It’s been quite a last couple of weeks for the Munford High boys’ and girls’ track and field teams.
On May 19 and 20 in Brentwood, senior Christian Perez became the first Munford track athlete to take first at a state meet when he won the decathlon. His teammate, junior Jace Hodgin, finished second.
A week later at the sectional meet nearly 20 Cougars and Lady Cougars qualified for the Spring Fling state meet, which begins Tuesday on the MTSU campus in Murfreesboro.
The Lady Cougars started the Sectional Meet off with a 1, 2, 3 finish in the pentathlon. By the time running events began at noon on Saturday, the Lady Cougars had picked up 92 points and held a commanding lead. Things only got better from there as the 4×800 relay team took 1st and set a new school record doing it. The Lady Cougars scored multiple athletes in nearly every individual event. By night’s end they had piled up 181 points, nearly doubling up the second place Ripley Tigers, on their way to securing the Sectional Championship, a first for the girls’ track program.
The boys’ team, however, trailed the Ripley Tigers by 5 points after the first night of events, 65-60. When events began Saturday, the Cougars knew they would have to dig down if they wanted to win the first sectional championship in school history. Christian Perez (who had earlier won the Sectional Decathlon) started the day with a 2nd place finish in the pole vault, the boys 4x800m relay team took 3rd, and Perez placed another 3rd in the 110m hurdles. Braxton Sharp followed these events with a spectacular race to capture the 100m dash, leading from gun to wire. On the strength of these events, the Cougars surged into the lead and never looked back, taking the sectional championship 143 over runner-up Ripley’s 115.
State Qualifiers
BOYS
100 METER DASH
11.05 Braxton Sharp 1st Finals H1 West AA Boys
800 METER RUN
2:03.25 Ryan Coley 2nd Finals H1 West AA Boys
1600 METER RUN
4:37.75 Ryan Coley 3rd Finals H1 West AA Boys – New school record
3200 METER RUN
9:46.43 Ryan Coley 2nd Finals H1 West AA Boys – New school record
300 METER HURDLES
41.31 Christian Perez 2nd Finals H1 West AA Boys – New school record
4X100 METER RELAY Jace Hodgin, Braxton Sharp, Tyler Williams, Jordan Bell
43.80 Relay Team 3rd Finals H1 West AA Boys
4X200 METER RELAY Jace Hodgin, Braxton Sharp, Tyler Williams, Jordan Bell
1:32.61 Relay Team 3rd Finals H1 West AA Boys
POLE VAULT
9-6 Christian Perez 2nd Finals H1 West AA Boys
9-0 Jace Hodgin 3rd Finals H1 West AA Boys
GIRLS ATHLETE
Girls Outdoor Pentathlon Class AA
1 Bey, Emily Munford High 2079
2 Connor, Breona Munford High 1836
3 Coker, Kaelyn Munford High 1783
800 METER RUN
2:34.81 Kaelyn Coker 2nd Finals H1 West AA Girls
1600 METER RUN
6:07.50 Cara Bruce 2nd Finals H1 West AA Girls
3200 METER RUN
12:38.80 Cara Bruce 1st Finals H1 West AA Girls
300 METER HURDLES
50.99 Sarah Rice 2nd Finals H1 West AA Girls
4X400 METER RELAY Breona Conner, Emily Bey, Morgan Branch, Kaelyn Coker
4:25.90 Relay Team 2nd Finals H1 West AA Girls
4X800 METER RELAY Emily Bey, Cara Bruce, Morgan Branch, Kaelyn Coker – New school record
10:28.02 Relay Team 1st Finals H1 West AA Girls
HIGH JUMP
4-8 Breona Connor 2nd Finals H1 West AA Girls
TRIPLE JUMP
31-2.25 Emily Bey 2nd Finals H1 West AA Girls
POLE VAULT
6-6 Kaelyn Coker 1st Finals H1 West AA Girls – New School Record
6-0 Storie Ivy 3rd Finals H1 West AA Girls
Boys Team Scores
1 Munford 143.17
2 Ripley 115
3 Melrose 112
4 Raleigh Egypt 55.17
5 Millington Central 42
6 Chester Co. 35
7 South Gibson 30
7 Covington 30
9 Brighton 25.67
10 Dyersburg 24
11 Haywood 23.34
12 Fayette Ware 19.67
13 Crockett Co. 19
14 Ridgeway 15
15 Hardin Co. 11
16 Lexington 6
17 Dyer Co. 5
Girls Team Scores
1 Munford 181
2 Ripley 91
3 Raleigh Egypt 52
4 South Gibson 48
5 Dyer Co. 41
6 Haywood 35
6 Covington 35
8 Kirby 32
9 Brighton 28
9 Millington Central 28
11 Chester Co. 19
12 Ridgeway 17
13 Crockett Co. 15
14 Obion Co. Central 14
15 McNairy Central 13
16 Dyersburg 6
17 Lexington 4
18 Melrose 2
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