Vicksburg’s Hall, Knox score wins against loaded field at Powerade Relays

Published 8:47 pm Saturday, March 29, 2025

Vicksburg High’s girls’ track team wasn’t sour. It felt the power at the Powerade Relays on Friday.

The Missy Gators won two events, had seven top-five finishes, and finished fifth out of 32 teams at the huge meet hosted by Hattiesburg High School.

Vicksburg totaled 50 points. Clinton was the girls’ team champion with 153, and was followed by Hattiesburg (73.25), Oak Grove (62.5), Meridian (57) and then Vicksburg.

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Sophomore Amiya Hall won the 100 meters for the second consecutive meet, with a time of 12.35 seconds. She was the class of a deep field that included 72 runners, and beat Meridian’s Zaurie Clark by .12 seconds in the finals.

Hall has finished first or second in the 100 meters at all four of Vicksburg’s meets this season.

Freshman Zion Knox also had a great day in the field events. She won the triple jump with a mark of 39 feet, 5 inches; was second in the long jump at 17-5; and tied teammate McKenzy Edmond for third in the high jump with a height of 4-10.

Knox and Hall also joined Nakia Jeffers and Raylyn Parson on the 4×200 meter relay team that finished third with a time of 1 minutes, 45.90 seconds.

Parson added an eighth-place finish — out of a deep field of 63 runners — in the 400 meters, with a personal-best time of 1:04.02. Kennedy Williams had the Missy Gators’ other top-five finish with a discus throw of 91 feet, 2 inches.

In the boys’ meet, Vicksburg’s Jayden Woods and Shaun Archer both had top-six finished in the discus. Woods reached the podium with a personal-best throw of 131 feet, 5 inches that was good for third place. Archer was sixth with a mark of 127 feet even.

Casey Brown also had two top-20 finishes in the distance running events, coming in 20th out of 58 runners in the 1,600 meters and 17th of 34 in the 3,200 meters.

Vicksburg finished 14th out of 32 teams in the boys’ team standings.