One of six Rockdale High School athletes advanced to the finals in the 92nd Clyde Littlefield University of Texas Relays one of the top track and field meets in the country.
Will Storey ran a 10.89 to place eighth in the 100-meter dash during the invitational tournament. Two Tiger relay teams made up of Cam’Ron Valdez, Kesean Raven, Qua’ Shawn Crawford, Levi Baggerly and Storey ran relays but did not qualify for the fi nals.
The Texas Relays is a massive event at the site of the UIL State Championships, which will be in May. It featured more than 5,000 athletes over four days and blended high school, college and professional athletes all on the same stage.
On Friday afternoon, Storey placed second in his heat of the 100-meter dash with a 10.8, the ninth fastest time in Division I, reserved for high school competitors in classes 1A through 4A and private schools with smaller enrollments. The time earned him a trip to the finals the next day, where he ran a 10.89 and placed eighth.
“That was super huge for Will. These races were the second and third time he’s run in the hundred meter for us this season,” said Lewis Edmonson, Rockdale High School boys track and field coach. “He brought his time down from an 11.1 to a 10.8 this weekend and he’s really been great from just being a leg on the relay team his sophomore year to being the anchor for us in both our relay teams in addition to running this race, so this was huge for him.”
The sprint relay team of Valdez, Raven, Baggerly and Story ran a 43.65 Saturday morning in the preliminaries, placing third in their heat behind Waco La Vega and Ft. Worth’s Nolan Catholic and 17th overall in Division I.
The Tigers didn’t make the finals but they ran the third fastest time of all 3A schools at the meet behind 10th place Daingerfield, 43.36 and rival Cameron, 43.39, who placed 13th.
The Yoe also beat the Tigers in the 4x2 100 meter relay on Friday running 1:30.79 to Rockdale’s 1:31.31. Valdez, Raven, Crawford and Storey placed 12th overall. They ran the fourth fastest time of all 3A schools competing, Daingerfield finished in eighth, Cameron in 10th and Jarrell, in 11th.
“It was also a great experience for those guys just to go to the meet. Will competed last year and Qua’Shawn has watched the relays before, but the other three guys had never seen what the Texas Relays were so that was awesome. It gave them a lot of confidence being on that big stage and performing the way they did,” Edmondson said. “We also got to see a lot of good schools there and got a good feel of where we stood, especially with the computer timing instead of coaches hand timing. Daingerfield’s sprint relay team has had the fastest time in the state so far this season but at this meet, their time was actually only three-tenths of a second faster than ours, so that shows that we’re right up there.”
The Tigers run on Thursday at the Bumblebee Relays in Little River-Academy in their final meet before the District 19-3A track meet on Wednesday, April 10, at Tiger Stadium.
“This will be one more meet to work on technical things,” Edmonson said. “Cameron will also be there and our goal is to beat them in at least one of our relays.
“We want to have that edge on them going into the district meet next week.”
BOYS TRACK RESULTS
March 28
Happy Skrabanek Relays
at Caldwell High School
RHS
Team totals: 1. La Vernia 162;
2. Taylor 114; Giddings 110; Caldwell 101; 5. Hearne 68; 6. Navasota 32;
7. Rockdale 16.
Shot put: 1. Ty Mayberry 45-4 3/4; 800 meter: 3. Albert Silva 2:13.41; 200 meter: Jace Robinson; Quentin Hughes; 400-meter: 3. Silva; Long jump: Quashon Crawford; Discus: Brandon Hernandez; Jose Rivera; Triple Jump: Levi Baggerly.
RHS JV
Team totals: 1. La Vernia 143;
2. Giddings 128; 3. Taylor 84; 4. Navasota 70; 5. Rockdale 54; 6. Caldwell 53; 7. Hearne.
100-meter: 6. Jalyan Davis 11.85; 200-meter: 5. Davis 24.74; Ethan Hughes; 800-meter: 2. Seth Davis 2:23.98; 6. Creek Windham 2:27.96; 110 meter hurdles: 3. Makhi Crawford 18.63; 4X100 relay:
1. Jakobe Mitchell, J. Davis, Crawford, Jabez Dunn 46.90; 4x200 relay: Anthony Dansby, Hughes, Mitchell, Dunn 1:39.41; Shot put: 4. Keymani Hamilton 34-5; 1600-meter: Andrew Hicks, Seth Davis; 300 meter hurdles: Crawford;
Temple Junior High
Track Meet
8th Grade
Team totals: 1. Temple Travis Middle School 215; 2. Waco Midway MS 126; 3. Rockdale 89; 4. Temple Bonham MS 71; 5. Lake Belton MS 66; 6. Florence 40.
Shot put: 6. Jose Aboytes, 35 feet 5 inches; Discus: Aboytes, 101; High jump: 2. Robert Owens, 5-2; Triple jump: 4. Owens 36-3; 2400-meter run: 6. Chris Perez, 9:21; Pole vault: 1. Devon Hicks, 9-0; 5. Yovanni Delgadillo 7-0; 800-meter run: 5. Christo Hernandez 2:30.8; 400-meter relay: 3. Jose Castillo, Cayden Young, Owens, Alec Silva 48.86; 100 meters: 4. Robert Owens, 12.24; 800-meter relay: 1. Castillo, Young, Owens, Silva 1:42.4; 400 meters: 5. Lane Bell 1:05.2; 6. Braden Thomas 1:05.44; 1600-meter relay: 3. Silva, Bell Thomas, Castillo, 4:08.7; 1600-meters: 4. Hernandez 5:38.2.
7th Grade
Team totals: 1. Rockdale 113.5;
2. Waco Midway MS 113; 3. Temple Bonham MS 101; 4. Temple Travis MS 88; 5. Temple Lamar MS 82.5;
6. Lake Belton MS 52.
Shot put: 6. Sterling Prazak 29-4; Discus: 3. Mason Willard 83-8; 4. Blaydn Barcak 82-9; 6. Prazak 76-6; Long jump: 3. Cruz San Migel, 18-1; Triple jump: 3. Isaiah Sauls 32-9; 6. Gerren Marrero 32; High jump: 1. Windham 5; Pole vault: 1. Coylton Malkey 8;
2. San Migel 8; 4. Carson Eoff; 2400-meter run: 2. Jesus Bocanegra, 8:37.0 (broke the school record); 6. Jose Tenorio 9:22.0; 400-meter relay: 4. Kemar Spencer, Barcak, Windham, San Migel 51.89; 100-meters: 5. Barcak 13.33; 110/100 hurdles: 2. Sauls 21.8; 300-meter hurdles: 5. Sauls 52.77; 200-meters: 4. Spencer 27.94; 1600-meters: 2. Bocanegra 5:24.3;
5. Tenorio 5:51.4; 1600-meter relay: 2. Mason Willard, San Migel, Windham, Bocanegra, 4:25.0.
Fayettville Track Meet
Milano HS
Shot put: 4. Arthur Soto 36-4; Long jump: 1. Christian Thurman 19-1; 100 meter: 1. Thurman 11.1; 6. Kathen Funberg 12.2; 200 meters: 2. Gus Downey 23.8; 400 meters: 2. Drew Demeritt 55.4; 800 meters: 5. Chris Sootoo 2:18; 1600 meters:
1. Parker Jones 4:30; 5. Sootoo 5:13; 3200 meters: 1. Jones 9:52; 110 meter hurdles: 5. Marquise Jones 18.5; 300 meter hurdles: 6. M. Jones 46.8; 800 meter relay: 2. Downey, Funberg, M. Jones, Thurman 1:38.
Texas Relays 300 meter hurdles: 11. (out of
15 ) Devonte Jones 38.62; 400 meter relay: 18. (out of 49) Downey, Thurman, Demeritt, D. Jones 43.65.
GIRLS TRACK RESULTS
March 28
Happy Skrabanek Relays
at Caldwell High School
RHS
Team totals: 1. Caldwell 151;
2. La Vernia 91; 3. Thorndale 65; 4. Hearne 53; 5. Giddings 38; 6. Navasota, Taylor 34; 8. Rockdale 32; Manor 28.
1600 meter: 1. Ivanna Luna Hernandez 5:58.78; Tasha San Migel; 800 meter: 3. I.L. Hernandez 2:41.83; 400 meter: 5. Mackenzie Musto 1:04.16; Navarro; K’tacia Mayberry; 4x100 relay: 5. Anna Harmon, Arbranae Sessoms, Jena Locklin, Musto 53.17; Shot put: Andrea Salazar 3. 32-0; Discus: 4. Salazar 81-4 1/2; 100 meter: Sessoms 13.71; Mayberry 13.65; 200 meter: Navarro, Mayberry, Musto; 100 meter hurdles: Harmon and Payton Miller; 300 meter hurdles: Harmon.
RHS JV
Team totals: 1. La Vernia 196;
2. Giddings 165.5; 3. Caldwell 87; 5.Navasota 65; 5. Taylor 63; 6. Rock-dale 20.5.
3200 meter: 1. Cady Barcak 14:29.00; Shot put: 6. Makailah Huff 24-5; Discus: 1. Justiss May-berry 76-10 1/2; Alyssa Grady; 100 meter: Hanna Delz 13.84; 200 meter: Delz 29.80.
Thorndale JV 4x100 relay: 5. Layla Rodriguez, Regan Calk, Gwenyth Wright, Katelyn Nunez 1:01.39; 4x200 relay:
6. Cadence Weidler, Calk, Wright, Megan Lefler 2:11.73.
Travis Invitational Track Meet
RJH 8th grade
Team totals: 3. RJH. High jump: 2. Emma Whitsel; Pole vault: 1. Saige Robertson 9-0 (school record); 2. Yolianna Castillo;
5. Alyssa Thompson; Discus: 3. Julie Bartsch; 6. Mckenna Lopez; Long jump: 2. Robertson; 4. Whitsel; Triple jump: 8. Jadira Luna; Shot put:
2. Bartsch; 100 meter hurdles: 1. Whitsel; 100 meters: 3. Whitsel; 5. Robertson; 4x400 relay: 5. Delz, Luna, Hendrix, Martinez.
RJH 7th grade girls High Jump:2. Ciara Miles; Pole vault: 3. Melanee Moccia; 6. Madalynne Brinkman; Discus: 4.Ashley Gonzalez; 4x100 relay: 3. Georgia Woodard, Hailey Webb, Miles, Moccia; 100 meter: 3. Webb; 5. Woodard; 400 meter: 6. Webb; 200 meter: 4. Miles; 6. Woodard.
Fayettville Track Meet
Milano HS girls
200 meters: 6. Jaden Carmichael 30.2; 800 meters: 1. Emma Batten 2:35; 4. Abby Miller 2:44; 1600 meters: 4. Miller 6:30; 110 meter hurdles: 3. Kayce Midkiff 18.3; 300 meter hurdles: 4. Midkiff 55.2; 800 meter relay: 6. Katelynn Stewart, Tristyn LeMay, Dara Doelitsch, Carmichael 2:05; 400 meter relay: 6. Stewart, Carmichael, Doelitsch, McKenna Robertson 57.2; 1600 meter relay: 5. Midkiff, LeMay, Brianna Massey, Emma Batten 4:50; Shot put: 2. Sterling Robertson 31-9; Discus: 3. S. Robertson 92-4; 4. M. Robertson 91-9; High jump: 5. Carmichael 4-4.
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