Junior track teams finish 6th in district
Posted on Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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Green Forest was a runaway winner of the boys’ and girls ’ junior high district track championships, scoring 181 points to take the boys’ title with the Tiger girls piling up 221 points to take the other crown. Pea Ridge finished sixth in both team races with the boys scoring 53 and the girls 29 in the meet held at the Eureka Springs track recently.
Elkins took both second place trophies with the boys scoring 132 followed by Shiloh 90, Eureka Springs 86, West Fork 58, Pea Ridge 53 and Lincoln 13. The Elkins girls were second with 146 followed by Eureka Springs 75, Shiloh 75, Lincoln 34, Pea Ridge 29 West Fork 9.
Green Forest and Elkins won easily helped along with rosters containing large numbers of seventh-grade athletes. The teams scoring in the middle of the pack in both divisions had a sprinkling of seventh-grader participants with the teams in the last two finishing spots having none at all.
Ninth-grader Cameron Thompson led the ’Hawks with 14 individual points, taking second and third in the discus and shot put with marks of 122-10 and 40-0, respectively. Levi Roughton took second in the high jump with a 5-4 leap with Kasey Cooper garnering third with a 5-0 leap to provide Pea Ridge with their other top three finishes individually.
Roughton was a double placer, scoring a fifth in the 400 meter dash with a time of 1: 01. 3. Also scoring in the 400 was Dalton Fisher who took sixth in 1: 01. 4. Other individual placers were Chase Thetford, sixth in the 200 meters in 26. 8; Briar Sample, eighth in the 800 meters in 2: 39. 9; and Colton Holtgrewe who finished fifth in the 1600 in 5: 31. 5.
Relay runners names’ were not available but the ’Hawks ’ 4 x 100 meter relay was fifth in 53. 3, the 4 x 400 meter relay was fifth in 4: 23. 6 and the 4 x 800 meter relay was sixth in 11: 42. 5.
Trilby Gibson led the Lady ’Hawks with a second-place finish in the shot put (29-5 ) for 8 points. Deborah Beard was a double scorer as she took seventh in the 100 in 15. 23 and eighth in the 100 hurdles for three total points. Other scorers were Kimberly Cribbs, eighth in the 800 meters in 3: 07. 2; Morgan Shank, fifth in the shot put with a toss of 27-7 for four points; and Katie Killman, seventh in the discus with a throw of 62-4.
The Lady ’Hawk relay teams took third in the 4 x 400 relay in 5: 14. 1 and fourth in the 4 x 100 in 1: 01. 5.
The meet marked the last competition for Pea Ridge athletes in 3 A competition as they will be competing this fall in the higher 4 A classification.