TERRIERS SWEEP BRD TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Blue Ridge District track meet was held at Staunton River High School in Moneta last Saturday and it was a big day for the William Byrd team. Both the Terrier boys and girls won BRD titles.

The boys scored 180 points to outdistance second place Franklin County, who had 105. The boys team started the day off with Walter Barrows winning the long jump with a distance of 21’11.25 while Ethan Haston finished 4^th (20’1”) and Deshawn Austin finished 5^th (19’10).

Wyatte Bailey won the pole vault with a height of 13’, Haston finished 2^nd (11’) and Kyle Holdaway 3^rd (9’6). Austin won the triple jump competition with a distance of 43’6 and Haston finished 3^rd (39’7) and DeShannon Reed took 4^th (39’7).

In the shot put Caleb Thompson finished 2^nd with a throw of 42’3 and Gregory Stiltner was 4^th with a throw of 39’7. In the discus Thompson was 2^nd at 130’3 and Barry Cheatwood finished 5^th at 105’10.

Barrows finished 5^th (11.19) in the 100m and 2nd in the 200m(22.48) while Brady Reachy finished 3^rd  in the 200m with a state qualifying time of 22.80. In the 400m dash Bailey won the event with a time of 50.96 and Isaiah Board finished 5^th (55.26).

In the 800m Reid Hanson finished 6^th (2:18.28) and in the Mile Donald Mullins finished 2^nd with a time of 4:38.38.  Drew Bartley finished 3^rd in the two mile run in 13:16.74.  Austin finished 3^rd (16.32) in the 110 hurdles and Landon Martin was 4^th (16.33).  In the 300m hurdles Austin won the event with a time of 40.57.

The 4x100m of Barrows, Reed, Lane Shoemaker and Dylan Hughes won the event with a time of 44.22 and the 4x400m relay of Bailey, Austin, Reachy and Board won with a time of 3:32.88.  The 4x800m relay of Griffin Yakob, Reagan Lilley, Jhaquin Johnson and Reid Hanson finished 3^rd in 9:46.91.

The girls scored 130 points to win the meet, with William Fleming second at 115. Emma Matthews finished 5^th in the 100m dash and Grace Owni finished 3^rd in the 400m dash and 6^th in the 200m dash.  In the 800m run Olivia Hurd won the event in 2:26.52, Liz Dixon finished 3^rd and 5^th place was Lucy Whitenack.

In the mile Alex Bonilla finished 4^th and Riley Roth finished 5^th.  In the 100m hurdles Emma Kageals finished 3^rd with a time of 17.76 and in the 300m hurdles Emma finished 4^th while Virginia Yonce finished 3^rd and Emily Fisher finished 5^th.

The 4x100m relay of Olaedo Anyanwu, Matthews, Allyson Mavredes and Jazaria West-Brown finished 2^nd with a time of 54.39 and the 4x400m of Hurd, Owni, Jayden Niday and Matthews finished with a time of 4:22.37.

In the high jump Olivia Bustamante won the competition, tied the school record and qualified for the state track meet with a height of 5’.  In the pole vault Spencer Peters won the competition with a height of 7’ and Alexia Donahue finished 3^rd and Emma Kageals finished 4^th.

Lily Perez finished 2^nd in the triple jump with a leap of 32’10 while Kageals finished 4^th and Emily Fisher finished 5^th.

In the throws, Olaedo Anyanwu finished 2^nd in the shot put with a throw of 27’7 and Samantha Flippen finished 5^th in the discus with a throw of 72’11.

The Terriers are now off until Thursday, May 25, when they compete in the Region 3D meet at Cave Spring, beginning at 2 pm.