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Wiggins, Parks bring home state championships for Jessamine County

May 18, 2012|Journal staff report | sports@jessaminejournal.com
  • West Jessamine junior Abby Wiggins cleared the final hurdle and won the girls' 100-meter hurdles in 15.26 seconds Friday afternoon in Louisville.
Photo by Jonathan Stark/jstark@jessaminejournal.com

West Jessamine High junior Abby Wiggins and East Jessamine High senior Cody Parks brought home 2A state championships in track and field Friday in Louisville.

Wiggins took the state championship in the girls' 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.26 seconds and later added to her first place with a second-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles in 46.89 seconds. Parks won the boys' 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:53.08.

Daylei DeKrey of East Jessamine finished tied for second place in the state in the girls' high jump with a jump of 5 feet even.

The East boys' 4x800-meter relay team crossed the finish line a hair ahead of Mercer County but was disqualified for impeding the Titans earlier in the race. West Jessamine's relay team finished 14th in that race.

Senior Cody Collins of East finished fourth in the boys' 1,600-meter run.

East Jessamine's girls' 4x800-meter relay team finished 13th; West finished 18th in the same event.

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In field events, West's Robbie Irgang finished 15th in shot put and East Jessamine's Kayla Richards finished ninth in the discus.

East Jessamine's Danielle Lee was 15th in the 100-meter dash. East's Matt Hall had a top-five finish in the 800-meter run before being disqualified for interference.

East's Mallory Osborne finished ninth in the girls' 400-meter dash with a time of 1:01.62. Eighth-grader Kelnisha Castille of East Jessamine placed ninth in the state in the girls' 800-meter dash with a time of 2:27:00.

West's Will Knight finished 10th in the state in the boys' 400-meter dash with a time of 52.04 seconds. West's girls' 4x400 relay team of Emma Wiggins, Sascha Stryker, Kailey Brewster and Abby Wiggins finished 12th in the state. West's boys' 4x400 team of Knight, Isaiah Kang, Kenneth Wireman and Forrest Neyman finished 17th.

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