BURGAW– East Bladen scored well in the sprints and relays Tuesday to finish 4th in both the boys’ and girls’ meets at the 3rd Waccamaw Conference track & field meet of the season at Pender High. The girls also did well in the hurdles, while the boys won the discus.
The Eagle boys tallied 87 points to place 4th behind Heide Trask (148.5), Whiteville (139) and Pender (112.5) and ahead of South Columbus (74) and West Columbus was 6th with 58 points.
Whiteville won the girls meet with 166 points followed by Heide Trask (157), Pender (93), East Bladen (87), West Columbus (48) and South Columbus (18).
Winning events for the Eagle boys were juniors Chace Butler in the 200 meters and Dominick Collins in the 400 meters and senior Jaden Pridgen in the discus. The East Bladen 4×400 meter relay team (Collins, Dashon Campbell, Kaden McKoy, Keyshawn Kemp and Xavier Potts) also won.
Butler finished 2nd in the 100 meters, and the 4×100 meter relay team (Butler, Matthew Kemp, Tevin McLean, Masion Brooks, and Jayden Dailey) posted a 2nd place finish.
In the girls meet, both the 4×100 meter (Trinity Kemp, Nyasia Banks, Zahreonna Baldwin, Ariel Cromartie and Laila Smith) and the 4×200 meter relay teams (Kemp, Baldwin, Banks, Cromartie and Smith) won their events.
Layla Lent won the 300-meter hurdles, and Laila Smith won the 100-meter hurdles
The complete East Bladen results for the meet follow:
Boys
100 Meters – 2. Chace Butler 11.4; 3. Jayden Dailey 11.6; 6. Masion Brooks 11.7.
200 Meters – 1. Butler 23.5; 5. Dailey 24.2; 10. Brooks 25.2.
400 Meters – 1. Dominick Collins 54.7; 4. Xavier Potts 59.2; 12. Keyshawn Kemp 1:01.4; 18. Kaden McKoy 1:07.7; 21. Ahmbric Cooper 1:09.6.
800 Meters –9. Ethan Metz 2:36.0.
1600 Meters – 11. Jacob Caulder 6:12.4.
4×100 Meter Relay – 2. East Bladen (Butler, Matthew Kemp, Tevin McLean, Brooks, Dailey) 45.1.
4×400 Meter Relay – 1. East Bladen (Collins, Dashon Campbell, Kaden McKoy, Keyshawn Kemp, Potts) 3:59.
4×800 Meter Relay – 3. East Bladen (Potts, Caulder, Metz, Kaden McKoy) 10:13.
High Jump – 3. Collins 5-08.
Discus – 1. Jaden Pridgen 133-08; 6. Gereal Maye 88-03; 7. Kenneth Rhodie 88.02; 12. William Borza 71-02; 16. Malik Banks 63-06; 21. Jaamir Stephens 53-07.
Shot Put – 4. Pridgen 39-10; 8. Campbell 32-07; 11. Banks 32-01; 16. William Borza 28-00; 19. Gereal Maye 25-09; 21. Jaamir Stephens 24-11.
Boys Team Scores – 1. Heide Trask 148.5, 2. Whiteville 139, 3. Pender 112.5, 4. East Bladen 97, 5. South Columbus 74, 6. West Columbus 58.
Girls
100 Meters – 3. Nyasia Banks 13.7; 4. Trinity Kemp 13.7; 12. Zahreonna Baldwin 14.4; 15. Aaliyah Monroe 14.9; 16. Tanaisha McKoy 15.4; 18. Destiny Moses 16.3.
200 Meters – 3. Banks 29.1; 17. Monroe 31.7; 22. Moses 35.2.
400 Meters – 8. Naiherna Leach 1:14.1; 10. Allysa Stringfield 1:19.6; 11. Zkya Drake 1:23.1; 12. Tyliah Freeman 1:23.3.
100 Meter Hurdles – 1. Laila Smith 17-9; 3. Layla Lent 20.9.
300 Meter Hurdles – 1. Lent 57.7.
4×100 Meter Relay – 1. East Bladen (Kemp, Banks, Baldwin, Ariel Cromartie, Smith) 55.4.
4×200 Meter Relay – 1. East Bladen (Kemp, Baldwin, Banks, Cromartie, Smith) 1:55.0.
4×400 Meter Relay – 3. East Bladen (Leach, Malay’jah Gillespie, Freeman, Drake) 5:24.0.
Long Jump – 5. Leach 12-11.5; 15. McKoy 8-04.5;17. Mariah Ward 9-04.
Discus – 3. La’Tosha Melvin 66-06; 8. Jamiya Peterson 55-04; 12. Kimiyah McDowell 50-09; 22. Ta’mani Brown 34-10.
Shot Put – 3. Melvin 25-09; 9. Peterson 21-05; 15. McDowell 19-01; 18. Brown 16-10.
Girls Team Scores: 1. Whiteville 166, 2. Heide Trask 157, 3. Pender 93, 4. East Bladen 87, 5. West Columbus 48, 6. South Columbus 18.
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