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Track: Mercer sweeps Woodford meet

Casey girls win

May 16, 2007

The Mercer County boys and girls swept an all-comers meet packed with larger schools Tuesday at Versailles.

Half a dozen Class AAA schools competed in the meet hosted by Woodford County, and Class AA Mercer's emerged with a 221/2-point victory over Harrison County in the boys standings, while the Mercer girls edged Paul Dunbar by six points.

Chrys Jones gave the Mercer boys three of their four wins in the triple jump, long jump and high jump.

Loran Crowell won the 800-meter run and was second in the 3,200 and the discus for the Mercer girls, who also won two relays.

BOYS

(Mercer County results)

Team scores - 1. Mercer County (MC) 1141/2; 2. Harrison County 92; 3. Woodford County 68; 4. Paul Dunbar 63; 5. Lexington Catholic 61; 6. Bryan Station 53; 7. Lafayette 37; 8. Paris 29; 9. Tates Creek 13; 10. Burgin 4; 11. Henry Clay 1.

200 - 3. Tyler Mays (MC) 23.2.

400 - 3. John McMaine (MC) 56.1.

1600 - 2. Keita Uchida (MC) 5:00.7.

3200 - 3. Jim Bob Mangum (MC) 11:43.0.

1600 relay - 2. Mercer County 3:45.9.

3200 relay - 2. Mercer County 9:28.8.

High jump - 1. Chrys Jones (MC) 6-2.

Long jump - 1. Jones (MC) 22-71/4.

Triple jump - 1. Jones (MC) 45-23/4.

Shot put - 1. Tirelle Singleton (MC) 43-73/4; 2. Jay Linton (MC) 41-51/4.

Discus - 2. Linton (MC) 121-10.

GIRLS

Team scores - 1. Mercer County (MC) 124; 2. Paul Dunbar 118; 3. Lafayette 69; 4. Woodford County 63; 5. Bryan Station 48; 6. Harrison County 44; 7. Lexington Catholic 26; 8. Tates Creek 14; 9. Paris 10; 10. Lexington Christian 6.

800 - 1. Loran Crowell (MC) 2:43.6.

3200 - 1. Jessica Crowell (MC) 14:33.8; 2. L. Crowell 14:34.1.

300 hurdles - 2. Shannon Wilson (MC) 58.4.

800 relay - 1. Mercer County 1:53.2.

1600 relay - 1. Mercer County 4:33.5.

3200 relay - 2. Mercer County 11:04.6.

Long jump - 1. Leah Flora (MC) 14-81/2.

Triple jump - 3. Taylor Flach (MC) 30-4.

Discus - 1. Samantha Bartleson (MC) 98-6; 2. L. Crowell (MC) 95-7.

Casey girls win

At Campbellsville, the Casey County girls rolled to a 49-point victory over Taylor County in an all-comers meet hosted by Taylor.

Tiffany Murphy won three events for Casey, the 100 hurdles, the 300 hurdles and the high jump. Casey also swept all four relays.

Chaz Grider won the shot put and discus for the Casey boys, who were sixth out of seven teams.

BOYS

Team scores - 1. Taylor County 118; 2. Campbellsville 103; 3. Hart County 88; 4. Adair County 73; 5. Marion County 66; 6. Casey County (CC) 62; 7. Washington County 6.

800 relay - 3. Casey County (Chris Wilkinson, Hartley Scott, Darren Long, Brandon Lee) 1:40.2.

1600 - 1. Eric Scheibner (CC) 5:04.6.

400 relay - 3. Casey County (Long, Lee, Scott, Wilkinson) 47.9.

Shot put - 1. Chaz Grider (CC) 41-31/2.

Discus - 1. Grider (CC) 154-9.

High jump - 3. Elliot Cannon (CC) 5-6.

GIRLS

Team scores - 1. Casey County (CC) 171; 2. Taylor County 122; 3. Marion County 79; 4. Campbellsville 51; 5. Adair County 49; 6. Washington County 23; 7. Hart County 15.

3200 relay - 1. Casey County (Breanna Warner, Kirsten Tarter, Megan Rayburn, Callie Phillippe) 11:42.6.

100 hurdles - 1. Tiffany Murphy (CC) 17.9; 2. Kara Weddle (CC) 18.0.

800 relay - 1. Casey County (Nicole Coffman, Holly Durham, Jenna Lee, Jerrica Payton) 1:53.1.

400 relay - 1. Casey County (Payton, Lee, Coffman, Durham) 54.3.

400 - 1. Payton (CC) 1:02.2; 2. Coffman (CC) 1:02.6.

300 hurdles - 1. Murphy (CC) 54.5.

800 - 1. Lee (CC) 2:33.2.

1600 relay - 1. Casey County (Coffman, Warner, Lee, Payton) 4:21.9.

Shot put - 1. Tara Weddle (CC) 26-8.

Discus - 1. Nataushia Burke (CC) 96-9; 2. T. Weddle (CC) 94-1.

Long jump - 2. Abbie Streeval (CC) 12-111/2.

Triple jump - 1. K. Weddle (CC) 30-2; 2. Streeval (CC) 27-91/2.