BURGAW– Heide Trask’s boys and Pender’s girls claimed titles Wednesday in the Waccamaw Conference’s track & field championship meet at Pender High.
Heide Trask won the boys meet with 183 points to finish ahead of Whiteville (136), Pender (125), South Columbus (84) and East Bladen (58). Pender racked up 209 points in the girls meet to defeat Trask (142.5), Whiteville (128) and East Bladen (94.5).
Junior Chace Butler won the 200 meter sprint for East Bladen, and was a member of the 4×100 relay team that also won. Jayden Dailey, Masion Brooks, Matthew Kemp, and Tevin McLean were the other members of that relay team.
In the girls meet, junior Laila Smith won both the 100 meter and 300-meter hurdles. Junior La’Tosha Melvin finished 2nd in the discus, and the 4×200 meter relay team (Trinity Kemp, Zahreonna Baldwin, Nyasia Banks, Ariel Cromartie and Smith) also posted a 2nd place finish. Junior Malay’jah Gillespie placed 3rd in the high jump.
The complete East Bladen results for the meet follow:
Boys
100 Meters – 4. Chace Butler 11.66; 5. Masion Brooks 11.79; 8. Jayden Daily 11.96.
200 Meters – 1. Butler 23.32; 14. Brooks 26.88.
400 Meters – 4. Dominick Collins 55.49; 14. Ahmbric Cooper 1:05.02.
800 Meters – 7. Ethan Metz 2:33.77; 11. Jacob Caulder 2:50.77.
1600 Meters – 8. Metz 5:46.9; 9.Caulder 6:05.59.
3200 Meters – 7. Caulder 14:18.3.
4×100 Meter Relay – 1. East Bladen (Butler, Dailey, Brooks, Matthew Kemp, McLean) 44.34.
4×200 Meter Relay – 4. East Bladen 1:38.91.
High Jump – 5. Dashon Campbell 5-04; 6. Kewone Maynor 5-04.
Long Jump – 11. Collins 17-06.
Discus – 6. Gereal Maye 80-00; 9. Kenneth Rhodie 75-00; 11. William Borza 71-03.
Shot Put – 6. Campbell 34-03; 10. Malik Banks 31-02; 13. Borza 27-05.5.
Boys Team Scores – 1. Heide Trask 183, 2. Whiteville 136, 3. Pender 125, 4. South Columbus 84, 5. East Bladen 58, 6. West Columbus 26, 7. East Columbus 11.
Girls
100 Meters – 5. Zahreonna Baldwin 13.8; 6. Nyasia Banks 13.81; 7. Trinity Kemp 13.95.
200 Meters – 5. Banks 29.03; 6. Baldwin 29.44; 7. Kemp 29.72.
400 Meters –8. Allysa Stringfield 1:15.27; 9. Naiherna Leach 1:15.73; 10. Zkya Drake 1:19.57.
100 Meter Hurdles – 1. Laila Smith 17.33; 4. Ariel Cromartie 20.12; 5. Layla Lent 21.13.
300 Meter Hurdles – 1. Smith 52.13; 6. Lent 1:02.81.
4×100 Meter Relay – 3. East Bladen (Kemp, Banks, Baldwin, Cromartie, Smith) 53.64.
4×200 Meter Relay – 2. East Bladen (Kemp, Baldwin, Banks, Cromartie, Smith) 1:53.85.
4×400 Meter Relay – 3. East Bladen 5:19.33.
High Jump – 3. Malay’jah Gillespie 4-04.
Triple Jump – 7. Leach 27-01.
Discus – 2. La’tosha Melvin 73-08; 6. Deshiry Moses 61-10; 11. Jamiya Peterson 56-09.
Shot Put –4. Melvin 25-09; 10. Peterson 23-02.
Girls Team Scores: 1.Pender 209, 2. Heide Trask 142.5, 3. Whiteville 128, 4. East Bladen 94.5, 5. West Columbus 25, 6. West Columbus 20.
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