It was a strong showing for the Jefferson District at the Group AA championship with the Western Albemarle’s girls highlighting the girls side of the event with a second place finish and Orange County coming away with seventh in Lynchburg on Saturday.
The Warriors’ Claire Johnson and Katie Farina placed in the top-five in the 1000. Johnson took second with 3:05.97 and Farina took fifth at 3:09.22. In the same race, Fluvanna County’s Lynelle Douma came away with ninth with her time of 3:14.61. The Warriors’ Jordan Haws and Killian O’Connell each put forth top-10 finishes in the 500. Haws came in fourth with 1:12.07 while O’Connell came in at 1:25.55. Johnson and Emily Moffett respectively took ninth and tenth in the 1600 at 5:28.77 and 5:39.33. O’Connell, Farina, Haws and Kelsey McCarly took fourth in the 4×400. And the Warriors dominated the pole vault as Nicole Harding, Kelsey Grupp, Sarah Gartner and Christine Wesner went one, two, four and eight.
Orange’s Ashontae Jackson can officially call herself the fastest girl in Group AA. The Hornets senior won the 55 meter dash by one-tenth of a second, taking first with a time of 7.30 seconds. Monticello’s Sherrie Timberlake and Charlottesville’s Jessica Jordan also competed in the race and the two took ninth and 10th place respectively.
Jackson also came away with the top spot in the 300, taking the race by more than a second-and-a-half with her time of 41.12. Timberlake was close behind, taking fourth with 42.77. Louisa’s Jasmyne Johnson came in eighth at 43.94.
But the best race of the night for Western came in the 4×800 relay as Haws, Farina, Johson and Peri Bowser took first place by almost a half of a minute, completing the race in 9:33.94. Louisa’s Hannah Best, Chelsea Nelson, Casey Clune and Lydia Haren took fifth at 10:12.15. Best took tenth in the 3200 at 11:59.94.
In the 55 hurdles, McClary was sixth at 9.17 and Charlottesville’s Amanda Jordan clocked in 9.22 to earn ninth.
Raven Robinson earned the Lions a seventh place showing in the shot put with a heave of 34 feet and two inches.
In the 4×200 relay, Charlottesville’s Jessica Jordan, Amanda Jordan, Julia Bray and Abigail Intolubbe-Chmil earned third place with their combined time of 1:49.39 while Louisa’s Johnson, Monica Mallory, Nojai Veras and Kia Christmas were fifth at 1:50.03. Christmas, Veras, Johnson and Michelle Best came in fifth in the 4×400 with their time of 4:13.08. Intolubbe, Bray, Maggie McNair, and Jessica Jordan came in 10th for the Black Knights at 4:38.15
The boys of the JD were equally impressive with Louisa, Charlottesville, and Fluvanna coming in seventh, eighth and ninth as teams. Western came one point shy of cracking the top-10 and wound up 11th.
The Lions’ Dante Davis was the fastest in the 55 hurdles, winning the race by five one-hundreths of a second at 7.52. He also led the Lions to a first place finish in the 4×200 along with Gunnar Carroll, Bradon Payne and Corrin Harris with a total time of 1:34.13. In the very same race Orange’s Edgar Coker, Tevin Coker, Patrick Curtis and Tyrone Ellis came in sixth and Fluvanna’s Kedarius Bruce, Brian Key, Josue Franco and Jonathon White were seventh.
The Lions also took fourth in the 4×400 relay as Greg Dixon, Treyvaughn Ayers, Eric Tibbs and Brandon Payne ran the race in 3:32.84 to edge a fifth place Orange group of Patrick, Chris Lewis, Lamar Gordon and Tevin Coker at 3:34.10.
Bruce took second ahead of Charlottesville’s David Johnson in the triple jump. The Fluvanna senior was also at the top of a four-way tie for fifth place in the high jump with a measurement of six feet, while Chance Parmly earned third place in the pole vault.
In the long jump, Charlottesville’s Rignial Sterling placed fourth while Bruce took fifth, Gordon came in seventh and Monticello’s Erik Holstege earned 10th. Sterling took nith in the triple jump
The Black Knights top finish came in the shot put where Steve Allen earned the top spot with his throw of 52 feet and 8.5 inches. Teammate Raheim Turner came in sixth.
Ellis came in seventh place in the boys 55 meter dash, running a 6.66 second race and Coker took ninth in the 300 with a 36.84 second time.
Western’s Derek Armstrong placed eighth in the 1600 at 4:30.04 and ninth in the 1000 at 2:42.10 and along with David Taylor, Andrew Jennings and Henry Giles, led the Warriors to a fourth place showing in the 4×800. Teammates Zach Lawson, Tim Nguyen and Michael Terribile took first, sixth and 10th in the pole vault.
In the 3200, Monticello’s Nathaniel Hermsmeier came in eighth at 9:59.46 while Western’s Ben Schiller took 10th at 10:02.82. Hermsmeier, Miguel Gomez, Thomas McDermott and Mike Albert helped guide the Mustangs to 10th in the 4×800.
