WC sends two dozen to region track meet

Published 7:58 am Sunday, April 15, 2018

Warren Central’s boys track and field team began its march toward the MHSAA Class 6A state meet by finishing second and advancing 10 athletes and four relay teams at the Division 4-6A meet Thursday at Clinton High School.

The Vikings only won two events — Raymond Rimmey in the 300 meter hurdles and Jalen Glass in the high jump — but had 20 entries finish in the top four and move on to the Region 2-6A meet April 21 at Northwest Rankin.

Rimmey also qualified in the triple jump and Glass in the 200 meters. Jaylen Whitaker (shot put and discus), Parker Kivett (1,600 and 3,200 meter runs) and Joshua Griffin all qualified in two individual events.

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Mason Quimby (high jump), Dalton Morgan (3,200 meters), Jeff McMillin (pole vault), Christopher Johnson (800 meters) and Jalen Curry advanced in one event.

The relay team of Quimby, Glass, Tyler Walton and Kaleb Foxworth qualified in both the 4×100 and 4×200 meters. The 4×400 relay team of Brandon Fischer, Rimmey, Jalen Lumpkin and Zach Cochran qualified, as did the 4×800 meter relay team of Kivett, Lumpkin, Christopher Johnson and Preston Hall.

On the girls’ side, Hannah Huntley won the 1,600 and 3,200 meter runs and Raven Thompson was victorious in the high jump to lead the Lady Vikes to a second-place team finish behind Clinton.

Thompson won the high jump with a leap of 5 feet, 2 inches, and also finished third in the triple jump to advance to the district meet.

Other individual qualifiers for the Lady Vikes were Schyler Morgan and Jamia McWilliams in the 100 meter hurdles; Alaura Mayfield in the 300 meter hurdles; Shanea Guise in the long jump; and Ernestine Chin in the shot put.

The relay team of Guise, Destiny Swartz, Tif’Keesica Wilson and Antonica Jefferies advanced to the regional meet in the 4×100 meters.

Guise, Swartz and Jefferies also teamed with Thompson and Alexandra Lawson to qualify in the 4×200 and 4×400 relays.

McWilliams, Terra Banks, Jazmyne Banks and Erielle Smith advanced in the 4×800 meter relay.

About Ernest Bowker

Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post's sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post's sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper's 140-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.

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