BOILING SPRINGS, SC - On Saturday the Boiling Springs track and field team held the first ever Bulldog Invitational which saw strong competition from all over the upstate while also seeing the Bulldogs break at least one school record.
On the boy's side of the event the Bulldogs got some strong performances that included three first place finishes and a school record. Bulldogs' junior Spencer Eison broke an eight-year-old school record in the triple jump on Saturday with a distance of 45'6.75" which not only gave him first place in the event but beat the distance of 44'11.5" set by Tim Crosby in 2014. Eison also had a strong performance in the boy's 400m hurdles finishing in second place with a time of 1:01.17 just under two seconds behind Eastside's Jack Stevenson. Boiling Springs junior Carmelo Martin had another big day on Saturday as he won the boy's 100m sprint in a time of 10.79 while also winning the boy's 200m event in a time of 22.39. Both Eison and Martin were part of the Bulldogs boy's 4x200m relay team that came away with a fourth-place finish with a time of 1:34.59, just three seconds behind first place Spartanburg. On the girl's side of the meet the Bulldog's Sydney Watson came away with a second-place finish in the 400m hurdles which was just three-tenths of a second behind Eastside's Sharonda Priester while the Bulldogs Amiah Ellis also came away with a fifth-place finish in the same event with a time of 1:13.13. Ellis added a seventh-place finish in the girl's long jump event with a distance of 15'0". The Bulldogs' Calayah Davis came away with a fourth-place finish in the 100m hurdles with a time of 17.25 seconds while Katelyn Grate finished sixth in the same event in a time of 18.74 seconds. The Bulldogs girl's 4x100m relay team grabbed a fourth place as they were just under two seconds behind first-place Byrnes while the girls 4x200m relay team grabbed a third-place finish with a time of 1:57.21. Boiling Springs will next take to the track on April 13th at home for senior night against Gaffney. The next local events for the team after senior night will be the Spartanburg County meet which will take place from April 26-27 at Broome High School before the Bulldogs host the Region III-5A meet on May 5th. Comments are closed.
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