SPARTANBURG, SC - Due to impending weather in the forecast for Wednesday, the Spartanburg County high school track community all gathered at Dorman High School for a one-day track meet on Tuesday to determine the best athletes in the county and when the event was over many of our local athletes were able to claim the title of county champion at school on Wednesday.
In the overall standings Dorman claimed the county title in both the boys and girls events. Boiling Springs saw their girls team finish fourth and the boys team finish sixth while Chapman finished fifth in boys and sixth in the girls event. Chesnee came away with an 11th and 12th place finishes in the boys and girls events respectively. Boiling Springs' senior Carmelo Martin won the Spartanburg County championship in the boys' 100m event with a time of 10.42, which was two-tenths of a second faster than the Spartanburg County record of 10.62 set by Marcus Rowland from Dorman in 2007. Senior Spencer Eison won a county championship for the Bulldogs in the triple jump as well with a distance of 45'1" which was a foot further than the second-place finisher. The Bulldogs 4x100m boys team (Barrett, Eison, Thompson, and Martin) were just edged out for the county championship by just a tenth of a second by the Byrnes relay team. Boiling Springs girls 4x100m relay team (Grate, Garner, Dawkins, and Watson) won the county championship with a time of 49.90 just defeating the Byrnes team by two thousandths of a second. The Bulldogs saw sophomore runner Sydney Watson come away with a second-place finish in the girls 100 hurdles event with a time of 16.17. The Boiling Springs girls 4x800m relay team (Panchelyuga, Steadings, Turner, and Sanchez) came away with a third-place finish with a time of 10:57.42. Mya Jackson won the girls 100m county championship for Chapman with a time of 12.65 defeating Spartanburg's A'Kyna Webster by four thousandths of a second at the line. She also won the county championship in the girls long jump with a distance of 17'10". Chapman's Chloe Hudson finished in third place of the girls' pole vault event with a height of 8'0". The Panthers saw junior Rashawn Cunningham win the boys long jump county championship with a distance of 21'10" while also coming away with a second-place finish in the high jump. The Chapman boys 4x800m relay team (Wines, Wheeler, Walters, and Chambers) came away with a third-place finish with a time of 8:31.76 while Abe Fyffe brought home a third-place finish for the Panthers in the boys' shot-put event with a distance of 44'3" which was just short of second place. Boiling Springs will next compete in the Region II-5A meet at Spartanburg on May 3rd while the Panthers will next compete in the Region III-3A meet at Broome from May 3rd-4th. Comments are closed.
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