Williamstown girls win Erickson Invite

Williamstown’s Reagan Corbett competes in the shot put during Friday’s Erickson Invitational held at Parkersburg’s Stadium Field. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)

PARKERSBURG — Here Friday night at the Erickson Invitational, which was contested at Parkersburg’s Stadium Field, host Parkersburg South received golds from Jordan Foster in the 300 hurdles and Kymani Prince in the long jump.

Prince’s leap of 16 feet, 7.5 inches topped the runner-up effort of Parkersburg’s TC Allen, who went 15 feet, 8 inches. Foster also bested a Big Red as his clocking of 40.66 was just enough to nip Jay Bowling’s 41.06.

The Big Red boys posted a winning team score of 161 as Williamstown (131), Point Pleasant (126), Ritchie County (59.5) and Wahama (49.5) rounded out the top five.

Landen Deuley crossed the finish line in the 400 with a record-breaking effort of 49.57, which just eclipsed the 2001 effort of 49.62 by Parkersburg South’s Chris Spencer.

Ritchie County’s Dylan Malolepszy, who ran a 51.26 to finish runner-up to Deuley, eclipsed 2 minutes for the first time in his career in the 800. The Rebels’ 1:58.62 erased the old record of 1:58.73 set back in 2015 by Big Red Nic Cheuvront. Malolepszy, who cleared 6 feet, 2 inches to win the high jump, left town with high-point honors after amassing 29.25.

Williamstown’s Christian Hoosier competes in the discus throw during Friday’s Erickson Invitational held at Parkersburg’s Stadium Field. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)

Deuley ran the anchor leg to close the meet on the 4×4 with fellow Big Reds AJ Payne, Rogan Mincks and Jackson Wharton. The quartet’s clocking of 3:27.94 was a meet record as Warren’s 2019 time of 3:28.19 by Isaiah Kitts, Trent Sayre, Ethan Yost and Justin Lough were erased from the books.

The only other meet record came in the shuttles where 59.05 had stood since 2018 thanks to the South quartet of Corey Beverage, Dominic Collins, Chris Elschlager and Haden McConnell. However, Point Pleasant’s Grant Barton, Evan Bailes, Reece Hunt and Isaac Creel clocked in at 58.28.

In the girls team race, Williamstown received a pair of golds from Cassie Sites (1600, 5:33.65; 3200, 12:13.81) as well as first-place efforts from Shelby Smith (100, 12.65), Grace Boone (pole vault, 10-0), Kyndra Johnson (shot put, 36-1) and Reagan Corbett (discus, 111-5) en route to a 188-149 victory versus the Big Reds.

Tyler Consolidated (100.5), Parkersburg South (66) and North Marion (42) rounded out the top five team scores, but Ravenswood’s Riley Sotomayor returned to Jackson County with high-point honors (23) on the strengths of wins in the 400 (1:00.16) and 800 (2:26.19).

The Silver Knight girls also had first-place efforts in the 100 hurdles from Lily Dillaman (16.36) and in the high jump from Katie Grimm, who cleared 4-10 to top runners-up Mya Baruwa of PHS and Point Pleasant’s Evan Barton (4-8).

Williamstown’s Cassie Sites closes in on Parkersburg’s Morgan Metz as they begin the final lap of the 3200 during Friday’s Erickson Invitational at Parkersburg’s Stadium Field. The Yellowjacket passed the Big Red on the final lap to earn the victory. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)

Williamstown’s boys had individual 10-point scoring efforts from Carson Brundige in the 200 (23.38), Frank Conner in the 3200 (9:40.44) and in the shot put from Lynken Joy, whose second best throw topped teammate Christian Lockhart’s as they had finished with a top respective effort of 50 feet, 4 inches.

Wahama’s Connor Lambert ran 11 seconds flat to win the 100 while White Falcon teammate Reezin Stitt (19-7.5) was a half inch better than Big Red runner-up Ethan Dela Cruz in the long jump.

Also topping the field for the boys were Tyler Consolidated’s Amos Kimble (1600, 4:31.51) as well as Big Blacks Grant Barton (110H, 15.28), Cohen McDaniel (pole vault, 12-0) and Caden Hill (discus, 165-5) while the other girls to taste victory were Big Red Nevaeh Ross in the 300 hurdles (49.1) and South Charleston’s Jateayah Davis in the 200 (28.24).

Williamstown’s girls won the 4×1 (Audrey Lefebure, Izzy Zide, Grace Boone, Addison Richardson, 52.96), 4×2 (Lefebure, Zide, Richardson, Smith, 1:51.38) and the 4×4 (Sites, Luci Collins, Makaela Bandy, Ava Lightfritz, 4:24.04) while PHS claimed the 4×8 (Katie Rutheford, Olivia Carpenter, Ellie Hines, Calli Angelos, 10:14.07) and the Silver Knights ran a 1:10.14 with Bridget Doak, Bella Garuccio, Addison Blosser and Dillaman to win the shuttles.

The other winning relays for the boys were Williamstown’s 4×1 (Jakson Kerr, Will Sites, Cooper Billingsley, Brundige, 45.00) and the Big Reds’ 4×2 (Payne, Logan Poling, Wharton, Deuley, 1:33.59).

Area boys who also had top-five efforts were Yellowjackets Brundige (2nd, 100, 11.56)

Kerr (3rd, 100, 11.66), Conner (2nd, 800, 1:58.85), Will Coiner (3rd, 1600, 4:35.06), Julian Johnson (4th, 1600, 4:37.79), Sites (3rd, long jump, 18-9.25), Tyler Miller (3rd, pole vault, 11-6), Christian Hoosier (2nd, discus, 157-0) and Joy (3rd, discus, 149-8); Big Reds Dela Cruz (5th, 100, 11.78), Wharton (3rd, 400, 51.49), Payne (4th, 400, 51.76), Tyler Shahan (4th, 200, 24.25), Alex Greer (4th, pole vault, 11-6), Jon Ash (4th, shot put, 43-10; 5th, discus, 133-4), Drey Grinter (5th, shot put, 43-6.5), Connor George (3rd, 800, 2:00.96; 2nd, 1600, 4:32.94), Christian Rutherford (4th, 800, 2:02.59; 6th, 1600, 4:38.04), Lucas Jenkins (5th, 800, 2:06.72), Walker Jones (3rd, 3200, 10:12.41) and Javel Chandler (4th, 110H, 15.86; 3rd, high jump, 5-10); Patriots Foster (2nd, 110H, 15.50) and Kayden Marshall (4th, high jump, 5-8); White Falcons Stitt (4th, 100, 11.67) and Trayvon Bearhs (3rd, 200, 24.17) as well as Ravenswood’s Braydan Rymer (5th, 200, 24.65) and Gavin Wilburn (4th, 3200, 10:24.61); Wirt County’s Kaedon Sees (5th, 400, 51.93; 4th, long jump, 18-8.25) and Matthew Balis (5th, 3200, 10:28.39) along with Silver Knight Travis Moore (2nd, 3200, 9:51.83).

Local top-five showings for the girls included South’s Prince (2nd, 100, 13.07), Jalyn Eddy (5th, 3200, 13:16.88), Addison White (2nd, 100H, 16.97; 2nd, 300H, 49.60) and Kylie Tallman (5th, 300H, 51.16); Silver Knights Grimm (3rd, 100, 13.15), Andi Fiber (2nd, 200, 28.90; 4th, 400, 1:05.94), Dillaman (4th, 300H, 50.95), Addison Blosser (3rd, long jump, 15-7.25), Jules Lattea (4th, long jump, 15-1; 4th, shot put, 34-0.5) and Ralynn Heintzman (5th, pole vault, 8-0) as well as Yellowjackets Lefebure (4th, 100, 13.32), Addison Richardson (3rd, 200, 29.03), Collins (3rd, 400, 1:05.84), Gracie Montgomery (5th, 400, 1:06.49), Ava Lightfritz (3rd, 800, 2:29.45; 2nd, 1600, 5:34.19), Lexi Wynn (4th, 800, 2:32.04; 3rd, 1600, 5:37.94), Sylvia Harris (4th, 3200, 12:52.98), Makaela Bandy (3rd, 300H, 50.13), Cate Berdine (2nd, pole vault, 8-6), Izzy Zide (3rd, pole vault, 8-0), Corbett (3rd, shot put, 34-7); Big Reds Thea Bordeaux (5th, 100, 13.41; 2nd, 400, 1:03.08), Adilynn Deuley (5th, 200, 29.77), Rutherford (2nd, 800, 2:28.84), Hines (5th, 800, 2:33.88; Angelos (4th, 1600, 5:42.29), Morgan Metz (2nd, 3200, 12:20.60), Audrey Wagoner (3rd, 3200, 12:31.19), Ross (3rd, 100H, 17.16), Ava Sayre (T5th, high jump, 4-6)

Chloe Gribble (T5th, high jump, 4-6), Makayla House (4th, pole vault, 8-0), Peyton Louden (5th, shot put, 32-1), Bella Bowman (5th, discus, 97-0) along with White Falcon Destiney Barnette (4th, 200, 29.76; 5th, long jump, 15-0.75) and Rebel Natalie Henger (3rd, discus, 106-9).

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