By CHRIS HOBBS
HobbsDailyReport.com
GREENSBORO –The Greater Hickory area produced six state champions on Friday in 2A and 3A title meets in track and field. including two from Patton in a 2A meet where Bandys’ boys finished third.
Madison Clay of Patton won a state 2A title in the girls’ 3,200 in a time of 11 minutes, 26.42 seconds while the Panthers’ Vance Jones won the 800 in 1:55.76 and was on Patton’s winning 3,200 boys’ relay team (8:11.54).
JONES/JONES ELITE TRAINING PHOTO
A fourth Burke County state champion was East Burke’s Kenneth Byrd, who won the pole vault. He added a second in the high jump and sixth in the 110 hurdles.
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Bandys — sparked by finishes of second in the shot put and fifth in the discus by Austin Cline — scored 32 points to finish behind Burlington Cummings (76) and Eastern Wayne (43) in 2A boys. Patton was 10th with 23 points.
Grant Parham of Bandys was second in the boys’ 2A 1,600 and eighth in the 3,200.
The Bandys girls tied Brevard with 22 points for 10th place in the girls’ 2A standings, where North Lincoln was fourth and West Henderson was the team champion.
Other area state champions from area leagues were: Emily Hartsoe of Ashe County won the shot put and discus in 3A girls, North Lincoln’s boys won 3A boys’ 400 relay, and West Iredell’s Alaya Gillespie won the 100.
Gillespie and Pagie Oldenberg of Bandys placed three times with Gillespie second in the 3A 200 and third in the 400, with Oldenberg second in the 2A girls’ 1,600, third in the 3,200 and anchoring the 3,200 relay team.
Maiden’s Callie Stamey placed third in the 300 hurdles and sixth in the 100 hurdles in 2A.
Bunker Hill had a 3-4 finish in the 2A pole vault, Olivia Ellis and Tyra Mitchell, respectively.
In 2A boys, Spencer Goins of East Burke was fourth in the 100 and tied for seventh in the 200 as the Cavs finished sixth in the team chase.
Liam Sutton led North Lincoln’s boys in 3A with a second in the 110 hurdles and third in the 300 hurdles. The Knights tied Cramer and Lake Norman Charter for sixth.
R-S Central’s girls won the 2A meet and Greensboro Dudley won the 3A boys’ title.
STATE TRACK AN FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
(Friday at N.C A&T)
2A
GIRLS
Top 10 team scores: 1. R-S Central 48; 2. E. Carteret 32.5; 32. Pine Lake Prep 37; 4. Burlington Cummings 35; 5. Camden County 32, Polk County 32; 7. W. Stanly 31; 8. Surry Central 25; 9. Eastern Wayne 26.5; 10. Brevard 22, BANDYS 22.
A list of top eight finishers from the Catawba Valley 2A Athletic and Patton:
1,600
2, Katherine Hopkins, Lincolnton, 5:29.92
3, Paige Oldenburg, Bandys, 5:33.07
3,200
1 Madison Clay, Patton, 11:26.42
2 Paige Oldenburg, Bandys, 11:52.89
5, Meah Walsh, East Burke, 12:40.18.
100 hurdles
6, Callie Stamey, Maiden, 16.90
300 hurdles
3, Callie Stamey, Maiden, 46.95
3,200 relay
5, Bandys ‘A’ (Paige Oldenburg 12, Allison Beard 12, Emily Hedrick 11, Lauren Buckminster 12), 10:29.84
Pole vault
3, Olivia Ellis, Bunker Hill, 8-06
4, Tyra Mitchell, Bunker Hill, J8-00
Discus
5, Kaylee Cutshaw, Bandys, 108-08
BOYS
Top 10 team scores: 1. Burlington Cummings 76; 2. Eastern Wayne 43; 3. BANDYS 32; 4. Pine Lake Prep 30; 5. High Point Andrews 29; 6. E. BURKE 28.7; 7. Black Mountain Owen 27; 8 Polk County 26; 9. Monroe 24; 10. PATTON 23.
A list of top eight finishers from the Catawba Valley 2A Athletic and Patton:
100
4, Spencer Goins, East Burke, 11.43
5, Makyis Dula, West Caldwell 11.43
200
T7, Spencer Goins, East Burke, 22.68
800
1, Vance Jones, Patton, 1:55.76
4, David Birkhofer Jr, Bandys, 1:57.03.
1,600
2, Grant Parham, Bandys, 4:30.11
6, Caden Clontz, Patton, 4:39.84
3,200
8, Grant Parham, Bandys, 10:36.51
110 hurdles
4, Ayden Thompson, Bunker Hill, 15.57
6, Kenneth Byrd, East Burke, 15.62. 7
400 relay
8, Bandys ‘A’ (Will Nix 11, Nolan Jones 11, Fletcher Harris 11, Parker DeHart 12), 44.18
800 relay
5, West Caldwell ‘A’ (Nehemiah Foxx 10, Nigel Ransby 10, Tony Petty 12, Victor Rosa 12), 1:31.97
3,200 relay
1, Patton ‘A’ (Austin McGuire 10, Caden Clontz 12, Charlie Bennett 10, Vance Jones 12), 8:11.54
High jump
2, Kenneth Byrd, East Burke, J6-04
7, Avery Fraley, East Burke, J6-00
T8, Ian Cox, East Burke, 5-10
Pole vault
1, Kenneth Byrd, East Burke, 15-04
4, Kage Hefner, Bandys, 11-06
Triple jump
3, Chance Stull, Maiden, 43-02.75
Shot put
2, Austin Cline, Bandys, 48-11.75
Discus
5, Austin Cline, Bandys, 131-08
3A
GIRLS
Top 10 team scores: 1.W. Henderson 49; 2. Greensboro Dudley 46; 3. W. Carteret 41; 4. N. LINCOLN 36.5; 5. W. Mecklenburg 28; 6. Central Cabarrus 25; 7. W. IREDELL 24; 8. W-S Atkins 23; 9. Cramer 23; 10. ASHE COUNTY 23.
A list of top eight finishers from the Western Foothills 3A and Northwestern 3A-4A:
100
1, Alaya Gillespie, West Iredell, 12.48
200
2, Alaya Gillespie, West Iredell, 25.08
400
3, Alaya Gillespie, West Iredell, 58.04
800
5, Bella Green, North Lincoln, 2:27.54
6, Erica Anderson, North Iredell, 2:30.48
1,600
4, Lori Glavan, North Lincoln, 5:24.63. 5
6, Macy Parks, East Lincoln, 5:28.37
7, Cara Castro, North Lincoln, 5:31.61
8, Katie Deacon, Freedom, 5:33.29
3,200
3, Kelbi Pierce, North Lincoln, 11:29.92
6, Lori Glavan, North Lincoln, 12:05.57
7, Bella Wood, North Lincoln, 12:11.33
3,200 relay
3, North Lincoln ‘A’ (Blythe Jaworsky 9, Bella Green 9, Bella Wood 10, Kelbi Pierce 11), 10:08.34
300 hurdles
6, Emmi Cheek, Ashe County 47.36
Pole vault
T4, Chloe Soorus, North Lincoln J10-00
Long jump
5, Jada Brown, Hibriten, 17-10
Shot put
1, Emily Hartsoe, Ashe Couny 37-2
Discus
1, Emily Hartsoe, Ashe Couny 136-08
4, Carly Correll, North Lincoln 107-07
BOYS
Top 10 team scores: 1. Greensboro Dudley 80; 2. Croatan 51.5; 3. South Central 31; 4. Burlington Williams 29; 5. CAT 27; 6. N. LINCOLN 26, Lake Norman Charter 26, Cramer 26; 9. W. Henderson 15; 10 W. Johnston 24.
A list of top eight finishers from the Western Foothills 3A and Northwestern 3A-4A:
110 hurdles
2, Liam Sutton, North Lincoln, 15.11
300 hurdles
2, Liam Sutton, North Lincoln, 40.02
400 relay
1, North Lincoln ‘A’ (Jeremiah Sellers 10, Immanuel Mayner 11, Cameron Rice 12, Liam Sutton 11), 42.95
3, East Lincoln ‘A’ (OJ Howell-Johnson 12, Keandre Walker 11, Christopher Dailey 9, Jaylen Roseboro 10), 43.39
Long jump
2, Drew Costello, Freedom, 21-10.25
