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Kinidi Taylor
Crescent High’s Lady Tigers, sparked by two individual champions, finished fifth in the Class 2A State Track Championships at Western Heights last weekend and won the Class 2A State Academic Championship.
Kinidi Taylor defended her long jump title with a leap of 18 feet, 3.25 inches, and Kinzi Bell won the discus title with a 135-6 effort.
Taylor also finished sixth in the 200-meter race with a time of 26.30 seconds after qualifying in 26.17 on Friday. Bell also competed in the shot put but did not advance to the finals.
The other big points for the Lady Tigers came from a second-place finish in the 4x200-meter relay team of Calen Cox, Reydon Walker, Taylor and Kylee Bell in 1:46.90, and a thirdplace finish in the 4x100 relay with Cox, Walker, Aja House and Taylor (50.4712).
Kylee Bell and Breanna Thomas placed fourth and fifth in the pole vault, clearing 9-0 and 8-6, respectively.
Walker also qualified for the 100-meter finals in 12.77, but her 12.84 was only good for seventh place and two points. Walker ran in the 200 in 26.95, good for ninth place. Cox ran 1:05.91 in the 400-meter preliminaries but did not qualify for the finals.
Cashion’s LadyCats got an eighth-place finish from Reese Williams in the 100-meter dash (12.87) and a third-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles (49.85) to account for a bulk of the points over the two days.
Chevy Eubanks (26.66) finished seventh in her 200 for Cashion and Sierra McCracken (2:27.45) placed eighth in the 800 to account for the remaining LadyCats points.
On the boys side, Stone Fisher accounted for all of Crescent’s points with a fifth-place finish in the shot put on Friday with a throw of 46-5.
Jayden Perkins qualified in the 200 and 400; Jacob Buck ran in the 1,600; and Dylan Descher ran in the 110 hurdles.
The Cashion Wildcats scored 17 points in the meet and 16 of them came from the secondplace finishes by Boedy Beutler in the 110-meter (15.45) and 300-meter hurdles (40.95) finals.
Gage Bedick was eighth in the 800 with a time of 2:03.18. Bedick also was ninth in the 1,600 in 4:50.99. Luke Bausert clearned 9-6 in the pole vault.