner-up in the triple jump to Warner Robins High’s Rod Harris (44 feet). Other state champions from the Demons program are Michael Calloway in the high jump (6-4) and Brian Cornish in the shot put (46 feet and ½ inch).
The most dominant showing came from Northside’s Adajour Banks, who threw a discus 139 feet. The next closest was a fellow Eagle, Anfernee Chatfield, at just under 126 feet.
Hunt joined Jarius Smith, Toney Martin and Jarrick Pugh for second in the mile relay.
Houston County High’s Myles White gave Hunt a push in the 110 hurdles, coming in second at 15.11 seconds.
In the 2-AAAA meet staged in Milledgeville, Rutland High of Macon won both boys and girls team championships. The Lady Warhawks from Veterans High had the best local team showing with 89.5 points for second place.
Perry High, though, had three championships from two athletes. Abby Booth, the distance running specialist, won the 800 meters at 2:29.19 by four seconds and the mile run at 5:37.17 over Veterans’ Bethanie Bailey and Josi Giovinazzo.
Lady Panther shot putter Lachelle Jordan won her event by four inches (32-5).
Lady Warhawk Sierra Rice is the champion of the discus throw (91-1). Giovinazzo and Bailey were second and third in the two-mile race to Mary Persons’ Anna Leigh Nix.
Among the boys, Malik Broughton continued his dominance of the high jump event winning one more time as a senior at 6-10. Another Warhawk repeating his success of a year ago is Ronald Collins, who claimed both the 110 hurdles (15.07) and 300 hurdles (41.16). That 300 result was by an eyelash against a Howard High runner who posted 41.83.
Perry’s Jimmy Mehserle won the two mile in 10:10.9 against Clay Woolfolk of Veterans and Panther Jackson Reid. Mehserle was runner-up in the mile, and the Panthers were second in the 400 relay. Jacorey Harris took second in the long jump.
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